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Jon Hopkins of Mississippi Gulf Coast Spotlights 2019-20 CoSIDA Academic All-America® College Division Men's At-Large Team
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Jon Hopkins
AUSTIN, Texas – Sophomore men’s golfer
Jon Hopkins of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College headlines the 2020 Academic All-America® College Division Men’s At-Large Teams, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Hopkins was named the CoSIDA Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year for College Division men’s at-large.
The college division includes two-year institutions, Canadian institutions and any United States four-year institutions that are not affiliated with the NCAA or NAIA.
Despite the cancellation of spring competition during COVID-19, CoSIDA continued its sponsorship of the Academic All-America awards program. Student-athletes were selected based on career statistics.
Hopkins, a sophomore from Bishop’s Stortford, England, was named to the NJCAA Division II PING All-America team as he won three of the seven tournaments he competed in during the 2019-20 season. Hopkins, who has a 3.95 cumulative grade-point average as a business major, only finished outside of the top seven in a tournament once. Hopkins led the Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges with a 70.17 scoring average, winning the Hubert Tucker Award and earning All-MACJC first team accolades. Hopkins, who has signed to play golf at NCAA Division I’s Florida Gulf Coast University this fall, is a finalist for the Jack Nicklaus Award, which will be announced at next month’s Memorial Tournament.
Hopkins, was named to the NJCAA Division II PING All-America second team in 2018-19 as he won three of the 12 tournaments he played and never finished worse than ninth place. He tied for eighth place at the 2019 NJCAA Division II National Championship, earning all-tournament and NJCAA All-America first team honorees. Hopkins was also a semifinalist for the Jack Nicklaus Award.
The 10 members of the first team had an average GPA of 3.93 as five student-athletes had a perfect 4.0 GPA.
2020 Academic All-America® Men's At-Large Teams – College Division
| FIRST TEAM |
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| Sport |
Name |
School |
Yr. |
GPA |
Major |
| Baseball |
Trey Asher |
Cloud County Community College |
So. |
4 |
Biology |
| Football |
Ronald Baker |
Pearl River Community College |
So. |
4 |
Mechanical Engineering |
| Football |
Austin Bolton |
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College |
So. |
3.87 |
Business |
| Soccer |
Victor Camps |
Monroe College |
So. |
3.92 |
Business Administration |
| Baseball |
Trey Frierson |
Copiah-Lincoln Community College |
So. |
4 |
Criminal Justice |
| Golf |
Jon Hopkins |
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College |
So. |
3.95 |
Business |
| Track/XC |
Lloyd McCurdy |
Monroe College |
So. |
3.67 |
Computer Information Systems |
| Tennis |
James McWilliams |
Jones College |
So. |
4 |
Nursing |
| Soccer |
Luke Mills |
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College |
So. |
4 |
Business |
| Track/XC |
Ka'Jon Parris |
Monroe College |
So. |
3.95 |
Business Management |
Academic All-America® of the Year: Jon Hopkins, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College College
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Michael MacEachern, Young Harris College | Academic All-America® Co-Director for Publicity
mfmaceachern@yhc.edu | (706) 379-5106