June 8, 2005

WALNUT CREEK, CALIF. - Led by first-team selections Alex Vlaski and Daniel Chu, five Huskies were named to the 2005 Pac-10 All-Academic team for men's tennis conference commissioner Tom Hansen announced Wednesday. Vlaski and Chu were joined by Peter Scharler and Alex Slovic on the second-team and Chris Floyd on the honorable mention squad.

To be eligible for selection to the academic team, a student-athlete must have a minimum 3.0 overall grade-point average and be either a starter or significant contributor.

Vlaski, a native of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, has a 3.51 grade point average and is majoring in business administration. The honor is the third-straight first-team Pac-10 All-Academic nod for the Husky senior who was also named to the ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District VIII first-team last month.

Chu, a native of Vancouver, B.C., has a 3.53 gpa and is majoring in business administration. This is the first Pac-10 All-Academic award for Chu who was one of just two sophomores named to the first-team.

Also a first-time honoree is Slovic, a sophomore from Pancevo, Yugoslavia, who earned second-team acclaim. Slovic has a 3.50 gpa in business administration. Scharler, a senior from Salzburg, Austria, earned his second-straight second-team selection after being named to the honorable mention team in 2003. Scharler has a 3.26 gpa and is majoring in economics.

Rounding out Washington's top-five scholars was sophomore Floyd, who earned his first selection to the honorable mention team. Floyd, from Mercer Island, Wash., has a 3.13 gpa in communications.

2005 PAC-10 ALL-ACADEMIC MEN'S TENNIS TEAM
First Team
Patrick Briaud, CAL Sr. 3.52 Industrial Engineering & Operations Resources
Daniel Chu, WASH So. 3.53 Business Administration
KC Corkery, STAN Jr. 3.30 Communication
Manuel Kost, ORE Sr. 3.33 Sports Marketing
Chris Lam, UCLA Sr. 3.45 Business-Economics/Accounting
Daniel Sebescen, CAL So. 3.68 Undeclared
Sven Swinnen, ORE Sr. 3.31 Business Administration
Alex Vlaski, WASH Sr. 3.51 Business Administration

Second Team
Christopher Biro, ASU So. 3.38 Interdisciplinary Studies
Jonathan Kinsella, ASU So. 3.49 Management
Ryan McBride, ASU Jr. 3.24 Elementary Education
Eric McKean, STAN So. 3.71 Undeclared
Luben Pampoulov, UCLA Sr. 3.28 Business-Economics
John Petit, CAL So. 3.68 Undeclared
Peter Scharler, WASH Sr. 3.26 Economics
Alex Slovic, WASH So. 3.50 Business Administration

HONORABLE MENTION: Jamil Al-Agba, So., USC; Dean Wallace, Jr., CAL; Thomas Bieri, Jr., ORE; Andy Colombo, Sr., ASU; Sam Warburg, Sr., STAN; Nick Hegarty, So., ASU; Chris Floyd, So., WASH; Ben Kohlloffel, So., UCLA.