Sooner Golfers Land Two All-Americans, Six Academic All-Big 12 Honors

A year after earning honorable mention honors, Quade Cummins and Garrett Rebrand are accorded first-team All-American

John E. Hoover | Apr 27, 2020

OU Athletics

University of Oklahoma golfers Quade Cummins (shown above) and Garett Reband earned Division I PING First-Team All-America honors, the Golf Coaches Association of America announced.

It’s the first time coach Ryan Hybl has had two OU's two golfers named first-team All American.

Cummins and Reband continued the success they started last season, when both were named honorable mention All-American.

That gives OU 65 All-Americans in the history of the program.

Hybl, now in his 10th year as the Sooners’ head coach, has now had 12 players earn All-American accolades.

It’s also the third straight year Cummins was named an All-American by the GCAA.

This week, three OU men’s golfers and four women’s golfers were named to the Academic All-Big 12 team.

Senior Thomas Johnson, sophomore Blake Lorenz and sophomore Lane Wallace were all selected to the first team, which requires at least a 3.20 GPA.

Johnson earned second-team honors last season.

OU golfer Kaitlin Milligan / OU Athletics

On the women’s team, juniors Kaitlin Milligan and Sydney Youngblood earned first-team honors, while sophomore Libby Winans and redshirt freshman Maria Fernanda Martinez picked up second-team honors.

Milligan was one of five women's golfers from all Big 12 institutions to be recognized for having a 4.0 GPA. It’s her second straight season to earn first-team honors.

To qualify for the Academic All-Big 12 Team, student-athletes must maintain a 3.00 GPA or higher, either cumulatively or over each of the two previous semesters.

First-team honors require student-athletes to have at least a 3.20 GPA.

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Published Apr 27, 2020

JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.