Dukeminier Honored With NCAA's Prestigious '88' Academic Award
EUGENE -- University of Oregon junior Jack Dukeminier was honored this week in front of the nation's top collegiate players with the NCAA's 88 Award for Division 1 Men's golfers.
The economics major sports a 4.04 cumulative grade point average and was recognized as having the highest GPA among the 156 players in the NCAA Championships being contested this week at The Honors Course near Chattanooga.
The first-year award is given in each of the NCAA’s 88 championships, and criteria specifies the winner be at least a sophomore, in at least his or her second year of competition at their current institution, and be an active member on the roster and on the designated squad size for the championship site.
A native of Eugene, he has also picked up first-team ESPN Magazine and Academic All-Pac-10 laurels in 2009-10, and was a latter recipient in 2008-09, too.
He was equally on par on the course this week and tied the course record Thursday with his six-under 66 in the final round of stroke play in the NCAA finale and moved into a tie for 34th place overall. His last round helped the No. 1-ranked Ducks jump from a tie for ninth place into fifth (284-294-283-861) and advance to the eight-team match play finale being held Friday-Sunday (6/4-6).
No. 1 Oregon continues action in the collegiate finale Friday, June 6 with a 9 a.m. East Coast tee time (6 a.m. Pacific Time) vs. No. 5 Washington who ranked fourth overall (289-288-283-860) after Thursday's final stroke play standings.
No. 4 Oklahoma State owned the top team score (283-284-283-850), and will be joined in match play with No. 11 Florida State (second, 283-279-292-854), No. 15 Georgia Tech (third, 290-282-286-858), No. 9 Augusta State (sixth, 287-288-288-863), No. 10 Texas Tech (seventh, 302-285-280-867) and No. 2 Stanford (eighth-tie, 292-288-288-868).
Sophomore Eugene Wong led UO individuals (ninth-tie, 69-72-71-212), and Oregon's other placings follow - Isaiah Telles (51st-tie, 71-75-72-218), Andrew Vijarro (72nd-tie, 76-71-74-221) and Daniel Miernicki (103rd-tie, 70-80-75-225).
Scott Langley of Illinois claimed the NCAA individual title Thursday with his four-under score of 206 (70-68-68-206), and won by two strokes over Alex Ching of San Diego (second-tie, 69-66-73-208) and Peter Uihlein of Oklahoma State (second-tie, 69-68-71-208).
Regularly updated, hole-by-hole NCAA Championships results from each round are posted at www.GolfStat.com.
A free online video feed of the 16th, 17th and 18th holes is available at the www.NCAAsports.com website.
