Anderson College's Chandler Hash, a Greer native, is the South Atlantic Conference male basketball player of the year.
The award recognizes excellence in athletics, academics, service and leadership.
Has a 3.52 GPA studying education and on several academic organizations, active as a volunteer on campus and Anderson community.
Hash is the son of Greg and Merri Hash.
“We are very proud of Chandler,” said Anderson head coach Jason Taylor in the league’s announcement. This is a great accomplishment and the honor is very well deserved. Chandler embodies everything you want a student-athlete to be. He is a very good basketball player, an excellent student and is selfless with his time to serve others.”
Hash, a guard on Anderson’s 18-8 team, finished the regular season as the SAC’s fifth-leading scorer at 17.9 points per game, led the conference in free-throw shooting (90 percent) and was second in three-point field goal percentage (48.6-percent).
He had three 30-point games and an additional six more over 20 points.
“We’re very fortunate to have student-athletes the caliber of Chandler and Danielle (Bongiorno, female Scholar-Athlete) in our conference,” said SAC commissioner Patrick Britz. “They’ve both achieved success on the basketball court throughout their careers, but more importantly, have been role models in academics and leadership on campus.”
The SAC Scholar-Athlete of the Year awards are presented to one male and one female student-athlete in each of the conference’s 14 championship sports. The awards are voted on by the league’s Faculty Athletic Representatives Committee.
SAC TOURNAMENT: Anderson, the No. 2 seed in the SAC basketball tournament, will play Wingate Saturday at 8 p.m. at Timmons Arena on the Furman campus. The championship game is Sunday at 4:30 p.m.
Anderson beat 7th seed Catawba, 80-72, Wednesday in a first round game.