DALLAS - Middle Tennessee's Michael Barnard has been named the Blenders Eyewear Conference USA Player of the Week, as announced by the conference office today. This is Barnard's first C-USA weekly award this season and the second of his career. He joins Owen Stamper (three times) and Markus Varjun (twice) as Blue Raiders to earn the award this season.
Barnard tied for third at Georgia Southern's Schenkel Invitational with a score of 210 (-6). He carded rounds of 69-70-71, finishing two strokes off the lead. The Hendersonville, Tenn., native finished above five top-100 players in the Golfstat rankings, leading MTSU to a third-place finish behind No.