CoSIDA Academic All-District Men's At-Large Teams
A quartet of Centennial Conference student-athletes have been honored on the CoSIDA Academic All-District Men's At-Large Team. Haverford men's tennis senior Kevin Yan, Johns Hopkins men's tennis junior Vishnu Joshi, Franklin & Marshall men's swimming senior Jonathon Sinton and Ursinus men's lacrosse junior Hakan Atillasoy were named to the team.
The CoSIDA Academic All-District Team recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances in athletic competition and in the classroom. The At-Large Team takes into account schools that do not have their own dedicated team for a particular sport.
Haverford's Yan has been selected to the all-district team for the second-straight year. Graduating from Haverford with a degree in economics, Yan was Haverford's No. 1 singles player and was recently recognized as an Ambler Scholar-Athlete for having one of the top cumulative GPAs among all senior student-athletes at Haverford. He was also named the 2017 recipient of the Archibald MacIntosh 1921 Award which recognizes the top scholar-athlete in a first-year class. Other notable academic honors include being named the Centennial Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year for men's tennis in 2019, a member of the Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area Team, a four-time ITA Scholar-Athlete, and a three-time selection to the Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll.
In addition to his success in the classroom, Yan was a five-time combined All-Centennial Conference selection during his first three years in singles and doubles. That included being named the Centennial Conference Rookie of the Year in 2017. He was a first-team All-CC pick in singles the following year to go along with a pair of second-team honors in both singles and doubles throughout his career.
JHU's Joshi is a two-time ITA All-American and posts a career record of 32-18 in singles and 31-20 in doubles. He ranks 24th in program history in singles wins and is 25th in total wins (63). He is also a two-time qualifier for the NCAA Singles Championship. This season, Joshi he was the runner-up in both singles and doubles at the ITA Southeast Championship. He then earned a bid to the ITA Cup in both singles and doubles. He is ranked ninth nationally and second in the Atlantic South in singles and is 11th in the region in doubles.
Joshi boasts a 3.89 cumulative GPA and is majoring in computer science and computer engineering with a minor in applied mathematics and statistics. He will be a software engineering intern at Capital One this summer and has previously interned at NTT Data Services and DecisivEdge, LLC. This past year, he was a course assistant for intermediate programming and intro to algorithms. Since his arrival on campus in August 2017, Joshi has volunteered with ACEing Autism, a program that teaches special needs children and teenagers tennis fundamentals. In addition, he has created an iOS application that would allow users to track NCAA tennis matches using Swift and XCode and export results to Twitter.
F&M's Sinton garners the accolade for the second consecutive year. He was named the 2020 Centennial Conference Winter Scholar-Athlete of the Year for men's swimming, while also garnering a spot on the Academic Honor Roll. Sinton also earned All-CC honors in the pool thanks to his role on the gold-winning 400-yard medley relay team at the 2020 Championships, as well as his silver-medal finish in the 200-yard butterfly.
Ursinus' Atillasoy was named the CC Scholar-Athlete of the Year for men's lacrosse. The junior attacker earned All-CC Honorable Mention honors in 2019, helping the Bears to the their first-ever CC championship. An applied economics major with a concentration in finance, Atillasoy carries a 3.95 GPA.