Tulsa Tennis Student-Athlete Or Ram-Harel Earns Scholar-Baller Recognition as a 2016 Academic Momentum Award Winner
6/12/2017 8:27:00 AM | Men's Tennis, Academics
TULSA, Okla. –– University of Tulsa senior tennis student-athlete Or Ram-Harel has been recognized as a first-team recipient of the 2016 Academic Momentum Award, as announced by The Scholar Baller program and the National Consortium for Academics and Sports (NCAS).
A total of 45 collegiate student-athletes, including 20 first-team selections, 15 named to the second team and 10 to the third team, were selected as Academic Momentum Team performers. Ram-Harel, who was named to the American Athletic Conference all-Singles Team for the third consecutive season, had a 3.14 grade point average as a double-major in business management and communication.
Ram-Harel participated at the NCAA Singles Championship this season for the third time in his collegiate career. On the year, Ram-Harel posted 11 wins, while facing 15 nationally ranked opponents. He is the No. 34-ranked singles player according to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA).
The senior had a national ranking as high as No. 23 on February 8, putting together a season in which he defeated No. 6-ranked Christian Sigsgaard, No. 16 Wayne Montgomery and No. 21 Spencer Papa.
Nominees for the Academic Momentum Award are categorized into three teams based on each student-athlete's academic improvement and the impact each student-athlete's academic performance had on his/her classmates, teammates, academic advisors and professors.
Established in 1995, the Scholar Baller ® movement evolved in response to concerns that the student-athlete's athletics role increasingly superseded the student role. In order to address this issue, the founding members of Scholar Baller ® developed a groundbreaking program to bridge the gap between education and sport utilizing student-athletes' passion for entertainment and athletics. As a result, the Scholar Baller ® program has produced unprecedented outcomes in student retention and academic achievement.
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