May 16, 2012

GCAA Announce All-Region and All-America Scholars for 2012

All Region Teams

All-America Scholars

HOWEY-IN-THE-HILLS, FL - Six HCAC men's golfers have been named to the All-Great Lakes Region team by the Golf Coaches Association of America.

Transylvania had five players earn the honor, while Hanover placed a single player.  The awards were announced following the first round of the NCAA Division III Men's Golf Championship at Howie-in-the-Hills, Florida.

Selected to the All-Region team this year are Transy's Justin Tereshko, Hunter Frazier, Clay Hinton, Jantzen Latham, and Stephen Montgomery and Hanover's Robert Bader.

Tereshko and Frazier are repeat picks from last year while Latham was on the All-Region freshman team a season ago.

In addition, Transy senior James Dawson and Mount St. Joseph's Kenny Brosnan were picked for the Cleveland Golf Srixon All-America Scholar team. Both the All-Region teams and the Academic All-America teams were announced following the first round of the national championship tournament.

A total of 23 student-athletes were named to the All-Academic team. To be eligible, an athlete must be a junior or senior, have played 70 percent of his team's competitive rounds or in the NCAA Championships, have a stroke average of 79 or better, and have a grade-point average of at least 3.2.

There were a total of six All-Region teams selected. The Great Lakes Region had 12 members.