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Martyna Szpakowska became a three-time honoree for the Excellence Team.

Women's Tennis 7/9/2026 11:00:00 AM Cooper Weidenthaler, Assistant Director for Media Relations

Women's Tennis Has Five Players Garner GLIAC All-Academic Honors

Two of those five were featured on the Excellence Team.

DETROIT -- Five members of the 2025-26 Wayne State University women's tennis team boasted Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) All-Academic accolades. Over the last 24 seasons, the WSU women's tennis team has had 96 student-athletes garner All-Academic distinction.

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.

Martyna Szpakowska (Gdansk, Poland / Sopocka Akademia Tenisowa) and Shantala Uzcategui (Hoyo de La Puerta, Venezuela / Unidad Educativa Colegio Madre Matilde [Walsh]) were named to the All-Academic Excellence Team for maintaining a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.5. Szpakowska (Psychology Honors - 3.94) was included for the third-straight year, while Uzcategui (Exercise & Sport Science - 4.00) was first-year eligible after transferring to WSU from Walsh.

Szpakowska and Uzcategui also earned Academic All-District honors by the College Sports Communicators (CSC, formerly CoSIDA) for the 2025-26 season.

A trio of Warriors were on the All-Academic Team for maintaining a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0-3.49. They were senior Malak Arafat (Alexandria, Egypt / Lycée Français d'Alexandrie), junior Justine Beaulieu (Montreal, Que. / Collège de Montréal High School), and redshirt senior Dea Gorgidze (Tbilisi, Georgia / Tbilisi Public School N145). All three were on the Academic Team last season as well, with Beaulieu (Exercise & Sport Science - 3.44) and Gorgidze (Management - 3.13) listed for a second-straight year. Arafat (Electrical & Computer Engineering - 3.44) made it for a third-straight campaign.

The women's tennis squad had five student-athletes on the Athletic Director's Honor Roll for a term GPA of 3.5 or better, with three of those Warriors also achieving a perfect 4.0 term GPA for the Winter 2026 semester.

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Players Mentioned

Malak Arafat: 5' 11"; Senior

Martyna Szpakowska: 5' 9"; Senior

Shantala Uzcategui: 5' 3"; Redshirt Senior

Justine Beaulieu: 5' 6"; Senior

Dea Gorgidze: 5' 7"; Redshirt Fifth Year

Players Mentioned

Malak Arafat
: 5' 11"; Senior

Martyna Szpakowska
: 5' 9"; Senior

Shantala Uzcategui
: 5' 3"; Redshirt Senior

Justine Beaulieu
: 5' 6"; Senior

Dea Gorgidze
: 5' 7"; Redshirt Fifth Year