{"id":80216,"date":"2023-05-09T03:30:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T07:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=80216"},"modified":"2023-05-09T12:08:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T16:08:05","slug":"rocket-golfer-receives-first-team-all-mac-honors-for-third-straight-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/05_09_2023\/rocket-golfer-receives-first-team-all-mac-honors-for-third-straight-year","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Golfer Receives First-Team All-MAC Honors for Third Straight Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toledo junior\u00a0Barend Botha\u00a0has received First-Team All-Mid-American Conference honors for the 2022-23 men’s golf season, the league office announced on Friday.<\/p>\n

Botha has been named First-Team All-MAC in each of his three seasons as a Rocket and is only the fourth player in school history to garner first-team all-league recognition on three occasions, joining Ted Ossoff (1973, ’74, ’75), Brad Heaven (2001, ’02, ’03, ’04), and Chris Selfridge (2013, ’14, ’15)\u00a0. In addition, UToledo has had a first-team honoree for the fourth-straight season under Head Coach\u00a0Jeff Roope.<\/p>\n

A native of George, South Africa, Botha became the third Rocket to receive MAC Golfer of the Year honors earlier this week. He has posted a school-record 70.5 stroke average this season and will be competing as the No. 1 seed among individuals at the NCAA Bath Regional hosted by Michigan State University on May 15-17.<\/p>\n

Botha also became the seventh Rocket to win a MAC Championships title this week with a five-under par 211. He birdied the final hole to finish one stroke ahead of Miami’s Danny Fisher. Botha has registered 22 rounds of par or better this season and notched a sixth-place showing or better in six of 11 tournaments. He also tied a school record with a 12-under par 204 en route to winning the first tournament of his collegiate career at UNCW’s Seahawk Intercollegiate on March 26-27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"Toledo<\/a>

Barend Botha has a school-record 70.5 stroke average and is the fourth Rocket ever to be honored three consecutive seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":80217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,56,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80219,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80216\/revisions\/80219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}