Zeiders named to Academic All-PL Men’s Golf Team
Posted: 05/12/2011
BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Lehigh men’s golf senior Duncan Zeiders has been named to the 2011 Academic All-Patriot League, as announced on Thursday. Zeiders, who has a 3.58 GPA as an accounting majoring, was a recipient of Lehigh’s Faculty Athletics Council Academic Award. He is also part of the department’s Emerging Leaders program.
The Academic All-Patriot League Team has been added for all sports beginning in the 2010-11 season to honor additional student-athletes who excel both on and off the field. The Golf Academic All-Patriot League Team has five student-athletes to equal the size of the sport's All-Patriot League first team.
Zeiders competed in all nine of Lehigh’s fall and spring events. He tied for ninth at the spring opening Mission Hill Invitational. He had three top-20 finishes including tying for 20th at the Patriot League Championships. Zeiders had a low overall round of 72 in the fall at the Bucknell Invitational.
The Mountain Hawks are coming off a solid showing at the Patriot League Championships where they tied for fifth overall with a score of 900 (306, 307, 287).
Patriot League Golf Academic Awards
Scholar-Athlete: Peter Reilly, Navy, Jr.
Academic All-Patriot League Team
Peter Reilly, Navy, Jr.
Matt Philie, Army, So.
Michael McCarthy, Holy Cross, So.
Duncan Zeiders, Lehigh, Sr.
David Kafafian, Lafayette, So.