Palmer Garners Second-Team Honor
April 27, 2007 | Men's Golf
MACON, Ga. - Gardner-Webb student-athlete Blake Palmer garnered second-team all-conference accolades, as announced by the Atlantic Sun Conference office on Friday afternoon.
Currently sitting atop two national polls, ETSU's Rhys Davies was tabbed the Atlantic Sun's Player of the Year for the second consecutive season, league officials announced today.
Davies, a senior from Bridgend, Wales, captured three individual titles during the regular season on his way to the top of Golfweek and Golfstat rankings. The award is his second in as many seasons in the Atlantic Sun. Prior to ETSU joining the conference in 2005, Davies was named the Southern Conference Player of the Year during his sophomore season and was tabbed the SoCon Freshman of the Year in 2004.
At the conference championship, Davies finished in a third-place tie with North Florida's Jeff Dennis. Both trailed UNF's Michael O'Neal and individual medalist and A-Sun Freshman of the Year Seamus Power (ETSU).
Power, a freshman from Waterford, Ireland, held the lead for the entire A-Sun Championship. During the second round he fired a hole-in-one on hole 13 and finished with a 29 on the back nine. In his first season with the Bucs, he earned individual medalist honors by two strokes, shooting a 210 to finish 2-under-par.
ETSU completed the sweep of post-season individual awards as Fred Warren was voted the A-Sun Coach of the Year by his peers. Warren guided his squad to its first conference championship since 2005, when the Bucs earned the last of their 12 league titles in the Southern Conference under his direction. The Coach of the Year award is the first for Warren as a member of the Atlantic Sun and his eighth overall as a head coach at ETSU. Warren leads his team back to the NCAA Championships for the third consecutive season and is making his 15th trip to NCAA post-season play in his 21 years at the head of the program.
Campbell's Fredric Sundberg was the only newcomer to the First
Team All-Atlantic Sun. In 2006, he was voted onto the Second Team
but made the jump this year to join Davies, Gareth Shaw (ETSU),
Russell Knox (JU), and Duncan Stewart (JU). Knox, Shaw and Davies
are each making their second appearance on the First Team while
Stewart becomes the 20th individual in A-Sun history to be voted
onto the First Team for a third time.
Dennis and Power were each selected to the Second Team All-Atlantic
Sun. They are joined by Palmer (GWU), Kris Shepard (KSU) and Kyle
Spahr (Cam).
The All-Freshman team is comprised of Power, J.C. Horne (UNF), Matt
Evans (Cam), Jordan Gibb (UNF) and Scott O'Brien (Belmont)
