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June 28, 2007 GREENSBORO, N.C. - Wake Forest freshman Brendan Gielow was one of 20 named to the Academic All-ACC Men's Golf Team, announced Thursday by league commissioner John Swofford. Five golfers who earned All-Conference honors this past season also secured spots on the 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. Gielow played in 11 of Wake Forest's 12 tournaments in 2006-07, posting a cumulative stroke average of 73.36. The Muskegon (Mich.) native had two top-10 finishes and four top-20 finishes as a rookie. Players earning All-Conference honors this past season were Clemson's Ben Martin, Duke's Adam Long, Georgia Tech's Roberto Castro and Cameron Tringale, and Conrad von Borsig from Virginia. Boston College and ACC co-Champion Georgia Tech were represented by four players each. Duke, North Carolina, Virginia and Co-Champion Virginia Tech claimed two honorees, while Clemson, Florida State, Maryland and Wake Forest landed one player each to round out the 20-member team. Nine golfers were repeat honorees from the 2006 inaugural All-ACC Academic team, which includes Boston College's James Granello and Kyle Kelly, Georgia Tech's Castro, Taylor Hall and Kevin Larsen, North Carolina's Barden Berry and Robert Riesen, Virginia's von Borsig, and Virginia Tech's Jurrian van der Vaart. Roberto Castro was named the Golf Coaches Association of America Byron Nelson Award winner, which honors graduating seniors who exemplify outstanding performance in academics and golf. The 2007 All-ACC Academic Men's Golf team is as follows: 2007 All-ACC Academic Men's Golf Team Name, Class, School Major James Granello, Jr., Boston College Finance Kyle Kelly, Grad., Boston College Administrative Studies Jan Prokop, Fr., Boston College Finance Robert Reed, Jr.., Boston College Operation Management Ben Martin, So., Clemson Accounting Jeff Edelman, Fr., Duke Undeclared Adam Long, Fr., Duke Undeclared Torstein Nevestad, Sr., Florida State International Affairs Roberto Castro, Sr., Georgia Tech Industrial Systems Engineering Taylor Hall, So., Georgia Tech Management Kevin Larsen, Sr., Georgia Tech Management Cameron Tringale, So., Georgia Tech Management Hunter Bendall, Sr., Maryland Finance Barden Berry, Jr., North Carolina Psychology Robert Riesen, So., North Carolina Undeclared Eamonn McLoughlin, Grad., Virginia Graduate Education Conrad von Borsig, So., Virginia Psychology Matthew Boyd, Fr., Virginia Tech Marketing Management Jurrian van der Vaart, Jr., Virginia Tech Environmental Science Brendan Gielow, Fr., Wake Forest Undeclared
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