TEMPE – Ryggs Johnston (men's golf) and Ashley Menne (women's golf) are the 2023-24 Pac-12 Tom Hansen Medal award winners for Arizona State, the conference announced Monday.
The honor is given annually to an outstanding senior male and female student-athlete from each of the conference's 12 institutions based on the exhibition of the greatest combination of performance and achievement in scholarship, athletics and leadership.
Conference medal winners have been named every year since the 1960-61 academic year. In 2009, the Pac-12 renamed the award the Tom Hansen Conference Medal in honor of Hansen, who retired at the end of June 2009 after serving for 26 years as Commissioner of the Pac-10. This is the first time since 2017 and only the second time ever that the Sun Devil Golf programs have received both medals of honor.
Ryggs Johnston becomes the seventh medal winner from Sun Devil Men's Golf, the first since Jared du Toit received the honor in 2017. He joins program greats Niklas Lemke, Alejandro Canizares, Chris Hanell, Todd Dempsey, and Jim Carter in earning this distinction.
Ashley Menne is the fourth medal winner from the Sun Devil Women's Golf program, the first since Olivia Mehaffey won in 2021. Other ASU women's golfers to win the award include 2017 NCAA Champion Monica Vaughn (2017) and All-American Tracy Cone (1994).
MORE ABOUT RYGGS JOHNSTON...
Ryggs Johnston – who closed his career with four straight top-10 finishes -- finished his five years as a Sun Devil with third-team All-America honors in 2024, as he helped lead the Sun Devils to the 2024 Pac-12 title. Johnston also earned third-team honors in 2021, highlighted by his third-place finish at the NCAA Championships. The Montana native had 14 career top-10 finishes and earned first-team All-Pac-12 honors twice (2024 and 2021) and second-team honors in 2022. He became the second Sun Devil men's golfer to earn the Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2022-23 as he graduated in May of 2023 with his management degree and a certificate in sports business and then earned ASU's Bill Kajikawa Award in 2023-24, given to a senior student-athlete based on academic excellence, athletic accomplishment, leadership and service in the community.
RYGGS JOHNSTON FINAL CAREER STATS
52 TOURNAMENTS
157 ROUNDS
71.42 STROKE AVERAGE
11,337 STROKES
44 ROUNDS IN 60S
MORE ABOUT ASHLEY MENNE...
2024 SEASON
The Surprise, Arizona native continued her steady development since arriving at ASU, as she becomes one of the most decorated golfers at the collegiate level. Menne earned WGCA and Golfweek Honorable Mention All-American honors thanks to an outstanding senior season in which she competed against and beat some of the top golfers in the nation. In leading Arizona State to a NCAA Championship appearance and a final ranking of No. 15 nationally, Menne was extremely consistent throughout the campaign. She shot 21 rounds of par or better, including eight rounds in the 60s. This resulted in five Top-10 and seven Top-20 finishes.
Arizona State (-42/822) won the Dr. Donnis Thompson Invitational team championship while Ashley Menne claimed the individual title, both in record-breaking fashion. Menne now has the best 54-hole score vs. par in the history of Sun Devil Women's Golf, breaking Brandie Burton's 35-year-old record. Menne is one of only 60 golfers in NCAA history to finish a 54-hole tournament at 14-under or better. It was the second-best score posted by a Pac-12 golfer this season. For her efforts, she was awarded Pac-12 Golfer of the Week for the second time in her career. She capped a decorated career with a 18th place finish at the NCAA Championship. Thanks to her outstanding play, she earned a spot on two All-American teams and the Pac-12 All-Conference First Team.
GOLFWEEK HONORABLE MENTION ALL-AMERICAN
Menne was one of only 20 female collegiate golfers at the Division I level to earn this prestigious honor. This is her second time earning Honorable Mention recognition, previously being awarded a spot on the team following the 2022 season. In 2023, she landed on the Third Team.
WGCA ALL-AMERICAN
Golfweek is the second publication to give Ashley Menne All-American distinction. Earlier in the offseason, the WGCA (Women's Golf Coaches Association) tabbed Menne as an All-American for the fourth time in her career, as she received a spot on the Honorable Mention team. The team is voted on by coaches from around the country, an indication of the respect the rest of the women's college golf world has for Menne's accomplishments.
FOUR-TIME ALL-AMERICAN
By virtue of her selection to the WGCA All-American Honorable Mention Team earlier in the offseason, Ashley Menne has now been named an All-American in each of her four seasons in Tempe. She becomes the first Sun Devil since Olivia Mehaffey (2017-21) to earn All-American honors in all four years. Menne joins some exclusive company by earning a fourth All-American distinction. She is only the fourth four-time All-American in program history. Only legendary figures Olivia Mehaffey, Azahara Munoz (2006-09) and Kellee Booth (1995-98) have accomplished this impressive feat.
PAC-12 ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM
Arizona State landed a pair of individuals on the Pac-12 All-Conference teams, the fourth consecutive year that two Sun Devils have received All-Conference distinction. The respect for the Maroon & Gold is clear, as this distinction is voted on by the other coaches in the league. Ashley Menne was one of only 12 golfers named to the First Team in arguably the deepest conference in the country. The program has now had at least one representative on the Fiirst Team every year since 2005. This is the second consecutive year that Menne landed on the First Team.
Menne has been an All-Conference honoree each of her four seasons in Tempe (2x Honorable Mention; 2x First Team). She becomes the first four-time All-Conference member since Olivia Mehaffey (2017-21) and only the eighth in program history to accomplish the feat. Head Coach Missy Farr-Kaye has coached four of the eight (Monica Vaughn, Jennifer Osborn).
AUGUSTA NATIONAL WOMEN'S AMATEUR
Menne accepted an invitation to return to the Augusta National Women's Amateur. The 2023 edition once again gave female amateur golfers the opportunity to play the iconic Augusta National Golf Course. This was the second consecutive year Menne had qualified for this prestigious event, doing so based on her standing in the United States amateur rankings. It was her third overall appearance at the ANWA, as she continues to emerge as one of the top female amateurs in the World.
FINAL RANKINGS
Clipp'd released their final rankings of the 2023-24 collegiate women's golf season. Ashley Menne is the highest ranked Sun Devil, finishing at No. 35 in the latest poll. She moved up five spots thanks to her performance at the NCAA Championship. This is the third-straight year Menne has finished in the Top-40 of the national rankings.
OFF THE COURSE
2023: Turner Washington, Track & Field and Audrey Ernst, Triathlon (release)
2022: Anthony Valencia, Wrestling and Emma Nordin, Swimming and Diving (release)
2021: Nathan Ponwith, Men's Tennis and Olivia Mehaffey, Golf (release)
2020: Tanner Hall, Wrestling and Robbi Ryan, Basketball (release)
2019: David Hoffer, Diving and Kianna Ibis, Basketball (release)
2018: Kodi Justice, Basketball and Maggie Ewen, Track and Field (release)
2017: Jared du Toit, Golf and Monica Vaughn, Golf (release)
2016: Mike Bercovici, Football and Elisha Davis, Basketball
2015: Taylor Kelly, Football and Shelby Houlihan, Track & Field and Cross Country
2014: Cory Hahn, Baseball and Stephanie Preach, Volleyball
2013: Carrick Felix, Basketball and Constance Ezugha, Track and Field
2012: Aaron Pflugrad, Football and Kaitlyn Boyd, Softball
2011: Anthony Robles, Wrestling, and Kelcy McKenna, Tennis
The honor is given annually to an outstanding senior male and female student-athlete from each of the conference's 12 institutions based on the exhibition of the greatest combination of performance and achievement in scholarship, athletics and leadership.
Conference medal winners have been named every year since the 1960-61 academic year. In 2009, the Pac-12 renamed the award the Tom Hansen Conference Medal in honor of Hansen, who retired at the end of June 2009 after serving for 26 years as Commissioner of the Pac-10. This is the first time since 2017 and only the second time ever that the Sun Devil Golf programs have received both medals of honor.
Ryggs Johnston becomes the seventh medal winner from Sun Devil Men's Golf, the first since Jared du Toit received the honor in 2017. He joins program greats Niklas Lemke, Alejandro Canizares, Chris Hanell, Todd Dempsey, and Jim Carter in earning this distinction.
Ashley Menne is the fourth medal winner from the Sun Devil Women's Golf program, the first since Olivia Mehaffey won in 2021. Other ASU women's golfers to win the award include 2017 NCAA Champion Monica Vaughn (2017) and All-American Tracy Cone (1994).
MORE ABOUT RYGGS JOHNSTON...
Ryggs Johnston – who closed his career with four straight top-10 finishes -- finished his five years as a Sun Devil with third-team All-America honors in 2024, as he helped lead the Sun Devils to the 2024 Pac-12 title. Johnston also earned third-team honors in 2021, highlighted by his third-place finish at the NCAA Championships. The Montana native had 14 career top-10 finishes and earned first-team All-Pac-12 honors twice (2024 and 2021) and second-team honors in 2022. He became the second Sun Devil men's golfer to earn the Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2022-23 as he graduated in May of 2023 with his management degree and a certificate in sports business and then earned ASU's Bill Kajikawa Award in 2023-24, given to a senior student-athlete based on academic excellence, athletic accomplishment, leadership and service in the community.
RYGGS JOHNSTON FINAL CAREER STATS
52 TOURNAMENTS
157 ROUNDS
71.42 STROKE AVERAGE
11,337 STROKES
44 ROUNDS IN 60S
MORE ABOUT ASHLEY MENNE...
2024 SEASON
The Surprise, Arizona native continued her steady development since arriving at ASU, as she becomes one of the most decorated golfers at the collegiate level. Menne earned WGCA and Golfweek Honorable Mention All-American honors thanks to an outstanding senior season in which she competed against and beat some of the top golfers in the nation. In leading Arizona State to a NCAA Championship appearance and a final ranking of No. 15 nationally, Menne was extremely consistent throughout the campaign. She shot 21 rounds of par or better, including eight rounds in the 60s. This resulted in five Top-10 and seven Top-20 finishes.
Arizona State (-42/822) won the Dr. Donnis Thompson Invitational team championship while Ashley Menne claimed the individual title, both in record-breaking fashion. Menne now has the best 54-hole score vs. par in the history of Sun Devil Women's Golf, breaking Brandie Burton's 35-year-old record. Menne is one of only 60 golfers in NCAA history to finish a 54-hole tournament at 14-under or better. It was the second-best score posted by a Pac-12 golfer this season. For her efforts, she was awarded Pac-12 Golfer of the Week for the second time in her career. She capped a decorated career with a 18th place finish at the NCAA Championship. Thanks to her outstanding play, she earned a spot on two All-American teams and the Pac-12 All-Conference First Team.
GOLFWEEK HONORABLE MENTION ALL-AMERICAN
Menne was one of only 20 female collegiate golfers at the Division I level to earn this prestigious honor. This is her second time earning Honorable Mention recognition, previously being awarded a spot on the team following the 2022 season. In 2023, she landed on the Third Team.
WGCA ALL-AMERICAN
Golfweek is the second publication to give Ashley Menne All-American distinction. Earlier in the offseason, the WGCA (Women's Golf Coaches Association) tabbed Menne as an All-American for the fourth time in her career, as she received a spot on the Honorable Mention team. The team is voted on by coaches from around the country, an indication of the respect the rest of the women's college golf world has for Menne's accomplishments.
FOUR-TIME ALL-AMERICAN
By virtue of her selection to the WGCA All-American Honorable Mention Team earlier in the offseason, Ashley Menne has now been named an All-American in each of her four seasons in Tempe. She becomes the first Sun Devil since Olivia Mehaffey (2017-21) to earn All-American honors in all four years. Menne joins some exclusive company by earning a fourth All-American distinction. She is only the fourth four-time All-American in program history. Only legendary figures Olivia Mehaffey, Azahara Munoz (2006-09) and Kellee Booth (1995-98) have accomplished this impressive feat.
PAC-12 ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM
Arizona State landed a pair of individuals on the Pac-12 All-Conference teams, the fourth consecutive year that two Sun Devils have received All-Conference distinction. The respect for the Maroon & Gold is clear, as this distinction is voted on by the other coaches in the league. Ashley Menne was one of only 12 golfers named to the First Team in arguably the deepest conference in the country. The program has now had at least one representative on the Fiirst Team every year since 2005. This is the second consecutive year that Menne landed on the First Team.
Menne has been an All-Conference honoree each of her four seasons in Tempe (2x Honorable Mention; 2x First Team). She becomes the first four-time All-Conference member since Olivia Mehaffey (2017-21) and only the eighth in program history to accomplish the feat. Head Coach Missy Farr-Kaye has coached four of the eight (Monica Vaughn, Jennifer Osborn).
AUGUSTA NATIONAL WOMEN'S AMATEUR
Menne accepted an invitation to return to the Augusta National Women's Amateur. The 2023 edition once again gave female amateur golfers the opportunity to play the iconic Augusta National Golf Course. This was the second consecutive year Menne had qualified for this prestigious event, doing so based on her standing in the United States amateur rankings. It was her third overall appearance at the ANWA, as she continues to emerge as one of the top female amateurs in the World.
FINAL RANKINGS
Clipp'd released their final rankings of the 2023-24 collegiate women's golf season. Ashley Menne is the highest ranked Sun Devil, finishing at No. 35 in the latest poll. She moved up five spots thanks to her performance at the NCAA Championship. This is the third-straight year Menne has finished in the Top-40 of the national rankings.
OFF THE COURSE
- Three-time WGCA All-American Scholar (Academic All-American)
- Dean's List for five semesters at ASU
- ASU Scholar Athlete for eight semesters at ASU
- 2024 Heather Farr Award
- 2024 NCAA Ethnic Minority Graduate Scholarship winner
- ASU Student Athlete of the Month (Oct. 2023)
- Three-time Pac-12 Spring Honor Roll
- Team captain each of her final two seasons.
2023: Turner Washington, Track & Field and Audrey Ernst, Triathlon (release)
2022: Anthony Valencia, Wrestling and Emma Nordin, Swimming and Diving (release)
2021: Nathan Ponwith, Men's Tennis and Olivia Mehaffey, Golf (release)
2020: Tanner Hall, Wrestling and Robbi Ryan, Basketball (release)
2019: David Hoffer, Diving and Kianna Ibis, Basketball (release)
2018: Kodi Justice, Basketball and Maggie Ewen, Track and Field (release)
2017: Jared du Toit, Golf and Monica Vaughn, Golf (release)
2016: Mike Bercovici, Football and Elisha Davis, Basketball
2015: Taylor Kelly, Football and Shelby Houlihan, Track & Field and Cross Country
2014: Cory Hahn, Baseball and Stephanie Preach, Volleyball
2013: Carrick Felix, Basketball and Constance Ezugha, Track and Field
2012: Aaron Pflugrad, Football and Kaitlyn Boyd, Softball
2011: Anthony Robles, Wrestling, and Kelcy McKenna, Tennis