Adler was named the National Student-Athlete Promoter of the Year, while Scott, who has played in the No. 1 singles and doubles spots for the majority of her young Dartmouth career, was a unanimous first-team All Ivy selection.
For her work promoting the women's tennis team on campus throughout the year, Adler will receive a paid internship in Wilson Sporting Goods' marketing department at its global headquarters in Chicago, Ill., this summer. Wilson is a leading manufacturer of ball sports equipment.
Adler shares the award with Stephen Bacala of Louisiana State University, who also won a paid internship with Wilson.
According to an ITA press release, the Internship Award cites "individuals who promote the game of tennis at the collegiate level by devoting consistent time and effort to promotional activities and who support and bring awareness to either their school program or to the sport as a whole."
"The awards is given to an individual who best exemplified what it means to really be dedicated to your sport and promote it on campus to increase awareness of it," Adler said. "Tennis is one of those sports that isn't usually a huge college sport. It's kind of just a sign of my dedication to our team."
Adler led the way in organizing various events for Big Green tennis this year, including a "Pink-Out" to support breast cancer awareness, in which she and her teammates wore pink for an entire month's worth of home matches, Adler said.
"I helped with my coach and the rest of the team to come up with a breast cancer awareness thing that we hadn't done in the past," she said. "I'm also involved in Big Green Readers, which is a mentoring program where a group of 25 athletes goes to an elementary school in [West Lebanon]. I've been involved in that since I was a freshman."
Adler played the majority of the year at either No. 2 and No. 3 singles, while pairing up with several different teammates in doubles. She was a 2008 Academic All-Ivy selection.
Scott has been one of Dartmouth's toughest competitors since she got to campus, playing No. 1 singles as well as No. 1 doubles for the Big Green with partner Mary Beth Winingham '10.
Scott was a runner up for Ivy League Rookie of the Year during her freshman campaign, and finished as a second-team All Ivy selection in singles and a first-team member for doubles.
Facing up against the top opponent's each week, Scott posted an 11-7 overall singles record, going 5-2 in Ivy League play.
The ITA Player to Watch award recognizes a player who has an outstanding season and is expected to perform at a high level throughout the rest of his or her career, according to an ITA release.
Scott said such expectations never factor into her mindset or the way she approaches an individual match.
"It was pretty exciting to hear I got the [ITA] award because it wasn't something I'd ever thought about," Scott said. "First-team All Ivy is something that's in the back of your mind, but Player to Watch was a surprise."
After two seasons on the team, Scott has already accumulated a good deal of hardware.
"[Winning awards is] not something I should be thinking about, because if I play well and win my matches than the results will take care of themselves," Scott said. "It's something I know is possible to get at the end of the season, though, so it is something I work hard for."
Both Scott and Adler said they believe that individual accomplishments follow team success, and that they never rank these goals high in their priorities at the beginning of a season. The pair said they both see their success as great signs about the state of Dartmouth tennis.
"I think building on the last couple of seasons, we've had everyone's mindset and attitude in the right place," Adler said. "I think we're all really excited about the potential we have to really perform well and put into action everything we've been building on the last couple of seasons."
