By: by Scott Lipsky
Official release
NORMAN, Okla. – The Kennesaw State Men’s golf team has been named to the Golf Coaches Association of America All-Academic team for the 2009-10 college golf season. Recognized by the organization’s National Advisory Board and the All-America Scholar Committee, the team received such an honor for maintaining a 3.0 grade point average.
"I am very pleased for our program to be named an All-Academic team by the GCAA,” Owls head coach Jay Moseley said. “As student-athletes, so much is expected and demanded of these young men and they have worked extremely hard for this honor. I am very proud of all of them contributing to this award."
The Owls combined for a 3.45 grade point average, just missing the President’s Special Recognition award by less than a tenth of a point, an award that is given to teams with a combined 3.5 grade point average. Moseley’s squad was one of only 64 teams in NCAA Division I to achieve such a feat. In addition, their grade point average was the highest among all teams in Kennesaw State’s Department of Intercollegiate Athletics.
This academic honor is one of several that they achieved during the 2009-2010 season. Earlier this summer, eight out of nine Owls on the men’s golf team were named to the Atlantic Sun Conference All-Academic team. Additionally, outgoing senior JP Putnam was honored by the GCAA in July, being named a Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-American Scholar.
“It is hard to be a student athlete sometimes,” Owls junior Jeff Karlsson said. “We are taught to discipline ourselves, and it is nice to be rewarded for our hard work.”
