UF Junior Tyler Brown Named To SEC Men's Golf Community Service Team
Monday, April 28, 2008 | Men's Golf
University of Florida senior Tyler Brown (Jacksonville , Fla.) has been named to the fourth annual Southeastern Conference Men's Golf Community Service Team, the league office announced.
Brown is one of 10 student-athletes across the league who have been named to the squad. The SEC sponsors Community Service Teams for all 20 league sponsored sports. The Community Service Team looks to highlight an athlete from each school who gives back to their community in superior service efforts.
Brown has been a part of the Goodwill Gators program at Florida. The senior has served as a leader and inspiration to a group of middle school students at local churches in his hometown of Jacksonville, Fla.
He has also visited and provided support to the Shands Children's Hospital Intensive Care Unit in Gainesville. Brown was an active participant with the Ronald McDonald House during Christmas that helped raise money for needy and ill children, and he has been a volunteer and mentor at a camp retreat for his local church. Brown has participated in clinics that teach kids the values and lessons of golf.
Brown owns two top-10 finishes this season and has been a valuable part of Florida's lineup this spring. The senior ranks fifth in the SEC in stroke average at 71.80, while also recording 12 rounds at or under par this season. Brown's best finish this season was seventh at the John Hayt Invitational on Feb. 19. He recently tied for 12th at the SEC Championship on April 20.
Brown and the Gators await an NCAA Regional bid to one of three host sites, May 15-17. The NCAA Championships take place May 28-31 at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex in West Lafayette, Ind.
2008 SEC Men's Golf Community Service Team
Stewart Whitt, Alabama
Jay Moseley, Auburn
Tyler Brown, Florida
Adam Mitchell, Georgia
Garrett Runion, LSU
Hugh Muse, Ole Miss
Jake Lambert, Mississippi State
Warren Thomas, South Carolina
James Brannen, Tennessee
Chris Rockwell, Vanderbilt
