NEW ORLEANS – In a vote of the men’s golf coaches, Georgia Southern's Steven Fisk was named the Sun Belt Men’s Golfer of the Year, Luka Naglic of Arkansas State was named the Sun Belt Freshman of the Year, Zack Taylor of Coastal Carolina was named Newcomer of the Year, and Georgia Southern coach Carter Collins was tabbed Sun Belt Men's Golf Coach of the Year. In addition, the 2019 All-Sun Belt Men’s Golf Team was announced by the conference office on Thursday.
Fisk, a senior from Stockbridge, Ga., won six tournaments this season, including his second Sun Belt Men's Golf Championship. He is just the second player in league history to win the conference championship twice. Fisk leads the league in scoring average (68.89) and finished in the top-10 seven times this season. He is a Haskins Award Watch List Finalist and was named Sun Belt Men's Golfer of the Week three times this year. He passed Jodie Mudd for the school record in career victories with nine in his four years in Statesboro.
Fisk and his teammates will be competing in the NCAA Men's Golf Championship at the Blessings Course in Fayetteville, Ark., May 24-28.
A-State's Naglic was the runner-up at the Sun Belt Men's Golf Championship, helping lead A-State to the match play championship. Naglic shot a career-best 202 at the tournament, which also tied the tournament's best score all-time. His 72.06 scoring average ranked third on the team and seventh in the Sun Belt. He has four top-5 finishes this year.
CCU's Taylor played in 12 tournaments this year, including the NCAA Myrtle Beach Regional where he finished 20th. He led the Chanticleers with a 71.33 average while recording a team-high 23 rounds of par or better. He had five top-five finishes and eight top-20 finishes this season.
Collins earned his second Sun Belt Men's Golf Coach of the Year honor after guiding his Eagles to the NCAA Championship for the first time since 2010. The Eagles took fourth place at the NCAA Stanford Golf Regional with a -6 three-day total to advance as the No. 10 seed in the regional. The Eagles shot a school record 21-under-par 263 as a team in the final round of stroke play at the Sun Belt Men's Golf Championship and qualified for match play for the third consecutive season. The Eagles claimed three tournament wins this season, nine top-10 finishes and six top-five finishes.
Men's Golf All-Sun Belt First Team
Justin Warren, Little Rock
Zan Luka Stirn, Arkansas State
Julien Sale, Arkansas State
Zack Taylor, Coastal Carolina
Steven Fisk, Georgia Southern
Guillaume Fanonnel, ULM
Men's Golf All-Sun Belt Second Team
Aaron Ramos, Little Rock
Luka Naglic, Arkansas State
Wes Artac, Coastal Carolina
Ben Carr, Georgia Southern
Paul Gonzalez, UTA
Logan Lockwood, Texas State
Men's Golf All-Sun Belt Third Team
Joel Wendin, Arkansas State
Jake Maples, Georgia Southern
Andoni Etchenique, ULM
Rasmus Karlsson, South Alabama
Yannick Schütz, South Alabama
Connor Futrell, Troy
Men's Golfer of the Year
Steven Fisk, Georgia Southern
Men's Golf Freshman of the Year
Luka Naglic, Arkansas State
Men's Golf Newcomer of the Year
Zack Taylor, Coastal Carolina
Men's Golf Head Coach of the Year
Carter Collins, Georgia Southern