CSC Academic All-District® release
The College of Wooster's Patrick Johnson and Connor Streeter were among the men's tennis College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® honorees, as announced by the organization Tuesday afternoon.
Johnson held down the top flight of doubles with first-year Gabriel Escobar, and they earned third-team All-North Coast Athletic Conference honors. The pair went 7-11, while overall, Johnson was 8-17 in doubles play. He played third and fourth singles, posting an overall record of 8-10. Johnson and Escobar won their first three doubles matches when paired together this spring, which included an 8-6 victory over Ohio Athletic Conference co-champion Ohio Northern University. In fact, Johnson was a two-time winner against the Polar Bears, taking the fourth-singles match off T.J. Schultz 6-0, 6-2. That matched capped a five-match singles winning streak for the sophomore.
Johnson's internship experience includes working in the courthouse in Shelbyville, Kentucky. There, he was an intern for Judge Donna Dutton and coordinated correspondence between Judge Dutton and lawyers, defendants, and law enforcement officers seeking approval for warrants. Additionally, Johnson organized files for cases and observed the court proceedings.
On campus, Johnson is a member of the College's powerhouse Moot Court team. He assists an after school program in the Triway Local Schools, facilitating after-school running, stretching, and general exercise drills for middle and high school students.
Streeter split time between the fifth and sixth singles flights this season, posting an overall ledger of 7-7. In doubles, the senior went 2-3. Streeter scored a 7-5, 6-2 win during Wooster's 9-0 win over Grove City College on February 25, then moved up to fifth singles for a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Capital University's Brady Wink the following day. He blanked Shenandoah University's Brenton Baugh 6-0, 6-0 in the fifth flight on the team's spring break trip, and was victorious against Dickinson College 6-3, 5-7, 1-0 (3) on St. Patrick's Day. Other key wins included being a double winner during a NCAC match against Wittenberg University and against former conference rival Allegheny College.
The physics major used GALFIT to study the morphological properties of the M104 galaxy's halo for the Independent Study project. After completing a yearlong internship, Streeter will be returning to Boulder, Colorado, to attend graduate school in astronomy at the University of Colorado Boulder. Streeter's summer experiences led him to Colorado last summer, where the upcoming graduate was a heliophysics researcher at the National Solar Observatory. There, Streeter studied the evolution of solar filaments with the goal of improving space weather predictions, performed data analysis and image processing in Python, and presented the research finding with an oral presentation and poster session.
On campus, Streeter assisted Dr. Laura DeGroot as an astrophysics research assistant. He gained further insight into the inside-out formation of galaxies and learned how to analyze and edit Hubble Space Telescope images through the GALFIT software. Streeter worked as a peer tutor for physics students and was a mathematics teaching apprentice. The senior previously worked with the youth tennis program at Huron Valley Tennis Club in Michigan.
Wooster's duo are on the Academic All-America® ballot, which is voted on by CSC members in advance of the announcement of the Academic All-America® team on May 31. Starting with the 2022-23 academic year, all eligible nominees submitted by member schools earn Academic All-District® status. Nominees were voted to the Academic All-District® Team in previous years and those winners advanced to the Academic All-America® ballot. This is the first year tennis is its own Academic All-America® contest. Previously, tennis was part of the at-large contest.