DETROIT -- The 2025-26 Wayne State University men's tennis squad had six student-athletes garner Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) All-Academic accolades. The squad has had 112 honorees over the last 24 years.
Criteria states that student-athlete must be an active member on their respective sport roster at the end of the season, and not a true freshman or a first-year transfer student.
Grade-point averages listed are calculated through the winter semester.
The five student-athletes that were included on the All-Academic Excellence Team for maintaining a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.5 were junior Cole Anderson (Novi, Mich.), sophomore George Day (Southampton, United Kingdom / Peter Symonds College), graduate student Luis Klaus (Brühl, Germany / Archbishop's St. Ursula gymnasium), sophomore Sam Knowles (North Shields, Tyne and Wear, England / King's Priory School), and sophomore Tom Wasner (Altenholz, Germany / Friedrichsort Community School).
All five Warriors made the Excellence Team for the first time in their collegiate careers. Day (Finance - 3.95), Klaus (MBA - 3.91), Knowles (Finance - 4.00) and Wasner (Finance - 3.65) were all first-year eligible student-athletes. Anderson (Health & Physical Education Teaching - 3.94) was the other Warrior on the list.
Benjamin Hill (Düren, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany / Burgau-Gymnasium) was included on the All-Academic Team for maintaining a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0-3.49. Hill (Sport Management - 3.47) was on the Excellence Team last season in his first season eligible.
Additionally, Hill, Klaus, Day, and Wasner were all named Academic All-District by the College Sports Communicators (CSC, formerly CoSIDA), for the 2025-26 campaign.
The men's tennis squad led the way amongst all WSU varsity sport programs with a 3.868 term GPA for the Winter 2026 semester, as four of the nine team members had a semester GPA of 4.0. Eight student-athletes were on the Athletic Director's Honor Roll for a term GPA of 3.5 or better.
