NORMAN, Okla. - The Golf Coaches Association of America unveiled its complete list of NCAA Division III PING All-America teams Thursday, June 11. Weeks after releasing the first team honorees, which included Illinois Wesleyan University sophomore Pablo Castro (Palatine, Ill.-Palatine), senior Michael Spitzer (Hinsdale, Ill.-Hinsdale Central) was recognized with honorable mention status.
Castro along with Sebi Aliaga of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, Jack Burr of Huntingdon, Jackson Hiller of Oglethorpe, Samson Li of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, Jonathan McEwen of Washington and Lee, Kevin Mu of Emory, Haden Ruby of Methodist, and Joshua Wang of Carnegie Mellon were previously named to the First Team at the conclusion of the national championship last month.
Spitzer, one of 28 golfers to reel in Honorable Mention All-America from the organization, grabbed national honors for the third straight season. He was a second team pick a season ago and also hauled in honorable mention in 2022. The Hinsdale, Ill. native ended his career ranked third in program history with a 72.68 stroke average over 81 rounds. This season, he competed in 10 tournaments, compiling an average of 72.6 through 28 rounds. He placed 18th at the national championship, good for his third top-20 finish at the NCAA title event. He won the Cochran Collegiate and picked up First Team All-College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin honors with a third-place finish at the league championship. Spitzer was named CCIW Golfer of the Week April 22, and later tabbed PING All-Region for the third consecutive year.
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Illinois Wesleyan took runner-up at the NCAA Division III National Championship in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla. last month and secured the program a new banner inside the Shirk Center rafters. The Titans have hung four banners in the venue's rafters since their first national championship victory in 2019. The Green and White went back-to-back in 2019 and 2021 and then finished runner-up at the 2025 and 2026 national championships.
NCAA Division III PING All-Americans
First Team
Sebi Aliaga, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Jack Burr, Huntingdon
Pablo Castro, Illinois Wesleyan
Jackson Hiller, Oglethorpe
Samson Li, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Jonathan McEwen, Washington and Lee
Kevin Mu, Emory
Haden Ruby, Methodist
Joshua Wang, Carnegie Mellon
Second Team
Stephen Baker, Huntingdon
Beau Brewer, Methodist
Turner Chiles, Sewanee
Myles Cunningham, Huntingdon
Cole Humphrey, Huntingdon
Tim Kaufman, Washington and Lee
Cole MacMillan, Mary Hardin-Baylor
Collin McMahon-Shea, Dickinson
Third Team
Ryan Dannegger, Carnegie Mellon
Jackson Hulsey, Aurora
Elliot Parker, Drew
Alvin Su, Rochester
Nikko Taggart, Southern Virginia
Aidan Tudor, Sewanee
Alan Van Asch, Lynchburg
David Zhang, Carnegie Mellon
Honorable Mention
Jimmy Abdo, Gustavus Adolphus
Arjun Aujla, Rochester
Douglas Bailey, Linfield
Cade Barone, Mary Hardin-Baylor
Elias Becker, Sewanee
Daniel Casanta, Gettysburg
John Dobbe, Dubuque
Ryan Dunn, Oglethorpe
Colin Edwards, Sewanee
Connor Gray, Kenyon
Luke Harwick, Dubuque
Arnold He, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Derek Johnson, Western New England
Adrian Jordan, Kenyon
Lucas Latimer, Mary Hardin-Baylor
Pearse Lucas, Emory
Logan Mills, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Mattias Morris, Aurora
Todd Moyer, Methodist
Caleb Negley, Aurora
Jonathan Oakes, Kenyon
Colton O'Dell, Mary Hardin-Baylor
Anderson Palm, Rochester
Shane Quinn, Babson
Michael Spitzer, Illinois Wesleyan
Andy Steed, Transylvania
Aman Vantipalli, Babson
Jay Wing, Redlands
About PING All-Americans
The GCAA began naming NCAA Division III All-Americans in 1975, with PING sponsoring the award since at least 1991. For Division III, the First Team consists of eight golfers (nine if the individual national champion wasn't already named to the First Team), eight on the Second Team, eight on the Third Team, and at least 16 earn Honorable Mention All-America honors. Automatic additions from GCAA member schools to Honorable Mention if not previously named include top-15 finishers at the NCAA Division III Men's Golf Championship and the top three players in each All-Region ballot.
About PING
PING designs, manufactures and markets a complete line of golf equipment including metal woods, irons, wedges, putters and golf bags. The family-owned company was founded in 1959 in the garage of the late Karsten Solheim, a mechanical engineer with an extensive background in the aerospace and computer industries. His frustration with his putting inspired him to design his own putter, which created a "pinging" sound when striking a golf ball. This sound was the source of the name now synonymous with innovation, quality and service throughout the world of golf. Solheim and his company are credited with numerous innovations that became industry standards, including perimeter weighting, custom fitting and the use of investment casting in the manufacturing of golf clubs. His insistence on adhering to strict engineering principles and tight manufacturing tolerances raised the level of product performance and quality throughout the golf industry. Solheim is the only person to be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame as a golf club manufacturer. Today, the Phoenix-based company is under the direction of Solheim's grandson, John K. Solheim, who leads a team of more than 800 dedicated employees committed to helping improve the games of golfers around the world.
