{"id":844878,"date":"2026-08-03T18:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T18:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/844878\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T18:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T18:28:09","slug":"five-bearcats-named-cobalt-golf-all-america-scholars-university-of-cincinnati-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/844878\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Bearcats Named Cobalt Golf All-America Scholars &#8211; University of Cincinnati Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI \u2014 Five members of the 2025-26 Cincinnati men\u2019s golf team have been named Cobalt Golf All-America Scholars, the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Bearcats\u2019 group of honorees includes seniors <a href=\"https:\/\/gobearcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/player\/ryan-ford\" title=\"Ryan Ford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Ford<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gobearcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/player\/connor-mcneely\" title=\"Connor McNeely\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor McNeely<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gobearcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/player\/rylan-wotherspoon\" title=\"Rylan Wotherspoon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rylan Wotherspoon<\/a>, along with sophomores <a href=\"https:\/\/gobearcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/player\/connor-cassano\" title=\"Connor Cassano\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Cassano<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gobearcats.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/player\/leo-wessel\" title=\"Leo Wessel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leo Wessel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To be eligible for Cobalt Golf All-America Scholar nomination, an individual must be a sophomore, junior or senior both academically and athletically in NCAA Division I, II, III, and NAIA, or receiving their associate\u2019s degree and in their last year of athletic eligibility in the NJCAA. In addition, they must participate in 50% of their team\u2019s competitive rounds, have a stroke average under 76.0 in NCAA Division I, and maintain a minimum cumulative career grade-point average of 3.2. A recipient must also be of high moral character and be in good standing at their college or university.<\/p>\n<p>The Bearcats open their 2026-27 schedule Sept. 7-9 at the Folds of Honor Collegiate at American Dunes Golf Club in Grand Haven, Mich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI \u2014 Five members of the 2025-26 Cincinnati men\u2019s golf team have been named Cobalt Golf All-America Scholars,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-844878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}