PEORIA, Ill. -- Senior men's golfer Bobby Jacobs (Valparaiso, Ind./Valparaiso) has become the second player in Bradley Men's Golf history to earn Academic All-America honors from the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), according to a release of the 2017 Academic All-America® Division I Men's and Women's At-Large Teams Thursday.
 
Jacobs was a Third-Team Academic All-America selection and the only male student-athlete from the Missouri Valley Conference represented on the Division I Men's At-Large Team.  A two-time CoSIDA Academic All-District V selection, Jacobs joins Coby Thompson (2010-11) as the only Bradley Men's Golf student-athletes to be named Academic All-Americans.  In fact, Jacobs is just the fourth men's golfer in MVC history to earn the award with Todd Obergoenner of Southern Illinois in 2008 and Evansville's Brent Miller in 1996 joining the Bradley duo among the league honorees. 
 
Jacobs earned Academic All-District honors for the second consecutive year and is the first two-time All-District selection for the Bradley Men's Golf program since Thompson earned the distinction in 2009-10 and again as a senior 2010-11.  In fact, Jacobs joins Thompson and Zach Wanken (2008-09 and 2009-10) as the only two-time Academic All-District honorees in program history.  
 
A two-time First-Team MVC Scholar-Athlete, Jacobs received the State Farm MVC Good Neighbor Award last spring.  This season he was selected as the Bradley and MVC Scholar-Athletes of the Week after he tied for second at the season-opening Crusader Collegiate, where he helped the Braves to the team title. 
 
A civil engineering major with a perfect 4.00 cumulative grade point average, Jacobs posted a 77.15 stroke average in his final season, carding 16 of his 20 rounds in the 70's or better.  He fired a career-best 69 to wrap up the Crusader Collegiate and earned his other top-10 finish of the year at the Bradley Spring Break Invitational, tying for ninth.  Jacobs finished his career with a 78.91 stroke average and his 57 career sub-80 rounds ranks 25th all-time on The Hilltop.
 
To be eligible for Academic All-America® consideration, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 on a scale of 4.0, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at his institution and be nominated by his sports information director.