Past Pac-12 Scholar-Athletes of the Year | Pac-12 Men's Golf Championships

STANFORD, Calif. - ARIZONA STATE's Ryggs Johnston was named the 2022-23 Pac-12 Men's Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year, the Conference office announced ahead of Friday's first round of the Pac-12 Championships. The award, which is presented in each of the 24 sports the Pac-12 sponsors, was established to honor collegiate student-athletes that are standouts both academically and in their sports discipline.

The senior from Libby, Mont., carries a 4.00 grade-point average in business management, and will graduate with his management degree as well as a certificate in sports business in May. 

Johnston owns a 71.4 scoring average with five top-20 finishes including a pair of top 5s through 10 events so far this season. For his career, he holds a 71.5 scoring average with 19 top 20s and 10 top 10s highlighted by a pair of top 5s at the 2021 Pac-12 (T-4th) and NCAA (3rd) Championships en route to GCAA Third Team All-America honors.

Off the course, Johnston is a two-time GCAA All-America Scholar (2021-22) and twice been a member of the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll (2021, 2022).

He is the second recipient of the honor from the Sun Devil men's golf program, the first since Knut Borsheim in 2009-10.

In order to be eligible for the Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year award, student-athletes must be a senior (in athletics eligibility) on track to receive a degree, have a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher, participate in at least 50 percent of the scheduled contests in the sport and have a minimum one year in residence at the institution. Each Pac-12 institution may nominate one individual per sport, and the winners are selected by a committee of Pac-12 staff members at the conclusion of each sport’s regular season. The athletics accomplishments of the nominees are a consideration in voting for the award.

A Scholar-Athlete of the Year will be named in each of the Pac-12’s 24 sponsored sports: baseball, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, beach volleyball, men’s cross country, women’s cross country, football, men’s golf, women’s golf, women’s gymnastics, women’s lacrosse, men’s rowing, women’s rowing, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, softball, men’s swimming & diving, women’s swimming & diving, men’s tennis, women’s tennis, men’s track & field, women’s track & field, women’s volleyball, and wrestling. The award was first established during the 2007-08 academic year.

ALSO NOMINATED: Chase Sienkiewicz, Arizona; Carson Barry, Oregon State; Ethan Ng, Stanford; Jack Boulger, USC.

Pac-12 Men’s Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year
2022-23 - Ryggs Johnston, Arizona State
2021-22 - Henry Shimp, Stanford
2020-21 - David Laskin, Arizona
2019-20 - No award
2018-19 - Justin Suh, USC
2017-18 - John Souza, Colorado
2016-17 - Maverick McNealy, Stanford
2015-16 - Jonathan Sanders, Washington
2014-15 - Alex McMahon, Arizona
2013-14 - Brandon Hagy, California
2012-13 - Andrew Yun, Stanford
2011-12 - Jonnie Motomochi, Oregon State
2010-11 - Jack Dukeminier, Oregon
2009-10 - Knut Borsheim, Arizona State
2008-09 - Alex Williams, Oregon State
2007-08 - Rob Grube, Stanford