John Cubelic, a senior wide receiver on the 2009 Auburn football team, has been named by the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF) to the 2010 NFF Hampshire Honor Society, the organization announced Tuesday.

The society is comprised of college football players from all divisions of play who each maintained a 3.2 grade-point average or better throughout their entire course of undergraduate study. A total of 620 players from 246 schools qualified for membership in the society’s fourth year, an 80 percent increase from the inaugural class in 2007.

The NFF Hampshire Honor Society capitalizes on the NFF’s current National Scholar-Athlete program, greatly expanding the number of scholar-athletes the NFF can recognize each year and further strengthening the organization’s leadership role in encouraging academic performance by the student-athletes who play football at the more than 700 college and universities with football programs nationwide.

Cubelic, who graduated from Auburn in December with a degree in Radio, Television and Film, was named to the Southeastern Conference Academic Fall Honor Roll in each of the past three seasons.

Cubelic is the sixth Auburn football player to be named to the Hampshire Honor Society in its four years. Cole Bennett and Josh Thompson were honored in 2008, while Kody Bliss, Karibi Dede and Will Herring were all named to the society in 2007.

Men’s tennis selected to NCAA Tournament
The No. 31 Auburn men’s tennis team was selected to participate in the 2010 NCAA Tournament, traveling to Gainesville, Fla., to face No. 55 Troy in the first round May 14.

Auburn (11-12) qualifies for its 11th-straight NCAA Tournament appearance and 18th overall. Of those 18 NCAA trips, 16 have come under head coach Eric Shore, who is in his 20th season with the Tigers.

The Tigers are 19-17 in the NCAA Tournament and will face Troy for the first time in the national tournament. The Trojans are making their first NCAA appearance in school history and stand at 20-4 on the season.

Troy recently captured the 2010 Sun Belt Conference title and is led by Sun Belt Coach of the Year Eric Hayes.

“Troy has a very good team this year and it’s going to be a tough match for us,” Shore said. “We have been playing Troy every year and played them earlier this season. We’re happy to go down to Florida to see what we can do.”

Auburn hosted Troy on Feb. 10 of this season and came away with a 5-2 victory at the City of Auburn/Auburn University Yarborough Tennis Center. During the match, the Tigers took singles wins on the front three courts and on court six, while sweeping doubles play. With the win, Auburn improved its series record to 15-2 over the Trojans.

Auburn will be returning to action since the SEC Tournament, where the team finished their run in the semifinals with a loss to Florida, 4-1.

During their conference run, Auburn defeated Arkansas and third-seeded Georgia en route to the semifinals.

The winner of next Friday’s match will face the winner of Florida (19-4) and South Carolina State (11-10) in Gainesville the following day.