The University of Mississippi Athletics
Rebels Ink Nation's Top Junior College Player
4/13/2016 | Men's Golf
OXFORD, Miss. - The Ole Miss men's golf team has inked Kerry Sweeney, the nation's top junior college golfer, to a national letter of intent head coach Chris Malloy announced Wednesday. Sweeney will join the Rebels for the 2016-2017 academic year.
The Eastern Florida State College standout won the 2015 Jack Nicklaus Award as the Golf Coaches Association of America's Junior College Player of the Year last year and finished tied for second at the 2015 NJCAA Men's Division One National Championship. He also earned first-team Ping and NJCAA All America honors last year and was named the 2015 Phil Mickelson Award winner as the Most Outstanding Freshman at the junior college level.
"We are very excited to add a player of Kerry's caliber," Malloy said. "Anytime you can add a player with the accomplishments Kerry brings you are going to get better as a program. The other exciting thing from a coaches standpoint is that he is a very mature young man that can help be a leader immediately."
Sweeney has three career wins at Eastern Florida, including the Buccaneer Invitational by six strokes, and has competed in the 2016 Patriot Invitational and the 2015 South Beach Amateur and Southern Amateur. The Melbourne, Florida native claimed the 2013 Florida Class 1A High School Championship as a junior at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy and captured the 2014 club championship at Suntree Country Club in Melbourne.
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