NORMAN, Okla. - Colgate University senior men's golfer Eli Zackheim was one of 71 Division I golfers in the nation named to the 2001 Golf Coaches Association of America All-America Scholar Team.

Zackheim graduated from Colgate this past spring with an environmental economics and biology degree finishing with a 3.42 cumulative grade point average (GPA). He has been a member of the CU Dean's List the past two years, the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll all four years, a member of the biology and economics honor societies and was nominated for an NCAA post-graduate scholarship.

On the course, Zackheim finished among the Top 10 finishers in 13 of 14 tournaments this season, including two individual victories in the Mike Bello Invitational and the Williams Invitational and had four other second-place finishes. Zackheim is the only repeat champion in the 41-year history of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) championship. He broke the team record for stroke average for the season last year (75.5), then bettered that with a 73.25 scoring average this year. He fired four rounds under par this season, including a four-under-par 69 at the Robert Trent Jones Course in Ithaca, N.Y. His best career round was a course-record seven-under-par 65 at CU's Seven Oaks Golf Course, which hosted the NCAA East Regional championships and the 1977 NCAA national championship tournament.

In addition to his national recognition, the Portland, Oregon native (Lincoln H.S.), became the first golfer and just the fifth athlete, representing 22 varsity sports, in the 11-year history of the Patriot League to win the Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award three times in the same sport.

Zackheim is the only Colgate golfer to win the PL Scholar-Athlete of the Year award, and also earned Verizon/CoSida Second Team All-District Academic All-America honors this season.

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