June 2, 2015

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LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) - UNLV men's golf senior Kurt Kitayama and freshman John Oda have both been named to the PING All-West Region Team as the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) handed out its annual awards this past weekend.

Both players were also honored as members of the All-Mountain West Team last month, while Oda was named the league's Freshman of the Year. This all-region honor marks the second of Kitayama's career as he also was named to the West's squad last year.

Oda, from Honolulu, Hawaii, led UNLV in scoring average this season (entering the NCAA Championship), recording 70.48 strokes per round, while Kitayama, from Chico, Calif., was second on the team at 71.64.

A total of 155 players were named all-region across six regions: Northeast, East, Southeast, Midwest, Central and West. The full GCAA release may be found here.

2015 PING All-West Region Team

Viraat Badhwar, Stanford

Shotaro Ban, California

Cody Blick, San Jose State

David Boote, Stanford

Sean Crocker, Southern California

George Cunningham, Arizona

Jonathan De Los Reyes, St. Mary's (Calif.)

Jared du Toit, Idaho

Grant Forrest, San Diego

Jonathan Garrick, UCLA

Gavin Green, New Mexico

Rico Hoey, Southern California

Kurt Kitayama, UNLV

KK Limbhasut, California

Brandon McIver, Oregon

Maverick McNealy, Stanford

Byron Meth, Pacific

Petter Mikalsen, Denver

John Oda, UNLV

Cheng-Tsung Pan, Washington

Corey Pereira, Washington

Jon Rahm, Arizona State

Max Rottluff, Arizona State

Jonathan Sanders, Washington

Xander Schauffele, San Diego State

Aaron Wise, Oregon