Cougar Tennis Soars to New Academic Heights
6/3/2003 12:00:00 AM | Tennis
June 3, 2003
The University of Houston women's tennis team was honored this week for reaching an academic milestone during the spring 2003 semester. The Cougar netters achieved the highest team grade point average in the history of UH athletics last semester (3.57) and tied the school cumulative mark with a 3.31 average.
Six of the team's 11 athletes made the deans list, achieving a 3.5 of better average: Sandra Blajer, Sarah Flood, Kami Miller, Hanaa Rhazi, Yolandi Terblanche and Karine Urbin. The 2003 squad, made up of five true freshman, two sophomores, two junior and two seniors, passed an average of 14.9 hours last semester.
Houston junior Sarah Flood (Reading, England) led the team with a 3.93 semester GPA in kinesiology. In addition to her academic achievement, she was named a 2003 national recipient of the Cissie Leary Award for Sportsmanship by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) May 22.
Despite sustaining life-threatening injuries in a car accident in 2001 and missing the entire 2002 season, Flood returned to the sport and her teammates in 2003, appearing in 10 singles and 18 doubles matches for the Cougars.
Houston tennis earned a No. 3 seed and finished fourth overall in the 2003 Conference USA Championships in New Orleans. The Cougars' 13-10 overall dual record in 2003 was the best since 1997 when it finished 19-6.
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