Youngstown State senior men's golfer Ryan Sam was named Second-Team All-Horizon League when the conference office announced its postseason awards on Thursday.
Sam, YSU's lone senior and team captain in 2025-26, collects all-league honors for the first time in his accomplished four-year career. The Penguins have now had at least one player garner all-league recognition six times in the last seven seasons that postseason league awards have been handed out.
Sam, a native of Canfield, Ohio, participated in all 12 tournaments and 36 rounds as a senior in 2025-26. He averaged a team and career best 73.2 strokes per round with a low round of 67 while earning two top 10 finishes and seven top 25 performances this past season. Sam was one of three Penguins to set a new single-season school record with 36 rounds played in 2025-26. The senior's 73.2 strokes per round average ranks as the sixth-lowest single-season mark in program history.
Sam was named the Under Armour Horizon League Men's Golfer of the Week on March 12 after leading the Penguins to a runner-up team finish at the two-day Jackrabbit Invitational hosted by South Dakota State, which concluded on March 10 in Boulder City, Nev. The senior finished tied for second on the individual leaderboard with a career-best, six-under-par three-round score of 210 (70-67-73) to earn the best individual finish of his career. Sam fired a career-low, five-under-par round of 67 in the second round of the Jackrabbit Invitational on March 9.
Sam finished fifth at the Bucknell Invitational at three over par with a three-round total of 213 (74-69-70), and he finished tied for 11th at the Don Benbow Butler Spring Invitational with a three-round 210 (71-68-71). He finished tied for 13th at the Xavier Invitational with a three-round score of 220 (75-71-74), and he concluded his collegiate career by finishing tied for 14th at the 2026 Horizon League Men's Golf Championship. Sam finished his YSU career having played in a total of 43 tournaments and ranking fifth in program history with 122 career rounds played.
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