GCAA Announces 2013 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 Jimmy Stobs, Barry Division III Representative At-Large Bob Alpers, St. John’s (MN) NAIA Representative At-Large Chris Winkel, Grand View 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 Bob Simms, St. John Fisher Assistant Coach Representative Blake Smart, Oklahoma 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, July 31, 2013
GCAA Announces 2013 Team Academic Awards presented by Farmers Insurance NORMAN, Okla. – Brown (Division I), Post (Division II), Greensboro College (Division III), Embry Riddle - AZ (NAIA), Scottsdale CC (NJCAA DI) and South Mountain CC (NJCAA DII) have been named Academic National Champions for their respective divisions announced the GCAA. Brown posted the highest overall team GPA for all divisions with a 3.74. A total of 143 teams submitted GPAs of 3.00 or higher to earn All-Academic Team recognition - a new high in the five years of the award. “All the credit goes to the players - I couldn’t be happier for them,” said Brown Head Coach Michael Hughes. “We put a high emphasis on academics and I know that we’ve been close to winning this award the past four years. To carry an Ivy League curriculum and course load while competing is tough. This lends credibility that if you recruit good quality kids your program will be rewarded.” South Mountain CC won its fourth straight Academic National Championships in NJCAA DII. Post earned the Division II Academic National Championship for the second-straight year while Brown, Greensboro College, Embry Riddle - AZ and Scottsdale CC won for the first time. DePaul, Harvard, Kennesaw State, Madonna, Ohio Valley, Redlands, Richmond, SCAD Atlanta, SCAD Savannah, Stanford, Sterling, Stevens Institute of Technology, Utah Valley State, 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 honor and support the GCAA and their 2013 recipients of the 2013 Team Academic Awards,” said Chuck Browning, Head of Sponsorship and Corporate Giving for Farmers Insurance. “A key philanthropic pillar of Farmers Insurance is Education, thus this award is a perfect fit for us and gives us a chance to extend our support of golf throughout the year. It is also an extension of our University Day platform at the Farmers Insurance Open, which we continue to see great success on each year.” Farmers Insurance Group of Companies is a leading U.S. insurer group 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. 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. Farmers Group, Inc., along with its subsidiaries, manages the non-claims insurance operations of the Farmers Exchanges. Farmers Group, Inc. is wholly owned by the Zurich Insurance Group. For more information about Farmers, visit its Web site at www.farmers.com or atwww.Facebook.com/FarmersInsurance.
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Academic National Champions Division I - Brown Division II - Post Division III - Greensboro College NAIA - Embry Riddle - AZ NJCAA DI - Scottsdale CC NJCAA DII - South Mountain CC
President’s Special Recognition (3.5 or better GPA)
Division I Division II Brown Ohio Valley DePaul Post Harvard Kennesaw State Division III Richmond Greensboro College Stanford Redlands Utah Valley State Stevens Institute of Technology Valparaiso William & Mary Yale
NAIA Embry Riddle - AZ Madonna SCAD Atlanta SCAD Savannah Sterling
All-Academic Teams (3.0 or better GPA)
Akron Arizona Auburn Augusta State Ball State Belmont Boston College Brown California Coastal Carolina Davidson DePaul Detroit Mercy Duke East Carolina East Tennessee State Evansville Georgia Tech Hartford Harvard Illinois Indiana Kansas State Kennesaw State Kentucky Liberty Longwood Louisville Loyola (Md.) Marquette Mercer Miami (Ohio) Michigan Michigan State Middle Tennessee Minnesota Minot State Missouri Missouri State New Mexico New Mexico State Northern Colorado Northwestern Notre Dame Oklahoma Princeton Purdue Rice Richmond Robert Morris
San Diego Seton Hall South Alabama South Carolina South Dakota State Southeastern Louisiana Southern Illinois SIUE Stanford Stephen F. Austin TCU Tennessee Texas Tech Towson Troy UALR UCLA UNCG UNCW Utah State Utah Valley Valparaiso Virginia Tech Wake Forest Weber State William & Mary Wofford Wyoming Yale Division II Armstrong Atlantic State Barry Bellarmine Bentley Brevard CSU Monterey Bay Ferris State Lynn Maryville (St. Louis) Ohio Dominican Ohio Valley Oklahoma Christian Post Saginaw Valley State St. Edward’s Tiffin USCA West Florida
Division III Carnegie Mellon DePauw Edgewood Greensboro Grinnell Gustavus Adolphus Johnson & Wales Luther Milwaukee School of Engineering NYU Occidental Redlands Saint John’s (Minn.) Skidmore St. Thomas Stevens Institute of Technology Stevenson Swarthmore Transylvania Trinity College (Conn.) Wabash Washington & Lee Webster Wheaton Wittenburg NAIA Bethany (Kan.) Bethel College (Kan.) Carroll College Central Methodist Clarke Cumberlands Embry Riddle - AZ Lee Madonna Northwood (Florida) Northwood (Texas) SCAD Atlanta SCAD Savannah Sterling Wayland Baptist NJCAA DI Central Alabama Darton State Meridian CC Scottsdale CC NJCAA DII South Mountain CC
For Immediate Release Contact: Dustin Roberts Golf Coaches Association of America (405) 329-4222
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
GCAA Announces 2013 Team Academic Awards presented by Farmers Insurance NORMAN, Okla. – Brown (Division I), Post (Division II), Greensboro College (Division III), Embry Riddle - AZ (NAIA), Scottsdale CC (NJCAA DI) and South Mountain CC (NJCAA DII) have been named Academic National Champions for their respective divisions announced the GCAA. Brown posted the highest overall team GPA for all divisions with a 3.74. A total of 143 teams submitted GPAs of 3.00 or higher to earn All-Academic Team recognition - a new high in the five years of the award. “All the credit goes to the players - I couldn’t be happier for them,” said Brown Head Coach Michael Hughes. “We put a high emphasis on academics and I know that we’ve been close to winning this award the past four years. To carry an Ivy League curriculum and course load while competing is tough. This lends credibility that if you recruit good quality kids your program will be rewarded.” South Mountain CC won its fourth straight Academic National Championships in NJCAA DII. Post earned the Division II Academic National Championship for the second-straight year while Brown, Greensboro College, Embry Riddle - AZ and Scottsdale CC won for the first time. DePaul, Harvard, Kennesaw State, Madonna, Ohio Valley, Redlands, Richmond, SCAD Atlanta, SCAD Savannah, Stanford, Sterling, Stevens Institute of Technology, Utah Valley State, 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 honor and support the GCAA and their 2013 recipients of the 2013 Team Academic Awards,” said Chuck Browning, Head of Sponsorship and Corporate Giving for Farmers Insurance. “A key philanthropic pillar of Farmers Insurance is Education, thus this award is a perfect fit for us and gives us a chance to extend our support of golf throughout the year. It is also an extension of our University Day platform at the Farmers Insurance Open, which we continue to see great success on each year.” Farmers Insurance Group of Companies is a leading U.S. insurer group 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. 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. Farmers Group, Inc., along with its subsidiaries, manages the non-claims insurance operations of the Farmers Exchanges. Farmers Group, Inc. is wholly owned by the Zurich Insurance Group. For more information about Farmers, visit its Web site at www.farmers.com or atwww.Facebook.com/FarmersInsurance.
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Academic National Champions Division I - Brown Division II - Post Division III - Greensboro College NAIA - Embry Riddle - AZ NJCAA DI - Scottsdale CC NJCAA DII - South Mountain CC
President’s Special Recognition (3.5 or better GPA)
Division I Division II Brown Ohio Valley DePaul Post Harvard Kennesaw State Division III Richmond Greensboro College Stanford Redlands Utah Valley State Stevens Institute of Technology Valparaiso William & Mary Yale
NAIA Embry Riddle - AZ Madonna SCAD Atlanta SCAD Savannah Sterling
All-Academic Teams (3.0 or better GPA)
Akron Arizona Auburn Augusta State Ball State Belmont Boston College Brown California Coastal Carolina Davidson DePaul Detroit Mercy Duke East Carolina East Tennessee State Evansville Georgia Tech Hartford Harvard Illinois Indiana Kansas State Kennesaw State Kentucky Liberty Longwood Louisville Loyola (Md.) Marquette Mercer Miami (Ohio) Michigan Michigan State Middle Tennessee Minnesota Minot State Missouri Missouri State New Mexico New Mexico State Northern Colorado Northwestern Notre Dame Oklahoma Princeton Purdue Rice Richmond Robert Morris
San Diego Seton Hall South Alabama South Carolina South Dakota State Southeastern Louisiana Southern Illinois SIUE Stanford Stephen F. Austin TCU Tennessee Texas Tech Towson Troy UALR UCLA UNCG UNCW Utah State Utah Valley Valparaiso Virginia Tech Wake Forest Weber State William & Mary Wofford Wyoming Yale Division II Armstrong Atlantic State Barry Bellarmine Bentley Brevard CSU Monterey Bay Ferris State Lynn Maryville (St. Louis) Ohio Dominican Ohio Valley Oklahoma Christian Post Saginaw Valley State St. Edward’s Tiffin USCA West Florida
Division III Carnegie Mellon DePauw Edgewood Greensboro Grinnell Gustavus Adolphus Johnson & Wales Luther Milwaukee School of Engineering NYU Occidental Redlands Saint John’s (Minn.) Skidmore St. Thomas Stevens Institute of Technology Stevenson Swarthmore Transylvania Trinity College (Conn.) Wabash Washington & Lee Webster Wheaton Wittenburg NAIA Bethany (Kan.) Bethel College (Kan.) Carroll College Central Methodist Clarke Cumberlands Embry Riddle - AZ Lee Madonna Northwood (Florida) Northwood (Texas) SCAD Atlanta SCAD Savannah Sterling Wayland Baptist NJCAA DI Central Alabama Darton State Meridian CC Scottsdale CC NJCAA DII South Mountain CC
