2019-20 Men's Golf Roster
Akers, Chris
Chris Akers
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 160
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Asheville, N.C.
- High School:
- Christ School
- Major:
- Finance
Bio
AS A SENIOR (2019-20)
Individual Tournament Results
- Carded a 3-over 219 in his lone events of the season at the Bash at the Beach
- fired a 2-under 70 in the second round of the tournament
AS A JUNIOR (2018-19)
Individual Tournament Results
American Athletic Conference All-Academic Team
- Competed in four events, including three during the spring semester
- Compiled a scoring average of 5-over-par 76.50
- Low round of the year was 71 at the Gradnover Collegiate, where he posted his lone Top-30 finish of the season (29th)
AS A SOPHOMORE (2017-18)
Individual Tournament Results
American Athletic Conference All-Academic Team
- Participated in four events, three during the fall and one in the spring
- Finished the year with a 76.92 strokes per round average
- Posted two rounds of par or better with a season-low round of 71 during round two of the Wolfpack Intercollegiate
- Recorded his best 54-hole score of the year with a 7-over 223 at the Wolfpack Intercollegiate.
AS A FRESHMAN (2016-17)
Individual Tournament Results
- Competed in two events during the season, both during the spring semester
- Played six rounds and compiled a scoring average of 78.3
- Lowest round of the year was 4-over-par 74 during the third round of the Cleveland Golf Palmetto Intercollegiate.
HIGH SCHOOL
- Attended Christ School in Arden, N.C.
- Five-year member of the boy's golf team as he made the squad as an eighth grader
- Four-time Carolina Athletic Association (CAA) all-conference selection
- Named All-Western North Carolina three times by the Asheville Citizen-Times
- Earned medalist honors as a sophomore at the CAA Boy's Golf Championship and named 2014 CAA Player-of-the-Year
- Finished as the individual runner-up at the 2015 and '16 conference championships
- Helped Christ School win a pair of NCISAA 3A Boy's Golf titles (2012, 2014) and three runner-up finishes (2013, '15, '16)
- Served as team captain
- Coached by Eric Thorp
- Named to the 2013 Buncombe County Champion
- Finished his career third in the state for the class of 2016 via Junior Golf Scoreboard and 63rd nationally
PERSONAL
- Full name is Christopher Samuel Akers
- Born in Winston-Salem, N.C.
- Son of Dan, who played intercollegiate baseball at Virginia, and Jennifer Akers, who was a member of the club tennis team at Wake Forest
- Has two brothers, Travis, who was a three-sport athlete at Carolina Day School, and Cameron, who is currently on the golf team at Christ School
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