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Four Camels Recognized on Atlantic Sun All-Conference Teams

BUIES CREEK , N.C. – Campbell University placed four individuals on the Atlantic Sun Conference Men's Golf All-Conference Teams, including first-team members Braxton Wynns and Ulf Hedlund.

Rickard Allard was named to the A-Sun All-Conference second team, while Kyle Spahr earned All-Freshman Team recognition.

Wynns closed his collegiate career last month with a runner-up finish in the A-Sun Championship at Keith Hills No. 2. He completed the 54-hole event at nine-under-par, two strokes behind medalist Barry Roof of UCF, and gained a berth on the A-Sun All-Tournament squad.

A native of Buies Creek, Wynns ranked third in the A-Sun in stroke average (72.38) and won the East Carolina Bradford Creek Intercollegiate. The senior had three other top-10 finishes on the year and two more top-20 outings in nine events. Wynns' score vs. par rated 16th in the region and 77th among NCAA Division I golfers, according to the latest Golfstat rankings.

He is only the second golfer in Campbell Division I history to earn all-conference honors in each of his four varsity seasons. Previously, Wynns was a first-team A-Sun performer both in 2001 and 2003, while garnering second-team honors in 2002. Duane Bock, who plays on the Canadian Tour, was a four-time All-Big South Conference golfer from 1988-91. Wynns was also named Campbell 's Outstanding Male Athlete during the University's annual Athletics Award Ceremony last month.

Hedlund notched all-conference honors for the second straight year after rating fourth in the A-Sun in stroke average (72.43). The senior from Borlange , Sweden won the Winthrop Waterford Invitational in March and notched three other top-10 showings on the year.

He placed fifth at the A-Sun Championship at five-under-par 211 (72-69-70) to gain All-Tournament recognition. He was tied with Wynns for 16th place regionally and 77th in Division I stroke average in the latest Golfstat report. Last year, Hedlund was a second-team Atlantic Sun performer.

Allard, a senior from Grenna , Sweden , capped his collegiate career by placing ninth among A-Sun leaders in stroke average (73.71). He had four top-20 performances during the year, including a runner-up showing at the Old Dominion Seascape Collegiate, where he lost in a playoff.

Spahr notched a 74.18 stroke average in his red-shirt freshman year, 15th-best in the A-Sun and fourth-best among league freshmen. The Mundelein, Ill., product was the first-round leader at last month's A-Sun Championship after carding a collegiate career-low 67. He finished at even-par 72, to tie for 11th place. He produced his first collegiate top-10 by finishing 10th at the Old Dominion event last fall.

Campbell concluded its men's season with a third-place showing at the A-Sun Championship. The Camels ranked 33rd as a team in the Golfstat ratings through the end of April. CU won team honors at the Stetson Spring Invitational and the East Carolina Bradford Creek Collegiate.

Roof was named the league Player of the Year, while Florida Atlantic's Torstein Naevestad was recognized as Freshman of the Year.

Roof, a senior from Conway , S.C. , posted the lowest scoring average in the conference with an average of 72.09. Naevestad, from Oslo , Norway , won the Stetson Intercollegiate and finished as runner-up at both the Charleston Southern Fall Invitational and El Diablo Intercollegiate.

UCF Head Coach Nick Clinard was named the A-Sun Coach-of-the-Year after leading his Golden Knights to their first A-Sun Championship since 1996 and first NCAA Regional since 1992.

The 2004 A-Sun Player, Freshman, and Coach-of-the-Year are voted on by the league's head coaches while the first, second and freshman team honorees are based on the GolfStat rankings compiled at the conclusion of the A-Sun Championship.

Georgia State seniors Jonathan Fricke and Kasper Jorgensen joined Roof, Wynns and Hedlund on the A-Sun All-Conference First Team. Along with Allard and Naevestad, second-team all-conference members were Ty Harris of Georgia State and UCF teammates Andreas Hoegberg and Sonny Nimkhum.

Spahr and Naevestad were named to the All-Freshman team along with Cody Hale of Lipscomb, Matt Miller of Belmont and Russell Knox from Jacksonville .