Four Golden Rams named All-SIAC, McClain is Player of the Year

Ten student-athletes, including four from Albany State University, have been honored as part of the 2018-19 Men’s Golf All-Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Team.

Headlining the All-SIAC Team are Albany State’s Chase McLain, the SIAC Player of the Year, and Spring Hill’s Peter Schilli, the SIAC Freshman of the Year. Miles College’s Leonard Smoot garnered SIAC Coach of the Year accolades.

The All-SIAC Player, Freshman, and Coach of the Year were selected by the league’s head coaches and sports information directors, while the all-conference teams were decided by conference rankings with a minimum of 12 rounds.

McLain, a sophomore from Leesburg, Georgia, had a scoring average of 73.06 in 17 rounds and posted four top 20 finishes in his six events played this season, including a fourth-place finish at the Don Benbow Invitational in March, tied for eighth place in the Coastal Georgia Invitational, a thirteenth-place finish in the University of North Georgia Invitational, and a fifteenth-place finish in the Georgia Southwestern Hurricane Invitational. McLain is the second Golden Bear to win this award prior to the 2010 season.

ASU’s Chase McLain, Abhinav Walia, Tyler Hanson, and Jackson Crandall were all named to the All-SIAC Golf First Team.

Abhinav Walia a native of Lusaka, Zambia had a scoring average of 75.8 in 17 rounds and posted a first place finish for the Golden Rams during the Don Benbow Invitational in March. Tyler Hanson, a junior from Albany Georgia, had a scoring average of 76.5 in 14 rounds and posted a top finish this season of fourteenth. Jackson Crandall a native of St. Augustine, Florida had a scoring average of 77.1 in 14 rounds and posted a top finish this season of sixteenth.

Courtesy of Albany State University