ROCK HILL, S.C. – Anderson University standouts Jake Miller and Reece Coleman have earned men's golf All-South Atlantic Conference honors, as announced by the league office, early Wednesday afternoon.
Coleman captured First-Team All-SAC honors, along with being named SAC Freshman of the Year, while Miller garnered Honorable-Mention All-SAC accolades.
Coleman, a native of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, led Anderson with a 72.21 adjusted stroke average through six tournaments this past season, while firing the team's low-round (66) of the year in the second round of the Donald Ross Intercollegiate in mid-October. Coleman also carded rounds of 67 and 68 and book-ended his stellar season by finishing in a tie for first atop the individual leaderboard at the AU Invitational in September and again at the Southern Tide Classic in early March. He finished in the top-11 on five occasions, including a runner-up performance at the Donald Ross Intercollegiate.
Coleman is the first Trojan men's golfer to earn Freshman of the Year honors since AU joined the SAC in 2010 and he joins Anna Freeman (2018), Kate Hill (2017) and Katie Eskew (2011) as the fourth Trojan golfer overall to claim the accolade.
Miller earned his second all-conference honor in as many seasons after capturing first-team recognition a year ago. The Anderson, S.C., native was close on Coleman's heels with a 73.15 adjusted stroke average through 15 rounds this season. Miller owned a pair of fifth-place finishes this year, while finishing sixth at the Donald Ross Intercollegiate and eighth at Lincoln Memorial's Spring Kickoff Intercollegiate in February.
In addition to Coleman earning Freshman of the Year honors, Lincoln Memorial's Dan Bradbury was voted the 2020 South Atlantic Conference Men's Golfer of the Year, while Lincoln Memorial's Travis Muncy was named the Coach of the Year.
Bradbury, a junior from Yorkshire, England, tallied top-five finishes in seven of eight total tournaments in addition to three tournament victories for the Railsplitters throughout the 2019-20 season. He posted a Golfstat adjusted scoring average of 70.21, which was No. 2 in the NCAA Southeast Region and No. 4 in NCAA Division II. He was a PING Division II All-American selection and was a PING All-Southeast Region pick. Bradbury was named SAC AstroTurf Golfer of the Week after his thirteen-under-par performance and tournament title at the Battle at Hilton Head on February 26.
Muncy earned his second consecutive SAC Coach of the Year honor in 2020 after leading the Railsplitters to a No. 7 national ranking in the Bushnell Golfweek Division II poll. Muncy's men's team captured seven top-10 finishes in 2019-20, including three tournament titles and two runner-up finishes. He coached three all-conference selections, including two first team selections and two PING All-Americans.
Bradbury and Coleman also earned first team All-SAC honors for their performances this season and they are joined on the first team by Carson-Newman's Tom Forster, Queens' Taisuke Ono, and Lincoln Memorial's Luke Harries. Forster posted an adjusted scoring average of 71.44, while Ono and Harries were both named PING All-Americans with adjusted scoring averages of 71.72 and 72.03, respectively.
2020 SAC Men's Golf All-Conference
First Team
Dan Bradbury, LMU
Tom Forster, C-N
Taisuke Ono, Queens
Luke Harries, LMU
Reece Coleman, Anderson
Second Team
Tanner Bibey, Catawba
Dillon West, LMU
Ollie Smith, Queens
Charles Joubert, Wingate
Alex Hodge, C-N
Honorable Mention
Nicolas Brown, Wingate
Jake Miller, Anderson
Felipe Garces, Newberry
Corey Chrzanowski, Newberry
Yannik Koehnen, Wingate
Men's Golfer of the Year
Dan Bradbury, Lincoln Memorial
Men's Golf Freshman of the Year
Reece Coleman, Anderson
Men's Golf Coach of the Year
Travis Muncy, Lincoln Memorial
