ELON, N.C. – The Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) has announced that Elon University men's tennis had five student-athletes earn ITA Scholar-Athlete honors while also picking up the All-Academic team award.
 
Elon received the honor for maintaining a team GPA above a 3.2 for the 2020-2021 academic year. Their 3.418 overall GPA marked the highest spring GPA in program history.
 
Individually, graduate student Akram El Sallaly, senior Kyle Frankel, juniors Maxwell Zucker and Nicholas Campbell and freshman Ben Zipay garnered Scholar-Athlete honors. The group picked up the distinction for maintaining above a 3.5 GPA for the entire academic year.
 
On the court, they helped lead Elon to a 15-6 overall record and an appearance in the CAA Tournament semifinals. Collectively, they combined for a total of 38 singles wins and 33 doubles wins throughout the season.
 
In 2021, a total of 1,054 Division I student-athletes earned ITA Scholar-Athlete honors while 145 men's tennis programs garnered All-Academic Team awards.