University of Rochester men's tennis player Krish Vennam has been named the 2025 Peter DiPasquale Male Scholar-Athlete Award winner, as announced at the University of Rochester Department of Athletics and Recreation Awards Dinner earlier this week.
 
Vennam has been a four-year contributor on the men's tennis team during his career, earning a total of five All-University Athletic Association honors spanning four seasons. Since his first-year on the River Campus, Vennam has been one of the teams' top players, playing in positions #1, #2 or #3 in singles. That includes being Rochester's #1 singles player since late in the 2022-23 season.
 
The senior piled up over 70 career wins and was regionally ranked by the NCAA for back-to-back seasons, in 2024 and 2025. At the ITA Northeast Regional Championships this last fall, Vennam reached the singles quarterfinals, posting his deepest tournament run in that event across his four seasons.
 
Away from tennis, Vennam was named a Lysle 'Spike' Garnish Scholar-Athlete during the fall, earned Provost Circle Scholar recognition in 2024 and was elected Phi Beta Kappa this spring. Vennam earned Dean's List every semester at the University and was a 3-time UAA All-Academic honoree and is a 3-time College Sports Communicators Academic All-District selection. Additionally, he will be a 4-time ITA Scholar Athlete with the national collegiate tennis coaching association.
 
Vennam has been a workshop leader in organic chemistry and was a teacher's assistant in statistics during his time at the University. He served in a researcher role in labs at Yale University and Columbia University and was an assistant at Rochester's Merigan lab, while also being a member of GlobeMed.
 
Inaugurated in 1995, the Peter DiPasquale Award is presented annually to a male member of the senior class who has shown excellence in the classroom and serves as a role model for their fellow students.
 
Peter DiPasquale was a three-year letterman for the football team, serving as captain and earning team MVP his senior year. He was a member of the sophomore and junior honor societies, Tau Beta Pi for engineering, and president of the senior class. After graduation in 1952, he held leadership roles in Rochester Area alumni recruiting and fund drives. In 1997, he received the Lysle "Spike" Garnish Citation from the Department of Athletics and Recreation, and in 1999, he was inducted into the University's Athletic Hall of Fame.