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2021-22: Appeared in 18 rounds at six tournaments ... Posted a 74.22 stroke average and three rounds at or under par ... Recorded his lowest round score, a 1-under-par 71, at the Craft Farms Intercollegiate ... Shot a season-low three-round score of 220 at the Steelwood Collegiate Invitational.

2020-21: Participated in 15 rounds at five tournaments ... Recorded a 74.07 stroke average, including a pair of rounds at or under par, and one top-20 finish ... Tied for 20th place in the individual standings with a season-low 54-hole total after firing a 3-under-par 69 — his best round of the year — to lead the Jaguars on the final day of play ... Posted a three-round score of 220 at the Mobile Bay Intercollegiate ... Shot an even-par 72 on the second of three days at the Craft Farms Intercollegiate in his final appearance of the year ... Closed with a 73 at both the Jim Rivers Intercollegiate and Little Rock Invitational in the fall as well.

2019-20: Played in six tournaments and 17 rounds, posting three top-20 results — the second-highest total on the squad — and a team-high-tying eight rounds at or below par ... Had a 74.06 scoring average ... Led the Jaguars with a career-low 210 54-hole total, including his best round at the collegiate level with a 4-under-par 68 on the last day, to tie for 11th place individually at the Mobile Sports Authority Intercollegiate ... Tied for fourth while competing as an individual with a 4-under-par 212 two-day score at the Steelwood Collegiate Invitational, shooting par or better in all three rounds ... Posted an even-par 72 to open the Prairie Club Invitational on the way to tying for 17th place in the individual standings ... Closed Auburn’s Tiger Invitational with an even-par 72 in his last round of the season.

2018-19: Saw action in four events his first year at the collegiate level, recording a 75.90 scoring average over 10 rounds ... Shot an even-par 72 on two occasions, first on the final day of the Lone Star Invitational at the first tournament of his Jaguar career and then over the opening 18 holes of Auburn’s Tiger Invitational ... Finished in a tie for 36th place at the Lone Star Invitational with a 151 36-hole total ... Posted a 225 three-round score at the Steelwood Collegiate Championship, highlighted by a 73 on the afternoon of the first day of the event ... A member of the Sun Belt Conference Academic Honor Roll.

Amateur Highlights: Ranked among the top 10 in the 2018 recruiting class in Alabama ... Ended up among the top 30 at the Alabama State Amateur Championship in ’18, posting a low 18-hole score of 1-under-par 71 on the opening day of play while also shooting even par in the third round ... During the summer of 2017 recorded top-25 results in three of the four tournaments he competed in while posting his low 18-hole score of the season at the other event ... Fired a 68 in the second of three rounds at the 68th annual Press Thornton Future Masters in June, ending up 35th in a field of 229 competitors ... Placed 12th and ninth at Southeastern Junior Golf Tour events in consecutive weeks the following month ... Came in 25th in a field of 145 competitors at the Alabama Boys State Junior Championship, opening with a 69 en route to a 213 54-hole total ... A four-year letterwinner at Hewitt-Trussville High ... Helped the Huskies to a first-place finish at the sectional tournament both his sophomore and senior seasons ... Was the medalist at the Calera Invitational in 2016 with a score of 69.

Personal: Full name is Dawson Bierley Atkinson ... Born Nov. 2, 1999, in Trussville, Ala. ... Son of Brandon and Noel Cain ... Is the oldest of three children ... Favorite movie is “Interstellar” ... Favorite book is “Ready Player One” ... Favorite sports team is the Atlanta Falcons ... Favorite athlete is Tiger Woods ... Favorite musical artist is Childish Gambino ... Favorite food is sushi ... Favorite subject is math ... Likes to play tennis in his free time ... Majoring in mechanical engineering.