Sports News: Spring 2007
Thursday, May 24, 2007

MORAVIAN’S BRIAN BERSTOL NAMED TO ESPN The MAGAZINE ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT SECOND TEAM

BETHLEHEM, PA --- Senior Brian Bergstol (Mt. Bethel, PA/Bangor HS) of the Moravian College olf team has been named to the 2007 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District II College Division Men’s At-Large Second Team selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America.

The At-Large program includes the sports of fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming, tennis and water polo for men and women, crew and field hockey for women and volleyball and wrestling for men.

To be eligible for ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® accolades, a student-athlete must maintain at least a 3.20 grade-point average, be a sophomore, junior or senior and be a starter or significant reserve. The College Division is made up of all the NCAA Division II and III schools in the nation as well as all NAIA schools. Student-athletes from NCAA Division I schools are named to the University Division Teams. District II is made up of schools from Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Bergstol, who has a 3.51 GPA and is majoring in management, won the 2007 Commonwealth Conference Individual Championship with a five-under par 211 in the two-day, 54-hole tournament at Shawnee Country Club. Bergstol also won the 2006 Commonwealth Conference Individual Championship, and he was the Commonwealth Conference Player of the Year in 2007 and 2006. Bergstol was named the Commonwealth Conference Rookie of the Year back in 2004 when he was the runner-up at the conference championships.

Bergstol has been on the PING/Golf Coaches Association All-Mid-Atlantic Region Team the last four years, and he earned spots on the Commonwealth All-Conference First Team in 2007, 2006 and 2004. Bergstol’s 71.93 stroke average for the 2006-07 season breaks his own school by over two and a half strokes which he set last year at 74.58. Bergstol is also the career leader in stroke average by more than two strokes at 75.40 over 67.5 rounds in his collegiate career. He played in 56 career tournaments, winning medalist honors seven times and finishing in the top five 29 times.