Kibbee and Weirth are Chosen for Academic All-District Men's At-Large Team

Kibbee and Weirth are Chosen for Academic All-District Men's At-Large Team
June 2, 2023

By Robert McKinney, Assistant Athletics Director, Communications

SALEM, Ore. -- Andrew Kibbee (Grad., Kenmore, WA/Bothell HS) and Alex Weirth (Sr., Port Orchard, WA/Crosspoint Academy), men's golfers at Willamette University, have been selected to the 2022-23 NCAA Division III Academic All-District Men's At-Large Team, as voted by the College Sports Communicators (CSC, formerly CoSIDA). Players nominated for the CSC Academic All-District Men's At-Large Team were starters or key reserves with cumulative grade point averages of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale. Each student-athlete was at their current college or university for at least one academic year.

All of the nominees participated in an NCAA sport without its own CSC Academic All-District Team. Each player named Academic All-District is eligible for the College Sports Communicators NCAA Division III Academic All-America Men's At-Large Team, which will be announced on June 21.

In 2022-23, the Willamette men's golf team won the Northwest Conference Championship, received the NWC's automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Championship, and placed 18th at the 72-hole national tournament in Nicholasville, Ky. During the season, the Bearcats took first place at four tournaments.

NCAA Division III Academic All-District

Headshot of Andrew Kibbee Andrew Kibbee (Grad.) helped Willamette win four NWC team titles and four trips to the NCAA Division III Men's Golf Championship (2009, 2021, 2022, 2023, no championship in 2020), while earning a career scoring average of 1-over par 73. He tied for 28th place at the 2023 NCAA Championship, tied for 15th in 2020-21, and as 88th in 2018-19.

Kibbee recorded three career individual wins. He was chosen All-West Region by the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) each of the last three years. He was named First Team All-NWC three times (2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23) and was chosen Second Team All-NWC in 2018-19. This year, Kibbee finished in the top five at four tournaments and was in the top 15 a total of seven times.

At Willamette, he served as a Co-President of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) for two terms and was a co-founder of SECURE, which supports student-athlete mental health. Kibbee received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Willamette in 2022 with a major in Economics and a minor in Sociology. He graduated this spring with an MBA degree from the Atkinson Graduate School of Management in WU's 3+2 BA/MBA program. He was credited with a 3.51 undergraduate GPA and a 3.65 graduate GPA.

Headshot of Alex Weirth Alex Weirth (Sr.) received All-West Region honors in 2019-20, 2020-21, and 2021-22. He achieved Academic All-District recognition for the third time after also being selected in 2020-21 and 2021-22. He contributed to Willamette winning the NWC Championship in each of the past three seasons and he competed at three straight NCAA Championship tournaments, including this spring. In 2022-23, he provided the Bearcats with a scoring average of 1-over par 73.

Weirth was named First Team All-NWC in 2020-21 and 2021-22, and was chosen Second Team All-NWC in 2022-23. He earned four career individual wins for the Bearcats, including first place at the Linfield Wildcat Invitational in the fall of 2022. He has been a leader in the local chapter of Sigma Chi, where he served as vice president. Weirth graduated this spring with a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science and a Bachelor of Science degree in Data Science. He achieved a 3.95 cumulative GPA.