Scavenger Hunt at the Crawford County Fair

The team took a break from try outs on Saturday to participate in a scavenger hunt at the Crawford County Fair. Coach Luteran broke the team into 6 groups mixing freshman and newcomers with returning players. Each team was given the mission to find a list of items scattered throughout the fair within a 30 minute time limit. All members of the group that won received a free Allegheny Tennis prize. It was a great time as always at the fair!

Coach Luteran lays out the ground rules and starts the clock!

Women's Tennis Nets ITA All-Academic Honors three honorees

MEADVILLE, Pa. – The Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) recognized Allegheny College as one of its ITA All-Academic teams for Division III women’s tennis for the 2009-10 academic year. In addition to the overall team academic award, three Gators were named ITA Scholar-Athletes.

Seniors Margaret Hodgkiss-Lillyand Lauren Kristofco, and junior Janna Dickerson took home individual honors for the Gators. For Dickerson and Kristofco, this is their second consecutive nod as ITA Scholar-Athletes.

"I am very proud of our women's team for this achievement and especially Lauren, Margaret, and Janna for their Scholar-Athlete awards,” said head coach Jared Luteran. “With a school as academically challenging as Allegheny, it is always impressive when our student-athletes can show this kind of success in the classroom while playing a varsity sport like tennis with two seasons."

The ITA All-Academic team award is given to any ITA program that has a cumulative team grade point average of 3.20 or above (on a 4.00 scale). In order to make the ITA Scholar-Athlete team, a player must be a varsity letterwinner, have a grade point average of at least 3.50 (on a 4.00 scale), and have been enrolled at their present school for at least two semesters.