HANOVER, N.H. – Nine members of the Dartmouth women's tennis team have been named to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Team, as announced on Monday. The Big Green also received the team award.
Abigail Chiu,
Lexi Dewire,
Jennifer Gadalov,
Ashley Hess,
Chidimma Okpara,
Nina Paripovic,
Ameliija Swaffer-Selff,
Katie Weber and
Emily Zhou were among the 1,505 Division I female student-athletes to earn the award. Chiu – who was the team's lone graduate in 2021 – received the award all four years, while Gadalov, Hess and Paripovic have been recognized once before.
In order to earn ITA Scholar-Athlete status, a player must be a varsity letter winner, have a grade point average of at least 3.50 (on a 4.00 scale) for the current academic year and have been enrolled at their present school for at least two semesters.
The ITA All-Academic Team award is open to any ITA program that has a cumulative team grade point average of 3.20 or above (on a 4.00 scale). Dartmouth was joined on the list by Brown, Columbia and Harvard.