NEW ORLEANS — For the second consecutive year,
Xavier University of Louisiana’s women earned an All-Academic team award
from the Intercollegiate Tennis Association and have three ITA Scholar-Athletes:
Yi Chen Pao, Angelica De Vincenzis and Lindsey Dixon.
The ITA announced the awards Thursday.
The XULA women qualified for ITA All-Academic by reaching the minimum 3.20 team GPA
for the 2019-20 year. Criteria for ITA Scholar-Athlete includes being a varsity letterwinner and compiling a 3.50 GPA
during the recently completed academic year.
Pao (Taichung City, Taiwan) and
De Vincenzis (Montebelluna, Italy) earned their honors for the third consecutive year.
Dixon (Savannah, Ga./Savannah Christian Preparatory School) achieved it as a freshman.
Pao graduated from XULA in May.
All-time 11 XULA women have received a collective 16 ITA All-Academic awards.
The Gold Nuggets also were stellar, as usual, on the court,
winning 10-of-11 dual matches and reaching No. 3 in the final NAIA coaches poll.
Angela Charles-Alfred and Lailaa Bashir were the ITA Cup small-college doubles national champion.
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