NORMAN, Okla. - Carson-Newman freshman men's golfer Tom Forster (Oundle, England) has been named to the GCAA/Ping All-America third team.
Forster joins Mark Sweeney (2000) as the programs only All-Americans of the NCAA era (1992-present).
He was also the first Eagle to make the Ping NCAA Division II national All-Freshman team. He joins Toto Gana of Lynn, California Baptist's Trevor Lampson, and Elis Svard of CSU Monterey Bay on the All-Freshmen Team. Those players all finish as finalists to Division II Phil Mickelson Outstanding Freshman Award winner Felix Kvarnstrom of Lynn.
Forster was named South Atlantic Conference Freshman of the Year and was a first-team All-SAC selection.
He crafted the fifth-best stroke average in the conference at 72.2 strokes and ended the year on a streak of five consecutive top 10 finishes with six total to his credit for the season.
Forster scored under par in five tournaments. His best effort came at the Bobby Nichols Intercollegiate when he finished second at nine-under, two shots behind teammate Jake Headrick. Forters's three-round 207 is one of the top 10 three-round scores in South Atlantic Conference history and would have been the second best score in school history if not for Headrick's efforts.
His second round 66 in Sevierville tied for the lowest 18 hole score by an Eagle during the year.
Forster was two-under at the end of the 2017 NCAA South/Southeast Super Regional, the Eagles' highest finisher. He is one of four South Atlantic Conference golfers to earn All-America honors. Newberry's Carlos Leandro made the second team. LMU's Sam Broadhurst joined Forster on the third team. Mars Hill's Adam Lumley earned honorable mention honors.
Division II PING All-America Teams
First Team
Chandler Blanchet, West Florida
John Coultas, Florida Southern
Chris Crisologo, Simon Fraser
Nicolas Herrera, BYU-Hawaii
Richard Mansell, Nova Southeastern
Colin Prater, UC-Colorado Springs
John VanDerLaan, Florida Southern
Niclas Weiland, Barry
Second Team
Mario Beltran, Barry
John Clare, Le Moyne
Jacob Huizinga, West Florida
Carlos Leandro, Newberry
Nick Stafford, Belmont Abbey
Adam Stone, CSU East Bay
Shea Sylvester, Lee
Henry Westmoreland IV, West Florida
Third Team
Sam Broadhurst, Lincoln Memorial
Thomas Forster, Carson-Newman
Mateo Gomez, Lynn
Forrest Knight, North Alabama
Felix Kvarnstrom, Lynn
Trevor Lampson, California Baptist
Alex Springer, Central Missouri
Manuel Torres, Lynn
Honorable Mention
Mike Anderson, Barry
Jared Baker, Midwestern State
Hagen Barmasse, Rogers State
Shanren Brienen, Florida Tech
Ethan Chamineak, Georgia Southwestern State
Ben Cook, Ferris State
Ryan Gendron, Saint Leo
Greg Gonzalez, California Baptist
Juan Jose Guerra, Nova Southeastern
Chad Hall, CSU East Bay
Stefan Idstam, Southwestern Oklahoma State
Markus Lindberg, Missouri-St. Louis
Adam Lumley, Mars Hill
Graham McAree, Indianapolis
Max O'Hagan, Florida Tech
Michal Pospisil, Lander
Kelley Sullivan, Chico State
DJ Vogt, Bellarmine
David Wallin, Young Harris
