Wednesday, April 22, 2015

PORTLAND, Ore. – Twenty-one players – 11 women and 10 men - have been selected to the 2014-15 Great Northwest Athletic Conference Academic all-conference golf team. 

Two players – Justin McAfee of Northwest Nazarene and Anna Bourland of Western Washington - were named to the team for the third year in a row.

Six other players – Houston Bradbury and Carlan Campbell of Montana State Billings, NNU’s Connor Magnuson, Gracie Dyer and Sarah Salvatori of Saint Martin’s and Mackenzie Field of Simon Fraser – were also repeat selections.

Saint Martin’s placed seven players on the academic team.  Northwest Nazarene and Montana State Billings had five and four, respectively.

The golfers with the best GPAs are McAfee of NNU, Field of SFU and Jennifer Liedes of Saint Martin’s.

McAfee has a 3.86 GPA to lead the men.  Field has a 4.04 GPA in the Canadian system which awards 4.33 points for an A+.  Liedes leads the women in the American system with a 3.79 GPA.

Men
*Houston Bradbury, MSUB (Public Relations, Sr., 3.21, Billings, MT)
Jake Hedge, MSUB (Finance, Sr., 3.71, Billings, MT)
Ian Briske, NNU (Business Administration, So., 3.77, Spanaway, WA)
**Justin McAfee, NNU (Communications, Sr., 3.86, Meridian, ID)
*Connor Magnuson, NNU (Accounting/Economics, Sr., 3.69, Albany, OR)
Jack Davis, SMU (Biology, Jr., 3.78, Westlake Village, CA)
Ben Fosnick, SMU (Math, Sr., 3.27, Lakewood, WA)
Austin Spicer, SMU (Business, So., 3.22, Gresham, OR)
Brayden Brown, SFU (Bachelor of Arts, So., 3.36, Calgary, AB)
Anthony Allen, WWU (Kinesiology, So., 3.31, Arlington, WA)

Women
*Carlan Campbell, MSUB ( Broadfield Science, Sr., 3.24, Big Timber, MT)
Haley Shackelford, MSUB (Elementary Education, So., 3.48, Gillette, WY)
Jessica Knight, NNU (Computer Science, Sr, 3.58, Boise, ID)
Carleigh Sturm, NNU (Management, Jr., 3.47, Thorton, CO) 
*Gracie Dyer, SMU (Business Administration, Jr, 3.44, Tacoma, WA)
Jennifer Liedes, SMU (Business, Jr., 3.79, Olympia, WA)
Chloe Read, SMU (Community Service, So., 3.40, Edgewood, WA)
*Sarah Salvatori, SMU (Business Administration, Jr., 3.21, Salem, OR)
*Mackenzie Field, SFU (Chemistry, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, Jr., 4.04, Christina Lake, BC)
**Anna Bourland, WWU (Communications, Sr., 3.33, Bainbridge, WA)
Brooke Branigan, WWU (Undeclared, So., 3.55, Bellingham, WA)

 *Repeater (Bradbury from 2013) **Two-time repeater  

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