PROVO, Utah — Freshman golfer Kihei Akina was selected to Golfweek’s 2026 Men’s College Golf All-America First Team, the publication announced on Wednesday.
Since 1999, Golfweek has been awarding All-Americans in addition to Players and Coaches of the Year in men’s and women’s golf.
Akina can add this on top of his accolade-filled freshman season. The No. 7 golfer and top-ranked freshman in the NCAA received First Team All-American honors from the GCAA last week. Akina also garnered the Phil Mickelson Outstanding Freshman Award, a Haskins Award finalist recognition and conference honors that include Big 12 Freshman of the Year and a spot on the All-Big 12 First Team.
After accumulating two individual wins and two runner-up finishes this season, Akina ended his rookie campaign with an eighth-place finish in the NCAA Championship.
Golfweek’s All-America teams consist of 10 players on the first, second and third teams each and 20 honorable mentions.
First team
- Kihei Akina, BYU
- Mahanth Chirravuri, Pepperdine
- Filip Jakubcik, Arizona
- Ben James, Virginia
- William Jennings, Alabama
- Jackson Koivun, Auburn
- Christiaan Maas, Texas
- Preston Stout, Oklahoma State
- Harry Takis, San Diego State
- Tyler Weaver, Florida State
Second team
- Paul Chang, Virginia
- Ryder Cowan, Oklahoma
- Tom Fischer, Ole Miss
- Josiah Gilbert, Auburn
- Frankie Harris, South Carolina
- Luke Potter, Texas
- Niall Sheils Donegan, North Carolina
- William Sides, SMU
- Jack Turner, Florida
- Wells Williams, Vanderbilt
Third team
- Carson Bertagnole, North Carolina
- Adam Bresnu, Texas Tech
- Bryan Kim, Duke
- Tommy Morrison, Texas
- Malan Potgieter, Louisiana
- Luke Poulter, Florida
- Lance Simpson, Tennessee
- Jase Summy, Oklahoma
- Cameron Tankersley, Ole Miss
- Tim Wiedemeyer, Texas Tech
Honorable mention
- Jake Albert, Auburn
- Nguyen Anh Minh, Oregon State
- Daniel Bennett, Texas
- Alejandro De Castro, Long Beach State
- Garrett Endicott, Mississippi State
- Wheaton Ennis, Texas A&M
- Mesa Falleur, New Mexico
- Ethan Fang, Oklahoma State
- Erich Fortlage, Arkansas
- Gerardo Gomez, Arkansas
- Connor Graham, Texas Tech
- Dean Greyserman, Stanford
- Matthew Kress, Florida
- Bryan Lee, Virginia
- Jay Mendell, LSU
- Michael Mjaaseth, Arizona State
- Thomas Schmidt, Arkansas State
- Willy Walsh, Pepperdine
- Connor Williams, Arizona State
- Ziqin Zhou, California