NEW YORK – Marquette freshman Hunter Eichhorn has been named BIG EAST Player of the Year and BIG EAST Freshman in men’s golf by a vote of the conference’s head coaches. Marquette also won BIG EAST Coaching Staff of the Year honors. In the balloting, the coaches were not permitted to vote for their own players.
Eichhorn, a native of Carney, Mich., won the BIG EAST Championship with a two-under-par 214 at Callawassie Island, S.C. The top-seeded player going into the Championship with a 71.81 stroke average, Eichhorn shot a 69 in the first round and never trailed.