Garden City, N.Y. - Coming off a Northeast 10 Conference Championship title and ahead of a berth to the NCAA tournament, tennis athletes Reece Farrow and Katarina Liedbeck were named the Adelphi Male and Female Scholar-Athletes of the Year, respectively at the End of the Year Awards Ceremony on May 5. 

The titles of Male and Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year are annually bestowed upon two deserving Adelphi student-athletes of any class level who excel in the classroom and are leaders for their team on the field of play. Nominated by the coaching staff and voted on by full-time staff members of the department, this is the second consecutive year that a men's tennis player has earned the male trophy. 

As part of the team that has helped to compile the highest team gpa in the department these last four semesters, Farrow was an ITA doubles East Region Champion in the fall with partner Hugo Munoz Reinoso for the first time in men's program history and represented Adelphi at nationals in Rome, Georgia.
 
His regional ranking in doubles was #1 and his national ranking reached an all-time high of #15 in November of this academic year. The UK native also helped the team capture back-to-back NE10 titles in the last two championship segments. Off the court he is a resident assistant and a supervisor for campus recreation, while also finding time to serve as a research assistant for three different professors and will serve on the NCAA Innovations Grant External Review Panel this spring as a student-athlete representative.  

With all of that going on Farrow graduated this spring and boasts a 3.94 cumulative gpa in neuroscience with two minors of physical education and psychology. He will attend Boston University starting this fall. 



Helping her team to back-to-back NE10 finals appearances over the last two years, Liedbeck has won the conference's Elite 24 award – which is given to the individual with the highest cumulative gpa at the championship – in both trips. She doubled up on her Academic All-American honors and is a four time all-Conference honoree.

Serving as captain and holds a 6-2 record this season at no. 1 singles and was 8-2 in doubles at the no. 1 position. She reached the ITA Regional doubles final for the second year in a row and represented the Panthers at ITA Nationals. With a 4.0 gpa this past fall, her cumulative gpa stands at 3.988 as she pursues a degree in computer science.