Brendon Rickheim received the Most Valuable Athlete award for the Stillwater boys golf team.<\/p>\n
The senior was one of four All-Suburban East Conference players for the Ponies and he went on to place fifth in Section 4AAA and 27th in the Class AAA state tournament.<\/p>\n
Senior Ryan Stanek, junior Grant Cotton and freshman Gideon Roberts joined Rickheim in earning all-conference honors while junior Oliver Ligday received honorable mention all-conference recognition.<\/p>\n
Stillwater placed second in the SEC Tournament and totaled 52 points to finish second behind Cretin-Derham Hall (62) in the final conference standings. Mounds View (44) and White Bear Lake (41) placed third and fourth in the SEC standings.<\/p>\n
The Ponies (293-312\u2014605) also placed second behind Cretin-Derham Hall (281-286\u2014567) in Section 4AAA while White Bear Lake (297-311\u2014608) and Mahtomedi (299-312\u2014611) followed in third and fourth.<\/p>\n
Sophomore Kincaid Mowdy was presented the team\u2019s Academic Award and the Ponies were also the Academic Team Champion in Section 4AAA.<\/p>\n
Cotton took home the Most Improved Award for the Ponies while Stanek, who competed at state as a junior, garnered the Toughest Golfer Award.<\/p>\n
Sophomore Drew Merthan and junior Brady Vindal were co-recipients of the Best Newcomer Award.<\/p>\n
Junior Owen Myers and Cotton will serve as captains for next year\u2019s squad.<\/p>\n
Boys golf<\/p>\n
All-Conference: Brendon Rickheim, Ryan Stanek, Grant Cotton and Gideon Roberts; All-Conference Honorable Mention: Oliver Ligday; Individual State qualifier: Brendon Rickheim; Academic Award: Kincaid Mowdy; Most Improved Award: Grant Cotton; Toughest Golfer Award: Ryan Stanek; Best Newcomer Award: Drew Merthan and Braden Vindal; Most Valuable Athlete: Brendon Rickheim; Captains elect: Owen Myers and Grant Cotton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brendon Rickheim received the Most Valuable Athlete award for the Stillwater boys golf team. The senior was one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2585,44,56],"class_list":["post-28310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-free","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}