Newberry's Leandro and Lincoln Memorial's Bradbury Headline 2018 South Atlantic Conference Men's Golf Award Winners

ROCK HILL, S.C. (TheSAC.com) – Newberry's Carlos Leandro was voted the 2018 South Atlantic Conference Men's Golfer of the Year, while Lincoln Memorial's Dan Bradbury was named the Conference's Freshman of the Year and Newberry's Howard Vroon was named the Coach of the Year, the SAC office announced today.

Leandro, a senior from Aljaraque, Spain, is ranked No. 16 nationally by Golfstat and was a Second Team All-American last season after finishing 10th in the stroke play portion of the 2017 NCAA Division II Men's Golf Championships. He has finished in the top 10 in six of Newberry's eight tournaments this season. He was the individual medalist at the season-opening UNG Fall Invitational and at the Bash at the Beach. Leandro has helped the Wolves to a school-record five team wins this season, and the Wolves are currently ranked fourth in the Bushnell Division II Coaches Poll and eighth in the Golfstat rankings. Thirteen of Leandro's 23 rounds this season have been at or below par and his 71.69 stroke average this season is the second-best by a Newberry golfer on record and his career 72.53 scoring average is the best since computerized records began in the fall of 2005.

Bradbury, a freshman from Yorkshire, England, has finished in the top-12 in five of the Railsplitter's 10 tournaments this season and he has a 73.52 adjust stroke average for the season. He shot rounds of 75 and 71 to win the Tennessee River Rumble in the final tournament of the regular season and also finished tied for fifth at the Bearcat Classic with rounds of 70, 73 and 69. He shot a career-low 66 in the opening round of the Miami Intercollegiate, while also recording a round of 67 to open the Kickoff Classic.

Howard Vroon, the reigning Golf Pride Grips Southeast Region Coach of the Year, has led Newberry to arguably its most successful run in school history. The Wolves have been ranked as high as No. 3 in the Golfstat rankings this season and are currently slotted eighth. In the Bushnell Division II Coaches Poll, Newberry is currently ranked fourth, a school record. The Wolves have won five tournaments this year, and have not finished below fifth in their other three events. Under Vroon's guidance, the Wolves' golfers have compiled 20 individual top-10 finishes, 10 top-fives, two tournament wins and have played 37 percent (46 of 126) of their rounds at or below par this season.

Leandro also earned first team All-South Atlantic Conference honors for his performances this season and he is joined on the first team by Newberry teammates Spencer Skiff and Harry Bolton. Skiff has a Golfstat adjusted scoring average of 71.69, while Bolton has a scoring average of 72.77.   Joining the trio of Wolves on the first team are Tom Forster from Carson-Newman with a scoring average of 72.45 and Lincoln Memorial's Sam Broadhurst with a 72.82 scoring average.

The 2018 South Atlantic Conference Men's Golf Championship will run for Sunday, April 8 through Tuesday, April 10, at Cobbs Glen Country Club in Anderson, S.C.  Tee times will begin at 8:30 a.m. on all three days. Live results for all three rounds can be found online at www.thesac.com. 

2018 SAC Men's Golf All-Conference

First Team All-Conference
Spencer Skiff, Newberry
Carlos Leandro, Newberry
Tom Forster, Carson-Newman
Harry Bolton, Newberry
Sam Broadhurst, Lincoln Memorial

Second Team All-Conference
Wanjoo Lee, Coker
Jake Headrick, Carson-Newman
Harry Boyle, Lincoln Memorial
Dan Bradbury, Lincoln Memorial
Harry Butler, Mars Hill

Honorable Mention All-Conference
Ben Thompson, Newberry
Brad Robinson, Lenoir-Rhyne
Charles Joubert, Wingate
Gilberto Pena, Queens
Trey Burton, Catawba

Freshman of the Year
Dan Bradbury, Lincoln Memorial

Golfer of the Year
Carlos Leandro, Newberry

Coach of the Year
Howard Vroon, Newberry 

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