Men's Golf | 4/28/2022 4:25:00 PM

MELBOURNE, Fla. - The Barry Buccaneers dominated the 2022 All-Sunshine State Conference men's golf awards with AJ Ewart being named Golfer of the Year and Jimmy Stobs being honored as Coach of the Year. Felipe Alvarez joins Ewart on the All-SSC First Team while Nicolas Quintero was named to the second team. Voting for the All-SSC men's golf awards was conducted among the league's men's golf coaches.
 
SSC Men's Golf All-Conference History: All-SSC Teams | Golfers & Coaches of the Year
 
Ewart, a junior from Coquitlam, British Columbia, is awarded conference Golfer of the Year following six first-place finishes and nine Top-5 finishes in 2021-22. Through 10 tournaments and thirty rounds this year, Ewart has recorded a scoring average of 69.40, which is best in the SSC by over two strokes. He is the fourth Barry athlete to win SSC Men's Golfer of the Year and the first since 2019¹. Currently, he is ranked 170th in the World Amateur Golf Ranking.
 
Stobs is awarded SSC Coach of the Year for the third time in his career³.  Under his leadership, the 2021-22 Buccaneers won eight tournaments, including the program's fifth conference championship⁴. Additionally, his squad holds the top position in the Golf Coaches Association of America and GolfStat rankings. Stobs remains the only Barry skipper to earn Coach of the Year honors in men's golf.
 
Ewart highlights the repeat All-SSC honorees with back-to-back First Team All-SSC honors. Javier Calles of Nova Southeastern finds the First Team after winning Second Team and Freshman of the Year accolades in 2021. Alberto Castagnara of Saint Leo University records his third All-SSC honor, this year jumping to the First Team after Second Team laurels in 2018 and 2019. Castagnara was also Freshman of the Year in 2018.
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Golfer of the Year: AJ Ewart, Barry
Freshman of the Year: Josep Serra, Nova Southeastern
Coach of the Year: Jimmy Stobs, Barry
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2022 All-SSC First Team	School	Year	Hometown
Felipe Alvarez	Barry	Sr.	Bogota, Columbia
Javier Calles^‡	Nova Southeastern	So.	Madrid, Spain
AJ Ewart*	Barry	Jr.	Coquitlam, British Columbia
Mike Hay	Nova Southeastern	Jr.	Saltburn, England
Alejandro Madariaga	Lynn	Jr.	Puebla, Mexico
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2022 All-SSC Second Team	School	Year	Hometown
Alberto Castagnara†Δ~	Saint Leo	Sr.	Pordenone, Italy
Emanuel Olofsson	Nova Southeastern	Jr.	Svangsta, Sweden
Nicolas Quintero	Barry	Jr.	Cali, Colombia
Andrew Reilly	Palm Beach Atlantic	Fr.	St. John's, Florida
Josep Serra	Nova Southeastern	Fr.	Terrassa, Spain