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

Sampair will graduate from Forest Lake Area Senior High School in Forest Lake, Minn., later this spring. He placed eighth individually at the 2009 Minnesota state championships, garnering all-state accolades in the process. He was also a two-time all-conference performer for the Rangers in 2009 and 2010, averaging 74 strokes per 18 holes.

Sampair also competed in alpine skiing for the Rangers, finishing sixth overall and earning all-state honors in 2011. He qualified for state three times during his skiing career, was named his team's Most Valuable Player four times and won five all-conference awards. During one winter, he also competed in diving, earning medals at the state sectional meet.

The son of Stephen Sampair of Spring Hill, Tenn., and Laura Sampair of Forest Lake, Sampair plans to study Business Administration and Exercise Science at Fort Lewis.

Sampair 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 John Thomson (Heritage Academy, Cresco, Iowa).

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.