Three members of the Francis Marion University men's tennis team – seniors Martin Barbera and Austin Vienna and junior Rodrigo Moura Ludgero – have been named to the College Sports Communicators Men's Tennis Academic All-District Team for 2025.

Selected by CSC, the All-District Team recognizes the area's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the court and in the classroom. The CSC Academic All-America® program separately recognizes honorees in four divisions: NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, and NAIA.

Barbera, a native of Morelia, Mexico, recently graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in management (sports management) and finished with a cumulative grade point average of 3.529.

This past season, played both No.1 singles and doubles and earned All-Conference honors for the third time.  He registered an 8-9 singles record and a 13-5 doubles mark, and was named to the 2025 Conference Carolinas All-Tournament Team.

A four-year letterman, he was named the conference Player of the Week five times during his career and finishes 13th on the all-time singles wins list at FMU with a 51-26 mark and tied for 10th in doubles victories with a 48-27 record.

Off the court, he was named to the Conference Carolinas Academic All-Conference Team each of the past two seasons, is a two-time ITA Scholar-Athlete 2024, and was inducted into the Chi Alpha Sigma national college athlete honor society.  He served two years on the university's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and has been placed on the FMU Swamp Fox Athletic-Academic Honor Roll six times and on the Conference Carolinas Presidential Honor Roll five times.

Vienna, a native of Huntingdale, Victoria, Australia, recently graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology, finishing with a 3.988 GPA.
 
Primarily a doubles specialist, he finished the 2025 season with a 10-7 mark mostly at the No.2 position.

He previously earned CSC Academic All-District recognition in 2023.  He has been named to the Academic All-Conference Team each of the past two years and is a three-time ITA Scholar-Athlete honoree.  He earned a Division II ADA Academic Achievement Award in 2024 and has been named to the FMU Swamp Fox Athletic-Academic Honor Roll six times and to the Conference Carolinas Presidential Honor Roll on six occasions.

Moura Ludgero, a native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has a 3.824 GPA as an economics and finance major.

He posted a 5-13 singles record this past season playing at the No.4 position and was 1-3 in doubles play.

He was named to both the FMU Swamp Fox Athletic-Academic and Conference Carolinas Presidential honor rolls for his first semester at FMU.  He previously earned CSC Academic All-District honors in 2024 while playing at Ashland University.

Francis Marion registered a 12-7 record this spring, tied for second in the final Conference Carolinas regular-season standings, and advanced to the semifinals of the conference tournament.
The Division II CSC Academic All-America® program is partially financially supported by the NCAA Division II national governance structure to assist CSC with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2025 Division II Academic All-America® program.

Barbera is a graduate of Dwight Global High School, while Vienna is a product of Rowville Secondary College and Moura Ludgero is a graduate of Pensi High School.