| Jags Earn GCAA Academic Award |
| Augusta State men's golf program one of 113 to be honored |
| Web Posted 8/19/10 |
AUGUSTA,
Ga.-- Augusta State’s men’s golf squad was recently tabbed as one of 113 college golf programs among all NCAA, NAIA and NJCAA teams to earn All-Academic honors from the GCAA (Golf Coaches Association of America).
Under the direction of Josh Gregory, the Jaguars won the 2010 NCAA Division I National Championship on June 6 in Ooltewah, Tenn., taking down Oklahoma State in the Match Play Finals at The Honors Course.
Off the course, ASU posted a collective 3.21 GPA in 2009-10 and was one of 64 Division I programs to receive the academic accolade. Rising junior Brendan Gillins posted the team’s highest GPA for the year with a perfect 4.0.
To be eligible for GCAA All-Academic Team honors, a college or university must submit the grade points earned and hours attempted for each player on its official squad list for the academic year.
Academic National Champions Division I - DePaul Division II - Maryville Division III - Carnegie Mellon NAIA - Ohio Dominican NJCAA DI - Frank Phillips NJCAA DII - South Mountain President’s Special Recognition (3.5 or better GPA) Division I Brown Butler DePaul Detroit Mercy Duke East Tennessee State Gonzaga Mercer Seton Hall Wofford Division III Albion Carnegie Mellon Puget Sound NAIA Ohio Dominican All-Academic Teams (3.0 or better GPA) Division I Akron Auburn AUGUSTA STATE Ball State Belmont Brown Butler BYU California Canisius Charlotte Coastal Carolina Columbia Davidson Denver DePaul Detroit Mercy Duke East Carolina East Tennessee State Florida Georgia Southern Georgia Tech Gonzaga Illinois Iowa IPFW Kennesaw State Kent State Kentucky Lafayette Liberty Longwood Louisville Loyola (Md.) Mercer Michigan State Missouri New Mexico Northwestern Notre Dame Ohio Pacific Rice Richmond Saint Joseph’s Saint Mary’s (Calif.) San Francisco Seton Hall SMU South Alabama South Carolina South Dakota State Stanford UTSA Tulsa Vanderbilt Virginia Wake Forest Washington State Wichita State Wofford Wyoming Yale Division II Barry Bellarmine Caldwell Dowling Georgia College Lynn Maryville Pfeiffer Saginaw Valley State St. Edward’s St. Mary’s (Texas) Wayne State West Florida Division III Albion Benedictine (Ill.) Carnegie Mellon Claremont McKenna DePauw Emory Grinnell Luther Macalester Millikin Milwaukee School of Engineering Piedmont Puget Sound Rochester St. John Fisher Stevenson Transylvania Trine Trinity College Wabash Wartburg Wheaton Williams NAIA Bethel Carroll Dakota Wesleyan Johnson & Wales Ohio Dominican SCAD St. Ambrose NJCAA DI Frank Phillips McLennan CC Wallace State CC NJCAA DII Muskegon CC South Mountain Tyler JC