Carbondale Reporter

The Golf Coaches Association of America announced its Cobalt Golf All-America Scholar Athletes on Thursday, featuring five Salukis.

A total of 531 NCAA Division I athletes from 180 schools earned 2023-24 Cobalt Golf All-America Scholar honors. Southern Illinois University (SIU) was one of only 25 schools that featured five or more recipients.

Hugo Archer, Edouard Cereto, Leon Heitz, Dain Richie, and Andrew Thornton were the Salukis honored.

"It is amazing to see our student-athletes honored with this award," Head Coach Justin Fetcho said. "We have a great group of young men that were competitive in everything they did, which included on the golf course and in the classroom."

To be eligible for Cobalt Golf All-America Scholar nomination, an individual must be a sophomore, junior or senior both academically and athletically in NCAA Division I, II, III, and NAIA or receiving their Associate's Degree and in their last year of athletic eligibility in the NJCAA. In addition, they must participate in 50% of their team's competitive rounds, have a stroke average under 76.0 in NCAA Division I, under 78.0 in NCAA Division II, under 79.0 in NCAA Division III, under 78.0 in NAIA, and under 77.0 in NJCAA, and maintain a minimum cumulative career grade-point average of 3.2. A recipient must also be of high moral character and be in good standing at their college or university.

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