Three SMC tennis players earned the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s Scholar-Athlete award for the 2005/2006 academic year. The SMC student-athletes, Caley Harlan, Marjan Vakilmozaffari and Helen Zaychik, were the only players to receive this award out of all of California’s community colleges. Harlan is now attending Berkeley, Zaychik is attending UCLA, and Vakilmozaffari is returning for a second season.
Since 2003, when the award was first presented to California community college tennis players, SMC has had one or more players receive this award. And, since its inception, nine out of the 10 players to receive this award have been SMC students. SMC is the only California community college to have received All-Academic Team honors, which it earned in 2004.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 14, 2006. Read the original PDF.