Alabama’s Lauren Stephenson a Honda Award Finalist
5/29/2018 2:20:00 PM | Women's Golf
Junior one of four nominees for top women’s collegiate golfer honor
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Alabama's Lauren Stephenson is one of four nominees for the 2018 Honda Sport Award for Golf, the Collegiate Women's Sports Awards (CWSA) announced Tuesday.
Stephenson is joined as a finalist by Wake Forest's Jennifer Kupcho, Stanford's Andrea Lee and UCLA's Lilia Vu.
The Honda Sport Award has been presented annually by the CWSA for the past 42 years to the top female athletes in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports. The winners of each of the sport awards become finalists for the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and the 2018 Honda Cup, which will be presented on June 25 in Los Angeles.
Stephenson has already been named the 2018 Golfstat Cup winner for the best scoring average on the season (69.76). The Lexington, S.C., native posted the lowest scoring average in the history of the Golfstat Cup this season and finished tied for seventh at the NCAA Championships. A first-team WGCA All-American, she led Alabama to an NCAA Championships runner-up finish and set a single-season school record in scoring average.
Stephenson earned individual medalist honors at the Mason Rudolph Championship and the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic this season and posted eight top-three finishes and 11 top-10 finishes in 11 tournaments this year to lead the Tide in both categories.
This summer, Stephenson will compete for the United States in both the Palmer Cup and Curtis Cup as well as participate in the 2018 U.S. Women's Amateur.
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