The College of Wooster's Namit Misra and Arnav Yadav are part of College Sports Communicators' Academic All-District® Team for men's tennis, as announced by the organization on Tuesday.
Misra played on The College of Wooster's No. 1 doubles team for most of the season, scoring four wins with Yadav. Overall, the junior was 9-11 in doubles play. In singles, Misra went 5-15, splitting time between the third, fourth, and fifth flights. The junior opened the year with four straight wins at doubles, including a pair of 8-6 wins over teams from NCAA Div. II Findlay University. Misra and Yadav won three of their final four doubles matches in the first flight on the team's spring trip to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Those wins helped Wooster to a 7-0 triumph over Ripon College and a 6-1 victory over Nazareth University. The 2022-23 All-North Coast Athletic Conference selection in doubles scored a conference win at fifth singles, downing Wittenberg University's Benjamin Glassman 6-3, 6-3.
The physics major spent the spring semester of his sophomore year as a research assistant studying disk galaxy classification. More specifically, the two-time CSC Academic All-District® qualifier studied the formation and morphology of disk galaxies. Misra utilized image analysis tools to decompose structural components of galaxies and model light their profiles for identification purposes. Misra is a lab teaching assistant and tutor within the major and serves as an overnight host for the College's prospective student program that allows high school students to gain a more in-depth feel of a Wooster student experience. Misra is the secretary for the Jenny Investment Club, which manages a small stock portfolio of the College's endowment. He self-directed a computation physics project in 2023 on two-dimensional fluid flow simulation.
Yadav anchored the second singles flight, where the sophomore went 9-6 as part of an overall 12-9 record. He was 9-13 in doubles. Yadav won four singles matches in conference play, headlined by a 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 victory of DePauw University's Scott Anderson and a 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (4) triumph over Wabash College's Tharakesh Ashokar. Misra and Yadav won 7-5 at first doubles against Wittenberg.
Yadav is a business economics and statistical and data sciences double major who is enrolled in the College's entrepreneurship pathway program. Yadav is also part of the College's Jenny Investment Club and plays on the club soccer team.
Each college or university with a CSC membership may submit up to four Academic All-District® honorees for men's tennis. Each nominee must have at least a 3.50 cumulative GPA, be at least a sophomore in academic standing, and be in the lineup for at least 70 percent of matches that have a team score.
