STONY BROOK, N.Y. — The Stony Brook Tennis team has been recognized as a 2024 ITA All-Academic Team, while eight different student-athletes were named ITA Scholar Athletes by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association this afternoon. 

Freshmen Cornelia Bruu-Syversen, Darian Perfiliev, Elena Lobo-Corral, and Mia Palladino, sophomores Kristi Boro and Debby Mastrodima and juniors Carmen Victoria Villalba Rubio and Sara Medved were honored as 2023-24 ITA Division I Scholar Athletes. This marks third consecutive season that the Seawolves were recognized as an ITA All-Academic Team. 

"It's amazing to have earned ITA all-academic team recognition and eight student-athletes earn ITA Scholar-athlete awards," head coach Thiago Dualiby said. "I am proud and thankful for our student-athletes, our academic advisor and academic department in all their efforts."

Stony Brook is one of 255 programs to be awarded the All-Academic Team distinction, as teams from the Division I level were recognized for posting a team GPA of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale for the 2023-24 academic year. Over 1,500 Division I women's student-athletes were named an ITA Scholar-Athlete by obtaining a grade point average of at least 3.5 on a 4.0 GPA score for the 2023-24 academic year.

The squad finished with a 3.74 overall team GPA this year, while Bruu-Syversen carried a 4.0 GPA for the entire academic calendar and Mastrodima and Medved earned a 4.0 GPA for the spring semester. The team also owned the highest GPA in the department after posting a 3.72 team GPA in the fall and 3.75 team GPA in the spring.

Stony Brook is coming off a season where they earned the No. 11 seed in the CAA Tournament and fell in the First Round of the CAA Championship Tournament to UNCW, finishing their second season in the CAA and first under head coach Dualiby.

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