BALTIMORE, MD – Johns Hopkins men's tennis junior Vishnu Joshi has been named to the 2020 CoSIDA Academic All-District At-Large Team. The CoSIDA Academic All-District Team recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances in athletic competition and in the classroom.
 
To be eligible for CoSIDA Academic All-District honors, a student-athlete must have at least a 3.30 cumulative GPA, be a sophomore or above and a starter or significant reserve. Joshi will advance to the CoSIDA Academic All-America ballot with the Academic All-America Teams set to be announced on June 17. The At-Large Program includes athletes from the following sports: fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming, tennis, volleyball, water polo and wrestling.
 
The Johns Hopkins men's tennis program has now produced 14 CoSIDA Academic All-District selections since 2001, with 12 of those selections coming in the last 13 years. This is Joshi's first selection to the Academic All-District team and he is just the fifth junior in program history to do so.
 
Joshi is a two-time ITA All-American and posts a career record of 32-18 in singles and 31-20 in doubles. He ranks 24^th in program history in singles wins and is 25^th in total wins (63). He is also a two-time qualifier for the NCAA Singles Championship. This season, Joshi he was the runner-up in both singles and doubles at the ITA Southeast Championship. He then earned a bid to the ITA Cup in both singles and doubles. He is ranked ninth nationally and second in the Atlantic South in singles and is 11^th in the region in doubles.
 
Joshi boasts a 3.89 cumulative GPA and is majoring in computer science and computer engineering with a minor in applied mathematics and statistics. He will be a software engineering intern at Capital One this summer and has previously interned at NTT Data Services and DecisivEdge, LLC. This past year, he was a course assistant for intermediate programming and intro to algorithms. Since his arrival on campus in August 2017, Joshi has volunteered with ACEing Autism, a program that teaches special needs children and teenagers tennis fundamentals. In addition, he has created an iOS application that would allow users to track NCAA tennis matches using Swift and XCode and export results to Twitter.