DENVER – The University of Denver men's tennis program earned multiple ITA academic awards for the 2025-26 season, the ITA announced on Monday.
Denver was recognized as an ITA All-Academic Team while eight of its nine student-athletes grabbed ITA Scholar-Athlete honors. As a team, DU finished the 2025-26 campaign with a cumulative GPA of 3.765 – the highest among Denver men's programs and the third highest overall.
This is the fifth year in a row that DU was named an ITA All-Academic Team and the 17
th time in program history.
DENVER'S 2025-26 ITA SCHOLAR-ATHLETES
Freshman
Joshua Aston
Freshman
Aaron Beduhn
Sophomore
Theo Coats
Senior
Ryoma Mishiro
Senior
Raffaello Papajcik
Graduate student
Connor Robb-Wilcox
Sophomore
Samuel Rovai
Freshman
Ander Tarrio Ponte
This is the third consecutive season that eight DU men's tennis players earned ITA Scholar-Athlete status. The eight honorees are the match the most in a single season in program history.
ITA All-Academic Teams must have a team GPA of 3.20 or higher for the academic year. ITA Scholar-Athletes must have a GPA of at least 3.50 for the academic year.
Leading the way for DU was
Robb-Wilcox, who was named an ITA Scholar-Athlete for the fourth time in his career including in both of his seasons at Denver. His 24 singles wins in 2025-26 were third most on the roster, and he tied for the second most doubles victories with 20. He completed his master's degree in marketing in June, 2026.
Papajcik ended his collegiate career with a third ITA Scholar-Athlete nod. The 2026 Summit League Player of the Year and ITA Mountain Regional Sportsmanship Award Winner went 21-8 in singles and 15-8 in doubles, collecting 17 singles wins and 13 doubles wins in the dual season. He spent most of the year at the No. 1 singles slot where he went 13-4 overall. In June, he graduated with his bachelor's degree in real estate and marketing.
Mishiro earned ITA Scholar-Athlete status for a second time – both coming in his two seasons playing at Denver – while completing his bachelor's degree in business management. In his final NCAA season, he won 15 singles matches and added 17 more victories in doubles, going 12-4 in dual matches from the No. 2 position.
Also picking up a second career ITA Scholar-Athlete award were sophomores
Coats and
Rovai. Both made jumps in the Denver singles lineup – Rovai to No. 2 and Coats to No. 3 – and racked up 30 and 20 singles wins on the year, respectively. The duo also earned Summit League Academic All-League Team recognition, Coats as a business management major and Rovai as a finance major.
Beduhn added ITA Scholar-Athlete honors following his first NCAA season. He won 25 singles matches on the season – second most on the roster – and added 22 more in doubles, going 4-1 and 3-0 in league play, respectively. The freshman is a business analytics major.
Aston and
Tarrio Ponte became first-time honorees after joining the team in January and March, respectively. Both took what were expected to be redshirt years and did not play. Aston is a finance major while Tarrio Ponte has not yet declared a major.
DU's eight ITA Scholar-Athletes are the most among Summit League programs for 2025-26 and tied for the most among West Coast Conference programs (also: Pacific).
Denver is coming off a successful 2025-26 campaign that saw the Pioneers win their third consecutive Summit League title and advance to the NCAA national tournament for the 11
th time in program history. DU achieved a season high national ranking of No. 71 and finished the year ranked No. 3 in the ITA Mountain Regional. The Pioneers went 18-6 on the season including 5-0 in league play.
The University of Denver is preparing for its first season in the West Coast Conference after making the transition to its new conference home on July 1.
