John Chaney, Ben Hogenkamp Earn National Academic Awards
After earning third-team All-America honors a month earlier, Chaney and Hogenkamp have added All-America Scholar awards in recognition of their performance in the classroom.
Springfield, Ohio – Wittenberg University men’s golf standouts Ben Hogenkamp (Minster, Ohio/Minster) and John Chaney (Shaker Heights, Ohio/Gilmour Academy) have earned recognition from Cleveland Golf/Srixon and the Golf Coaches Association of America as NCAA Division III All-America Scholars.
Hogenkamp and Chaney are among 46 NCAA Division III student-athletes to earn All-America Scholar honors in 2014. To be nominated, a player must be a junior or senior academically, compete in at least three full years at the collegiate level, participate in at least 50 percent of his team’s competitive rounds, maintain a stroke average of 79.0 or lower and maintain a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.2.
Hogenkamp earned All-America Scholar honors for a second straight year after leading the Tigers with a 74.11 scoring average for the 2013-14 season. Hogenkamp finished his career with third-team All-America honors, back-to-back All-Great Lakes Region awards, and first-team All-North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) honors after claiming the Bob Nye Award as the medalist of the 2013-14 NCAC Championship Series. He finished in the top-10 seven times in 12 tournaments.
Chaney enjoyed a breakthrough in his second season in the Red & White, ranking second on the team with a 74.18 stroke average. He was a first-team All-NCAC selection after winning one tournament and recording five top-5 finishes during the 2013-14 season.
Hogenkamp and Chaney both finished in the top 30 nationally in scoring average.
In addition, Wittenberg was among the teams to earn a GCAA All-Academic Team Award, which recognizes outstanding academic achievement by a team with a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or better for an entire school year.
Wittenberg won its fifth straight NCAC Championship and earned its fifth straight trip to the NCAA Division III Tournament in 2014. The Tigers finished fifth in the national championship to put the finishing touches on a 2013-14 campaign that included first-place finishes in seven of 12 tournaments.
Written By: Ryan Maurer