Simms Named E8 Men’s Golf Coach of the Year
ROCHESTER, NY – St. John Fisher College head coach
Bob Simms has been voted the Empire 8 Men's Golf Coach of the Year by the coaches in the league.
A ten-time Coach of the Year recipient in the Empire 8, Simms guided Fisher to its eighth-straight conference crown. Fisher won the Conference Championship with a team score of 1,221, to finish 71 strokes ahead of the runner-up.
Under Simms’ tutelage, the Cardinals placed second at the Mason-Dixon Collegiate Invite, took third in the Fisher Collegiate Invite and finished seventh at the Williams College Fall Invite. Fisher also earned the automatic bid to the NCAA Championship field and finished 18th overall.
Simms oversaw the development of four all-conference players, including Nicholas Calabrese who was named the E8 Player of the Year and a Srixon/Cleveland Scholar All-American and Colin McGaugh who was named to the Ping All-Region team.
In addition to Simms' honor, one member of each team was named that institution's representative on the 2017-18 Men's Golf Sportsman of the Year Team. Empire 8 emphasizes that "Competing with Honor and Integrity" is an essential component of a student athlete's experience in conjunction with an institution's educational mission. These honorees have distinguished themselves and consistently exhibit the critical traits as outstanding sportsmen.
All-Sportsman Team
Canton - Matthew Russell
Elmira: Charl Pretorius
Nazareth: Daniel Jacob
Oswego: Sean Paul Owen
Sage: Ryan Guyton
SJFC: Chris Carter Fritch
Stevens: Jack Doherty
Potsdam: Dylan Murphy
Utica: Christopher Netto