Charest Presented ITA All-Academic Tennis Award
August 18, 2004 | Women's Tennis
Terrier junior Aimee Charest, who has combined her tennis playing ability with an outstanding performance in the classroom, has been named recipient of an ITA All-Academic Scholar-Athlete Award.
In order to receive this prestigious award, an athlete must be a letterwinner, have a GPA of 3.5 (out of a possible 4.0) or better, and have been enrolled at his/her institution for at least two semesters.
Charest, a native of Somerset, MA, has certainly met all the criteria.
Over the past two years, she has been a member of the Terriers' America East championship and NCAA Tournament teams. During the 2003-04 season, she compiled an overall singles record of 19-15 and a doubles mark of 14-14.
In singles, she played primarily number six and compiled a 12-7 record during the spring season. Then, in post-season play, she was 2-0 in the America East Tournament as she won the number five singles title, while she did not finish her match against the University of Kentucky in the first round of the NCAAs. She was on the court and in the second set of her match against Christine Simpson. Charest lost the first set, 6-2, and was trailing in the second, 4-2, when Kentucky wrapped up the match. In the NCAA format, once a team achieves its four points, the other matches are halted. Thus, she ended her season with a 14-7 record in singles.
In doubles, she saw considerable action playing number one with senior captain Lindsey Dynof. In 12 matches, the two had an 8-4 record. Charest's overall record in doubles was 14-14.
As a freshman two years ago, she moved between numbers three, five, and six singles and compiled an overall record of 13-10. In the America East title match against Binghamton, she won at number six singles in straight sets and then lost in the NCAA Tournament at Vanderbilt.
Academically, she has achieved a better-than-3.5 average while majoring in journalism in the College of Communication. She was a Dean's List student in each of her first two years, has been on the Terrier student-athlete honor roll each semester, and was on the America East Commissioner's Honor Roll in each of the two seasons in which she has competed.
