AUSTIN, Texas — Seniors Pierceson Coody and Cole Hammer and junior Travis Vick every earned spots on the 2021-22 All-Big 12 Conference Men’s Golf Team and John Fields was voted Big 12 Coach of the Year, the league workplace introduced Friday morning. Texas and Oklahoma State led the convention with three gamers every on the 10-person All-Big 12 Team.
Student-athlete honors and the All-Big 12 workforce have been chosen based mostly on the season’s remaining Golfweek/Sagarin particular person rankings. The medalist of the Big 12 Championship is added if not among the many top-10 ranked people. Coach of the Year was voted on by Big 12 head coaches.
Fields claimed Big 12 Coach of the Year accolades for the ninth time in his 25-year tenure at Texas. He beforehand garnered the recognition in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. Fields guided the Longhorns to the 2022 NCAA Championship with a 3-2 victory over Arizona within the championship match on June 1.
Under Fields’ management, UT has posted 10 top-five finishes on the NCAA Championship, together with NCAA workforce titles in 2012 and 2022 and runner-up showings in 2016 and 2019. The Longhorns have reached the NCAA quarterfinals (the ‘Match Play’ portion of the nationwide championship) a national-best seven occasions of their final 10 alternatives. Texas lately prolonged its nation’s-longest present streak of consecutive Division I Men’s Golf NCAA Championship appearances to fifteen, relationship again to the 2007 season.
Pierceson Coody beforehand claimed PING All-America second-team accolades earlier this week and have become the fifth participant in program historical past to earn 4 All-America honors, becoming a member of Justin Leonard (1991-94), Brad Elder (1995-98), Jason Hartwick (2001-04) and Doug Ghim (2015-18). Coody posted a 71.00 stroke common and recorded two top-two and 7 top-20 particular person finishes in eight stroke-play occasions through the 2021-22 season. He earned particular person medalist honors with a six-stroke victory on the Augusta Haskins Award Invitational (April 2-3) at 17-under-par 199 (67-66-66) and was named the Big 12 Conference Men’s Golfer of the Month for March based mostly on his efficiency on the Haskins Award Invitational. Coody additionally tied for second on the Western Intercollegiate (April 11-13) at 2-over-par 212 (70-73-69).
Hammer earned PING All-America third-team honors earlier this week. One of 5 finalists for the 2022 Byron Nelson Award offered by Srixon/Cleveland Golf that’s given yearly to the excellent Division I, II, III or NAIA scholar-athlete of the 12 months, he additionally earned a spot on the 2022 CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America) Academic All-District 7 first-team within the Men’s At-Large sports activities division. Hammer tallied a 71.08 stroke common and registered 5 top-10 and eight top-15 particular person finishes in 12 stroke-play occasions this season. He posted a season-best tie for second on the Southern Highlands Collegiate (Feb. 27-March 1) at 11-under-par 205 (71-67-67). Hammer additionally tied for the third on the Big 12 Championship (April 25-27) at 5-under-par 211 (70-70-71) and was named to the Big 12 Championship All-(*12*) Team.
Vick garnered PING All-America second-team accolades earlier this week. He posted a team-best 70.84 stroke common and registered three top-five, six top-10 and 9 top-20 particular person finishes in 12 stroke-play occasions through the 2021-22 season. Vick tallied a 2-1 mark in NCAA Match Play, together with a 4&3 win over Reid Davenport of Vanderbilt within the semifinals and the clinching 1-up victory towards Arizona State’s Cameron Sisk within the remaining. Vick recorded a career-best second-place particular person end on the NCAA Norman Regional (May 16-18) at 10-under-par 206 (67-67-72).