AUSTIN, TX – Johns Hopkins men's tennis junior Vishnu Joshi has been named to the 2020 Academic All-America At-Large Third Team as selected by CoSIDA it was announced today. He is the only student-athlete from the Centennial Conference be represented on the Men's Academic All-America At-Large Teams. Joshi is just the third Academic All-American in JHU men's tennis history and the first since 2013.
 
To be nominated for CoSIDA Academic All-America honors, a student-athlete must have at least a 3.30 cumulative GPA, be a sophomore or above and a starter or significant reserve. 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.
 
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 was the runner-up in both singles and doubles at the ITA Southeast Championship and later earned a bid to the ITA Cup in both. 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 is working as a software engineering intern at Capital One and has previously interned at NTT Data Services and DecisivEdge, LLC.
 
This past year, Joshi 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.