PALMER NAMED TO ALL-BIG 12 TEAM FOR THIRD TIME
Apr 30, 1999 | Men's Golf
April 30, 1999
Texas A&M senior Ryan Palmer (Amarillo, Texas/Amarillo HS) has been named to the All-Big 12 Conference men's golf team for the third straight year, the league office said Friday.
Palmer has led the Aggies this season with a 73.41 stroke average and has posted five top 10 finishes, including a runner-up finish at the prestigious Morris Williams Intercollegiate in Austin last month. Palmer is expected to receive an individual bid to the NCAA Central Regional May 19-22 in Columbus, Ohio.
Palmer also earned All-Big 12 honors as a sophomore and junior after transferring to A&M after his freshman season at North Texas, where he captured the Southland Conference title in 1996 and also earned all-conference laurels. Palmer is one of only six A&M players to be named all-conference three times, joining Danny Briggs (1981-83), Jorge Coghlan (1984-86), Roy Mackenzie (1987-89), Marco Gortana (1992-94), Anthony Rodriguez (1993-95) and David Ogrin, who earned four all-conference citations (1977-80).
Texas freshman David Gossett, who won the Big 12 Championship last week in Hutchinson, Kan., was named Big 12 Player of the Year, Big 12 Newcomer of the Year and Big 12 Student-Athlete of the Year after winning four tournaments. Kansas' Ross Randall was named Big 12 Coach of the Year after leading the Jayhawks to their first conference golf title since 1950.
Joining Gossett and Palmer on the All-Big 12 team are Oklahoma State's Charles Howell, Edward Loar and Anders Hultman; Nebraska's Jamie Rogers, Steve Friesen and Scott Gutschewski; Oklahoma's Hunter Haas; Kansas' Chris Thompson and Ryan Vermeer; and Baylor's Jimmy Walker.
