CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Senior men's tennis player Thomas Nicol (Acton, Mass.) has been named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Team as announced by the organization today.
To be eligible to earn CSC Academic All-District recognition, a student-athlete must own a cumulative GPA above 3.50 and have significant athletic credentials. Additionally, tennis student-athletes must be in the lineup for 75 percent of an institution's days of competition (regional competition such as ITAs and non-team scored events do not count).
This is Nicol's second consecutive CSC Academic All-District Honor. The junior earned a 3.96 GPA as a Graphic Design major.
On the court, Nicol appeared in all 11 matches for the Lynx and went 2-7 in singles matchups and 4-5 in doubles play, a new career-high in doubles victories. The senior was named to the Empire 8 All-Conference Second Team for Singles while also earning a nod to Empire 8's Tomorrow's Leaders Teams. He was honored as the Lesley men's tennis MVP at the 2026 LES-ley Awards in addition to earning the Senior Academic Achievement Award at the LES-ley Awards.
About College Sports Communicators
College Sports Communicators (CSC) was founded in 1957 and is a 4,400+ member national association for strategic, creative and digital communicators across intercollegiate athletics in the United States and Canada. The current name of the organization was adopted following a membership-wide vote on August 31, 2022.
From its founding in 1957 until the 2022 name change, the organization was known as College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
The name change signaled a major step in a larger strategic plan to highlight the association's evolution and expansion. The move better aligns with the association's membership makeup and further positions the organization to support and advocate for its members who serve in the communications, digital and creative college sports industry, regardless of position or title.
The organization, which celebrated its 65th year during the 2021-22 academic year, is the second oldest management association in all of intercollegiate athletics. College Sports Communicators became an affiliated partner with NACDA (National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics) in December of 2008.
CSC's membership first reached the 3,000 mark during the 2013-14 school year and has topped that threshold each year since with the exception of the 2020-21 Covid-19 pandemic year. The membership base reached 4,000 for the first time in 2022-23.
Prior to the formation of the organization as CoSIDA in the mid-1950s, sports information directors as a group were a part of the American College Public Relations Association. Most SIDs at those ACPRA meetings eventually felt that a separate organization was needed and that led to CoSIDA's formation. There were 102 members at the original meeting/convention in 1957.