July 14, 2008
FARMVILLE, Va. -- Longwood University rising senior Scooter Buhrman/Fayetteville, N.C. (Jack Britt) has been named a Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar for NCAA Division I by the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA). Buhrman is one of 96 collegiate golfers to achieve this prestigious academic honor in Division I for 2007-08. To be eligible, golfers must be at least a junior or senior and compete at least two full years at the collegiate level, participate in at least 70% of the team’s competitive rounds or compete in the NCAA Championships, have a stroke average under 76.0, and maintain at least a 3.20 cumulative grade point average (GPA).
Scooter Buhrman played 24 of 30 rounds during 2007-08 and led the team with his 73.71 scoring average. He posted a career low score for 18 holes (67), a season-best score for 36 holes (67-75--142, 69-73--142), and a career-best score for 54 holes (67-75-70--212) while earning four Top Five efforts among seven Top 20 individual finishes overall. Buhrman was the runner-up at the Mount St. Mary’s Spring Invitational (67-75-70--212) this past spring, and has achieved a 3.402 GPA as a business administration major.
Longwood, under the direction of 11th-year head coach Kevin Fillman, finished this past year with three tournament wins and three runner-up finishes among nine top five team finishes while placing among the top 10 in all 12 tournaments this year. The Lancers compiled a new school-record team scoring average of 296.53.