LOGAN, Utah – Utah State men's tennis junior Felipe Acosta (Chascomus, Argentina) has been named first-team academic all-District 8, as announced by the Collegiate Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) on Thursday.
The 2020 academic all-district men's at-large team, selected by CoSIDA, recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances in athletic competition and in the classroom. Honorees selected first-team academic all-district will advance to the CoSIDA Academic All-America ballot. Academic All-America honorees will be announced from June 16-19.
Acosta was one of 11 student-athletes selected from the district, compromised of Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Canada. Acosta was joined by USC senior Henry Fusaro (swimming), Fresno State senior Bailey Gong (tennis), Stanford seniors Ben Hallock (water polo) and David Jessen (gymnastics), junior Lucas Orts (fencing), also from Stanford, BYU senior Miki Jauhiainen (volleyball) and junior Ryan Sorensen (swimming), California Baptist junior Robert Moseley (swimming), UC Berkeley senior Pawel Sendyk (swimming) and Pepperdine sophomore Tim Zeitvogel (tennis).
Acosta led USU in doubles during the 2019-20 season with an 11-13 overall record, including a 5-9 mark in dual match play at the Nos. 1 and 2 spots. The duo of Acosta and freshman Javier Ruiz made up the top doubles pair for the Aggies with a 10-11 overall mark during the 2019-20 season. In singles play, Acosta opened his junior campaign winning three of his first four singles matches, as he went 8-14 overall, including 2-9 in dual match play at the top-two positions. As a sophomore, Acosta set the record for most dual match singles wins with 20 victories, and he currently is tied for eighth in combined career singles and doubles wins with 90.
Acosta, an international business and finance major, is a two-time ITA Scholar-Athlete (2018, 2019) and Mountain West Scholar-Athlete (2018, 2019), has earned Academic all-Mountain West honors twice (2018, 2019) and is a three-time USU Whitesides Scholar-Athlete honoree (2018, 2019, 2020).
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