June 10, 2008

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Seniors golfers Paul Amess of Temple and Charlotte's Jonas Enander Hedin have been named to the 2008 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America At-Large Second Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

Amess led the Temple golf team with a 73.9 stroke average this season and was the Owls top finisher (14th) at the Atlantic 10 Championship (74-71-72=217, +1). A two-time A-10 Golfer of the Week, Stevenage, England, native was one stroke away from winning his first collegiate tournament at the Princeton Invitational earlier this year with a 71-73-68=212 (-1).

Amess shot the sixth-lowest individual score in program history with a 67 earlier at the SIUE Cougar Classic and also captured Bermuda Match Play Championship earlier this spring, exempting him to the final round of British Open qualifying. He owns a career average of 74.7 in 50 rounds at Temple.

In the classroom, the finance major carries a 3.90 grade point average. He was named Temple's Male Student-Athlete of the Year at the annual Breakfast of Champions in April. Amess was also one of five golfers named to the Atlantic 10 All-Academic Team and earned ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District At-Large first-team honors last month.

He graduated as a President Scholar with summa cum laude honors from the Fox School of Business during the University's commencement exercises in May.

A third-team Ping All-America selection, Enander Hedin is one of five finalists for the Byron Nelson Award (top college senior) and was among the top 20 finalists for the Hogan and Nicklaus National Player of the Year Awards. The Taby, Sweden, resident is a three-time All-Conference selection after finishing third in this year's A-10 Championship. He has accepted an invitation to participate in the 2008 Palmer Cup, The Ryder-Cup-style event pitting the top collegians from the US against their European counterparts.

Named the 2008 Atlantic 10 Golf Student-Athlete of the Year, Enander Hedin is a three-time Academic All-Conference honoree and graduated with a 3.78 grade point average as a business management major. He garnered ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District At-Large first-team honors and was a Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) All-America Scholar in 2007.

To be eligible, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director. Since the program's inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 14,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA covering all NCAA championship sports.