July 7, 2010
Greensboro, N.C. – Guillermo Gomez, Kevin King and Ryan Smith were each named to the Atlantic Coast Conference’s 2010 All-ACC Academic Team, announced Wednesday by Commissioner John D. Swofford.
Gomez, a junior Industrial Engineering major, and Smith, a junior Biochemistry major, each made the team for the third time. King, a sophomore Mechanical Engineering major, was named for the second time.
Gomez, ranked No. 5 in the final Intercollegiate Tennis Association singles rankings and an All-American for the second time, and King, ranked 97th, also made the All-ACC team this spring.
Gomez, from Alicante, Spain, compiled a 29-8 singles record and reached the round of 16 at the NCAA Singles Championship. King, from Peachtree City, Ga., had a singles record of 12-6 playing No. 2 in an injury-shortened spring and also went 10-6 in doubles, teaming with freshman Juan Spir as the nation’s 83rd-ranked doubles team.
Smith, from Marietta, Ga., was primarily a doubles player for the Yellow Jackets, teaming with Eliot Potvin to go 8-2 in the spring.
Florida State senior Jean-Yves Aubone has been named the ACC’s Men’s Tennis Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Other 2010 All-ACC players joining Aubone on this year’s All-ACC Academic Team are FSU teammate Vahid Mirzadeh, Boston College’s Akash Muppidi, Virginia’s Sanam Singh and Virginia Tech’s Luka Somen.
The 2010 Men’s Tennis All-ACC Academic team includes 13 student-athletes who have earned the honor on at least one previous occasion, including four-time honoree Dylan Arnould of Duke and three-time honorees Singh of Virginia, and Gomez and Ryan Smith of Georgia Tech. To be eligible for consideration, a student-athlete must have earned a 3.00 grade point average for the previous semester and maintained a 3.00 cumulative average during his academic career.
2010 Men’s Tennis All-ACC Academic Team
Name, School, Class, Major
*Akash Muppidi, Boston College, So., Finance/CSOM
****Dylan Arnould, Duke, Sr., Political Science
David Holland, Duke, So., Psychology
Luke Marchese, Duke, So., History
*Jared Pinsky, Duke, Jr., Sociology
*Jean-Yves Aubone, Florida State, Sr., Sport Management (Scholar-Athlete of the Year)
*Vahid Mirzadeh, Florida State, Sr., Hospitality Management
***Guillermo Gomez, Georgia Tech, Jr., Industrial Engineering
*Kevin King, Georgia Tech, So, Mechanical Engineering
***Ryan Smith, Georgia Tech, Jr., Biochemistry
*Christian Blocker, Miami, Jr., Accounting/Finance
David Simon, Miami, Sr., Economics
Akash Gujarati, NC State, So., Electrical Engineering
*Houston Barrick, Virginia, Sr., Government
Steven Eelkman Rooda, Virginia, So., Economics
***Sanam Singh, Virginia, Jr., Foreign Affairs
*Sebastien Jacques, Virginia Tech, Jr., Marketing
*Luka Somen, Virginia Tech, So., Finance
Corrado Degl’Incerti Tocci, Virginia Tech, So., General Engineering
Iain Atkinson, Wake Forest, Jr., Business/Enterprise Management
*Jonathan Wolff, Wake Forest, Jr., Psychology
*- repeat All-ACC academic honoree
*** – Three-time honoree
**** – Four-time honoree
