Wake Forest Athletics
Gielow Named ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America
6/8/2010 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
June 8, 2010
WINSTON-SALEM, NC - The awards continue to roll in for Wake Forest's Brendan Gielow, who on Tuesday was named a second team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American. The award was voted on by members of College Sports Information Directors of America.
Gielow, who won the 2010 Byron Nelson Award for his accomplishments both on and off the course, earns the first Academic All-American honors of his career. He also took home Academic All-District honors as a sophomore in 2008 and was named a Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-America Scholar in 2009.
To be eligible for Academic All-America consideration, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00 and have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution.
The Muskegon, Mich., native graduated last month with his religion degree and finished with a cumulative GPA of 3.78. He was awarded the ACC Weaver-James-Corrigan Honorary Award in this spring which recognizes student-athletes for their outstanding academic and athletic performance who intend to compete at the professional level.
For the year, Gielow averaged 71.87 strokes per round which was second-best in the ACC. Fifteen of his 31 rounds were played at par or better and he was the only player on the team to have all of his rounds count towards the team score. He won his second collegiate event at the JU Invitational and was named ACC Player of the Month for the month of February.
By the end of March, Gielow had ascended to the No. 1 individual ranking by Golfstat and was named a semifinalist for both the Byron Nelson and the Ben Hogan awards.
For his career, Gielow played in 47 tournaments for the Demon Deacons with a stroke average of 72.74. He claimed a pair of victories (2008 VCU Invitational and 2010 JU Invitational), had 18 top-10s and nearly 91 percent of his 137 total rounds counted towards the team score. Since 1981, his 72.74 career scoring averaging is fifth-best in school history behind the likes of Bill Haas, Webb Simpson and Kyle Reifers.
