Hokie ClubGREENSBORO, N.C. - Men's Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year Barden Berry of North Carolina leads the 2008 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Team as announced today by Commissioner John D. Swofford.
Berry, a senior Psychology major, is a three-time ACC All-Academic team selection, an ESPN Third-Team All-American at large, three-time member of the ACC Academic Honor Roll and a member of the North Carolina Honors Program. This year he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society.
Berry received the 2008 University of North Carolina Male Scholar Athlete of the Year award as well as being the recipient of the McCaskill Award, given for excellence in athletics, scholarship and community service and receiving the Carolina Leadership Academy's highest honor, the Three-Dimensional Leader Award. Berry was a starter in all 11 of North Carolina's tournaments in 2007-08 and carded four top-20 finishes and nine rounds under-par.
Three golfers who earned All-Conference honors this past season secured spots on the 2008 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Men's Golf Team. To be eligible for consideration, a student-athlete must have earned a 3.00 grade point average for the previous semester and maintained a 3.00 cumulative average during his academic career. Players earning All-Conference honors in 2008 were Florida State's Jonas Blixt, Georgia Tech's Cameron Tringale, and Virginia Tech's Jurrian van der Vaart.
Boston College was represented by four players while Georgia Tech, North Carolina and Virginia Tech claimed three players each. ACC Champion Florida State along with Duke claimed two honorees, while Clemson, Maryland and Wake Forest landed one player each to round out the 20-member team.
Ten golfers were repeat honorees from the 2007 All-ACC Academic team, which includes Boston College's James Granello, Jan Prokop and Robert Reed, Clemson's Ben Martin, Duke's Adam Long, Georgia Tech's Taylor Hall and Cameron Tringale, North Carolina's Barden Berry, Virginia Tech's Jurrian van der Vaart and Wake Forest's Brendan Gielow.
2008 All-ACC Academic Men's Golf Team
Name, Class, School Major
##James Granello, Sr., Boston College Finance
Matthew Ouimet, Fr., Boston College Undeclared
#Jan Prokop, So., Boston College Finance
##Robert Reed, Sr., Boston College Operations Management
#Ben Martin, Jr., Clemson Sociology
#Adam Long, So., Duke Sociology
Matthew Pierce, Fr., Duke Undeclared
!Jonas Blixt, Sr., Florida State Multinational Business
Drew Kittleson, So., Florida State Business
David Dragoo, Sr., Georgia Tech Economics
##Taylor Hall, Jr., Georgia Tech Management
#Cameron Tringale, Georgia Tech Management
Adam Cohn, Sr., Maryland Finance
##Barden Berry, Sr., North Carolina Psychology
!Chase McFarland, Jr., North Carolina Business Administration
Henry Zaytoun, Fr., North Carolina Undeclared
Aaron Eckstein, Fr., Virginia Tech Business
##Jurrian van der Vaart, Sr., Virginia Tech Environmental Science
!Andrew Weaver, Jr., Virginia Tech Marketing
#Brendan Gielow, So., Wake Forest Math/Accounting
##Repeat honoree (2006-07)
#Repeat honoree (2007)
!Repeat honoree (2006)