SAINT LEO, Fla. – Eleven student-athletes on the Saint Leo University men's tennis team were named Scholar-Athletes by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) while collectively, the squad was honored by the organization with its All-Academic Team Award.
 
Senior Eduardo Cohen, juniors Timothy Barrow, Thomas Buchard, Kodai Kato, Enes Kocu, Romain Malhomme and Joel Stuboeck, sophomores Filippo Caporali and Leonardo Pisa, and freshmen Sriniketh Kannan and Mahit Mekala were all recognized individually for their achievements off the court in the classroom. It is the fourth honor for Kato, the third for Stuboeck, second for Barrow and Caporali, and first for Cohen, Buchard, Kocu, Malhomme, Pisa, Kannan and Mekala.
 
Saint Leo had the eighth-most honorees of any NCAA Division II institution with 11 while fellow Sunshine State Conference member Florida Southern led the way with 17.
 
The individual awards are bestowed upon varsity student-athletes that have been enrolled at their present school for at least two semesters and possess a grade point average of 3.50 or higher on a 4.0 scale for the academic year. The team award goes to ITA programs that have a cumulative team GPA of 3.20 or above.
 
Saint Leo is one of seven schools from the SSC to earn the ITA All-Academic Team award including Barry (8), Eckerd (8), Embry-Riddle (12), Florida Southern (17), Lynn (5), and Rollins (7). A total of 68 individuals received the Scholar-Athlete distinction from the SSC. Florida Southern led the way with 17 recipients followed by Embry-Riddle with 12 and Saint Leo with 11.   
 
The Lions have taken home the ITA Team Academic Award for 16 of the last 17 seasons including a current streak of 12-straight honors. A total of 105 individuals have been ITA Scholar-Athletes during that time as well.
 
For more information on the ITA, visit wearecollegetennis.com.
 
SLU's All-Time ITA Honorees:
2010: Jose Morales, Richard MacLachlan, Yves Jacobs
2011: Matthew Nicholson-Lewis, Tim Balz-Hermann
2012: Jake Fleischer, Matthew Nicholson-Lewis, Tim Balz-Hermann, Yves Jacobs
2013: Jacob Gonzalez-Tarrio, Matthew Nicholson-Lewis, Ismail Lemtouni, Fons Verberne, Jake Fleischer
2014: Ismail Lemtouni, Matthew Nicholson-Lewis, Fons Verberne
2015: Fons Verberne, Guillaume Vanelven, Sam El Nehmani
2016: Alberto Barroso-Campos, James Defusto, Guillaume Vanelven, Fons Verberne, Jaime Bueno, Elliot Carnello
2017: Thomas Grinberg, Vincent Suillerot, Jaime Bueno, Oskar Nurmio, Willem van den Akker, James DeFusto
2018: Thomas Grinberg, Vincent Suillerot, Jaime Bueno, Francisco Aparicio, James DeFusto, Willem van den Akker, Aurel Ciocanu, Bruno Babic
2019: Bruno Babic, Nicolas Bacella, Lahcen Boujadi, Aurel Ciocanu, Bruno Faletto, Noel Kunz, Ghali Mensour, David Perez, Willem van den Akker, Leonardo Vega     
2020: Nicolas Bacella, Lahcen Boujadi, Aurel Ciocanu,  Bruno Faletto, Ghali Mensour, Alex Parker, Chris Traut, Willem van den Akker, Leonardo Vega  
2021: Noel Kunz, Leonardo Vega, Willem van den Akker, Kanishkh Ramesh, Nicolas Bacella, Lahcen Boujadi, Jose Moreno, Jesse Wikso, Chris Traut, Aurel Ciocanu
2022: Bruno Faletto, Nicolas Bacella, Brad Eidenmuller, Willem van den Akker, Jose Moreno
2023: Martin Soukal, Stijn de Lange, Luis Iriarte, Federico Pieckenstainer, Henrique Bertoli, Nicolas Bacella, Ivan Marrero, Kodai Kato
2024: Alejandro Ley, Elliot Jarosz, Joel Stuboeck, Kodai Kato, Luis Iriarte, Martin Soukal, Nicolas Bacella
2025: Kodai Kato, Dylan Andrianaly, Timothy Barrow, Filippo Caporali, Joel Stuboeck
2026: Leonardo Pisa, Enes Kocu, Romain Malhomme, Eduardo Cohen, Timothy Barrow, Sriniketh Kannan, Thomas Buchard, Kodai Kato, Mahit Mekala, Filippo Caporali, Joel Stuboeck

Team Recipient Years:
2010
2011
2012
2013
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026