Joshi and Feies Named CSC Academic All-Americans
June 3 – (AUSTIN, Texas) – Carnegie Mellon University men's tennis senior Akshay Joshi and sophomore Alex Feies have been named to the Academic All-America® Men's Tennis Team as selected by the College Sports Communicators. Joshi was selected to the second team while Feies earned a spot on the third team.
This prestigious award for Joshi and Feies marks the seventh year a Carnegie Mellon men's tennis athlete has earned Academic All-America recognition and the first time since the 2015-16 season. View the complete list of Tartan award winners.
Joshi graduated in May with a degree in mechanical engineering with a 4.00 grade point average and will continue his education at Stanford University where he'll study aeronautics. He is a four-time ITA Scholar Athlete and three-time College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honoree. He was recently award the Carnegie Mellon Athletics Citizenship Award for his outstanding work on the court, in the classroom, and with the university community. A three-year member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Council, Joshi was on the CMU Racing Team, a Jr. Cad Developer at Tech Mahindra, and a Starlink Product Engineering Intern and Propulsion Engineering Intern at SpaceX.
In addition to participating in tennis clinics and community cleanup projects with the tennis team, Joshi led the team as a three-year captain earning All-University Athletic Association (UAA) honors at second team doubles this year while also helping the team return to the NCAA Tournament and achieve a national ranking of five during the season. For his career, Joshi accumulated a record of 58-38 in doubles play and was named to the All-UAA team at number one doubles as a sophomore and number two doubles as a junior.
Feies just completed his second campaign with the Tartans at the NCAA Singles Championship, advancing to the quarterfinals and earning All-America distinction for the second straight season. He was also named the UAA Player of the Year and competed at the ITA Cup in the fall for the second season.
Feies now has a career singles record of 51-15 after a 23-7 showing this season. In doubles play, his mark stands at 33-14 and he owns the program record for singles victories in a season at 28, set last year when he was named the UAA and ITA Atlantic South Region Rookie of the Year.
Off the court, Feies carries a 3.55 grade point average as an information systems major. He is a teaching assistant for principles of software construction and is one of 30 finalists for a summer 2027 engineering internship with Walmart. This summer, Feies will be an AI and Machine Learning Intern at Coherent Corp while also continuing work for the second year as a software engineer for TennisVision.