Four Men's Tennis Players Named to Patriot League Academic Honor Roll

Jason Hill becomes just second Mid to earn the accolade in each of his four years

	Luke Albi

July 1, 2009

CENTER VALLEY, Pa. -- Four members of the Patriot League-champion Navy men's tennis team were among the 33 student-athletes from around the league who qualified for the 2009 Patriot League Academic Honor Roll for the sport, the league office announced this week.

To be eligible for the award, student-athletes must have both earned a varsity letter during the 2008-09 season and attained a minimum 3.20 grade-point average for the 2009 spring term.

Each of the eight league member schools have different criteria for awarding letters.

Headlining the honor roll was Jason Hill, a 2009 graduate of Navy from Marietta, Ga., who earlier this spring was selected as the Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year for men's tennis. Just the second Navy men's tennis player to be named to the league's honor roll in each of his four years (Ryan Osgood, 2001-04), Hill compiled a 3.88 GPA during his final semester on The Yard. The systems engineering major also earned First-Team All-Patriot League honors this season.

A total of three men's tennis players in the league recorded a 4.00 GPA during the spring semester, with one member of the trio being Navy's Nick Birger. The rising junior from Belleville, Ill., is ranked first in his class with an cumulative GPA of 4.00 as a comparative politics major.

Also receiving the laurel from Navy were recent graduate Luke Albi (Cincinnati, Ohio) and rising junior Owen Bullard (Concord, N.C.). Albi recorded a 3.56 GPA during the spring term on his way to graduating with a degree in American politics and law, while Bullard attained a 3.40 GPA this past semester as an oceanography major.