Miguel Uzcategui Earns Capital One Academic Third Team All-America At-Large Honor

WASHINGTON, DC – Senior Miguel Uzcategui of the University of the District of Columbia men's tennis team was selected to the Capital One Academic At-Large All-America Third Team, as chosen by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). This marks the second consecutive year he has earned this honor.

These All-Academic teams are released to recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom. Capital One has been the entitlement rights holder to CoSIDA's Academic All-America teams programs since 2011. To qualify for Academic All-America, a student-athlete must maintain a cumulative grade-point average of 3.30 or higher, have reached sophomore academic and athletic standing at the institution, be nominated by the school's sports information director, and have earned First Team All-District honors.

Uzcategui is a two-year First Team All-ECC selection and a 2014 ECC Male Scholar Athlete of the Year Award recipient. A Valencia, Venezuela native, Uzcategui helped the Firebirds to the No. 2 seed in the ECC Men's Tennis Championship, finishing with a league mark of 5-1 at the No. 1 singles spot. Meanwhile, he has maintained a 3.94 grade point average as an Electrical Engineering major.

Uzcategui is the school's first and only male student-athlete to be named a CoSIDA Academic All-American and just the second overall after Alice Butler – a forward on the women's basketball team who earned First Team Academic All-American honors in 1981. Uzcategui was also a Third Team Academic All-American in 2013.