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Katarina Kollarova Named Patriot League Women's Tennis Scholar-Athlete of the Year
Eagles place 10 athletes on the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll

June 29, 2004

Katrina Kollarova was named the Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year by the league's sports information directors

WASHINGTON - Senior Katarina Kollarova (Vinicne, Slovakia/Valparaiso) has been named Patriot League Women’s Tennis Scholar-Athlete of the Year for the second time in two years, the league’s sports information directors announced, Monday. Kollarova is joined by nine of her teammates of the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll.

Kollarova, the Patriot League Tournament Co-Most Valuable Player, earned a 3.94 grade-point average in business administration and helped lead the Eagles to the program's second NCAA tournament in three years.

Joining the team as a transfer from Valapariso in 2002, Kollarova garnered a 33-16 overall record in singles, including a perfect 7-0 Patriot League record in her final season. In doubles, she played in the No. 1 position, earning a 33-16 record with partner Kristina Georgieva (Sofia, Bulgaria/Stefan Karadja) and was honored as a member of the First Team All-Patriot League for both the 2002-03 and 2003-04 seasons.

Also leading the Eagles academically, freshman Julia Colarusso (Downingtown, Pa./Downingtown) was the only athlete from the AU tennis program to earn a 4.00 grade point average for the spring semester. She is joined on the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll by: Georgieva, Tessa Hollyn-Taub (Palo Alto, Calif./Palo Alto), Rachael Honig (Worcester, Mass./Bancroft), Brandi Kligman (Short Hills, N.J./Milburn), Brynne Ward (Stone Mountain, Ga./Paideia School), Kristen Wegel (New Canaan, Conn./New Canaan), Ashley Wroten (San Antonio, Texas/Ronald Regan) and Aleksandra Zerkalova (Moscow, Russia/Moscow).

To be eligible, a student-athlete must earn a 3.20 grade-point average in the spring semester and be awarded a varsity letter in one of the League’s six winter or nine spring championship sports.

American University, which fields a 19-sport NCAA Division I athletics program featuring 10 women’s sports and nine for men, completed its second year of membership in the Patriot League. Since joining the Patriot League, the University has captured league championships in men’s cross country, women’s cross country, women’s lacrosse, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, men’s tennis, women’s tennis, field hockey and women’s volleyball and two regular-season titles in men’s basketball.

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.