GCAA Announces 2012 Team Academic Awards
Golf Coaches Association of America National Office 1225 West Main Street Suite 110 Norman, OK 73069 Phone: (405) 329-4222 Fax: (405) 573-7888 www.collegiategolf.com National Advisory Board President Todd Satterfield, Furman First Vice-President Mark Hankins, Iowa Second Vice-President Conrad Ray, Stanford Third Vice-President Andrew Sapp, North Carolina Immediate Past President Bruce Brockbank, BYU Treasurer Bruce Heppler, Georgia Tech Division I Representative At-Large Eric Hoos, Denver Division II Representative At-Large Steve Card, W. Washington Division III Representative At-Large Bob Alpers, St. John’s (MN) NAIA Representative At-Large Vacant NJCAA Representative At-Large Tommy Snell, Mississippi Gulf Coast Division I Director-East Bill McDonald, South Carolina Division I Director-Central Greg Sands, Texas Tech Division I Director-West Matt Thurmond, Washington Division II Director Brent Nicoson, Indianapolis Division III Director Nik Kumar, Manhanttanville Assistant Coach Representative Vacant Representative At-Large Jim Awtrey NCAA Liaison Donnie Wagner Legislative Advisor Stephen Clar National Staff CEO Gregg Grost Business Affairs Sharon Beery External Affairs Dustin Roberts Operations Ryan Klatt Membership Services Katie Louis
For Immediate Release Contact: Dustin Roberts Golf Coaches Association of America (405) 329-4222
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
GCAA Announces 2012 Team Academic Awards presented by Farmers Insurance NORMAN, Okla. – DePaul (Division I), Post (Division II), Manhattanville (Division III), Bethel College (Kan.) (NAIA), Dodge City CC (NJCAA DI) and South Mountain CC (NJCAA DII) have been named Academic National Champions for their respective division announced the GCAA. DePaul posted the highest overall team GPA for all divisions with a 3.69. This marks the third straight year DePaul has had the highest team GPA in men’s college golf. A total of 125 teams submitted GPAs of 3.00 or higher to earn All-Academic Team recognition. “I thought last year when they won back to back was quite an accomplishment, but to threepeat is unbelievable,” said DePaul Head Coach Betty Kaufmann. “This is a phenomenal group of young men that have bought into both excelling academically and athletically as a team. There are so many good student athletes at so many great Universities, but to win this is a true team effort. They are a great group of young men and I am so proud of their efforts. I can’t thank the GCAA and Farmers enough for sponsoring the award so our student-athletes get recognized for their hard work and academic achievements.” Like DePaul in Division I, South Mountain CC has also won three straight Academic National Championships in NJCAA DII. This is the first win for Bethel College, Dodge City, Manhattanville and Post. Arkansas, Brown, Canisius, Harvard, Kennesaw State, Tennessee, Troy, Utah Valley, Valparaiso, William & Mary and Yale also received President’s Special Recognition status for having team GPAs of 3.5 or better. To be eligible for GCAA All-Academic Team honors a college or university must submit the GPAs for each player on its official squad list for the academic year. “Farmers Insurance is proud to extend our support of education and University Day throughout the year,” said Chuck Browning, Head of Sponsorships for Farmers Insurance. “It is a perfect fit for us – it is an opportunity for our agents around the country to get involved with our golf platform and academic institutions on a local level and we are proud to honor top performing academic men’s golf programs in the country.” Farmers Insurance Group of Companies is a leading U.S. insurer of automobiles, homes and small businesses and also provides a wide range of other insurance and financial services products. Farmers Insurance is proud to serve more than 10 million households with more than 20 million individual policies across all 50 states through the efforts of over 50,000 exclusive and independent agents and nearly 24,000 employees. Farmers is a trade name and may refer to Farmers Group, Inc. or the Farmers Exchanges, as the case may be. Farmers Group, Inc., a management and holding company, along with its subsidiaries, is wholly owned by the Zurich Insurance Group Ltd. The Farmers Exchanges are three reciprocal insurers (Farmers Insurance Exchange, Fire Insurance Exchange and Truck Insurance Exchange), including their subsidiaries and affiliates, owned by their policyholders, and managed by Farmers Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries. For more information about Farmers, visit its Web site at www.farmers.com or at www.Facebook.com/FarmersInsurance.
Academic National Champions Division I - DePaul Division II - Post Division III - Manhattanville NAIA - Bethel College (Kan.) NJCAA DI - Dodge City CC NJCAA DII - South Mountain CC
President’s Special Recognition (3.5 or better GPA)
Division I Division II Arkansas Post Brown Canisius NAIA Harvard Bethel College (Kan.) Kennesaw State Tennessee Troy Utah Valley State Valparaiso William & Mary Yale
All-Academic Teams (3.0 or better GPA)
Akron Arizona Arkansas Auburn Baylor Belmont Brown Butler California Canisius Coastal Carolina Denver DePaul Detroit Mercy Duke East Carolina East Tennessee State Evansville Georgia Tech Gonzaga Harvard Houston Baptist Illinois Kansas Kansas State Kennesaw State Longwood Louisville Loyola University Maryland Marquette Marshall Maryland Eastern Shore Middle Tennessee State Minnesota Missouri Nebraska New Mexico New Mexico State Northern Colorado Northwestern Notre Dame Oklahoma Purdue Rice Richmond
South Alabama South Carolina South Dakota State Southern Illinois Edwardsville Southern Methodist St. Mary’s College of California Stanford TCU Tennessee Troy UCLA UNC Charlotte UNCG UNCW Utah Valley UTSA Valparaiso Vanderbilt Virginia Tech William & Mary Wofford Wyoming Yale
Division II
Barry Bellarmine Bentley Coker Ferris State Lynn Maryville (St. Louis) Nova Southeastern Ohio Dominican Post Southwestern Oklahoma State Upper Iowa USC Aiken West Florida
Division III
Albion Carnegie Mellon Emory Gettysburg
Greensboro Grinnell Hope Johnson & Wales Luther Manhattanville Milwaukee School of Engineering Occidental Oglethorpe Ohio Wesleyan Piedmont Redlands Southwestern St. John’s St. Thomas Stevens Institute of Technology Stevenson Transylvania Trinity College (Conn.) Wabash Wartburg Webster Wheaton
NAIA
Bethany Bethel College (Kan.) Carroll College Central Methodist Cumberlands Embry Riddle Aeronautical University – Prescott Northwood (Florida) Northwood (Texas) Oklahoma Christian SCAD Atlanta St. Ambrose The Master’s College
NJCAA DI
Dodge City CC
NJCAA DII
Black Hawk College South Mountain CC
For Immediate Release Contact: Dustin Roberts Golf Coaches Association of America (405) 329-4222
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
GCAA Announces 2012 Team Academic Awards presented by Farmers Insurance NORMAN, Okla. – DePaul (Division I), Post (Division II), Manhattanville (Division III), Bethel College (Kan.) (NAIA), Dodge City CC (NJCAA DI) and South Mountain CC (NJCAA DII) have been named Academic National Champions for their respective division announced the GCAA. DePaul posted the highest overall team GPA for all divisions with a 3.69. This marks the third straight year DePaul has had the highest team GPA in men’s college golf. A total of 125 teams submitted GPAs of 3.00 or higher to earn All-Academic Team recognition. “I thought last year when they won back to back was quite an accomplishment, but to threepeat is unbelievable,” said DePaul Head Coach Betty Kaufmann. “This is a phenomenal group of young men that have bought into both excelling academically and athletically as a team. There are so many good student athletes at so many great Universities, but to win this is a true team effort. They are a great group of young men and I am so proud of their efforts. I can’t thank the GCAA and Farmers enough for sponsoring the award so our student-athletes get recognized for their hard work and academic achievements.” Like DePaul in Division I, South Mountain CC has also won three straight Academic National Championships in NJCAA DII. This is the first win for Bethel College, Dodge City, Manhattanville and Post. Arkansas, Brown, Canisius, Harvard, Kennesaw State, Tennessee, Troy, Utah Valley, Valparaiso, William & Mary and Yale also received President’s Special Recognition status for having team GPAs of 3.5 or better. To be eligible for GCAA All-Academic Team honors a college or university must submit the GPAs for each player on its official squad list for the academic year. “Farmers Insurance is proud to extend our support of education and University Day throughout the year,” said Chuck Browning, Head of Sponsorships for Farmers Insurance. “It is a perfect fit for us – it is an opportunity for our agents around the country to get involved with our golf platform and academic institutions on a local level and we are proud to honor top performing academic men’s golf programs in the country.” Farmers Insurance Group of Companies is a leading U.S. insurer of automobiles, homes and small businesses and also provides a wide range of other insurance and financial services products. Farmers Insurance is proud to serve more than 10 million households with more than 20 million individual policies across all 50 states through the efforts of over 50,000 exclusive and independent agents and nearly 24,000 employees. Farmers is a trade name and may refer to Farmers Group, Inc. or the Farmers Exchanges, as the case may be. Farmers Group, Inc., a management and holding company, along with its subsidiaries, is wholly owned by the Zurich Insurance Group Ltd. The Farmers Exchanges are three reciprocal insurers (Farmers Insurance Exchange, Fire Insurance Exchange and Truck Insurance Exchange), including their subsidiaries and affiliates, owned by their policyholders, and managed by Farmers Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries. For more information about Farmers, visit its Web site at www.farmers.com or at www.Facebook.com/FarmersInsurance.
Academic National Champions Division I - DePaul Division II - Post Division III - Manhattanville NAIA - Bethel College (Kan.) NJCAA DI - Dodge City CC NJCAA DII - South Mountain CC
President’s Special Recognition (3.5 or better GPA)
Division I Division II Arkansas Post Brown Canisius NAIA Harvard Bethel College (Kan.) Kennesaw State Tennessee Troy Utah Valley State Valparaiso William & Mary Yale
All-Academic Teams (3.0 or better GPA)
Akron Arizona Arkansas Auburn Baylor Belmont Brown Butler California Canisius Coastal Carolina Denver DePaul Detroit Mercy Duke East Carolina East Tennessee State Evansville Georgia Tech Gonzaga Harvard Houston Baptist Illinois Kansas Kansas State Kennesaw State Longwood Louisville Loyola University Maryland Marquette Marshall Maryland Eastern Shore Middle Tennessee State Minnesota Missouri Nebraska New Mexico New Mexico State Northern Colorado Northwestern Notre Dame Oklahoma Purdue Rice Richmond
South Alabama South Carolina South Dakota State Southern Illinois Edwardsville Southern Methodist St. Mary’s College of California Stanford TCU Tennessee Troy UCLA UNC Charlotte UNCG UNCW Utah Valley UTSA Valparaiso Vanderbilt Virginia Tech William & Mary Wofford Wyoming Yale
Division II
Barry Bellarmine Bentley Coker Ferris State Lynn Maryville (St. Louis) Nova Southeastern Ohio Dominican Post Southwestern Oklahoma State Upper Iowa USC Aiken West Florida
Division III
Albion Carnegie Mellon Emory Gettysburg
Greensboro Grinnell Hope Johnson & Wales Luther Manhattanville Milwaukee School of Engineering Occidental Oglethorpe Ohio Wesleyan Piedmont Redlands Southwestern St. John’s St. Thomas Stevens Institute of Technology Stevenson Transylvania Trinity College (Conn.) Wabash Wartburg Webster Wheaton
NAIA
Bethany Bethel College (Kan.) Carroll College Central Methodist Cumberlands Embry Riddle Aeronautical University – Prescott Northwood (Florida) Northwood (Texas) Oklahoma Christian SCAD Atlanta St. Ambrose The Master’s College
NJCAA DI
Dodge City CC
NJCAA DII
Black Hawk College South Mountain CC
