Men's tennis player Pramote Malasitt was named to the 2005 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America University Division Men’s At-Large Second Team June 14. He is a two-time First Team Academic All-District III selection. Details...
The first, second and third teams recognize 15 honorees each for a combined 45 student-athletes from 12 NCAA Division I sports. Last month, athletes were nominated by their sports information directors and selected to Academic All-District squads by a vote of members of the College Sports Information Directors of America within each of the eight districts, placing over 80 candidates on the national ballot for the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Team.
Malasitt graduated summa cum laude from Elon last month with a final 3.92 cumulative grade-point average in computer science. During his academic career at Elon, the 2005 Southern Conference TIAA-CREF Graduate Scholarship recipient was a six-time President’s List honoree, two-time Dean’s List student and eight-time Athletics Director’s Honor Roll selection. A member of The National Dean’s List, he has also been inducted into the Phi Beta Delta International Scholars, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics, Chi Alpha Sigma and Phi Eta Sigma national honor societies.
On the tennis court, Malasitt posted a 17-4 record at No. 1 singles and a 15-5 ledger at No. 1 doubles with partner Austin Fenn this spring. The team captain represented the Phoenix at No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles all four years, compiling a 52-25 singles mark (.675) and a 58-18 doubles slate (.763) the past four springs while reaching first-team all-conference status at both singles and doubles all four seasons. During the 2005 campaign, he was a three-time Southern Conference Player of the Week, a TIAA-CREF Southern Conference Student-Athlete of the Week and the Southern Conference February Athlete of the Month.
Malasitt claimed victories over No. 1 singles players from both then-No. 25 North Carolina and then-No. 41 South Carolina this spring. Also this season, the two-time team MVP and two-time TIAA-CREF Academic All-Southern Conference selection was honored as an Arthur Ashe, Jr. Sports Scholar, the Buddy Hartsell/Don Bunch Southern Conference Sportsmanship Award recipient and the Stein H. Basnight Outstanding Elon Male Athlete of the Year.