DURANGO, Colo. — John Thomson has signed a National Letter of Intent to play at Fort Lewis College, Skyhawk golf coach Bud Andersen announced recently.

Thomson will graduate from the Heritage Academy in Cresco, Iowa, later this spring. He was a National Honor Society student in high school.

The son of Scott and Stephanie Thomson of Cresco, Thomson plans to study Business Administration-Management at Fort Lewis.

Thomson is one of six high school golfers to sign with the Skyhawks this spring, joining Zach Bryant (Morgan County High School, Buckhead, Ga.), Cody Civiletto (Durango High School), Tyler Kolb (Rock Bridge Senior High School, Columbia, Mo.), Lucas Laudick (La Cueva High School, Albuquerque, N.M.) and Shane Sampair (Forest Lake Area Senior High School, Forest Lake, Minn.).

Fort Lewis' newest golfers join a program that has won seven conference championships, including the 2010-11 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference regular season title earlier this month. The Skyhawks are seeded second in the NCAA Division II Central/West SuperRegional, to be held on May 1-4 at the University of New Mexico Championship Golf Course in Albuquerque.

The top five teams and the top two student-athletes not with a team from each regional (regardless of region) will advance to the NCAA Division II National Championships, held May 16-20 at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at The Shoals in Florence, Ala. The finals will be hosted by the University of North Alabama.

The 2011 recruiting class is an important one for Andersen, as his Skyhawks will lose five seniors — Keenan Holt, Gavin Lyons, Devin Schreiner, David Schroeder and Justin Spray — at the completion of this spring's season.