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American Tennis Leads PL Academic Honor Roll
Scholar-Athletes of the Year Hamori and Mikhailova top list

June 26, 2002

Olga Mikhailova and Bence Hamori head up the American Tennis Academic Honor Roll Squad.

WASHINGTON -- American University placed 11 members of the 2002 men’s and women’s tennis teams on the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll including Scholar-Athletes of the Year Bence Hamori (Budapest, Hungary/Budapest U. of Phys. Ed.) and Olga Mikhailova (Moscow, Russia/Secondary Education #204).

A student-athlete must earn a 3.20 grade-point average (GPA) in the spring semester and be awarded a varsity letter in one of the 13 League-sponsored championship sports in the winter or spring. The men led all other PL schools with six honored while the women tied with Colgate for most accolades with five each.

Hamori, a senior in business administration, achieved the GPA in the spring with a 3.80. Joining him were fellow seniors Kyle Bailey (Sinking Spring, Pa./Wilson) and Joshua Procacci (Naples, Fla./Community School of Naples). Junior Andreas Kulcsar (Nuremberg, Germany/Neus Gum. Nuremberg) and sophomore Juan Jaysingh (Rockville, Md./Georgetown Prep) were also honored.

For the women, Kealy Carter (High Point, N.C./Westchester Academy) impressed with a 4.0 GPA as a junior in the international studies program while seniors Lourdes Riusech (Miami, Fla./Holy Cross Academy) and Lauren Martin (Wellington, New Zealand/Samuel Madison School) were named to the Academic Honor Roll. Two more members of the American squad were selected for academic excellence including sophomore Kristina Georgieva (Sofia, Bulgaria/Stefan Karadja) and freshman Alexandra Zerkalova (Moscow, Russia/Moscow High School).

American University, which fields a 19-sport NCAA Division I athletics program featuring 10 women’s sports and nine for men, recently completed its inaugural year of membership in the Patriot League. The University had an extremely successful year on respective fields of play, capturing league championships in men’s soccer, women’s volleyball, men’s tennis and women’s tennis, and regular-season titles in men’s basketball and women’s lacrosse.

Chartered by an Act of Congress in 1893, American University features students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and more than 160 nations worldwide.