LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) - For the second straight year and 13th time in program history, a UNLV men's golfer has been named the Conference Player of the Year.

Rebel senior Shintaro Ban is this year's winner and the fifth in UNLV men's golf history to earn the Mountain West honor.

The league announced its 2017-18 season awards and all-conference team on Friday and UNLV has a league-high four student-athletes on the list.

UNLV's Jack Trent earned the league's Freshman of the Year award, becoming the second Rebel to do so in the last three years and the third in four seasons, while Ban, Trent, junior Harry Hall and freshman Garrick Higgo were all named All-Mountain West. This year marks the third straight that both Ban and Hall have earned all-conference honors.

The No. 20 Rebels are coming off a third straight Mountain West Conference Championship and are waiting to find out their seed and site for the NCAA Regional, which starts Monday, May 14. The selections will be announced on Wednesday, May 2. It will mark UNLV's NCAA-record 30th straight appearance in the postseason.

The back-to-back-to-back conference titles are the first for UNLV since it won three straight in the Big West from 1992-94. In 12 total tournaments this season, the Rebels have recorded nine top-five finishes, including three team titles and two runner-up performances.

Ban, from San Jose, California, will compete in this year's Arnold Palmer Cup for the United States side. The MW's individual champion set three records at the conference championship on Sunday: total score (200), score relative to par (16-under) and margin of victory (nine). It was his fourth individual title of the season, which ranks tied for first in program history with 1991 NCAA Champion Warren Schutte. Ban leads the team and conference in scoring average with 69.33 per round and in 12 tournaments has recorded 11 top-20 finishes, eight top-10s and six top-fives. Out of 36 total rounds, he has shot 20 in the 60s and 29 at par or better.

Hall, from Hayle, England, will also compete in this year's Arnold Palmer Cup, but for the international squad. He is second on the Rebel team in scoring average with 71.22 and in 12 tournaments has recorded eight top-20 finishes, three top-10s and a top-five (second place at the Southern Highlands Collegiate in Las Vegas). Out of 36 rounds, he has shot 11 in the 60s and 22 at par or better.

Trent, from Las Vegas, is third on the team in scoring average with 71.42. In 12 tournaments, he has placed in the top 20 six times, in the top 10 five times and in the top five twice. His best finish of the season was a third-place performance at the Jackrabbit Invitational. Out of 36 rounds, he has shot 11 in the 60s and 18 at par or better.

Higgo, from South Africa, has only been with the Rebels since this semester began. In seven tournaments, he has recorded a scoring average of 72.00 with three top-20 finishes, including a fifth-place showing at the National Invitational Tournament. Out of 21 rounds, he has shot five in the 60s and 10 at par or better.

MW Golfer of the Year
Shintaro Ban, Sr., UNLV

MW Freshman of the Year
Jack Trent, UNLV

MW Coach of the Year
Christian Newton, Colorado State

All-Conference Team
Max Oelfke, Colorado State
AJ Ott, Colorado State
Alex Lee, Fresno State
Grant Booth, Nevada
Blake Abercrombie, San Diego State
PJ Samiere, San Diego State
Shintaro Ban, UNLV
Harry Hall, UNLV
Garrick Higgo, UNLV
Jack Trent, UNLV