Ben Wheeler, who just completed his senior season as a member of the Coastal Carolina men's golf team, was named Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-America Scholar the Golf Coaches Association of America announced.

To be eligible for Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-America Scholar status an individual must be a junior or senior academically, compete in at least three full years at the collegiate level, participate in 50-percent of his team's competitive rounds, have a stroke-average under 76.0 in Division I and maintain a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.2. A recipient must also be of high moral character and be in good standing at his college or university.

This is the 10th time a Coastal golfer has earned GCAA All-America Scholar honors, joining Mathew "Gus" Pick (1988), Zack Byrd (2007 and 2009), Lindsay Renolds (2007 and 2008), Cameron Hooper (2009), Sebastian Soderberg (2012 and 2013) and Charlie Winegardner (2012).

Wheeler graduated from Coastal this past spring with a degree in finance and completed his collegiate career with a 3.27 grade point average. He was voted Academic All-Big South each of the past two seasons (2014 and 2015), was a Big South Presidential Scholar (posting at least a 3.0 GPA for an academic year) in each of his four seasons at CCU, was a two-time All-Big South honoree, was the 2014 Big South champion and was the 2014 Big South Freshman of the Year.

Wheeler played in three NCAA Regionals, earning individual berths twice, and finished his career fifth on the CCU all-time scoring list with a stroke average of 73.58 (129 rounds and 9,492 strokes). He had six career top 5's and 19 career top 20's with 43 rounds of par or better, including 16 rounds in the 60's.

This past season, he posted a 72.43 scoring average. While that was sixth-best on the CCU single-season list, only All-Americans Dustin Johnson (three times), Byrd and Soderberg had better seasons.