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BLACKSBURG, Va. -- The Virginia Tech men’s golf program has announced that Will Duma, Blake Fiest and Logan Yates, all captains of their respective high school teams, have signed National Letters of Intent to attend Virginia Tech and play golf for the Hokies in Fall 2015.

Duma, from Atlanta, Georgia, is a dean’s list student at Marist High School, which has won the past three Georgia 4A State Championships. He won the 2013 Dogwood Junior Invitational and posted top ten finishes in the Press Thorton Future Masters, the Georgia State Junior Championship and the AJGA E-Z-GO Vaughn Taylor Championship.

“Will is a very consistent player who has succeeded on the junior and amateur levels and continues to work hard to improve,” Virginia Tech head coach Jay Hardwick said. “An excellent student, Will should have an outstanding career at Virginia Tech on the course, as well as in the classroom.”

Fiest, from Huntersville, North Carolina, attends William A. Hough High School. A MECKA 4A All-Conference selection this past season, he was the Southern Piedmont Conference Player of the Year in 2012 while attending Lake Norman Charter High School. He competed in the 2013 USGA Junior Amateur in Lake Tahoe, California, and was named to the 2013 North Carolina All-State Golf Team by the Carolinas Golf Association. Earlier this summer he finished sixth at the AJGA Izod Championship, which included a tournament-low 64 in the final round, and fifth at the Hudson Junior Invitational. He represented North and South Carolina in the Carolinas/Georgia Invitational in 2013 and 2014.

“Blake really came into his own later in the summer when he shot 64 in the AJGA IZOD Championship’” Hardwick added. “His play became much more consistent and he put himself in a position to contend in almost every event.

Yates, from Ruckersville, Virginia attends William Monroe High School. The 2013 Virginia State Junior champion, he finished runner-up in the 2014 Virginia Junior Match Play Championship and the 2014 Cannon Cup. Yates is very familiar with team competition, having represented Virginia the past two years in the Mid-Atlantic Junior Invitational and the Virginia/Carolinas junior team matches, as well as the 2014 Men’s Virginia/Carolinas team matches.

“Already a proven winner at the junior level, Logan has played some of his best golf in top amateur tournaments, as evidenced by his Top 20 finish in the Virginia State Open and first-place tie in the recent Canon Cup. Given this level of experience, we expect him to contend for a starting spot and contribute immediately,” Hardwick said.

"Blake, Logan, and Will should each have a major impact on our team’s success in the years to come,” Hardwick concluded. “All three are currently captain of their high school team, a testament to the respect and confidence their teammates have in them. More importantly, they are all fine young men who will be outstanding additions to the Virginia Tech community.”

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