Montgomery's Matthew Swan Named Honorable Mention All-American
6/6/2008 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
June 6, 2008
TUSCALOOSA, Ala - University of Alabama junior golfer Matthew Swan has been named PING All-America Honorable Mention. The Golf Coaches Association of America announced its 2nd, 3rd and Honorable Mention Teams on Friday.
Swan is a native of Montgomery and helped the Crimson Tide to its most successful season of golf, winning the Southeastern Conference team championship in April and ending the 2008 season as the nation's No. 1 ranked team in the final Golf World/NIKE Coaches' poll. Swan competed in 10 tournaments this season and had a 73.52 stroke average. The three-time U.S. Amateur participant won his first collegiate tournament in March when he was medalist at the Puerto Rico Classic, a win that helped propel Alabama to that tournament's team championship. Alabama won six team tournament championships this season and Swan played on five of those winning teams. He was voted 1st Team All-Southeastern Conference by the league's golf coaches in April and named to the 2008 All-Southeast Region Team by the GCAA.
On May 31 his teammate, senior Michael Thompson, was among the golfers the GCAA announced to the PING 1st Team All-America.
Division I PING All-America Teams
First Team
Jonas Blixt, Florida State
Jorge Campillo, Indiana
Rickie Fowler, Oklahoma State
Rory Hie, Southern California
Sihwan Kim, Stanford
Jamie Lovemark, Southern California
Webb Simpson, Wake Forest
Joel Sjohom, Georgia State
Michael Thompson, Alabama
Second Team
Chesson Hadley, Georgia Tech
Russell Henley, Georgia
Jonathan Hodge, Chattanooga
Billy Horschel, Florida
Troy Merritt, Boise State
Adam Mitchell, Georgia
Gareth Shaw, East Tennessee State
Ryan Spears, Wichita State
Zack Sucher, UAB
Hudson Swafford, Georgia
Third Team
Jonas Enander Hedin, Charlotte
Harris English, Georgia
Derek Fathauer, Louisville
Erik Flores, UCLA
Aaron Goldberg, San Diego State
Rob Grube, Stanford
Charlie Holland, Texas
Henrik Norlander, Augusta State
Kevin O'Connell, North Carolina
Jurrian van der Vaart, Virginia Tech
Honorable Mention
James Allenby, Oregon State
Mark Anderson, South Carolina
Chris Baker, Iowa State
Joey Benedetti, Oregon
Ryan Brehm, Michigan State
Matt Cook, Western Carolina
Ignacio Elvira, Texas A&M
Kevin Foley, Penn State
Matthew Giles, Southern California
Tom Glissmeyer, Southern California
Matt Hill, NC State
Jesper Kennegard, Arizona State
Andrew Landry, Arkansas
Trent Leon, Oklahoma State
David Markle, Kent State
Michael McRae, St. Mary's (CA)
Jason Millard, Middle Tennessee
Jay Moseley, Auburn
Corey Nagy, Charlotte
David Palm, San Diego State
Andrew Putnam, Pepperdine
Adam Rainaud, Louisville
Tim Sluiter, Southern California
Kyle Stanley, Clemson
Matthew Swan, Alabama
Nick Taylor, Washington
Kevin Tway, Oklahoma State
Mike Van Sickle, Marquette
Manuel Villegas, Florida
Tent Whitekiller, Oklahoma State
Players Mentioned
