Tenuta Named to the All-ACC Academic Team

GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – University of Louisville men’s golfer Nick Tenuta was named to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Team, the league announced Monday.

Tenuta, a senior from Mt. Prospect, Illinois, appeared in seven events this season for the Cardinals, which advanced to the NCAA Regionals this past season. In those seven matches, A marketing major, posted a 73.33 stroke average, which was fifth-best on the team. He shot a personal-best 10-under-par at the Maui Jim Intercollegiate and recorded his best finish at the Aggie Invitational, finishing the tournament in 19th place.

For the second consecutive year Clemson’s Jacob Bridgeman is the Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year. The Scholar-Athlete of the Year award is named after Rod Myers, Duke’s men’s golf coach from 1973-2007.

A senior from Inman, South Carolina, Bridgeman was the individual medalist at the ACC Men’s Golf Championship in Panama City Beach, Florida, winning the title on the second playoff hole over North Carolina’s Peter Fountain. He fired rounds of 69, 66 and 68 during the three-day stroke play competition to finish 13-under-par and become the seventh player from Clemson to win the individual competition. A second-team PING All-American, Bridgeman is just the second player in ACC history to earn the league’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year in consecutive seasons since it was introduced in 2007.  Bridgeman finished the year ranked second in the PGA Tour’s University rankings, which secure’s a spot on the Korn Ferry Tour.

He is second in Clemson history in career stroke average at 70.73 and has the most career rounds in the 60s with 49. Bridgeman claimed two individual tournament victories this year and his five career wins are tied for the most in Clemson history.

 

Ten of the 15 student-athletes who earned All-ACC honors this season also secured spots on the academic honors team, including Bridgeman and Freshman of the Year David Ford of North Carolina. Other players who also earned All-ACC and All-ACC Academic honors are: Duke’s Ian Siebers, Florida State’s Frederik Kjettrup, Georgia Tech’s Bartley Forrester and Christo Lamprecht, North Carolina’s Ryan Gerard, NC State’s Maximilian Steinlechner, Notre Dame’s Palmer Jackson and Wake Forest’s Michael Brennan.

Duke, Florida State and Wake Forest led…