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Peter Fountain Named 1st Team All-America

The Golf Coaches Association of America has named University of North Carolina freshman Peter Fountain a PING first-team All-America.

The Raleigh native is UNC's first men's golfer to earn first-team All-America honors since Kevin O'Connell in 2008. Fountain, O'Connell and Davis Love III (1983) are the only Tar Heel freshmen golfers to earn first-team All-America honors.

Fountain is one of 12 players named to the coaches' All-America team, joining Ludvig Åberg, Texas Tech; Sam Bennett, Texas A&M; Eugenio Chacarra, Oklahoma State; Pierceson Coody, Texas; Alex Fitzpatrick, Wake Forest; Nick Gabrelcik, North Florida; Noah Goodwin, SMU; Ryan Hall, South Carolina; John Pak, Florida State; Turk Pettit, Clemson; and Davis Thompson, Georgia.