RIO GRANDE VALLEY – The College Sports Communicators (CSC) announced the 2024-25 Academic All-District teams for women's and men's tennis Tuesday, and seven student-athletes from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley's (UTRGV) tennis programs were recognized. 
 
To be eligible, student-athletes must be at least a sophomore and have a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (GPA) or better. They also must have been in the lineup for 70% of their team's days of competition. 
 
Four women's tennis student-athletes made the CSC Academic All-District Team: senior Kristal Dule, sophomore Madeleine Joffe, sophomore Rhea Makesar and sophomore Hitakamya Narwal. 
 
Dule will be graduating this spring and led the Vaqueros with a 9-7 singles record in her senior season. The economics major from Pove del Grappa, Italy captured 17 wins this spring and went 6-3 in Southland Conference (SLC) singles action. This is her second All-District Team nod. At the annual V Awards, she received the Anheuser Busch/Ann LaMantia Award, which goes to the female senior student-athlete with the highest GPA. 
 
Makesar was named to the All-Conference Doubles Second Team following a UTRGV debut season that saw her notch an impressive 13-3 doubles record in the spring, including a 6-3 mark in conference play with a 6-0 record in the second flight. Playing with freshman Mariia Bakhtina, Makesar closed the season on a six-match winning streak in doubles. The biomedical science major from Perth, Australia also went 8-9 in singles and worked her way into the No. 1 singles spot for the Vaqueros. 
 
Joffe is from Paris and is pursuing a degree in multidisciplinary studies. Narwal is a business analytics student from Haryana, India. The two spent their first spring at UTRGV playing doubles together and notched a solid 7-5 record. Joffe also went 8-9 in singles while Narwal was 7-6 as they primarily held down the fourth and fifth singles flights, respectively. 
 
Redshirt junior Sam Whitehead, sophomore Will Roberts and sophomore Santiago Serrano represent the UTRGV men's tennis team on the CSC Academic All-District Team. 
 
This is the second Academic All-District Team nod for Whitehead and adds to his long list of accolades from a big spring. Whitehead was named the SLC Men's Tennis Player of the Year and made the All-Conference Singles First Team, and was named the UTRGV Male Student-Athlete of the Year and Comeback Player of the Year at the annual V Awards. He went 7-12 this spring with a 4-1 record in the No. 1 flight during conference play and added seven wins in doubles. The Launceston, Tasmania, Australia product will be graduating with a management degree. 
 
Roberts, a management major from New Plymouth, New Zealand, went 9-9 in singles, matching the team's most singles wins. He was 3-1 in conference play in the fifth flight. Serrano collected 15 wins this spring, going 8-13 in singles and 7-12 in doubles. Serrano is from Santiago, Chile and is pursuing a degree in finance. 

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