Women's Golf Places Four on All-SEC Team
5/2/2011 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
May 2, 2011
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Alabama's third-ranked women's golf team was well-represented on the Southeastern Conference's annual women's golf awards that were recently announced.
Crimson Tide head coach Mic Potter was named the league's Coach of the Year while Stephanie Meadow was selected as the Co-SEC Freshman of the Year. Junior Brooke Pancake was tabbed as the conference's Scholar-Athlete of the Year for the second straight season. The Tide also had four All-SEC selections with Pancake, Meadow and senior Camilla Lennarth on the first team while Jennifer Kirby was named to the second team.
For Potter it was his second consecutive - and third overall - SEC Coach of the Year honor after sharing the award in 2007. Potter has now captured 11 coach of the year accolades after winning eight times in the Southern Conference at Furman. He has led his teams at Alabama and Furman to 20 NCAA Championship berths and seven top-10 national finishes.
Pancake, a native of Chattanooga, Tenn., leads the Crimson Tide in scoring average at 72.11 strokes per round and ranks sixth in the latest Golfweek/Sagarin Performance Index. She captured medalist honors at the Tar Heel Invitational and has six top-10 finishes this season. She is a three-time All-SEC selection, who has been named the women's golf SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year in consecutive seasons while maintaining a 4.0 grade point average.
Meadow, a true freshman from Jordanstown, Northern Ireland, is the second straight UA freshman to capture SEC Freshman of the Year honors, sharing it with Arkansas' Emily Tubert. Meadow is just the second Alabama golfer to garner first-team All-SEC accolades in her freshman year at the Captsone. She is second on the team with a 72.15 scoring average with wins at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic and the Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate. Meadow has not finished outside of the top four in five events this spring.
Lennarth boasts a 73.26 stroke average to rank third on the team, and along with Pancake, becomes one of two UA players to be named a three-time All-SEC selection. The native of Stockholm, Sweden, is a two-time All-American and has 17-career top-10 finishes.
Kirby, who hails from Paris, Ontario, Canada, has a 73.93 scoring average this season to garner second-team accolades. She has three top-10 showings in 2010-11 with her top finish a tie for sixth at the Tar Heel Invitational.
Alabama is the No. 1 seed at the NCAA East Regional that gets underway on May 5-7 at the LPGA International Golf Course in Daytona Beach, Fla. The top eight teams at the NCAA East Regional will qualify for the NCAA Championships on May 18-21 at the Traditions Golf Club in Bryan, Texas.
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