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.
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