GCAA/PING TAPS 3 NATIONAL CHAMPION DRAGONS AS ALL-AMERICANS
Hutchinson CC Sports Information
Awards for the 2021 NJCAA National Champion Hutchinson Community College men's golf team continue to roll in as three members of the championship were recognized this week as the Golf Coaches' Association of America PING All-Americans.
Blue Dragon freshmen Ben Partridge and Harry Crockett – the 2021 NJCAA individual national champion and national runner-up, respectively – were named PING first-team All-Americans. Third-year sophomore Charlie Crockett will go down as a three-time PING junior college All-American with his inclusion on the 2021 PING second team.
Those three players, along with Cameron Rios-Ceballos and Trey McCrae, won Hutchinson's first men's golf team national title in program history on May 13 in Lubbock, Texas.
The trio of Blue Dragons became the 9th, 10th and 11th PING All-Americans in program history – Grady Pauls (2007), Nicky Maddison (2009), Dale Middleton (2010), Mike Mueller (2012), Lewis Schenk (2015), Charlie Crockett (2019, 2020) and Nathan McCollough (2020).
Partridge and both Crockets were also named NJCAA District III first-team All-District for this season.
BEN PARTRIDGE
The freshman from London has already been named an NJCAA first-team All-American and the Jack Nicklaus NJCAA Division I Player of the Year for his extraordinary season.
Partridge had a season stroke average of 71.2 over 29 rounds played over the combined fall and spring seasons. Over the final three tournaments in 2021 – the KJCCC Championship, District III/Region VI and the NJCAA Championship – Partridge averaged 70.8 strokes per round with 7 of 10 rounds shot under par.
In addition to winning the NJCAA Individual title, Partridge won the NJCAA National Preview, also at The Rawls Course in Lubbock – site of the 2021 national championships. He was Jayhawk Conference regular-season co-champion with teammate Charlie Crockett.
Partridge had two tournament titles, six Top-3 finishes and placed in the Top 10 in 9 of 10 total tournaments this season.
To win the NJCAA individual crown, Partridge shot a 1-under 71 in the final round to force a tie with Harry Crockett. Partridge then won a four-hole playoff to earn the individual title.
HARRY CROCKETT
Harry Crockett, a freshman from Oxted, England, earned two individual tournament championships this season – the District III/Region VI crown and at Jayhawk Conference No. 2. Crockett also had five Top-3 performances and eight Top-10 finishes in 2020-21.
Crockett had a season-stroke average of 71.6 for the season with 17 rounds under par. Over the final three tournaments of 2021, Crockett shot an average of 70.1.
Crockett placed third in the 2021 Jayhawk Conference regular-season standings.
Crockett was first-team All-KJCCC, All-Region VI and a first-team All-American. He was also a finalist for the Jack Nicklaus Player of the Year award.
CHARLIE CROCKETT
Charlie Crockett earned first-team PING All-America honors in both 2019 and 2020. The 2020 spring season was wiped out because of the Coronavirus pandemic, but the GCAA still made their annual awards based on the 2019 fall season, just Crockett is a three-time All-American.
This past season, Charlie Crockett won two tournaments – Jayhawk No. 2 and the KJCCC Championship – to repeat his 2019 league individual title. He finished 10th in the District III Championship and tied for 20th at the NJCAA Championships.
The University of Missouri signee averaged 72.3 strokes per round this past season with 12 rounds under par, including a 64 shot at the Rawls Course in Lubbock in the NJCAA Preview last October.
Charlie Crockett won nine individual tournament titles in his Blue Dragon career.
NJCAA Division I PING All-America Teams
First Team
Hayden Carner, Central Alabama
Harry Crockett, Hutchinson
Matt Gauntlet, Eastern Florida
Sam McKenzie, Midland
Ben Partridge, Hutchinson
Brendan Thomas, Eastern Wyoming
Antoine Sale, Indian Hills
Second Team
Will Adams, Odessa
Charlie Crockett, Hutchinson
Russell Dettmering, Western Texas
Jakob Falk Schollert, Iowa Western
Tomas Kubata, Eastern Wyoming
Dillon West, Jefferson State
Honorable Mention
Aston Castillo, Midland
Harry Fearn, Indian Hills
Carter Goodwin, Wallace State
Sangha Park, Odessa
JT Pittman, Midland
NJCAA Division I All-District III Team
Thomas Burou, Indian Hills
Charlie Crockett, Hutchinson
Harry Crockett, Hutchinson
Daniel Gutgesell, Iowa Western
Max Hartmann, Indian Hills
Jakob Falk Schollert, Iowa Western
Harry Fearn, Indian Hills
Ben Partridge, Hutchinson
Antoine Sale, Indian Hills
Adam Samnegard, Garden City