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5/6/2008 - WOMEN'S GOLF
A-Sun Announces Women's Golf Postseason Awards
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Women's All-Conference Awards
Courtesy GoCamels.com
MACON, Ga. - Belmont junior Lorie Warren added to her impressive resume during her tenure in Nashville by becoming the first Bruin to win the Atlantic Sun Women's Player of the Year, the conference announced on Tuesday.
Warren won a pair of Golfer of the Month awards, September and February, captured the Medalist honor at the JU Spring Invitational and recorded seven top-five finishes between the fall and spring. She closed out the year with a tie for second at last month's A-Sun Championship and led the Bruins to a third-place showing, their best in their seven-year history in the Atlantic Sun. She also earned a unanimous selection to the First Team, her second straight year on the squad.
ETSU's Laura Jansone joined Warren as a unanimous First-Team selection and as a repeat First-Team performer. Jansone captured the Medalist honor at the Atlantic Sun Women's Golf Championship, highlighted by a tournament-record and school-record 67 in the first round. At the A-Sun Championship, ETSU placed all five of its golfers inside the top 10 and their balance showed itself again as three in addition to Jansone earned All-Conference honors and head coach Stefanie Shelton earned her first outright Coach of the Year award. Natalia Giraldo, Sinead O'Sullivan and Maria Ringdahl made up three-fifths of the A-Sun's Second Team. Giraldo tied for fifth at the A-Sun Championship, while Ringdahl and O'Sullivan shared seventh. O'Sullivan also won the South Alabama Lady Jaguar Invitational in March. Coach Shelton shared the Coach of the Year award with Campbell's John Crooks in 2007.
Jansone was one of three sophomores to make the First Team and all five of the 2007 All-Freshmen team made either the First or Second Team in 2008. Campbell’s Mary Mattson and Stetson's Danielle Jackson joined Jansone on the First Team Campbell's Belen Diaz Cisneros and O'Sullivan made the Second Team. Mattson opened her year by finishing third at the Ptarmigan Ram Fall Classic and closed it by placing 10th at the A-Sun Championship. Jackson won the Golfer of the Month award for October and won the University of Cincinnati Spring Invitational in March. Diaz Cisneros won the Fighting Camel Spring Classic and shared second with Warren at the A-Sun Championship.
Campbell's Maite Ortiz de Pinedo joined Jansone and Warren as women's golfers to earn consecutive First-Team selections. The highlight of her season came at the Fighting Camel Spring Classic where she shared Medalist honors. She finished her season with a fourth-place finish at the A-Sun Championship. Her teammate Sandra Angulo became the third Camel to win Freshman of the Year in the last five years (Alejandra Shaw, 2004 and Camila Lopez, 2005). Angulo turned in two top-five finishes with her best coming at the UNCG-Starmount Fall Classic where she tied for third.
Angulo was joined on the All-Freshman team by unanimous selection Lauren Spurlock from Belmont, Danielle Gibb from Jacksonville, Gardner-Webb's Courtney Meyer and Florida Gulf Coast's Kastania Toomalatai. Toomalatai's teammate, senior Heather Hagerman made the Second Team. Hagerman won the FGCU Invitational and tied for first at the NIU Springlake Invitational. She finished inside the top five five times.
The Atlantic Sun Conference is a 12-member league committed to Building Winners for Life, with a focus on academic and athletic integrity and a balance between the two for the student-athlete, and maintaining a high level of sportsmanship. Headquartered in Macon, Ga., the A-Sun encompasses six of the top eight media markets in the Southeast. The A-Sun consists of some of the most dynamic private and public institutions in the region: Belmont University, Campbell University, East Tennessee State University, Florida Gulf Coast University, Gardner-Webb University, Jacksonville University, Kennesaw State University, Lipscomb University, Mercer University, University of North Florida, University of South Carolina Upstate and Stetson University.
