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Men’s Tennis’ Papoe Earns Third Team CSC Academic All-America Honors – Cornell University Athletics
ITHACA, N.Y. — Junior Cornell men’s tennis star Radu Papoe, who posted a historical 2024 campaign that included becoming the first All-American in Cornell program history, was named a Third Team Academic All-America selection on Wednesday afternoon, as announced by the College Sports Communicatiors (CSC).
The Ivy League’s lone representative on the CSC Academic All-America Team for men’s tennis this season, Papoe, who has a 3.52 cumulative grade-point average while studying economics, registered a 15-4 singles record during dual action, all of which came from the No. 1 position. In a season that has included an 8-2 record against ranked opponents and 7-1 record in Ivy action, Papoe garnered Cornell’s first Ivy League Player of the Year award in 24 years. He also became the fourth player in program history to earn back-to-back first team All-Ivy honors in singles.
Following his regular-season success, Papoe represented Cornell at the NCAA Singles Championship in Stillwater, Okla., on May 20, where he fell in his first-round match to Ohio State’s Jack Anthrop in a three-set match, 2-6, 6-4, 4-6. With the setback, Papoe concluded the 2023-24 season with an overall singles record of 21-7 and was ranked No. 20 in the ITA’s year-end singles rankings, one of three Big Red players to end the year ranked.
Along with his success in singles, Papoe excelled in doubles action with a 14-8 overall mark, including a 10-6 record from the No. 3 position with teammate Samuel Paquette.
2023-24 ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA MEN’S TENNIS TEAMS – NCAA DIVISION I
FIRST TEAM
Name | School | Year | GPA | Major |
Eliot Spizzirri | Texas | Senior | 3.71 | Finance |
Micah Braswell | Texas | Senior | 3.67 | Sport Management |
Robert Cash | Ohio State | Senior | 3.58 | Chemistry |
Chris Rodesch | Virginia | Senior | 3.54 | Foreign Affairs |
Jonas Hartenstein | North Florida | Senior | 3.92 | Communication |
Ozan Baris | Michigan State | Sophomore | 3.96 | Communication |
James Hopper | Virginia | Senior | 3.56 / 3.60 | Biomedical Engineering (U) / Education (G) |
SECOND TEAM
Name | School | Year | GPA | Major |
Nishesh Basavareddy | Stanford | Sophomore | 3.93 | Undeclared |
Cannon Kingsley | Ohio State | Graduate Student | 3.52 / 3.50 | Diversity Equity & Inclusion |
Isaac Becroft | Oklahoma State | Senior | 3.77 | Finance |
Matthew Hollingworth | Gonzaga | Graduate Student | 3.94 | Biochemistry |
Alex Maggs | New Mexico | Graduate Student | 4.00 / 3.83 | Business Administration |
Sam Sippel | Boise State | Graduate Student | 3.96 / 3.77 | Business Administration (G) |
Jeffrey von der Schulenburg | Virginia | Senior | 3.95 | Global Studies |
THIRD TEAM
Name | School | Year | GPA | Major |
Lukas Engelhardt | Ole Miss | Graduate Student | 4.00 / 4.00 | Business Administration (G) |
Eli Herran | Ball State | Graduate Student | 4.00 / 4.00 | Information & Communication Sciences |
Zach Foster | Alabama | Junior | 4.00 | Finance & Economics |
Radu Papoe | Cornell | Junior | 3.52 | Economics |
Neel Rajesh | Stanford | Senior | 3.71 | Management Science & Engineering |