 
                        Yiannis Sakkas, Deree Tennis Academy athlete and Pierce scholarship student, has been accepted to Binghamton University, USA with a tennis athletic scholarship. 
Binghamton University is ranked among the prestigious Public Ivies and competes athletically in Division I of the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association). 
Yiannis will have the opportunity to study at one of the top academic universities while continuing to play tennis at a very high level. 
Yiannis joined the Deree Tennis Academy in 2019, the same year he began attending Pierce as a 7th-grade student on a tennis scholarship. 
It is worth noting that he is the second athlete from the Deree Tennis Academy to secure an athletic scholarship to a U.S. university, following Theodoros Mitsakos. 
Congratulations, Yiannis—wishing you success in your studies and all the best in your new competitive challenges!