Release from Georgia Tech Athletics:

Georgia Tech’s Ollie Schniederjans is among 24 collegiate golfers named Friday to the watch list for the 2014 Ben Hogan Award.

The most prestigious award in men’s college golf, The Ben Hogan Award is presented annually to the top men’s NCAA Division I, II or III, NAIA or NJCAA college golfer taking into account all collegiate and amateur competitions during the past 12-month period. The Ben Hogan Award Selection Committee, which votes during each stage of the process, is comprised of leaders in professional, amateur and collegiate golf.

The Tech senior from Powder Springs, Ga., has enjoyed a fine senior campaign, winning the Carpet Capital Collegiate in the fall for his sixth career victory. He also has posted runner-up finishes at the Jerry Pate National Intercollegiate and the Warrior Princeville Makai Invitational, as well as a third-place finish, a sixth-place finish and a tie for 11^th in Tech’s other events.

A finalist for the Hogan Award in 2014, Schniederjans currently has a stroke average of 68.72, which would be a Tech season record if maintained, and a career mark of 70.77 which stands as the second-best in Tech history.

Schniederjans is joined on the list by Jimmy Beck (Kennesaw State), Brian Campbell (Illinois), Charlie Danielson (Illinois), Bryson Dechambeau (SMU), Thomas Detry (Illinois), Matt Gilchrest (Auburn), Gavin Green (New Mexico), Rico Hoey (Southern California), Beau Hossler (Texas), Kyle Jones (Baylor), Jack Maguire (Florida State), Denny McCarthy (Virginia), Lee McCoy (Georgia), Maverick McNealy (Stanford), Cheng-Tsung Pan (Washington), Jon Rahm (Arizona State), Max Rotluff (Arizona State), Xander Schauffele (San Diego State), Robby Shelton (Alabama), Clement Sordet (Texas Tech), Hunter Stewart (Vanderbilt), Scott Vincent (Virginia Tech) and Will Zalatoris (Wake Forest).

The list of 10 semifinalists, which could include individuals not on the current list, will be unveiled on Wednesday, April 15. On Wednesday, May 6, that group will be pared down to three finalists. The winner will be crowned at a black-tie banquet at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, on Monday, May 18, prior to the start of the PGA TOUR’s Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial.

Eight of the golfers – Dechambeau, Detry, Green, McCarthy, Pan, Schniederjans, Shelton and Vincent – appear on the watch list for the second straight season. Schniederjans ultimately was a finalist for the

2014 award, while Pan and Dechambeau reached the semifinalist round. Pan, a three-time semifinalist, is the first player ever named to the watch list four times.

The award, which was first issued in 1990 and also included academic achievement in its original list of standards, revised its criteria for the 2001-02 collegiate season to its current standard of honoring the outstanding amateur collegiate golfer.

Since that time, the winners have been: D.J. Trahan (Clemson, 2002), Ricky Barnes (Arizona, 2003), Hunter Mahan (Oklahoma State, 2003), Bill Haas (Wake Forest, 2004), Ryan Moore (UNLV, 2005), Matt Every (Florida, 2006), Chris Kirk (Georgia, 2007), Rickie Fowler (Oklahoma State, 2008), Kyle Stanley (Clemson, 2009), Nick Taylor (Washington, 2010), Peter Uihlein (Oklahoma State, 2011), Patrick Cantlay (UCLA, 2012), Chris Williams (Washington, 2013) and Patrick Rodgers (Stanford, 2014).