FARMVILLE, Va. – The Longwood men's golf team received one of the highest academic honors in the collegiate golf community Tuesday when the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) and Farmer's Insurance selected the Lancers for the 2014 Team Academic Award.
 
This is the sixth consecutive season that Longwood has received the honor, which recognizes collegiate teams that achieve a team grade point average of 3.0 or higher. The Lancers have won the award every year since it was created in 2008-09.
 
Longwood was one of three teams from the Big South on the GCAA list, joining Liberty and Winthrop. The academic citation comes on the heels of men's golf receiving the Longwood Cormier Award for Academic Excellence both semesters in 2013-14 for holding the highest team GPA of Longwood's athletics programs.
 
Six letterwinners return for Longwood in 2014-15, including senior Blake Carter who not only led the team with a 73.63 strokes-per-round average but also received a Longwood Scholar-Athlete award in 2013-14. The Lancers open the 2014 fall season at the Joe Feaganes Invitational, hosted by Marshall in Huntington, W.Va., on Sept. 8.
 
GCAA ACADEMIC AWARDS
 
Academic National Champions
Division I - DePaul
Division II - Ferris State
Division III - Carnegie Mellon
NAIA - SCAD Atlanta
NJCAA DI - Dodge City
NJCAA DII - Walters State
 
President's Special Recognition
(3.5 or better GPA)
 
Division I
Alabama State
Arizona
Brown
DePaul
Duke
Kennesaw State
Mercer
Missouri
Missouri State
Utah State
Utah Valley
Valparaiso
 
Division II
Ferris State
Tiffin
 
Division III
Carnegie Mellon
Redlands
Washington & Lee
Webster
 
NAIA
Embry Riddle - Arizona
SCAD Atlanta
 
NJCAA I
Dodge City
 
All-Academic Teams
(3.0 or better GPA)
Akron
Alabama State
Arizona
Arkansas- Little Rock
Auburn
Baylor
Belmont
Boston College
Brown
California
Columbia
DePaul
Duke
East Carolina
East Tennessee State
Elon University
Florida Gulf Coast
Francis Marion
Georgia Southern
Georgia Tech
Gonzaga
Hartford
Houston Baptist
Illinois
Illinois State
Indiana
IPFW
Kansas State
Kennesaw State
Kentucky
Liberty
Longwood
Louisville
Loyola (Md.)
Marquette
Maryland Eastern Shore
Mercer
Miami (Ohio)
Michigan
Michigan State
Middle Tennessee
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Missouri State
New Mexico
Northern Colorado
Northwestern
Notre Dame
Ohio State
Oklahoma
Rice
Richmond
Robert Morris
Seton Hall
South Alabama
South Carolina
Southeastern Louisiana
Southern Illinois - Edwardsville
St. John's
Stanford
Tennessee
Texas Tech
Toledo
Towson
Troy
UNCG
UNCW
UT- Arlington
Utah State
Utah Valley
Valparaiso
Vanderbilt
VCU
Villanova
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Weber State
William & Mary
Winthrop
Wofford
Wyoming
Yale
 
Division II
Barry
Barton
Bellarmine
Concordia (Minn.)
Chico State
CSU Monterey Bay
Ferris State
Flordia Tech
Georgia Southwestern State
IUP
Lynn
Maryville
Nova Southeastern
Ohio Dominican
Rollins
Saginaw Valley State
Saint Leo
Tiffin
Illinois - Springfield
Missouri - St. Louis
West Florida
USCA
Wayne State
 
Division III
Carnegie Mellon Centenary College (NJ)
Emory
Gustavus Adolphus
Illinois Wesleyan
Kenyon
Maryville (Tenn.)
UMass Dartmouth
Milwaukee School of Engineering
Monmouth College
NYU
Redlands
Schreiner
Skidmore
St. John's (Minn.)
Stevens Institute of Technology
Stevenson
Swarthmore
Transylvania
Trine
Wabash
Washington & Lee
Webster
Wittenberg
 
NAIA
Bethany (Kan.)
Carroll
University of the Cumberlands
Dalton State
Embry Riddle - Arizona
SCAD Atlanta
SCAD Savannah
Wayland Baptist
 
NJCAA DI
Central Alabama
Dodge City
Meridian
Mineral Area College
 
NJCAA DII
Walters State

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