April 30, 2015
The SEC men’s golf coaches have recognized the Commodores’ historic 2014-15 season by naming senior Hunter Stewart as the league’s player of the year, sophomore Matthias Schwab as a first-team All-SEC member, freshman Theo Humphrey as a second-team All-SEC and All-Freshman team member, and junior Carson Jacobs as a second-team All-SEC selection in an announcement made by the SEC office Thursday. The four SEC honorees are the most ever in a single season for Vanderbilt.
The awards cap an excellent regular season, with the Commodores posting second or better in eight of 11 tournaments and winning their own Mason Rudolph Championship in April of this year.Â
Stewart becomes the second Vanderbilt student-athlete to be named SEC Player of the Year this spring, joining Gonzales Austin of the men’s tennis team.Â
Stewart, a senior from Lexington, Ky., becomes Vanderbilt’s first SEC Player of the Year after averaging an all-time program-best 69.40 strokes per round this season. He won three individual titles, carded five top-five finishes, and nine top 10’s in 2014-15, with his worst result being a tie for 11th at the Nike Golf Collegiate Invitational in October. Stewart was also named to the Palmer Cup U.S. team and as a semifinalist for the Ben Hogan Award earlier this spring.Â
Off the course, Stewart was named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll in 2012 and 2013.
Stewart, also named as a first-team All-SEC selection, and Schwab became the Commodores’ 8th and 9th first-team honorees in the history of the program, and the first since 2007 when Jon Curran and Luke List were named to the first team. List made the All-SEC First team in all four years he attended Vanderbilt (2004-07), while Brandt Snedeker was named to the first team in 2002 and 2003.
Schwab has averaged 70.39 strokes per round as a sophomore, and has carded three top finishes and garnered one individual title at the Mason Rudolph Championship. The sophomore from Rohrmoos, Austria, has had five rounds in the 60’s this season, including a 66 in the first round of the Talis Park Challenge in March. Schwab was named to the all-freshmen team a year ago, as well as the SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll.Â
Humphrey has played in all 30 rounds as a freshman, averaged 71.23 strokes per round, and carded four top 10 finishes in being named to the All-SEC 2nd team and the All-SEC Freshman team. The freshman from Greenwich, Conn., has had 12 rounds in the 60’s with a low round of 66 coming in the third round of the Schenkel Invitational.
Jacobs, a junior from Hendersonville, Tenn., has averaged 71.47 strokes per round in 2014-15 and carded three top 10 finishes. Jacobs finished second at the prestigious Tavistock Collegiate in October behind teammate Hunter Stewart when he shot a 12-under, 204. He carded a team season-low 64 in the first round of the DICK’s Collegiate Challenge Cup and posted seven rounds in the 60’s this year. Academically, Jacobs was named to the 2014 SEC Academic Honor Roll last spring.
The four honorees this year have posted four of the top seven stroke averages in the history of the program – Stewart’s 69.40 is first all-time, Schwab’s 70.39 is third, Humphrey’s 71.23 is sixth, and Jacobs’ 71.47 is seventh.
FIRST TEAM ALL-SEC
Matthew NeSmith, South Carolina (SEC Championship Medalist)
Robby Shelton, Alabama
Will Starke, South Carolina
Hunter Stewart, Vanderbilt
Lee McCoy, Georgia
Ben Schlottman, Auburn
Matt Gilchrest, Auburn
Matthias Schwab, Vanderbilt
SECOND TEAM ALL-SEC
Brandon Pierce, LSU
Zach Wright, LSU
Taylor Moore, Arkansas
J.D. Tomlinson, Florida
Theo Humphrey, Vanderbilt
Stewart Jolly, LSU
Carson Jacobs, Vanderbilt
*Eric Ricard, LSU
*Michael Johnson, Auburn
COACH OF THE YEAR
Chuck Winstead, LSU
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Hunter Stewart, Vanderbilt
FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR
Ben Schlottman, Auburn
SCHOLAR-ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
Forrest Gamble, Ole Miss
ALL-FRESHMAN TEAM
Theo Humphrey, Vanderbilt
Tyler ‘Chip’ McDaniel, Kentucky
Ben Schlottman, Auburn
Alejandro Tosti, Florida
Jonathan Hardee, Alabama
All-Time Vanderbilt SEC Players of the Year
Marina Alex, 2010, 2012 SEC Player of the Year, Women’s Golf
Chantelle Anderson, 2002 SEC Player of the Year, Women’s Basketball
Gonzales Austin, 2015 SEC Player of the Year, Men’s Tennis
Taka Bertrand, 2006 SEC Player of the Year, Women’s Tennis
Hunter Bledsoe, 1999 SEC Player of the Year, Baseball
Derrick Byars, 2007 SEC Player of the Year, Men’s Basketball
Jay Cutler, 2005 SEC Offensive Player of the Year, Football
Jamie Duncan, 1997 SEC Defensive Player of the Year, Football
Shan Foster, 2008 SEC Player of the Year, Men’s Basketball
Grayson Garvin, 2011 SEC Pitcher of the Year, Baseball
Tyler Griffin, 2005 SEC Defensive Player of the Year, Women’s Soccer
Tony Kemp, 2013 SEC Player of the Year, Baseball
Dan Langhi, 2000 SEC Player of the Year, Men’s Basketball
Clyde Lee, 1965, 1966 SEC Player of the Year, Men’s Basketball
Billy McCaffrey, 1993 SEC Player of the Year, Men’s Basketball
Will Perdue, 1988 SEC Player of the Year, Men’s Basketball
David Price, 2007 SEC Pitcher of the Year, Baseball
Bobby Reynolds, 2003 SEC Player of the Year, Men’s Tennis
Hunter Stewart, 2015 SEC Player of the Year, Men’s Golf
Ryan Tolbert, 1997 SEC Female Athlete of the Year, Women’s Track
Jan van Breda Kolff, 1974 SEC Player of the Year, Men’s Basketball
Christine Watson, 1994 SEC Player of the Year, Women’s Soccer
May Wood, 2004 SEC Co-Player of the Year, Women’s Golf
