STEPHANIE NAMED PLAYER AND SCHOLAR-ATHLETE OF YEAR
Centre of attraction: Stephanie Meadow (left) driving at a Vagliano Trophy match. Picture by Cal Carson Golf Agency.
CURTIS CUPPER STEPHANIE MEADOW
NAMED CONFERENCE PLAYER OF
YEAR, SCHOLAR-ATHLETE OF YEAR
University of Alabama final-year student Stephanie Meadow from Jordanstown, Northern Ireland has added another honour to her career list of accolades.
The
Southeastern Conference coaches have selected her as the league's Player and
Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
Meadow was chosen as both
the SEC Golfer of the Year and the SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year for
the second consecutive year. She was also tabbed first team All-SEC for
the fourth time in her career, becoming the first Alabama player to
accomplish the feat.
Meadow currently leads the SEC and ranks fourth nationally in stroke average at 71.24. The 2013 SEC individual medalist, she finished the 2014 event tied for fifth at 3-over-par 219.
Meadow becomes just the
second athlete in SEC history to garner the award in back-to-back
years, joining Georgia's Vicki Goetze (1992 and 1993), and is the fourth
two-time recipient of the honoUr all-time.
Meadow also became the second multi-time winner of the SEC
Scholar-Athlete of the Year award, and she is the first golfer in SEC
history to win both the Golfer of the Year and Scholar-Athlete of the
Year accolades in back-to-back years.
She currently holds a 4.0 grade point average in accounting and has been on the Dean's List at Alabama each semester of her collegiate career. Meadow is just the third golfer in SEC history to garner both Golfer of the Year and Scholar-Athlete in the same year. Meadow (2013 and 2014) is joined by Tennessee's Violeta Retamoza (2005) and Arkansas' Stacy Lewis (2008) as the only student-athlete to accomplish that feat. It is the fifth straight year an Alabama player has earned SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year with Brooke Pancake winning in 2010, 2011 and 2012. 2014 SEC Women's Golf Awards SEC Coach of the Year Shauna Estes-Taylor, Arkansas SEC Golfer of the Year Stephanie Meadow, Alabama SEC Freshman of the Year Simin Feng, Vanderbilt SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year Stephanie Meadow, Alabama All-SEC Teams First-Team All-SEC Stephanie Meadow, Alabama Simin Feng, Vanderbilt (SEC Championship Medalist) Allyson McDonald, Mississippi State Gabriela Lopez, Arkansas Emily Tubert, Arkansas Caroline Nistrup, LSU Madelene Sagstrom, LSU Justine Dreher, South Carolina
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