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BLACKSBURG, Va. -- The Virginia Tech men’s golf program has announced that Tom Crow and Tanner Owens, both top-ranked juniors in their respective states, and international standout Sarit Suwannarut have signed national letters of intent to attend Virginia Tech and play golf for the Hokies in Fall 2016.

Crow, from Virginia Beach, Virginia, is a member of the National Honor Society at Cape Henry Collegiate School and was captain of his high school team the past two seasons. The 2014 Virginia State Junior Champion, he was also the medalist in the 2014 Virginia State Junior Match Play Championship and a finalist in that same event this past summer. He finished third in the 2015 Sea Pines Junior Heritage and was a member of the Virginia team at both the Virginias/Carolinas Junior Team Matches and the Mid-Atlantic Junior Invitational in 2014 and 2015.

“Tom is not only a fine player, but is extremely well-liked by the other junior players in the state,” said Virginia Tech head coach Jay Hardwick. “He has a very outgoing personality that will be a real plus for team chemistry when he joins our program,

Owens, from Milton, Tennessee, is also a two-year captain of his team. He is the first player in Blackman High School history to advance to the state finals four times and finished in the Top 10 three straight years. He owns the school’s top two scoring marks, with rounds of 64 and 65, and has been the team MVP all four years. In 2014 he won the prestigious Future Masters in Dothan, Ala., with scores of 66-69-69. He qualified for and advanced to match play at the U.S. Junior Amateur, where he defeated the No. 1 ranked junior in the world in the first round. He was medalist at the 2014 Tennessee PGA Junior qualifier (68-67) and advanced to the National PGA Junior. He finished second in the Tennessee Junior State Amateur and fifth in the Tennessee State Amateur, as well as posting several Top 10 finishes in other national events. Following the summer of 2014 he was ranked the #1 player in the 2016 Class for Tennessee and fourth overall in the state.

“Tanner has achieved success at every level and winning is nothing new to him,” Hardwick said. “He is very consistent, has a tour-quality short game, and should have a tremendous career at Virginia Tech.”

Suwannarut, from Bangkok, is a member of the Thailand National Team and was the No.1 ranked amateur in Thailand and Southeast Asia at the end of the 2014 season. In the past two years, he has won 13 times and had eight runner-up finishes. He won the Thailand Amateur Open with scores of 69-66-69-72. This past summer, he traveled to the United States in an attempt to qualify for the U.S. Junior Amateur. He not only made it through the sectional qualifier, but shot 3-under par in the stroke play portion of the championship to advance to match play.

“Sarit is one of the most talented players I have ever seen at this young age,” Hardwick said. “He has good size, is very athletic, and has prodigious length, all of which bode well for his future as a top collegiate player.”

"Each of these young men should have a major impact on our team’s success in the years to come,” Hardwick concluded. “In addition, Tanner and Tom are both second-generation Hokies, so they are already familiar with the special culture we have here and the responsibility that goes along with being a student-athlete. Sarit brings a wealth of international experience, which should make his transition to college life in the US much easier. All three are terrific young men who will fit in well with the Virginia Tech community.”

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