The Women’s Golf Coaches Association has announced the 2021-22 student-athlete and coaches awards for NAIA Women’s Collegiate Golf. The awards are selected by a prestigious collection of women’s collegiate golf coaches.
Dalton State landed two players on the WGCA All-American teams in Sydney Hermann and Mailey Buzzell. Herman was selected to the 1st team with Buzzell coming in on the 2nd team. Hermann won SSAC Player of they Year after finish in the top-10 in the country individually with only 1 finish outside the top 10 and a scoring average of 74.80. Buzzell was right behind Hermann finishing just outside the top-10 individually with two victories and a scoring average of 75.72.
NAIA PING WGCA Player of the Year
MinJi Kang, Truett McConnell University
NAIA WGCA Freshman of the Year Presented by StrackaLine
MinJi Kang, Truett McConnell University
NAIA Jackie Steinmann WGCA National Coach of the Year Presented by Golf Pride
Chris MacDonald, University of British Columbia
NAIA Kim Moore Spirit Award
Debbie Blount, Reinhardt University
WGCA NAIA All-American Teams- First Team
Madison Bates, Loyola University New Orleans
Grace Bell, University of British Columbia
Ariana Castro, SCAD Savannah
Reagan Chaney, Oklahoma City University
Sydney Hermann, Dalton State College
Maddi Kamas, Oklahoma City University
MinJi Kang, Truett McConnell University
WGCA NAIA All-American Teams- Second Team
Carolin Alblas, Keiser University
Mailey Buzzell, Dalton State College
Malisone Chanthapanya, Texas Wesleyan University
Nicole Jung, Taylor University
Elizabeth Labbe, University of British Columbia
Michela Tjan, Keiser University
Dasa Urbankova, Menlo College
WGCA NAIA All-American Teams- Honorable Mention Team
Alessia Cristina Avanzo, SCAD Savannah
Serra Evrengil, Keiser University
Natalie Gough, Oklahoma City University
Emily Li, University of British Columbia
Ashleigh Mead, University of South Carolina Beaufort
Nichakorn Prapsripoom, William Carey University
Sonja Tang, University of British Columbia
The Women’s Golf Coaches Association, founded in 1983, is a non-profit organization representing women’s collegiate golf coaches. The WGCA was formed to encourage the playing of college golf for women in correlation with a general objective of education and in accordance with the highest tradition of intercollegiate competition. Today, the WGCA represents over 650 coaches throughout the U.S. and is dedicated to educating, promoting and recognizing both its members and the student-athletes they represent.
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