University of Minnesota Athletics
La'Cassie, Turner Named Honorable Mention All-American
6/8/2006 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
La’Cassie, a native of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, received All-America recognition for the third straight season. He was an honorable mention selection in 2004 and was a third team selection last season. La’Cassie finished tied for sixth at NCAAs and earlier this season won the Les Bolstad Award for lowest scoring average by a Big Ten golfer. His season stroke average of 72.43 is the seventh best all-time in Gopher history and his career average of 72.39 ranks second on the Minnesota career scoring average list.
Turner, a native of Cork, Ireland, earned his first All-America award. Turner finished tied for 10th at the NCAA Championships and finished the season with a stroke average of 73.68. Turner was the only Gopher to play in every event this season and he won his first collegiate title in the fall at the Minnesota Invitational this past fall. He recorded three top 10s in 2005-06 with nine under-par rounds and 27 rounds below 75.
Turner becomes the sixth different golfer to be named an All-American in head coach Brad James’ five-year tenure. Six different golfers have earned 11 All-America citations in the past five seasons and Turner becomes the 23rd Golden Gopher golfer to earn All-America honors.
Minnesota Golden Gopher Golf All-Americans
1944 Louis Lick
1960 Gene Hanson
1961 Rolf Deming
1963 Dave Gumlia
1965 Dave Gumlia
1966 Jim Carlson
1967 Bill Brask
1968 Bill Brask
1970 Dave Haberle
1971 Dave Haberle, Jim Bergeson
1972 Jim Bergeson
1973 Rick Ehrmanntraut, John Harris
1974 John Harris
1979 Tom Lehman
1980 Tom Lehman
1981 Tom Lehman
1993 Joey Gullion
1996 Aaron Barber, Rob Kerr
1998 James McLean
1999 Adam Dooley, Martin LeMesurier, James McLean
2001 Simon Nash, Wilhelm Schauman
2002 Matt Anderson, Justin Smith
2003 Simon Nash, Justin Smith
2004 Justin Smith, Bronson La’Cassie
2005 Bronson La’Cassie
2006 Bronson La’Cassie, Niall Turner
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