Thomson Earns Second Straight All-Big Ten First Team Accolade
5/1/2025 2:00:00 PM | Men's Golf
ROSEMONT, Ill. -- University of Michigan men's golf senior Hunter Thomson was named a unanimous selection to the All-Big Ten first team, while fifth-year senior Ben Hoagland garnered Big Ten Sportsmanship honors for U-M the conference announced Thursday (May 1).
Thomson becomes the fifth Wolverine to earn first-team conference honors more than once, joining U-M greats Dan Roberts (1983, '85), Kyle Dobbs (1995, '97), Michael Harris (1998, '99, 2000) and Kyle Mueller (2016, '17, '18). Thomson is the 22nd Wolverine to garner All-Big Ten honors and helped the U-M program earn its 25th first-team citation.
In his final season in Ann Arbor, Thomson led the Wolverines in 11 of 12 events, including the final seven tournaments. Winning the Canadian Collegiate Invitational (202, -14) and the Boilermaker Invitational (203, -10), he recorded nine top-10 finishes, with six in the top five. Averaging 210.36 per 54-hole event, he produced seven sub-par tallies, including all five spring events.
With a career-low 70.09 scoring average, Thomson is on pace to break his U-M single-season record (70.56 in 2023-24). He earned 20 sub-par rounds and shot a season-low 66 three times -- in the first and second rounds of the Canadian Collegiate and the second round of the Boilermaker. Overall, he posted 13 sub-70 rounds.
A four-time Big Ten Golfer of the Week selection, Thomson on Wednesday (April 30) earned a second straight invitation to an NCAA regional as he heads to the Atkins Golf Club in Urbana, Ill.
In last year's regional, Thomson posted a 218 (+2) total and tied for 27th at the NCAA West Lafayette Regional at Purdue's Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex, Kampen Course. The trip was his first NCAA postseason event, and he was the first Wolverine in six years to earn an invitation to an NCAA regional.
2025 Big Ten Honorees
Unanimous selections in ALL CAPS
Big Ten Golfer of the Year: PABLO EREÑO (UCLA)
Big Ten Freshman of the Year: Baylor Larrabee (UCLA)
Big Ten Coach of the Year: Armen Kirakossian (UCLA)
All-Big Ten First Team
JACKSON BUCHANAN (Illinois)
MAX HERENDEEN (Illinois)
Ryan Voois (Illinois)
HUNTER THOMSON (Michigan)
Cameron Adam (Northwestern)
DANIEL SVÄRD (Northwestern)
GREYSON LEACH (Oregon)
SAM EASTERBROOK (Purdue)
PABLO EREÑO (UCLA)
OMAR MORALES (UCLA)
All-Big Ten Second Team
Clay Merchant (Indiana)
Emil Riegger (Maryland)
Caleb Bond (Michigan State)
Niall Shiels-Donegan (Northwestern)
Eric Doyle (Oregon)
Aiden Krafft (Oregon)
Kent Hsiao (Purdue)
Kyle An (UCLA)
Baylor Larrabee (UCLA)
Gavin Aurilia (USC)
All-Freshman Team
Jake Birdwell (Illinois)
Trey Marrion (Illinois)
Ramil Saelim (Oregon)
Baylor Larrabee (UCLA)
Jack Buchanan (USC)
Sportsmanship Award Honorees: Ethan Wilson (Illinois), Nick Piesen (Indiana), Chance Rinkol (Iowa), Florian Huerlimann (Maryland), Ben Hoagland (Michigan), Lorenzo Pinili (Michigan State), Jack Wetzel (Minnesota), James Ackerman (Nebraska), Jeremy Chen (Northwestern), Joe Wilson IV (Ohio State), Ramil Saelim (Oregon), Andres Barraza (Penn State), Nels Surtani (Purdue), Weston Jones (Rutgers), Pablo Ereño (UCLA), Jaden Dumdumaya (USC), Drew Warford (Washington) and Spencer Turtz (Wisconsin)
Players Mentioned
