Championship co-Medalists Named to Academic All-MAC Team
5/8/2006 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
- Official MAC Release
KENT, Ohio -- Co-medalists at the 2006 Mid-American Conference Championship last week (May 4-6) in Indianapolis, Kent State University mens golfers Marc Bourgeois (Dieppe, New Brunswick/Mathieu-Martin) and Tommy Wiegand (Avon Lake, Ohio/St. Ignatius) were named Monday (May 8) to the Academic All-MAC Team.
Bourgeois, a junior sport management major, and Wiegand, a sophomore accounting major, tied for first place at 3-under par 285 in leading the Golden Flashes to their second straight MAC championship and 16th overall. The two were also named to the All-MAC First Team for the second straight season as well as the All-Tournament Team.
For Bourgeois, it marked the third time he was named to the All-MAC Team. He placed fourth in 2005 and sixth at the meet in 2004 when he was named the MAC Freshman of the Year, but this year earned his first career first-place finish. Wiegand shared co-medalist honors at the 2005 MAC Championship and was named Freshman of the Year.
The pair is among seven student-athletes to be named to the Academic All-MAC Team and the first KSU selections since 2004.
2006 Academic All-MAC Team
Name (School), Major, GPAPatrick Wilkes-Krier (Ball State), Journalism, 3.50
Korey Mahoney (Eastern Michigan), Economics, 3.29
Tommy Wiegand (Kent State), Accounting, 3.577
Marc Bourgeois (Kent State), Sport Management, 3.406
Nick Schenk (Northern Illinois), Accountancy, 3.210
Zach Jecklin (Northern Illinois), Finance, 3.660
Grant Christman (Ohio), Business/Pre-Law, 3.64Official MAC Release
