Category: Men’s Sports

  • Men’s Golf Earns Golf Coaches Association Of America Team Academic Award

    Men’s Golf Earns Golf Coaches Association Of America Team Academic Award

    Norman, Okla. – The Gustavus Adolphus men’s golf team was the recipient of All-Academic Team honors announced Wednesday by the Golf Coaches Association of America.  A total of 143 teams from across all divisions of collegiate golf submitted GPAs of 3.00 or higher to earn All-Academic Team recognition – a new high in the five…

  • Gustavus Senior Interning for Minor League Baseball Team

    Gustavus Senior Interning for Minor League Baseball Team

    Following a short jaunt across the Minnesota border, a cut through the heart of Iowa, a veer to the western border of Missouri, and then a sharp left on I-40, Beau Bachman, a senior safety on the Gustavus Adolphus College football team, found himself in Little Rock, Arkansas.  The former home of President Bill Clinton…

  • Golfer Tyler McMorrow Qualifies For U.S. Amateur Championship

    Golfer Tyler McMorrow Qualifies For U.S. Amateur Championship

    St. Cloud, Minn. – Gustavus Adolphus golfer Tyler McMorrow (St. Cloud, Minn.) has qualified for the 113th U.S. Amateur Championship following his performance at the U.S. Amateur Sectional Qualifier held this weekend at the St. Cloud Country Club.  McMorrow, a senior to-be on head coach Scott Moe’s squad, fired a three-under-par 139 to share medalist…

  • MIAC Announces Winter And Spring Academic All-Conference Teams

    MIAC Announces Winter And Spring Academic All-Conference Teams

    St. Paul – The Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference honored the league’s top performers in athletics and in the classroom with the announcement of the 2012-13 MIAC Winter and Spring Academic All-Conference teams.  More than 450 winter and spring student-athletes earned the honorable distinction, while the total number of 2012-13 honorees ranks as the most in…

  • Men’s And Women’s Swimming & Diving Teams Earn Academic Recognition From CSCAA

    Men’s And Women’s Swimming & Diving Teams Earn Academic Recognition From CSCAA

    St. Peter, Minn. – The Gustavus Adolphus men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams have been recognized by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) for their efforts in the classroom this past season.  Both the men’s and the women’s squads were honored as CSCAA Scholar All-America Teams, while several individual swimmers were recognized…

  • Alex Kolquist And Lindsey Hjelm Named 2012-13 Gustavus Athletes Of The Year

    Alex Kolquist And Lindsey Hjelm Named 2012-13 Gustavus Athletes Of The Year

    St. Peter, Minn. – To put the finishing touch on the 2012-13 season in Gustavus Adolphus College Athletics, the Gustavus Sports Information Department is proud to announce senior golfer Alex Kolquist (Hermantown, Minn.) and senior hockey player Lindsey Hjelm (North Oaks, Minn.) as this year’s Male and Female Athletes-of-the-Year.  Kolquist and Hjelm are 13th recipients…

  • Alex Kolquist And Tyler McMorrow Named To Finalized GCAA All-America Team

    Alex Kolquist And Tyler McMorrow Named To Finalized GCAA All-America Team

    Norman, Okla. – A pair of Gustavus Adolphus men’s golfers made an appearance on the finalized Division III PING All-America Team announced Monday, June 17 by the Golf Coaches Association of America.  Senior Alex Kolquist (Hermantown, Minn.) earned a place on the first team, while junior Tyler McMorrow (St. Cloud, Minn.) earned a spot on…

  • Senior Josh Owens Named May Male Student-Athlete Of The Month

    St. Peter, Minn. – After being named the Gustavus Male Student-Athlete of the Month already once this year in March, senior pole vaulter Josh Owens (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) has been named the Male Student-Athlete of the Month for the second time for his performances in May at the MIAC and NCAA Outdoor Championships. Owens opened…

  • Donkena, Smith-Dennis Fall In Quarterfinals Of NCAA Doubles Championship

    Kalamazoo, Mich. – The Gustavus men’s tennis doubles team of Amrik Donkena (Sr., Rochester, Minn.) and Mya Smith-Dennis (Jr., Savage, Minn.) concluded its 2013 campaign on Friday afternoon in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Men’s Tennis Doubles Championship.  The pair fell at the hands of Nicholas Ballou and Raymond Worley of California Lutheran University by…

  • Josh Owens Earns All-America Honors With Third Place Finish At NCAA Championships In Pole Vault

    La Crosse, Wis. – Gustavus track and field athlete Josh Owens (Sr., Brooklyn Park, Minn.) placed third in the pole vault competition at the 2013 NCAA Men’s Track and Field Championships held on the campus of UW-La Crosse on Thursday afternoon.  Owens capped off his senior spring with a vault of 16-feet 2.25-inches to earn All-America…