{"id":847885,"date":"2026-08-06T06:32:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/847885\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T06:32:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:32:28","slug":"mens-golf-earns-platform-golf-team-academic-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/847885\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Golf Earns Platform Golf Team Academic Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORMAN, Okla. (EMUEagles.com) &#8212; The Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) announced the 2025-26 PLATFORM Golf Team Academic Award recipients today, Aug. 5, with the Eastern Michigan University men&#8217;s golf team earning a place on the list for the eighth time in program history. The Eagles were one of 174 NCAA Division I teams that earned recognition this year.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTo be eligible for the award, a team needed to maintain a 3.0+ cumulative grade-point average for the 2025-26 season.\u00a0 The Eagles earned the accolade for the eighth time since the start of the 2014-15 academic year and their first since the 2020-21 season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn addition to the team honor, four Eagles were named to the 2025-26 NCAA Division I Cobalt Golf All-America Scholars two days earlier (Aug. 3), including <a href=\"https:\/\/emueagles.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/charlie-box\/17096\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17096\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Box<\/a> (Leicester, England\/Wreake Valley Academy\/Hutchinson CC), <a href=\"https:\/\/emueagles.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/tim-chan\/17094\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17094\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Chan<\/a> (Hong Kong, China\/Loretto School\/VCU), <a href=\"https:\/\/emueagles.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/rory-mcdonald-o-brien\/17095\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17095\" target=\"_blank\">Rory McDonald-O&#8217;Brien<\/a> (Shrewsbury, England\/Shrewsbury School\/USC-Aiken), and <a href=\"https:\/\/emueagles.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/leo-mihaich\/17099\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17099\" target=\"_blank\">Leo Mihaich<\/a> (Bell Ville, Argentina\/Figuero Alcorta Normal School\/Oklahoma Christian).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nEMU&#8217;s All-Time GCAA Team Academic Awards Won<br \/>\n2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2025-26<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORMAN, Okla. (EMUEagles.com) &#8212; The Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) announced the 2025-26 PLATFORM Golf Team Academic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-847885","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\/847885","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=847885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}