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FAYETTEVILLE –University of Arkansas senior golfer Mason Overstreet was voted 2020 Academic All-America® Division I Men’s At-Large third team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). The honor recognizes the nation’s top student-athletes for their combined performances in athletic competition and in the classroom.
The At-Large team may be the most exclusive in the CoSIDA realm as it features student-athletes from 12 sports including fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming, tennis, volleyball, water polo and wrestling. Only seven NCAA Division I golfers were named Academic All-America.
Overstreet joins Austin Cook as the only Razorback men’s golfers to be voted to the CoSIDA All-America team.
Mason Overstreet Highlights:
· Graduated from the University of Arkansas with a degree in business finance, posting a 3.89 GPA.
· Arkansas’ male nominee for the SEC’s H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship.
· Two-time SEC Men’s Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year (2019 and 2020).
· CoSIDA Academic All-America third team (2020).
· Two-time CoSIDA Academic All-District (2019 and 2020).
· Four-time SEC Academic Honor Roll (2017-1st year, 2018, 2019 and 2020).
· Has posted a perfect 4.0 five times to earn Chancellor’s List and has earned Dean’s List (3.75-3.99 GPA) three times (only four career “B’s”).
· 2017 NCAA runner-up.
· 2017 PING All-America honorable mention.
· 2018 PING All-Region.
· Career scoring average of 72.04 ranks second on the school’s all-time list.
· His 459 career birdies rank third and his 13 eagles tie for first.
· Posted a scoring average of 71.46 this past season which ranks seventh on the school’s single-season list. He also has the eighth-best, single-season scoring average in school history (71.52 in 2017-18) and the 16th-best (71.77 in 2018-19).
· Qualified for the MacKenzie Tour – PGA TOUR Canada.