Owls have program-best five GCAA All-America Scholars

8/3/2026 2:47:00 PM

NORMAN, Okla. -- The list of 2025-26 Cobalt Golf All-America Scholars for NCAA Division III were announced today by the Golf Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA). Among the honorees were Kenyon College team members Rafael Frias IV, Connor Gray, Adrian Jordan, Jaiden Koonar, and Jonathan Oakes.

Kenyon was one of just 10 NCAA Division III institutions to have five players honored with the GCAA academic award.

To be eligible for Cobalt Golf GCAA All-America Scholar consideration, a student-athlete had to be a sophomore, junior, or senior both academically and athletically. The nominee had to participate in 50 percent of his team's competitive rounds, had to have a stroke average under 79.0, and had to maintain a minimum cumulative career grade point average of 3.20. Additionally, the GCAA stated that nominees had to be of high moral character and be in good standing at his college or university.
Frias, Koonar, and Oakes were all juniors on Kenyon's 2025-26 team. Gray and Jordan were sophomores. Oakes and Koonar are now two-time winners of the award, while the other three were first-time winners.

Oakes, a three-time all-conference and All-American player, led the Kenyon team with a scoring average of 73.41 strokes per rounds, just edging Gray, who posted a scoring average of 73.44. In the classroom, both Oakes and Gray are economics majors. Gray, who had a break-out campaign, gained his first all-conference and All-America honors.

Moving down the team leaderboard, Jordan and Koonar were next with respective season scoring averages of 73.91 and 74.00. Jordan, a political science major, gained his first career All-America award after posting an individual tie for third place at the NCAA Division III Championship. Koonar, who studies economics, is a three-time all-conference player and a 2024 All-Region honoree.

Rounding out the group, Frias is a two-time all-conference performer who registered a 75.50 scoring average this past season. In the classroom, Frias also majors in economics.

That group of five helped lead the Owls to a program-best tie for sixth place at the NCAA Division III Championship and a final national rank of No. 11 from Scoreboard. The total of five honorees marked Kenyon's best single-season count. The program previously had four honorees three different times.

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