ANNAPOLIS, Md. –– The Navy men's tennis team as a whole and nine individual members of the program earned academic honors from the Intercollegiate Tennis Association this week.  The collective squad earned ITA All-Academic Team accolades and the nine players earned ITA Scholar-Athlete recognition.
 
Navy was one of 186 men's Division I teams to earn the ITA All-Academic Team laurel for the 2019-20 year.  Those teams had their letter winners compile an overall grade-point average of at least 3.20 for both semesters of this academic year.  Navy has earned the award in four of the last five years and five times in all since it was established with the 2003-04 season (2008, '16, '17, '19, '20).
 
Individual players earned the award if they compiled a GPA of at least 3.50 during the 2019-20 academic year.  The ITA recognized 979 men's Division I players for their academic success.
 
Rising senior Andrew Ton (Milpitas, Calif.) earned the honor for the third time in as many years.  Recent graduates Greg Durham (Melbourne Beach, Fla.) and Matthew Lee (San Diego, Calif.), along with rising juniors Jack Dabek (Dublin, Ohio), Conners O'Brien (Rensselaer, N.Y.) and Derrick Thompson (Towson, Md.), all garnered the accolade for the second time.  Rising junior Sam Vagner (Staten Island, N.Y.) and rising sophomores Andres Ballesteros (West Hartford, Conn.) and Christian Pumpelly (Atlanta, Ga.) each received the nod for the first time in their respective careers.