NORMAN, Oklahoma – Senior
Val Almendarez was recognized as a Division I Srixon/Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar by the Golf Coaches Association of America.
Almendarez, a Southland Conference All-Academic Second Team selection, registered a 3.70 GPA in Business Management, while averaging 74.94 on the season. He helped the team to a fifth place finish at the Southland Conference Championship, as he tied for 30th with 10-over par 239. The San Antonio, Texas native has two top-20 finishes and two top-10 finishes. Almendarez also recorded an individual low of 68 in the first round of the FAU Spring Championship on March 23, 2018.
To be eligible an individual must be a junior or senior academically, compete in at least three full years at the collegiate level, participate in 50-percent of his team's competitive rounds, have a stroke-average under 76.0 in Division I and maintain a minimum cumulative career grade-point average of 3.2.
Division I Srixon/Cleveland Golf All-America Scholars
Ben Albin, Notre Dame
Erick Alonso, Loyola (MD)
Val Almendarez III, Houston Baptist
Eric Ansett, Lipscomb
Jacob Appleby, Akron
AJ Armstrong, Washington State
Runar Arnorsson, Minnesota
Samuel Aronoff, William & Mary
Braden Bailey, Baylor
Shintaro Ban, UNLV
Brandon Baumgarten, UC Davis
Bradley Bawden, Memphis
Davis Baxter, Cincinnati
George Baylis, Akron
James Beckner, Middle Tennessee
Will Bernstein , Yale
Brennan Bogdanovich, Mercer
Daniel Booker, Belmont
Jordan Boulton, Longwood
Beau Breault, Eastern Michigan
Beau Briggs, Ole Miss
Jake Brown, Indiana
Jared Brown, Eastern Kentucky
Connor Bruns, Furman
Hayden Buckley, Missouri
Nick Budd, Georgia State
Cody Burrows, Oral Roberts
Blair Bursey, Utah Valley
Andy Butler, Villavova
Joseph Cansler, UNCG
Aurian Capart, Harvard
Sean Carlon, New Mexico
Mario Carmona, Rice
Brad Carpenter, Missouri State
Matt Carter, USC Upstate
Blake Cartwright, Morehead State
Alessandro Caselli, Francis Marion
Henry Cassriel, Yale
Mark Casullo, Francis Marion
Tianyi Cen, Cornell
Christian Cichan, George Washington
Matt Codd, Southern Mississippi
Matthew Cole, Arkansas State
Nick Contini, Longwood
Charles Corner, UTEP
Claudio Correa, USF
Sebastian Crampton, California
Myles Creighton , Radford
Keegan de Lange, Louisville
Kyler Dearden, Weber State
Thomas DeMarco, Northern Illinois
Mickey DeMorat, Liberty
Morgan Deneen, Coastal Carolina
Lee Detmer, Wake Forest
Brady Dixon, SIUE
Conor Dore, SIUE
Ben Doyle, California
Brendon Doyle, Indiana
Ben DuBois, Gonzaga
Eric Edwards, George Mason
Thomas Eldridge, UNC Wilmington
Ariel Elftman-Hanson, Utah Valley
Harry Ellis, Florida State
Manuel Elvira, UCF
Lukas Euler, Kentucky
Broc Everett, Augusta
Jake Fendt, Kennesaw State
Patrick Flavin, Miami (OH)
Jack Floydd, James Madison
Jackson Frame, Northern Kentucky
Stephen Franken, NC State
Kory Franks, Missouri State
John Fuchs, Missouri State
Jeremy Gandon, Kansas State
David Ganz, Gonzaga
Andre Garcia, New Mexico
Eric Gilpin, Winthrop
Garrett Glanton, Abilene Christian
Austin Glendinning, SIUE
Jake Godfrey, Utah Valley
Josh Goldenberg, Pennsylania
Will Gordon, Vanderbilt
Daniel Gorman, SIUE
Taylor Grant, Mississippi State
Art Griffin, Charleston Southern
Ben Griffin, North Carolina
Pete Griffith, Northwestern
Will Grimmer, Ohio State
Blaine Hale, Oklahoma
Harry Hall, UNLV
Ryan Han, UC Davis
Nicklaus Harrington, Connecticut
Matthew Harris, Memphis
Joseph Harvie, Seattle
Alvaro Hernandez, UTRGV
Alex Herrmann, Georgia State
Max Herrmann, Georgia State
Jimmy Hervol, Connecticut
Alex Herzog, Weber State
Charles Hess, Old Dominion
David Hicks, William & Mary
Ian Hildebrand, Virginia Tech
Timothy Hildebrand, Purdue
Charlie Hillier, Kansas
Grant Hirschman, Oklahoma
Augustin Holé, New Mexico
Ian Holt, Kent State
Franklin Huang, Stanford
Daniel Hudson, Kansas
Theo Humphrey, Vanderbilt
Keenan Huskey, South Carolina
Bryce Johnson, William & Mary
Chase Johnson, Kent State
Lake Johnson, Chattanooga
Dawson Jones, Rhode Island
Peter Jones, Minnesota
Colin Joseph, Toledo
Juuso Kahlos, UCF
Zareh Kaloustian, Pennsylania
Derick Kelting, Southern Mississippi
Tyler Kertson, Boston College
Ali Khazanbeik, UTRGV
Geuntae Kim, East Tennessee State
James Kneen, Oakland
Jack Knoesel, Missouri State
Mitchell Kontak, Bowling Green State
Chris Korte, Denver
Amarin Kraivixien, Campbell
Blaine Lafferty, Delaware
Jack Lang, Davidson
Wyatt Larkin, Kennesaw State
Jacob Leavitt, Elon
Joo-Young Lee, Northern Illinois
Eoin Leonard, Yale
Tyler Lewis, Eastern Michigan
Arron Lickteig, Wyoming
Edvin Lindgren, Eastern Kentucky
Erik Lindwall, Eastern Kentucky
Philip Loeb, Elon
Hurly Long, Texas Tech
Logan Lowe, George Washington
Ryan Lumsden, Northwestern
Sam Madsen, Georgetown
Joshua Martin, North Carolina
Patrick Martin, Vanderbilt
Roland Massimino, Kansas State
Charlie May, Elon
Garrett May, Baylor
Tyler McDaniel, Kentucky
Michael McGilton, New Mexico State
Mitchell Meissner, Rice
Jason Mendel, South Alabama
Sam Meuret, Iowa
Will Miles, South Carolina
James Mongey, Fordham
Jose Montano, North Carolina
Josh Montgomery, Oral Roberts
Collin Morikawa, California
Felix Mory, CSU Northridge
Kyle Mueller, Michigan
Tyler Munetake, Gonzaga
John Murdock, Wyoming
Jack Musgrave, Georgetown
Collin Napier, Arkansas State
James Nicholas, Yale
Fredrik Nilehn, Texas Tech
Marc Norton, Oakland
Connor O'Brien, Bucknell
Connor O'Rourke, Manhattan
Thadd Obecny, Coastal Carolina
Max Oelfke, Colorado State
Daniel Overas, Coastal Carolina
Sethavuth Paradee, UTEP
Dylan Patscot, Charleston Southern
Michael Perras, Houston
Matthew Perrine, Baylor
Chris Petefish, Georgia Tech
Bjarki Petursson, Kent State
Nicklas Pihl, UTEP
Jacob Poore, Northern Kentucky
Quintin Pope, Wyoming
Archer Price, Georgia Southern
John Raftery, Bucknell
Ivan Ramirez, Texas Tech
Ben Ramsey, Radford
David Ravetto, TCU
William Register, North Carolina
Jerry Ren, Mercer
Harrison Rhoades, NC State
Salvador Rocha, Northern Illinois
Pablo Rodriguez-Tabernero Torres, Kennesaw State
Grant Rogers, Rice
Andrew Romano, Northern Colorado
Nicholas Ross, Eastern Michigan
Greg Royston, Harvard
Dean Sakata, Army
Will Sallee, Eastern Kentucky
Lars Sandvoll, Francis Marion
Lorenzo Scalise, Tennessee
George Scanlon, UALR
Matt Schiller, Fordham
Ben Schlottman, Auburn
Stanton Schorr, Mercer
Zachary Schroeder, IPFW
Max Sear, West Virginia
Michael Sharp, Michigan State
Lee Shepherd, Weber State
Jake Shuman, Duke
Kyle Slattery, SIUE
Alex Smalley, Duke
Zach Smith, Morehead State
Severin Soller, Georgia State
John Souza, Colorado
Jack Sparrow, Indiana
Charlie Spencer-White, DePaul
Hayden Springer, TCU
Austin Squires, Cincinnati
Scott Stevens, South Carolina
William Stewart, William & Mary
Jake Storey, Georgia Southern
Daniel Sutton, Kansas
Jesper Svensson, Campbell
Nick Swanson, UC Santa Barbara
Jeffrey Swegle, Stanford
Adam Szwed, Longwood
James Tatom, Air Force
Benedikt Thalmayr, Jacksonville State
Bobby Thomas, DePaul
Freddy Thomas, DePaul
Carter Thompson, Pennsylania
Gray Townsend, SMU
Joseph Trim, Fordham
Sam Triplett, Northwestern
Christopher Troy, Cornell
Ben Tucker, James Madison
Nick Turner, Army
Trevor Ullestad, Missouri
Michael VanDeventer, Ball State
Will Voetsch, Ohio State
Jarle Volden, Purdue
Eddie Wajda, Wisconsin
Danny Walker, Virginia
Ethan Wall, Loyola (MD)
Jeremy Wall, Loyola (MD)
Thomas Walsh, Virginia
Justin Warren, UALR
Johnny Watts, Ball State
Stephen Watts, Toledo
Alex Weiss, Marshall
Daniel Wetterich, Ohio State
Josh Wick, Ohio State
Peyton Wilhoit, Southern Illinois
A.J. Wilkerson, Tennessee Tech
Nick Wilkins, Morehead State
Matthew Williams, Houston
Nathan Williams, Georgia State
Timothy Wiseman, Ball State
Adam Wood, Duke
Hayden Wood, Oklahoma State
Glenn Workman, Wyoming
Brandon Wu, Stanford
Dylan Wu, Northwestern
Cameron Young, Wake Forest
Jonathan Young, UC Irvine
Tyler Young, Charlotte
Trevor Yu, Oregon State
Simon Zach, Louisville
