Males’s Golf Earns PLATFORM Golf Team Academic Award

NORMAN, Okla. – The East Carolina males’s golf program is a 2024-25 PLATFORM Golf Team Academic Award recipient the Golf Coaches Association of American (GCAA) introduced Tuesday. The Pirates compiled a 3.74 GPA for the 2024-25 tutorial 12 months incomes the Presidents Special Recognition (3.5 or increased) whereas marking the thirteenth time since 2009 garnering the group accolade.

ECU was one in all 167 NCAA Division I groups acknowledged for having a group GPA of three.00 or increased (one in all 74 with 3.5 or higher) and one in all three establishments (Rice, South Florida) from the American Conference to earn the Presidents Special Recognition. Fellow league members Charlotte, North Texas and UTSA had been amongst these lauded for All-Academic Team honors (3.0 or increased).

In July of 2025, golfers Philip Linberg Bondestad, Tyler DeChellis, Adam Lennermark and Nathan O’Neal had been chosen as 2024-25 Cobalt All-America Scholars. Bondestad and Nathan O’Neal had been named College Sports Communicators (CSC) At-Large All-District picks, whereas all 9 members from the 2024-25 squad earned inclusion on the American Conference All-Academic Team.

To be eligible for GCAA Outstanding Team Academic honors a school or college should submit GPAs for every participant on their official squad record for the educational 12 months.

About GCAA
Established in 1958, the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) is the skilled group of males’s collegiate golf coaches. The GCAA’s mission is to assist its member coaches from six divisions, together with the NCAA, NAIA and NJCAA, by creating instructional alternatives, offering assets, and selling its members with the aim of enhancing their total efficiency as coaches, mentors, and academics. The GCAA additionally acknowledges the excellence and achievements of its members and their student-athletes in tutorial, athletic, and civic endeavors.