Champ, Phillips Highlight All-SEC Awards

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A trio of Aggie golfers were honored Wednesday as junior Cameron Champ and sophomore Chandler Phillips received First Team All-SEC accolades from the league office. Junior Connor Black, meanwhile, garnered a spot on the SEC Men's Golf Community Service Team.
 
Champ and Phillips are the first Aggie golfers to be named to the All-SEC First Team during Texas A&M's five years in the conference. The Aggies had four previous golfers receive second-team honors, including Phillips in last season. Texas A&M and Vanderbilt stood out as the only programs to have multiple first team selections.
 
Phillips has posted a pair of individual titles this season, winning the Golfweek Conference Challenge and the John Burns Intercollegiate. The sophomore is on pace to break the single-season Aggie scoring record with a 70.76 stroke per round pace. Phillips has posted a team-high eight top-10 showings and has carded par or better in a school-record 27 rounds.
 
Champ is also on pace for one of the best seasons in program history, maintaining a 71.39 scoring average. The Sacramento, Calif., native has one tournament title and five top-five finishes. The junior had a red-hot finish to the year with top-six finishes in five of his last six events. Champ represented the Aggies last season at the NCAA Championships after finishing seventh at the NCAA regionals.
 
Phillips and Champ, the 14^th and 22^nd-ranked golfers in the nation by Golfweek, respectively, finished in the top-five of the individual leaderboard in April's SEC Men's Golf Championship. The pair then went a combined 6-0 in the match play portion to help the Aggies finish runner-up to Vanderbilt.
 
Meanwhile, Black earned his spot on the Community Service Team in recognition for his service as the team's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) representative for each of the last two seasons and participation in Aggies Can, the nation's largest student-run food drive. Additionally, Black took time to work with BUILD, a student-led organization aimed at unifying the student body in the goal of building and sending out portable medical clinics around the world in honor of those who lost their lives in the collapse of the Aggie Bonfire.
 
The 14^th-ranked Aggies will learn their postseason destination when pairings and competition sites for the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship are revealed on the morning of May 4. The regionals are set for May 15-17 while the Championship is set for May 26-31 from Sugar Grove, Ill.
 
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2017 ALL-SEC HONORS
FIRST TEAM ALL-SEC
Alejandro Tosti, Florida
Chandler Phillips, Texas A&M
Sam Burns, LSU
Patrick Martin, Vanderbilt
Braden Thornberry, Ole Miss
Matthias Schwab, Vanderbilt
Greyson Sigg, Georgia
Cameron Champ, Texas A&M
 
SECOND TEAM ALL-SEC
Sam Horsfield, Florida
Theo Humphrey, Vanderbilt
Keenan Huskey, South Carolina
Davis Riley, Alabama
Luis Gagne, LSU
Trace Crowe, Auburn
Gordon Neale, Florida
Scott Stevens, South Carolina
Ben Wolcott, Ole Miss
 
COACH OF THE YEAR
Scott Limbaugh, Vanderbilt
 
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Sam Burns, LSU
 
FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR
John Augenstein, Vanderbilt
 
SCHOLAR-ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
Euan Walker, Missouri
 
ALL-FRESHMAN TEAM
John Augenstein, Vanderbilt
Spencer Ralston, Georgia
Luis Garza, Arkansas
Tanapat Pichaikool, Mississippi State
Andy Zhang, Florida
Rory Franssen, Missouri
 
COMMUNITY SERVICE TEAM
Alex Green, Alabama
Alvaro Ortiz, Arkansas
Matt Gilchrest, Auburn
Ryan Orr, Florida
Matthew Beringer, Georgia
Stephen Stallings, Kentucky
Ross Bell, Mississippi State
Hayden Buckley, Missouri
Ben Dietrich, South Carolina
Juan Carlos Serrano, Tennessee
Connor Black, Texas A&M
Will Gordon, Vanderbilt