July 11, 2008

PHILADELPHIA - Temple senior Paul Amess has been named a Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar, the Golf Coaches Association of America announced today. He is the first player in program history to receive the honor from the GCAA.

To be eligible for the award an individual must be a junior or senior academically and compete in at least two full years at the collegiate level, have a stroke average under 76.0 and maintain a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.2.

The award wraps up a successful off-season for Amess, who has received a number of honors since playing his last round for the Owls. He was named a Second Team Academic All-American by ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA, the Philadelphia Inquirer's Academic All-Area Golfer of the Year, Temple's Male Student-Athlete of the Year, and an Academic All-Atlantic 10 selection.

The Stevenage, England native led the Temple golf team with a 73.9 stroke average this season and was the Owls top finisher (14th) at the Atlantic 10 Championship (74-71-72=217, +1). A two-time A-10 Golfer of the Week, Amess was one stroke away from winning his first collegiate tournament at the Princeton Invitational earlier this year with a 71-73-68=212 (-1).

Amess shot the sixth-lowest individual score in program history with a 67 earlier at the SIUE Cougar Classic and also captured Bermuda Match Play and Hertfordshire County Championships. He owns a career average of 74.7 in 50 rounds at Temple.

In the classroom, the finance major carries a 3.90 grade point average. He graduated as a President Scholar with summa cum laude honors from the Fox School of Business during the University's commencement exercises in May.

Amess was one of 11 Atlantic 10 Student-Athletes and 96 players in Division I to earn Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar honors.