Crown leads Men's Golf All-Conference list with three selections
ST. PAUL – Following Saturday’s final round of the 2013 Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) Men’s Golf Championship at the Jewel Golf Club in Lake City, Minnesota, the league announced its all-conference recipients. The top eight individual scores from the three-day event were awarded the honor.
Bethany Lutheran sophomore Austin Snow shot the best three-day score to earn individual medalist honors and top the all-conference list. Snow, who also received All-UMAC honors in 2012, shot a 73-76-74 to finish 10 over par and three strokes ahead of Martin Luther College freshman Josh Hansen, who finished second overall.
Snow was joined on the all-conference list by Bethany Lutheran teammate Jon Pederson who finished third individually at championship event to earn his third consecutive all-conference honor. Crown College had three players finish in the top eight, the most of any team, with Juan Marcos Cueva, Thomas Messner and Reed Sorensen all earning recognition. It was the second consecutive award for Sorensen who also finished in the top eight in 2012. Representing other institutions on the list was Hansen, the University of Northwestern’s Eric Robinson and the University of Minnesota Morris’ Kory Shelerud.
Bethany Lutheran College Head Coach Daniel Mundahl was selected by his peers as the UMAC Coach-of-the-Year following his team’s 2013 UMAC Men’s Golf Championship title. The Vikings shot a three-day team score of 942, finishing 40 strokes ahead their nearest competitor and earning the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Men’s Golf Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina in May of 2013.
The University of Northwestern won the team sportsmanship award for the third consecutive year, an accolade that is selected by the UMAC coaches and awarded to the team that best represent sportsmanship throughout the entire 2013 season, which includes the championship event. Each team had one representative on the individual sportsmanship award list. The following individuals were selected:
Joshua Pederson, Bethany Lutheran College
Juan Marcos Cueva, Crown College
Jacob Biebert, Martin Luther College
Christopher Karow, North Central University
Jamie Willis, Northland College
Sam Gill, University of Minnesota Morris
Daniel Van Roekel, University of Northwestern
2013 UMAC Men’s Golf All-Conference Team
Austin Snow, Bethany Lutheran College (Medalist)
Joshua Hansen, Martin Luther College
Jon Pederson, Bethany Lutheran College
Eric Robinson, University of Northwestern
Kory Shelerud, University of Minnesota Morris
Juan Marcos Cueva, Crown College
Thomas Messner, Crown College
Reed Sorensen, Crown College
Coach of the Year: Daniel Mundahl, Bethany Lutheran College
Team Sportsmanship Award:
University of Northwestern