Sixteen Wheaton College tennis players earned ITA Scholar-Athlete honors for the 2025-26 season, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association announced Thursday, July 16, as both the Thunder women's and men's programs picked up All-Academic Team awards.

The women's team posted a 3.67 cumulative GPA across all varsity competitors, while the men's team recorded a 3.65. Both cleared the 3.20 threshold required for the team award. To earn individual Scholar-Athlete status, a player must be a varsity letter winner carrying at least a 3.50 GPA for the academic year.

Wheaton's women's program was among 177 Division III teams honored nationally. Nine Thunder players earned individual recognition: Analeigh Hoogerheide, Daisy Tennant, Elizabeth Dieter, Sophie Dew, Kiana Giunta, Mia Luo, Mariclare O'Gorman, Madeline Gentry, and Janet Kondo.

The men's program was one of 147 Division III teams to receive the distinction. Seven players were named ITA Scholar-Athletes: Toby Schmidt, Sam Schutz, Andrew Winters, Corin Tang, Ryder Ward, Collin Brantley, and Joshua Hartman.

Five of those men's honorees — Schmidt, Schutz, Tang, Ward, and Winters — also appeared on the 2026 CCIW Dave Wrath Academic All-Conference Team for spring sports, according to Wheaton College Athletics.

A championship season on the court and in the classroom

The academic honors follow a strong competitive season for the women's program under head coach Jane Nelson. The Thunder won the CCIW championship on Saturday, April 25, upsetting top-seeded North Central College for the program's first conference title since 2019 and earning an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Tennis Championships.

Kondo, a senior communication media studies major, clinched that title in the No. 4 singles match. O'Gorman, a sophomore studying communication and studio art, received the CCIW Elite 26 Award for carrying the highest GPA among all competitors at the conference championship — a perfect 4.0.

"I sensed that day a real determination by our team that, 'Hey, we're gonna go out there and if they're gonna win this, they're gonna have to earn it,'" Nelson told The Wheaton Record after the April 25 championship. "It was the best match we've played all year."

Nationally, 1,309 Division III women's tennis players earned Scholar-Athlete status in 2026, and 1,151 men's players did the same, according to the ITA.

Wheaton College Athletics has not yet published fall practice or competition schedules for the 2026-27 season.