CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. – As announced by the Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA), four Sun Devils received All-American Scholar accolades.
Madison Kerley, Olivia Mehaffey, Sophia Zeeb, and Roberta Liti earned spots on the prestigious list. Each of the four have earned the honor every year possible as Zeeb and Liti leave ASU as four-time honorees, Kerley now a three-time honoree going into her senior year and Mehaffey a two-time honoree after finishing up her sophomore campaign.
Among other Pac-12 schools, ASU is tied with Oregon for most student-athletes named this year (4) followed by Stanford and Washington State (3), and Oregon State, Arizona, and USC (1).
Selection criteria for the WGCA's All-American Scholar Team is some of the toughest in all of college athletics, with the minimum cumulative GPA a 3.50 for those who have played 50 percent or more of the team's contests.
All four were also named Pac-12 All-Academic while Liti earned Pac-12 Women's Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year, NCAA Women's Golf Elite 90, and Google Cloud CoSIDA Second Team Academic All-American honors.
The WGCA, founded in 1983, is a non-profit organization representing women's collegiate golf coaches. Today the organization represents over 600 coaches throughout the United States and works to educate, promote, and recognize its members and the student-athletes they represent.
Madison Kerley, Olivia Mehaffey, Sophia Zeeb, and Roberta Liti earned spots on the prestigious list. Each of the four have earned the honor every year possible as Zeeb and Liti leave ASU as four-time honorees, Kerley now a three-time honoree going into her senior year and Mehaffey a two-time honoree after finishing up her sophomore campaign.
Among other Pac-12 schools, ASU is tied with Oregon for most student-athletes named this year (4) followed by Stanford and Washington State (3), and Oregon State, Arizona, and USC (1).
Selection criteria for the WGCA's All-American Scholar Team is some of the toughest in all of college athletics, with the minimum cumulative GPA a 3.50 for those who have played 50 percent or more of the team's contests.
All four were also named Pac-12 All-Academic while Liti earned Pac-12 Women's Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year, NCAA Women's Golf Elite 90, and Google Cloud CoSIDA Second Team Academic All-American honors.
The WGCA, founded in 1983, is a non-profit organization representing women's collegiate golf coaches. Today the organization represents over 600 coaches throughout the United States and works to educate, promote, and recognize its members and the student-athletes they represent.