Wayne State University Athletics

Men's Tennis 6/4/2025 1:00:00 PM Henry Coyle, Sports Information Graduate Assistant

Drenth Honored as CSC Academic All-America Team Member of the Year

First Wayne State student-athlete to garner the award twice.

DETROIT -- Wayne State University men's tennis student-athlete Cedric Drenth (Sulzbach, Germany / Altkönigschule Kronberg) has been voted as the Division II Men's Tennis Academic All-America Team Member of the Year by College Sports Communicators (CSC, formerly CoSIDA). Drenth joins a short list of WSU student-athletes to be named an Academic All-American three times and becomes the first Warrior to be tabbed as the Academic All-America Team Member of the Year twice.

The Sulzbach native encapsulates what it means to be a student-athlete as he has earned a multitude of both academic and athletic honors. He has now been a First Team Academic All-American each of the last three seasons and maintained a 3.96 cumulative grade-point average while earning a bachelor's degree in Finance. Drenth has garnered Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete honors three times (2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023-24) and is expected to earn his fourth distinction later this summer. He is a three-time Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) All-Academic Excellence Team honoree, has twice been a recipient of the D2 ADA Academic Achievement Award (2022-23 and 2023-24), was the 2023-24 Deans' Award recipient from the Mike Ilitch School of Business for having the highest cumulative grade-point average of any student-athlete in that college, was a 2023-24 Recipient of the GLIAC Commissioner's Award for outstanding athletic and academic achievement, and was a member of the WSU Student-Athlete Leadership Council.

As mentioned before, Drenth puts himself in a class of his own as the first two-time Academic All-American of the Year in WSU history and has been named to the Athletic Director's Honor Roll (term GPA 3.5+) in each of his eight semesters including six terms with a 4.00 GPA.

Athletically, Drenth wrapped his career at WSU as the program's all-time leader in both career singles wins (106) and career doubles matches won (122) while being the only player to eclipse over 100 in both. He was voted All-GLIAC each of his four years competing, including three First-Team honors (2022-23, 2023-24, and 2024-25). He has been named GLIAC Men's Tennis Player of the Year twice (2022-23 and 2024-25) and was selected as the 2022-23 Wayne State Male Student-Athlete of the Year. Drenth became the first WSU tennis player (male or female) to be an ITA singles All-American during the 2022-23 campaign and was ranked as the No. 1 doubles team in the nation by the ITA with partner Daniel Grey (Wiesbaden, Germany / Gutenberg) in 2023-24. His 30 singles wins during the 2021-22 season and 35 doubles victories in 2022-23 are both single-season records while his .762 career doubles winning percentage is 13th in program history (Min. 10 wins).

This season, Drenth paced the Wayne State men's tennis squad with 24 singles victories (24-10) and 25 triumphs in doubles (25-8) while competing in the No. 1 position in both. Thanks to his efforts, he was the 56th-ranked singles player in the nation and was the No. 5-ranked singles player in the Midwest Region. On the doubles side, he and his partner George Day (Southampton, United Kingdom / Peter Symonds College) were viewed as the No. 32-ranked pairing nationally while appearing fourth in the Midwest.

WSU's Three-Time Academic All-American (5): Elly Maleski, Women's Swimming; Ransome Allen, Men's Cross Country; Trevor Jones, Men's Swimming; Anais Ruyssen, Women's Tennis; and Cedric Drenth, Men's Tennis.

WSU's Academic All-America of the Year:
2012 - Catherine Leix (At-Large) - Women's Swimming
2023 - Cedric Drenth - Men's Tennis
2024 - Anais Ruyssen - Women's Tennis
2025 - Cedric Drenth - Men's Tennis

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Players Mentioned

George Day: 6' 5"; Freshman

Cedric Drenth: 6' 3"; Senior

Players Mentioned

George Day
: 6' 5"; Freshman

Cedric Drenth
: 6' 3"; Senior