INDIANAPOLIS --- Tusculum College golfers Chris Wynne and Chase Carroll have been selected to compete as individual competitors at the 2008 NCAA Division II Southeast/Atlantic Super Regional, May 5-7.

The three-day, 54-hole Super Regional will be held at The Point Lake Golf Club in Belmont, N.C. The tournament is being hosted by Belmont Abbey College.

Eighty teams and 50 individuals have been selected to participate in the 2008 NCAA II Men's Golf Championship. The five super regional tournaments encompass the current 10 regions of the NCAA. The top team from each region with the super regional and the top individual not with a team advancing from each super regional (regardless of region) will go to the national championship, May 14-17 at the Division II Spring National Championships Festival in Houston, Texas. The finals will be hosted by Rice University and the Harris County-Houston Sports Authority.

Ten additional teams will earn berths to the finals. These teams will be determined based on the previous three-year average of top-10 finishes of a super regional at the finals.

Wynne, a senior from Johnson City, Tenn., is making his third straight appearance at the NCAA Super Regional. The Science Hill High School graduate was named the 2008 South Atlantic Conference Player of the Year and enters postseason play with a 72.68 scoring average, which is currently the lowest in school history. The two-time All-Conference selection has posted five top 10 finishes, including medalist honors at the Tusculum Invitational last month. Wynne also finished runner-up at the Tusculum Fall Classic and the Anderson Invitational.

In 2008, Wynne has accounted for five sup-par rounds, including a career-best 66 in the opening round of the TC Fall Classic, matching the 66 he posted at the 2006 Tusculum Invitational.

Carroll, a junior from Knoxville, Tenn., will be making his second straight NCAA postseason appearance. The Bearden High School graduate was second on the team with his 73.06 stroke average, which is on pace to be the second lowest ever by a Pioneer. Carroll, a two-time All-SAC selection, won the Tusculum Fall Classic for a second straight year and finished second at the Anderson Invitational. In all, Carroll recorded five top-10 performances, including a fifth-place showing at the Outback Intercollegiate this past February. He has recorded four sup-par rounds, including a season-best 67 in the final round of the Tusculum Fall Classic.

Off the links, Carroll has also shined, being named the South Atlantic Conference Scholar Athlete for Men's Golf the last two seasons.

In his previous two NCAA Regional appearances, Wynne has finished 31st in 2006 and 39th in 2007. Carroll recorded a 34th-place finish at last year's event.

This marks the fifth time in the last six years that a Tusculum men's golfer has advanced to the Super Regional. Brent Dyson advanced to the NCAA postseason in 2003 and again in 2004. Sasha Catron also advanced to the Super Regional in 2004. In 2006, Nick Kinzer and Wynne made a regional appearance.

Tusculum College, located in Greeneville, Tenn., is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church, USA and is a NCAA Division II member of the South Atlantic Conference which is comprised of nine colleges and universities in Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.

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