Brandon McIver and Jonathan Woo both earned Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention accolades as announced by Commissioner Larry Scott Thursday morning. McIver and Woo became the first pair of UO golfers to earn the honor since Chris Dukeminier and Dustin Pewarchuk earned first-team selections back in 2006.
This is the first time earning all-academic accolades for both McIver and Woo. McIver, a Billings, Mont., native entered the spring with a 3.26 grade point average. The sophomore is still undecided on a major. Woo sported a 3.29 G.P.A. heading into the spring season, majoring in general social sciences with an emphasis in applied economics.
The made their 26th appearance at the NCAA Championships this past season with a 14th-place finish after finishing in second at the Eugene Regional, one stroke shy of Stanford. UO’s 14th-place finish as the third-best finish at the NCAA Championships in head coach Casey Martin’s eight years at Oregon. Martin’s squads in 2012 and 2010 tallied the program’s best finish with a tie for third place both times in match play.
Pac-12 All-Academic
First Team
Ben Bankhead, Sr. (UTAH)
Brandon Hagy, Sr. (CAL)
Scott Kim, Jr. (OSU)
Alex McMahon, Sr. (OSU)
Erik Oja, Sr. (ARIZ)
Ramsey Sahyoun, Sr. (USC)
Second Team
Michael Anderson, Jr. (WSU)
David Fink, Sr. (OSU)
Dominick Francks, So. (STAN)
Max Rotluff, So. (ASU)
Michael Weaver, Sr. (CAL)
Cameron Wilson, Sr. (STAN)
Honorable Mention
Anton Arboleda, Sr., UCLA; Chris Babcock, So., WASH; David Boote, So., STAN; Gerrit Chambers, Sr., WASH; Lorens Chan, So.k UCLA; Christian Colegrove, Sr., ARIZ; Steven Croft, So., UTAH; Daniel Engle, Sr., UTAH; Jay Hwang, Jr., UCLA; Philip Juel-Berg, So., COLO; Brian Jung, So., OSU; Keelan Kilpatrick, Jr., CAL; Sang Lee, Jr., WSU; Benson Liu, Sr., ARIZ; Jack Maerki, Jr., UTAH; Brandon McIver, So., ORE; Cheng-Tsung Pan, Jr., WASH; Matt Pinizzotto, Jr., UCLA; Brent Pollock, So., UTAH; Austin Quick, Jr., ASU; Patrick Rodgers, Jr., STAN; Jonathan Sanders, So., WASH; Matthias Schjoelberg, Jr., ASU; Joel Stalter, Sr., CAL; Preston Valder, Jr., UCLA; Jonathan Woo, Jr., ORE.
- from GoDucks.com