Fuchs earns golf and academic honors; Kunz and Hendrickson also honored

On the heels of a brilliant spring season, Binghamton University's top three golfers have earned regional honors by the Golf Coaches Association of America. Senior Adam Fuchs (Plainview, N.Y./Plainview-JFK) and juniors Joe Kunz (Webster, N.Y.) and Keith Hendrickson (Syosset, N.Y.) were selected to the PING New England All-Region Team. In addition, Fuchs was chosen as a Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar by the GCAA for the second straight year.

Fuchs led the team with a 74.89 scoring average in 27 rounds. In the fall, he captured medalist honors at the Dartmouth Invitational and the ECAC Championship, and finished among the top-10 nine times in 14 events. At the year-end Varsity Awards Banquet, he was honored with the John Bilos Award for career achievement, and graduated holding 10 medalist honors and the lowest career scoring average (74.73) in program history.

Kunz, in his first year at Binghamton after transferring from Monroe Community College, held down a 76.30 scoring average. He won a team-best three tournaments - the Colgate and Bucknell Invitationals to open the fall season, and the America East Championship in the spring. At the conference event, Kunz shot 73-70 at The Links at Hiawatha Landing to lead BU to its first America East title.

Hendrickson carried the second-lowest stroke average on the team in 2002-03 (76.00), and produced seven top-10 finishes in 13 tournaments. He was runner-up at the fall Rehoboth Beach Invitational, and at the spring New England Championship, shot an even-par 72 on the final day to vault the Bearcats into second place at the pivotal tournament - a finish that likely secured the team's NCAA regional berth. Hendrickson wound up fifth among 94 golfers after shooting 75-72.

In head coach John Affleck's final year, BU won more tournaments (7) than any Division I program in the entire country, and finished the spring at the NCAA East Regional in Auburn, Alabama.

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