ATLANTA — (May 25) Georgia Tech junior women’s tennis player Tamarra Jenkin (New Braunfels, Texas) has been named to the 1999 GTE Academic All-District III Spring At-Large Team as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
The award is the second such honor for Jenkin, who also named to the district team last year. She owns a cumulative 4.0 grade point average in Industrial and Systems Engineering and was the only person on the 10-member squad with a 4.0 GPA.
Jenkin finished the 1998-99 season 17-16 overall in singles play and was 20-11 overall in doubles. She also captured the Atlantic Coast Conferenc Flight Championship at No. 2 doubles with partner Bobbi Guthrie (Raleigh, N.C.).
All district first-team selections are automatically nominated for the GTE Academic All-America team which will be announced later this spring. District III includes schools from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
