Men's Tennis Southern Conference

SoCon Student-Athletes named to Academic All-District team

DAYTON, Ohio - Elon University tennis player Pramote Malasitt (Bangkok, Thailand/Chulalongkorn University Demonstration School) was tabbed to the 2005 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District III University Division Men's At-Large First Team today. He was also a First Team Academic All-District selection last year.

The first and second teams recognize a combined 20 student-athletes from NCAA Division I institutions in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Altogether, 67 athletes from 12 sports were nominated by their sports information directors and selected by a vote of members of the College Sports Information Directors of America within the district.

The ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Team is part of the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America program. First team selections will appear on the national ballot for the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Men's At-Large Team, which will be announced next month.

Malasitt graduated summa cum laude from Elon Saturday with a final 3.92 cumulative grade-point average in computer science. During his academic career at Elon, the 2005 Southern Conference TIAA-CREF Graduate Scholarship recipient was a six-time President's List honoree, two-time Dean's List student and eight-time Athletics Director's Honor Roll selection. A member of The National Dean's List, he has also been inducted into the Phi Beta Delta International Scholars, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics, Chi Alpha Sigma and Phi Eta Sigma national honor societies.

On the tennis court, Malasitt posted a 17-4 record at No. 1 singles and a 15-5 ledger at No. 1 doubles with partner Austin Fenn this spring. The team captain represented the Phoenix at No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles all four years, compiling a 52-25 singles mark (.675) and a 58-18 doubles slate (.763) the past four springs while reaching first-team all-conference status at both singles and doubles all four seasons. During the 2005 campaign, he was a three-time Southern Conference Player of the Week, a TIAA-CREF Southern Conference Student-Athlete of the Week and the Southern Conference February Athlete of the Month.

Malasitt claimed victories over No. 1 singles players from both then-No. 25 North Carolina and then-No. 41 South Carolina this spring. Also this season, the two-time team MVP and two-time TIAA-CREF Academic All-Southern Conference selection was honored as an Arthur Ashe, Jr. Sports Scholar, the Buddy Hartsell/Don Bunch Southern Conference Sportsmanship Award recipient and the Stein H. Basnight Outstanding Elon Male Athlete of the Year.


2005 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District III University Division Men's At-Large Team
FIRST TEAM
Roberto Castro (Golf), Georgia Tech, So., Alpharetta, Ga., 3.86, Industrial Engineering Brian Dowis (Tennis), Coastal Carolina, Jr., Yorktown, Va., 3.92, Mathematics
Seth Hoffman (Swimming), North Carolina State, Jr., Cary, N.C., 4.00, Mechanical Engineering
Zvi Lantsberg (Tennis), Charlotte, Jr., Beer-Shiva, Israel, 3.91, International Business
Pramote Malasitt (Tennis), Elon, Sr., Bangkok, Thailand, 3.92, Computer Science
Nicholas Medica (Tennis), The Citadel, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., 4.00, Accounting
Thomas Petykowski (Swimming), VMI, Sr., Virginia Beach, Va., 4.00, Civil Engineering Tommy Rappold (Swimming), Clemson, Sr., Roanoke, Va., 3.96, Computer Information Systems Christopher Shuford (Golf), Longwood, So., Fredericksburg, Va., 3.91, Chemistry & Physics
Emmett Turner (Golf), Augusta State, Sr., Greenwood, S.C., 3.80, Accounting
Justin Zumsteg (Swimming), Florida, Sr., Rochester Hills, Mich., 3.97, Astrophysics & Astronomy
SECOND TEAM
Nathan Bragg (Fencing), Duke, Sr., Millington, N.J., 3.61, History
Mike Faust (Wrestling), Virginia Tech, Jr., Baltimore, Md., 3.48, Business Administration
Martin Hehensteiger (Tennis), Jacksonville, Jr., Schechen, Germany, 3.89, Marketing Neil Savage (Swimming), Virginia Tech, Jr., Roswell, Ga., 3.90, Marketing
Chan Song (Golf), Georgia Tech, Sr., Orlando, Fla., 3.36, Management
Doug Stewart (Tennis), Virginia, Jr., Malibu, Calif., 3.38, Systems Engineering
Nicholas Thompson (Golf), Georgia Tech, Sr., Coral Springs, Fla., 3.25, Management Dave Werry (Lacrosse), North Carolina, Jr., Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, 3.75, Economics & Political Science Zach Wilcox (Swimming), Florida, Sr., Yarrow Point, Wash., 3.49, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering