STEPHANIE MEADOW JOINT S E C FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Alabama’s Brooke Pancake, Stephanie Meadow (pictured) and coach Mic Potter along with Georgia’s Marta Silva Zamora and Arkansas’ Emily Tubert headline the 2011 Southeastern Conference Women’s Golf Awards announced today.
Potter was voted among his peers as SEC Coach of the Year while Pancake earned SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year and Meadow was SEC Co-Freshman of the Year. Zamora was voted SEC Golfer of the Year and Tubert was voted SEC Co-Freshman of the Year.
Zamora, a junior from Santiago de Compostela, Spain, leads the SEC this season with a 71.31 scoring average. She finished first in the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic and second in the SEC Championships. She finished ninth-or-better in eight of nine tournaments this year. She is ranked first in the nation in the latest Golfweek/Sagarin Performance Index Rankings.
Pancake, a junior from Chattanooga, Tennessee, leads her team with a 72.11 scoring average and is ranked sixth nationally in the latest Golfweek/Sagarin Performance Index. Her scoring average is fourth in the SEC and best in school history. A 4.0 grade point average student in marketing, she is a repeat recipient of the SEC Women’s Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year. She was also selected for the NCAA Elite 88 at the 2010 NCAA Golf Championships as the participating player with the highest grade point average.
Meadow, from Jordanstown, Northern Ireland, and Tubert, from Burbank, California, share the SEC Freshman of the Year honors. Tubert is third in the SEC in scoring average at 71.90 while Meadow is fifth at 72.15. Tubert won three individual titles this year while Meadow won twice. Meadow is ranked eighth in the latest Golfweek/Sagarin Performance Index Rankings while Tubert is ranked 13th. Potter helped direct the Crimson Tide to eight top three finishes in nine tournaments this year including four team championships. Alabama is ranked third in the latest Golfweek/Sagarin Peformance Index Rankings and will be the top seed at the NCAA East Regionals at the LPGA International Course in Daytona Beach, Florida, May 5-7. The honourr is the 12th conference Coach of the Year award for Potter and his third in the SEC.

Joining Zamora, Pancake, Meadow and Tubert on the All-SEC first-team are LSU’s Megan McChrystal, Tennessee’s Erica Popson, Auburn’s Cydney Clanton and Alabama’s Camilla Lennarth.

The 2012 SEC Women’s Golf Awards are listed below:

COACH OF THE YEAR
Mic Potter, Alabama

GOLFER OF THE YEAR
Marta Silva Zamora, Georgia

SCHOLAR-ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
Brooke Pancake, Alabama

Co-FRESHMEN OF THE YEAR
Stephanie Meadow, Alabama
Emily Tubert, Arkansas

ALL-SEC TEAMS
First-team All-SEC
Marta Silva Zamora, Georgia
Megan McChrystal, LSU
Brooke Pancake, Alabama
Erica Popson, Tennessee
Stephanie Meadow, Alabama
Emily Tubert, Arkansas
Cydney Clanton, Auburn
Camilla Lennarth, Alabama

Second Team All-SEC
Austin Ernst, LSU
Nathalie Mansson, Tennessee
Kelli Shean, Arkansas
Jennifer Kirby, Alabama
Marina Alex, Vanderbilt
Emilie Burger, Georgia
Mia Piccio, Florida
Megan Grehan, Vanderbilt

All-Freshman Team
Stephanie Meadow, Alabama
Emily Tubert, Arkansas
Austin Ernst, LSU
Suzie Lee, South Carolina
Kaitlyn Rohrback, Tennessee
Marta Sanz, Auburn
Samantha Swinehart, South Carolina
Emma Lavy, Arkansas