CLEVELAND, Miss. -- Delta State University men's golfer
Zach Zediker was named to the Ping All-American Second-Team released by the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) on Thursday.
The Panama City, Fla., caps a banner year with his second straight All-American selection, earning Ping Third-Team All-American honors in 2017-18. Additionally, Zediker was selected to the GSC All-Academic Team and earned his way on to the GSC Spring Academic Honor Roll.
"I'm ecstatic for Zach to get both 2nd team All-American and GSC All Academic Team," Delta State Head Coach
Easton Key said. "It is a testament to the emphasis he puts on not only playing golf but also in the classroom. He deserves both of these achievements with the hard work he's put in. Zach represents the hard work all our players have been putting in on the course and in the classroom and I'm very proud of his accomplishments."
In 2018-19, Zediker captured his second consecutive GSC Men's Golf Individual title and GSC Golf of the Year and finished ranked No. 7 in the GolfStat Division II Player rankings. He went on to post a seventh-place finish at the NCAA South/Southeast regional, missing the NCAA National Tournament cut by three strokes. The GSC Individual title was his fourth tournament win this season and his sixth top-five finish, adding wins at the Murray State, Henderson State and the Delta State Derrall Foreman tournaments. Zediker posted third-place finishes at the Argonaut Invitational and Buccaneer Invitational. The junior posted 22 rounds of par or better out 26 rounds and recorded 12 rounds in the 60s with a low round of 65 at the Murray State Invitational.
Zediker who finished the season. 70.04 scoring average and posted a 715-25 head to head record over 10 tournaments, was also named GSC Golf of the Year, Ping First-Team All-South Region, First-Team All-GSC, and GSC All-Tournament.
Division II PING All-America Teams
First Team
Christian Bosso, West Florida
Sam Broadhurst, Lincoln Memorial
Toto Gana, Lynn
Jorge Garcia, Barry
Juan Jose Guerra, Nova Southeastern
Zach James, Southeastern Oklahoma State
Vincent Norrman, Georgia Southwestern
Michael VanDerLaan, Florida Southern
Niclas Weiland, Barry
Second Team
Zach Zediker, Delta State
Chase Carlson, Colorado Christian
Jordan Doull, Columbus State
Tom Forster, Carson-Newman
Giovanni Manzoni, Lynn
Alex Scott, Grand Valley State
Kelley Sullivan, Chico State
Elis Svard, CSU Monterey Bay
Third Team
Morgan Egloff, Rollins
Emilio Gonzales, St. Mary's (TX)
Trevor Norby, Oklahoma Christian
Max O'Hagen, Florida Tech
Matt Paradis, Southern New Hampshire
Gonzalo Pan De Soraluce, Western New Mexico
Joel Sylvan, Missouri-St. Louis
Yente Van Doren, Lindenwood
Honorable Mention
Christian Anderson, Florida Southern
Tyler Bakich, Barry
Will Barnett, CSU East Bay
Dan Bradbury, Lincoln Memorial
Carlos Bustos, Lynn
Harry Butler, West Florida
Daniel Faccini, Barry
Austin Gean, Arkansas Tech
Devin Gregg, Sonoma State
Matthew Hedges, CSU Monterey Bay
Hayden Hui, UC San Diego
Jacob Huizinga, West Florida
Samuel Jones, West Georgia
Brett Krekorian, Limestone
August Lindvall, USC Aiken
George Markham, Colorado School of Mines
Josh McCollum, Chico State
Shawn Tsai, Arkansas Tech
Jorge Villar, Lynn
Jack Weller, Ferris State
