2009-10 Women's Golf Media Guide

Table of Contents Media Information

Table of Contents................................ 1 2009-10 Roster, Facts & Credits ........ 2 The Bulldog Beat ................................ 3 Media Outlets .................................... 3 2009-10 Tournament Information ....... 4 Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic .......... 5 Tribute to Liz Murphey ........................ 6 The Southeastern Conference ........... 7 2009-10 SEC Team Capsules ............ 8

The 2009-10 Season

Outlook ........................................ 10-11 Coaching Staff bios ..................... 12-14 Administration & Senior Staff............ 15 Carolina Andrade .............................. 16 Melissa Brody & Emilie Burger ......... 17 Leigh Crosby & Tess Fordham ......... 18 Kiara Hayashida & Abby Johnson .... 19 Marta Silva Zamora .......................... 20 Milena Savich & Kendall Wright ....... 21 Bulldog Survey ................................. 22

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2008-09 Review

Georgia goes “Even Steven” ............ 24 Team Results .................................... 24 Individual Statistics ........................... 24 Tournament Results.......................... 25 Georgia Golf Scorecard .................... 26

History & Records

Letterwinners & Head Coaches ... 28-29 All-Time Results .......................... 30-31 Team & Individual Champions ..... 32-33 SEC Results & Champions.......... 34-35 National Results & Champions .... 36-38 Individual & Team Records ............... 39 Honors & Awards ......................... 40-42 Bulldogs on the LPGA Tour .............. 43 Georgia Golf History ......................... 44

University of Georgia

Athens, Ga................................... 46-47 University of Georgia ................... 48-49 Georgia Athletics ......................... 50-51 Georgia Golf ................................ 52-53 Athens-area Golf Courses ................ 54 Georgia Traditions ............................ 55 Uga, The nation’s top mascot ........... 56

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H I S T O R Y

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Media Information M E D I A

2009-10 GeorGia Golf Roster

Name

Ht.

Cl.

Melissa Brody

5-7

Sr.

Carolina Andrade

5-7

Swing Hometown / Previous School(s)

Sr.

R

R

Cadiz, Spain / IES Pablo Ruiz Picasso

Atlanta, Ga. / Riverwood HS

Emilie Burger

5-9

Fr.

R

Hoschton, Ga. / Mill Creek HS

Tess Fordham

5-5

Soph.

R

Metter, Ga. / Metter High School

Abby Johnson

5-10

Fr.

R

Buford, Ga. / Buford HS

5-5

Soph.

R

Santiago de Compostela, Spain / Heritage Academy

Leigh Crosby

Kiara Hayashida Milena Savich

Marta Silva Zamora Kendall Wright

5-4

5-7 5-6 5-8

Sr.

Soph.

Soph.

Fr.

R

R R

R

Athens, Ga. / Oconee County HS & UCF Lima, Peru / Heritage Academy & Pepperdine Carmel, Ind. / Carmel HS & Michigan

Duluth, Ga. / Whitmore School

Head Coach: Kelley Hester (Georgia ‘95) 3rd season Assistant Coach: Margaret Shirley (Auburn ‘08) 1st season Pronunciation Guide: Carolina (Care-ah-lee-nah) Andrade (Ahn-drah-day) Kiara (Key-are-ah) Hayashida (High-ah-shee-dah) Milena (Mah-lay-nah) Savich (Sav-itch) Marta (Mar-tah) Silva Zamora

UGA Quick Facts

Location .............................Athens, Ga. EnroLLmEnt ................................34,180 FoundEd ........................................1785 conFErEncE ..................... Southeastern nicknamE ................................. Bulldogs mascot ......................................Uga VII coLors .............................. Red & Black PrEsidEnt ..............................................

Dr. Michael F. Adams (Lipscomb ‘70) FacuLty athLEtics rEP...........................

Jere Morehead (Georgia J.D. ‘80) athLEtic dirEctor .................................

Damon Evans (Georgia ‘92) ExEc. assoc. ad ...................................

Frank Crumley (Georgia ‘88) sr. associatE ad/sWa .........................

Carla Williams (Georgia ‘89) associatE athLEtic dirEctors................

Claude Felton (Sports Comm), Arthur Johnson (Internal Affairs), Alan Thomas (External Affairs), Craig White (Sports/Operations) Women’s Golf Administrator assistant athLEtic dirEctors ................

Eric Baumgartner (Compliance) Matt Brachowski (Evt. Management), Glada Horvat (Academics/Eligibility), Charley Whittemore (Facilities) sPEciaL asst. to thE ad.......................

Dave Muia

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Golf Information

hEstEr PhonE ............... (706) 369-6110 shirLEy PhonE .............. (706) 369-5966 boyd cEntEr assistant....Denise Saliba boyd cEntEr PhonE/Fax ........................

(706) 369-6066 / (706) 369-5669

Sports Communications

associatE ad/scd......... Claude Felton associatE scds ....................................

Tim Hix, Christopher Lakos, Mike Mobley (WGolf Contact) assistant scds ....................................

Steven Colquitt, Leland Barrow, Tanner Tedeschi, Ben Beaty PubLications cord. ...Karlene Lawrence oFFicE managEr....................Karen Huff graduatE assistant ...............................

Kate Burkholder, Cc Robinson studEnt assistants ...............................

Angela Alfano, Sarah Bailey, Robert Carnes, Peyton Edwards, Joseph Feldman, Patrick Fitzmaurice, Kim Garner, Grant Grisamore, David Koonin, Meredith Milligan, Jenny Moss, Molly Poitevint, Michael Terry, Ashley Webb, Alex Zerkel studEnt PhotograPhErs ........................

Parker Moore, Julianne Upchurch

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Credits On the covers: 2008-09 All-SEC honor-

ees Carolina Andrade and Marta Silva Zamora, who lead a young but extremely deep UGA roster into 2009-10, are featured on the front cover. The entire team is pictured on the back cover.

The 2009-10 Georgia Golf Media Guide was produced by associate SID Mike Mobley utilizing Adobe InDesign.

Sincere thanks for the assistance of Karen Huff, Steven Colquitt, Jenny Moss, Alex Zerkel and Meredith Milligan. Outside cover design by Nic Lloyd. Printing

by Ebsco Media.

PhotograPhy: Front cover by Steven Colquitt. Back cover by Parker Moore.

Additional photographs by: Ashley Connell, Donovan Eason, Dan Evans, Joel Gibson, Steve Guyer, Becky Hay, David Marck, Perry McIntyre, Amanda C. Melton, Radi Nabulsi, Lesley Onstott, Meredith Page, Erin McCall, Julianne Upchurch, Kelly Wegel, the LPGA, NCAA Photos, Getty Images/Allsport USA and UGA Public Affairs.

Additional copies are available for $5 at the UGA Sports Communications Office or by sending checks for $7 made payable to UGAA: UGA Sports Info; P.O. Box 1472; Athens, GA 30606.

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Media Information Covering the Bulldog Beat

Media in need of assistance beyond this brochure – interviews, credentials, photographs, etc. – should contact: Mike Mobley, AssociAte scD MAiling ADDress P.O. Box 1472; Athens, Ga. 30603-1472 overnight ADDress One Selig Circle; Athens, Ga. 30602 office Phone: (706) 542-1621 hoMe Phone: (706) 548-0858 office fAx: (706) 542-9339 eMAil ADDress: mmobley@sports.uga.edu

Coach & Player Interviews

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Mike Mobley

The Bulldogs generally practice beginning at 2:30 p.m. on weekdays throughout the school year. The best time to interview head coach Kelley Hester or any golfer is usually immediately before prac- • From the Athens Bypass (Georgia Highway 10) take the exit for tice. Class schedules of individual players may alter their availability Milledge Avenue. If traveling from the east side of Athens, take on any given day. The team typically conducts practice sessions at a left at the bottom of the ramp (and proceed underneath the the Boyd Golf Center; however, the location may vary depending bypass). If traveling from the West, take a right at the bottom upon which Athens-area course the squad could be playing. To ensure of the ramp (going away from the bypass). interview requests are addressed expeditiously, please contact the • Travel approximately one-half mile on Milledge and make the Sports Communications office at least 24 hours in advance. first left onto Riverbend Parkway. (If you reach the Georgia soccer/softball complex on your right, you’ve gone too far.)

• Proceed approximately one-half mile and make a right into the The 38th annual Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic will be contested entrance to the UGA course. on March 26-28, 2010, at the University of Georgia Golf Course. • Follow the road past the driving range (on your left) and into the Media wishing to cover the event should request credentials through large parking lot. The Boyd Center is located closest to the front UGA women’s golf SID Mike Mobley. Telephone lines, as well as left corner of the parking lot, while the clubhouse for the UGA copy and fax capabilities, will be available for media covering the Golf Course is located closest to the lot’s front right corner. event. Live scoring will be featured on www.golfstat.com.

Directions to the UGA Golf Course

Liz Murphey Collegiate Credentials

Log on it...dog gone it!

Photographers

Information on Georgia Golf be obtained at www.georgiadogs. com – the Athletic Association’s official web site. Press releases and statistics are updated weekly. Rosters, player and coach bios, team and individual records, all-time results and other information also are also available.

Only accredited photographers working on assignment will be issued credentials. Use of flashes is prohibited. Photographers should allow golfers a comfortable distance as to not inhibit their play, generally considered to be a minimum of 15-20 yards.

Name, Outlet

david ching, Athens Daily News chiP toWErs, Atlanta Journal sPorts Editor, The Red & Black PauL nEWbErry, Associated Press mikE Lough, Macon Telegraph david PaschaLL, Chattanooga Times todd cLinE, Gwinnett Daily Post scott hoWard, WNGC-Radio davE Johnston, WRFC-Radio sPorts dirEctor, WUOG Radio chuck doWdLE, WSB-TV (ABC) tracy carmony, WXIA-TV (NBC) chiP ZELLEr, WAGA-TV (FOX) corEy andErson, WGCL-TV (CBS) cody chaFFins, WNEG-TV (CBS) matt stEWart, CSS Sports andy PoLLack, FSN South

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Media Covering UGA Athletics Mailing Address

P.O. Box 912; Athens, GA 30613 1341 Arizona Bend; Bogart, GA 30622 540 Baxter Street; Athens, GA 30606 Centennial Tower, Suite 2420; Atlanta, GA 30335-0701 P.O. Box 4167; Macon, GA 31208 P.O. Box 1447, Chattanooga, TN 37401 P.O. Box 603; Lawrenceville, GA 30046 850 Bobbin Mill Rd.; Athens, GA 30605 1010 Tower Place; Bogart, GA 30622 P.O. Box 2065; Athens, GA 30602 1601 West Peachtree St.; Atlanta, GA 30309 1611 West Peachtree St.; Atlanta, GA 30309 P.O. Box 4207; Atlanta, GA 30302 P.O. Box 98097; Atlanta, GA 30357 100 Boulevard; Toccoa, GA 30577 2975 Courtyard Dr.; Norcross, GA 30071 100 Colony Square, Suite 200; 1175 Peachtree NE; Atlanta, GA 30361

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Phone

(706) 208-2238 (770) 725-9398 (706) 543-1809 (404) 522-8971 (478) 744-4626 (423) 757-6524 (770) 963-9205 (706) 549-1340 (706) 549-6222 (706) 542-7100 (404) 897-7587 (404) 873-9115 (404) 898-0150 (404) 327-3250 (706) 886-0032 (770) 559-2262 (404) 230-7355

Fax

(706) 208-2246

(706) 548-7251 (404) 524-4639 (423) 668-5049 (770) 339-8081 (706) 546-0441 (706) 353-1967 (706) 542-0070 (404) 897-7370 (404) 881-0675 (404) 724-4409 (404) 327-3004 (706) 886-7003 (770) 559-2329 (404) 230-7399

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2009-10 Tournament Information Hooters Match Play Collegiate

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datEs: host: Location: coursE:

September 6-8 NGCA Daytona Beach, Fla. LPGA International Legends Course host: Roger Yaffe sid PhonE: (800) 381-0769 coursE PhonE: (321) 939-4700 2008 chamPion: Duke 2008 mEdaList: Stephanie Kono, UCLA (132) 2009 FiELd: Alabama, Auburn, Chattanooga, Colorado, Duke, Florida, Georgia, Kent State, LSU, North Carolina, Ole Miss, South Carolina, TCU, UCF, Virginia

Eat A Peach Collegiate

datEs: host: Location: coursE: host sid: sid PhonE: sid EmaiL: 2008 chamPion: 2008 mEdaList:

October 4-5 Mercer Macon, Ga. Idle Hour Country Club Gary Guyer (478) 301-5625 guyer_gl@mercer.edu Augusta State (945) Tamara Luccioli, Augusta State (227)

2009 FiELd: Augusta State, Coastal Carolina, Florida State, Furman, Georgia, Georgia State, High Point, James Madison, Kennesaw State, Mercer, Miami, UCF

Kinderlou Forest Challenge

datEs: host: Location: coursE: host sid: sid PhonE: sid EmaiL:

March 1-2 Kentucky Valdosta, Ga. Kinderlou Forest Golf Club Maria Zumdick (859) 257-3838 maria.zumdick@uky.edu

First Year of Tournament 2010 FiELd: Arkansas, Auburn, Chattanooga, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Kennesaw State, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Ohio State, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Tulane, Vanderbilt, Virginia

SEC Championships

datEs: host: Location: coursE: goLF sid: sid PhonE: sid EmaiL: 2009 chamPion: 2009 mEdaList:

April 16-18 Alabama Tuscaloosa, Ala. North RIver Yacht Club Josh Maxson (205) 348-6084 jmaxson@ua.ia.edu Auburn (870) Marta Silva Zamora, Georgia (210)

2010 FiELd: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt

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Duramed Cougar Classic

datEs: host: Location: coursE: host sid: sid PhonE: sid EmaiL: 2008 chamPion: 2008 mEdaList:

September 14-16 College of Charleston Charleston, S.C. Yeamans Hall Golf Club Simon Whitaker (843) 953-5465 whitakers@cofc.edu Georgia (858) Caroline Westrup, Florida State (206)

2009 FiELd: Charleston Southern, College of Charleston, Florida State, Furman, Georgia, Maryland, Miami, Mississippi State, North Carolina, UNC Greensboro, N.C. State, Ole Miss, Richmond, South Florida,Tennessee, Texas, Vanderbilt, Wisconsin

The Landfall Tradition (Preview)

datEs: host: Location: coursE: host sid: sid PhonE: sid EmaiL: 2008 chamPion: 2008 mEdaList:

October 23-25 UNC Wilmington Wilmington, N.C. Country Club of Landfall Jared Abelson (910) 962-3252 abelsonj@uncw.edu Wake Forest (880) Dolores White, Wake Forest (218)

2009 FiELd: Alabama, Arizona State, Aurburn, Denver, Duke, Georgia, LSU, Michigan State, New Mexico, North Carolina, UNC Wilmington, Oklahoma State, Pepperdine, Purdue, Southern Cal, UCLA, Virginia, Wake Forest

Tiger/Wave Invitational

datEs: March 12-14 host: LSU Location: New Orleans, La. coursE: English Turn Golf Club host sid: Kent Lowe sid PhonE: (225) 578-8226 sid EmaiL: clowe@lsu.edu 2009 chamPion: Virgina (856) 2009 mEdaList: Lucy Nunn, Arkansas (209) 2010 FiELd: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, College of Charleston, Furman, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisville, LSU, Mississippi State, N.C. State, North Carolina, UNC Wilmington, Notre Dame, Ole Miss, TCU, Tennessee, Tulane, UCF, Vanderbilt, Virgina, Wake Forest

NCAA Regionals

datEs: May 6-8 hosts / Locations: East: ECU / Ironwood Country Club cEntraL: Indiana / Otter Creek Golf Club WEst: Stanford / Stanford Golf Course 2009 chamPions: East: Florida (883) & Bénédicte Toumpsin, S. Carolina (214) cEntraL: UCLA (861) & Maria Hernandez, Purdue/Maria Jose Uribe, UCLA (208 WEst: Southern Cal (855) & Alison Walshe, Arizona/Therese Kolbaeck, UNLV (210) 2010 FiELd: 21 teams and two individuals at each site

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Mason Rudolph Championship

datEs: September 25-27 host: Vanderbilt Location: Nashville, Tenn. coursE: Vanderbilt Legends Club host sid: Andy Boggs sid PhonE: (615) 322-4121 sid EmaiL: andy.boggs@vanderbilt.edu 2008 chamPion: UCLA (850) 2008 mEdaList: Sydnee Michaels, UCLA (205) 2009 FiELd: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Arizona State, Auburn, Duke, Florida, Georgia, LSU, South Carolina, Southern Cal, Stanford, Texas, Tulane, UCLA, Virginia

Lady Puerto Rico Classic

datEs: February 7-9 host: Purdue Location: Rio Grande, P.R. coursE: Coco Beach Resort host: Alberto Rios coursE PhonE: (787) 657-2000 2009 chamPion: Purdue (888) 2009 mEdaLists: Maria Hernandez, Purdue and Laura Nochta, Indiana (219) 2010 FiELd: Alabama, Baylor, Florida State, Georgia, Kent State, Indiana, Iowa State, Michigan, Northwestern, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Penn State, Purdue, Southern Methodist, Wisconsin, Texas Tech

Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic

datEs: March 26-28 host: UGA Location: Athens, Ga. coursE: UGA Golf Course host sid: Mike Mobley sid PhonE: (706) 542-1621 sid EmaiL: mmobley@sports.uga.edu 2009 chamPion: Auburn (299) 2009 mEdaList: Kathleen Ekey, Alabama (69) 2010 FiELd: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Denver, Duke, Florida, Furman, Georgia, Georgia State, Kent State, Michigan State, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, North Carolina, Ohio State, Purdue, South Carolina, Tennessee, Tulane, UCF, Virginia, Wake Forest

NCAA Championships

datEs: host: Location: coursE: host sid: sid PhonE: sid EmaiL: 2009 chamPion: 2009 mEdaList:

May 18-21 UNC Wilmington Wilmington, N.C. Country Club of Landfall Mike “Mex” Carey (202) 687-2492 mbc32@georgetown.edu Southern Cal (1168) Azahara Munoz, Arizona State (287)

2010 FiELd: 24 teams (eight from each Regional), plus the top two individuals from each Regional who are not members of the teams advancing to the NCAA Championships

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Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic The list of golfers who have competed collegiately in the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic reads like a “Who’s Who” of women’s golf, including LPGA Hall of Famers Beth Daniel, Betsy King and Julie Inkster.

The LMCC is one of the oldest continuous sporting events in all of women’s college athletics. Its 38th edition will be held March 26-28 at the UGA Golf Course (course info on Page 48).

The event began humbly in 1973 as the Georgia Invitational before becoming the Women’s Southern Intercollegiate Championships from 1977-94. In 1995, the tournament was renamed in honor of Liz Murphey, UGA’s Hall of Fame golf coach and long-time Senior Woman Administrator.

Georgia and Tulsa have enjoyed the most success on both the team and individual fronts, combining to win 18 team and 12 individual titles between them.

Tulsa swept four straight team and individual crowns from 1982-85. Georgia has won 13 team titles and has produced 10 medalists.

The Bulldogs ruled play during the late-1990s in record-breaking individual and team fashion. Reilley Rankin posted the tourney record of 11-under in 1998. The following year, Georgia posted a team record of 4-under to win by a whopping 44 strokes.

A year ago, rain shortened the Liz Murphey for the first time ever. Following two days of steady rain and intermittent downpours, the weather cleared for an 18-hole tournament contested on Sunday.

That day proved to be fruitful for competitors West of the Georgia state line. Auburn fired a 299 to edge Alabama and Kent State by three strokes to earn the team title. The Crimson Tide’s Kathleen Ekey posted a 3-under 69 to win individual medalist honors by a single shot over Kent State’s Kirby Dreher.

LiZ murPhEy coLLEgiatE cLassic rEcords Team Round ................................................282 Duke (2000) Team Total ..............................................872 Georgia (1999) Individual Round ............ 66 (-6) Brittany Lang (Duke) (2004) Individual Total ................. 208 (-11) Reilley Rankin (Georgia) (1998)

Past Team Champions & Individual Medalists

yEar tEam chamPion / mEdaList(s) ............................. (scorE) 1973 Rollins .............................................................................323 Hollis Stacy (Rollins)/Suzanne Jackson (Florida) .......... 156* 1974 Furman ...........................................................................337 Suzanne Jackson (Florida)/Sara Stuhler (Miami) .......... 148* 1975 Florida .............................................................................672 Donna Horton (Florida) ...................................................73** 1976 Florida .............................................................................648 Bev Davis (Florida) .........................................................155 1977 Florida .......................................................310-311-306–927 Beth Daniel (Furman) .................................... 77-68-75–220 1978 Florida International .................................. 306-305-306–917 Brenda Rego (Florida International) ............... 78-74-72–224 1979 Georgia ..................................................... 319-309-329–947 Sherri Turner (Furman) ................................... 71-76-78–225 1980 Georgia ......................................................304-311-307–922 Martha Stacy (Georgia) .................................. 72-77-78–227 1981 Georgia .................................................... 312-305-296–913 Mitzi Edge (Georgia) ....................................... 76-73-72–221 1982 Tulsa ......................................................... 310-305-297–912 Julie Inkster (San Jose State) ......................... 75-72-74–221 1983 Tulsa ......................................................... 293-301-307–901 Jody Rosenthal (Tulsa) ................................... 71-74-75–220 1984 Tulsa ......................................................... 303-307-299–909 Jody Rosenthal (Tulsa) ................................... 73-74-73–220 1985 Tulsa ......................................................... 308-296-299–902 Jody Rosenthal (Tulsa) ................................... 75-72-72–219 1986 Louisiana State ......................................... 310-296-300–906 Laurette Maritz (U.S. International)................. 73-70-74–219 1987 Alabama.................................................... 306-307-306–919 Melissa McNamara (Tulsa) ............................. 75-77-74–226 1988 Georgia ..................................................... 294-293-292–879 Sue Thomas (Georgia) & Stephanie Lowe (Georgia) ..........219 1989 Auburn ...................................................... 300-296-297–893 Joal Reider (Auburn)....................................... 72-71-75–218 1990 Georgia ..................................................... 312-307-305–924 Anne Cain (Georgia) ....................................... 75-75-73–223 1991 Georgia ......................................................311-300-319–930 Leslie Spalding (Alabama) .............................. 77-74-76–227

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yEar tEam chamPion / mEdaList(s) ............................. (scorE) 1992 San Jose St. ............................................. 303-312-301–916 Vicki Goetze (Georgia) & Lisa Walton (San Jose St.) ..........223 1993 San Jose State ......................................... 317-312-297–926 Lisa Walton (San Jose St.) ............................. 78-73-71–222 1994 Tennessee ................................................ 309-315-296–920 Caroline Peek (Furman) ................................. 72-80-73–225 1995 Indiana ...................................................... 304-312-300–916 Erika Wicoff (Indiana) ..................................... 73-74-71–218 1996 Tulsa ..........................................................311-299-307–917 Ashley Winn (LSU) ......................................... 77-72-73–222 1997 Georgia ..................................................... 304-300-303–907 Shauna Estes (Georgia) ................................. 70-73-73–216 1998 Georgia ..................................................... 305-289-289–883 Reilley Rankin (Georgia)................................. 70-69-69–208 1999 Georgia ..................................................... 293-291-288–872 Shauna Estes (Georgia) ................................. 71-71-72–214 2000 Duke ......................................................... 291-282-302–875 Beth Bauer (Duke) .......................................... 67-72-74–213 2001 Duke ........................................................ 291-303-308–902 Kalen Anderson (Duke)................................... 73-74-73–221 2002 Florida ....................................................... 301-288-290–879 Jeanne Cho (Florida) ...................................... 75-68-73–216 2003 Duke ......................................................... 295-293-288–876 Elizabeth Janangelo (Duke)............................ 72-69-69–210 2004 Georgia ..................................................... 292-288-285–865 Brittany Lang (Duke) ....................................... 66-73-68–207 2005 Georgia ..................................................... 298-294-300–892 Kelly Froelich (Georgia) .................................. 74-73-71–218 2006 Georgia ..................................................... 301-302-300=903 Caroline Westrup (Florida State) .................... 77-73-71=221 2007 Auburn ...................................................... 293-299-289=881 Leah Wigger (Virginia) .................................... 72-73-70=215 2008 Georgia ..................................................... 302-300-298=900 Maria Hernandez (Purdue) & Christel Boeljon (Purdue) ......218 2009 Auburn .....................................................................299=299 Kathleen Ekey (Alabama) .................................................69=69 * Denotes individual format featuring two-player teams

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Georgia legend Liz Murphey

A true pioneer in women’s intercollegiate athletics

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at each national championship from 1979-83, and Terri Moody and Cindy Schreyer won individual national titles in 1981 and 1984, respectively.

Murphey was the 1984 National Coach of the Year and her teams finished second in the 1981 AIAWs and third at the 1983 NCAAs. Murphey was a charter member of the Collegiate Golf Hall of Fame. Two of her most prestigious honors were the 1996 Rolex Meritorious Service Award for her contributions to collegiate golf and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Collegiate Women’s Athletic Adminstators in 2003.

Under her leadership, Georgia won eight of the 14 SEC women’s all-sports awards, which were presented annually to the outstanding program in the conference. During her tenure, Georgia women’s teams won four national team championships and an additional 31 individual national titles.

Murphey retired from UGA in May 1996. She was inducted into the UGA Athletic Association’s Circle of Honor – the school’s highest tribute paid to former athletes or coaches – in 2001. For more than three decades, Georgia has hosted the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic, appropriately one of the nation’s oldest women’s collegiate athletic events in any sport.

Liz Murphey was one of the leading figures in the evolution and development of women’s intercollegiate athletics both on the national level and at the University of Georgia.

A Newnan, Ga., native, Murphey was not only an outstanding women’s golf coach but also led the overall Lady Bulldog women’s sports program to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s as its senior woman administrator. She died November 23, 2005, following a short illness “Liz was certainly one of the national pioneers in women’s athletics and one that provided the real foundation for the program here at Georgia,” said former UGA Director of Athletics Vince Dooley. “Her work at Georgia was recognized across the country both as an administrator and golf coach.”

Murphey joined the university faculty in 1967 as an assistant professor of physical education and women’s golf coach. She coordinated the women’s club sports program until being named assistant athletic director for women’s sports in 1978.

When UGA officially added women’s golf as an intercollegiate sport in the fall of 1978, Murphey already had a solid foundation in place. She led the Lady Bulldogs to 21 team and 18 individual titles from 1978-86. Under Murphey, Georgia finished in the top 10

Liz’s Legacy

Liz Murphey’s fingerprints are still very much a part of UGA women’s athletics. Murphey hired current UGA women’s head coaches Jack Bauerle (swimming and diving), Andy Landers (basketball) and Jeff Wallace (tennis), was well as the recently retired Suzanne Yoculan (gymnastics).

That quartet has combined to lead 16 teams to NCAA Championships and 36 squads to SEC Championships in their respective sports. She also brought in Beans Kelly as her assistant coach in 1986 and handed the reins to the golf program over shortly thereafter. Kelly led Georgia to eight SEC titles and eight top-10 finishes at the NCAAs. Hosting the 1981 AIAW Nationals was perhaps Liz Murphey’s finest hour as a coach and administrator. Terri Moody (upper right) captured the first-ever national title in UGA women’s athletics history and the Lady Bulldogs finished second in the team field (right).

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Southeastern Conference

A national leader in intercollegiate athletics

The Southeastern Conference, with its storied 77-year history of athletic achieveApril 17-19 ments and academic excelCobblestone Park GC lence, has built perhaps the Blythewood, S.C. greatest tradition of intercollegiate competition of any Teams league in the country since 1. Auburn ......................870 its inception in 1933.

2. Arkansas ...................878 The 2008-09 academic 3. Alabama....................878 year was another season to 4. Tennessee ................881 remember for the SEC, as 5. LSU ...........................886 league teams captured five 6. GEORGIA .................887 NCAA Championships – not 7. Ole Miss ....................890 to mention a sixth national 8. Florida.......................895 title by Georgia’s equestrian 9. S. Carolina ................897 program – and six national 10. Vanderbilt ..................915 runner-up finishes. Since 11. Kentucky ...................918 1990, the SEC has now won 12. Mississippi St. ...........930 131 NCAA team crowns.

Individuals Georgia did its fair share 1. Silva Zamora, UGA .210 to help the SEC maintain 2. Toumpsin, S.C. .........214 national prominence.

3. Hetzel, UGA .............215 The women’s gymnas4. Clanton, AU...............216 tics team captured the 2009 Ingram, Ark. .............216 NCAA Championship, the 6. Brown, UT .................217 Gym Dogs’ fifth straight and Nunn, Ark. ................217 10th overall national title.

Sanz, AU ...................217 The equestrian team also Yadloczky, UF ...........217 won its fourth national title.

10. Schepperle, AU .........218 All told, 15 of Georgia’s 21 Pancake, Bama ........218 athletic teams placed at their respective championships, including 11 top-15 efforts. In addition to the national titles, other top performances came from women’s swimming and diving (2nd), men’s golf (t-3rd), softball (t-3rd), women’s tennis (t-3rd), men’s tennis (t-5th), football (10th), men’s swimming & diving (10th), men’s outdoor track & field (t-11th) and women’s golf (15th).

Georgia finished 18th in the final NACDA Director’s Cup, which ranks intercollegiate athletic programs’ overall success each year, marking the 14th top-20 effort by the Bulldog athletic program in the 16 years the award has been contested.

The SEC placed five schools in the top 25 of the final 200809 NACDA Director’s Cup rankings, including Florida (3rd), LSU (9th), Georgia (18th), Tennessee (23rd) and Arkansas (25th).

In addition to the six team national championships last year, 53 SEC student-athletes garnered individual national titles, while 323 individuals earned first-team All-America honors. Student-athletes around the conference continued to excel in the classroom as well

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Founded: 1933 First SEC Women’s Golf Championship: 1981 2010 SEC Women’s Golf Championship: April 16-18; North River Yacht Club; Tuscaloosa, Ala. Georgia’s Next Turn to Host: 2013 National Team Titles: ......... 3 National Medalists: ............ 4 Florida 2 Georgia 3 Georgia 1 Florida 1 SEC Team Titles: .............. 29 SEC Medalists: ................. 29 Georgia 11 Georgia 8 Florida 8 Florida 8 Auburn 7 Auburn 5 LSU 1 Arkansas 2 South Carolina 1 South Carolina 2 Vanderbilt 1 LSU 1 Mississippi State 1 Tennessee 1 Vanderbilt 1 First-Team All-Americans: ... 50 First-Team All-SEC: ........ 203 Georgia 14 Georgia 48 Florida 11 Florida 37 Auburn 6 Auburn 31 LSU 4 LSU 20 South Carolina 4 Tennessee 15 Alabama 3 Alabama 12 Arkansas 3 South Carolina 11 Tennessee 2 Mississippi State 8 Vanderbilt 2 Kentucky 6 Mississippi State 1 Vanderbilt 6 Arkansas 5 * NGCA All-Americans Ole Miss 4 with 39 securing spots on ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-America squads and more than 2,300 earning recognition on the SEC Academic Honor Roll.

Such standards have become commonplace within one of the nation’s premier athletic conferences.

SEC schools began athletic competition with one another over 100 years ago as members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Seven institutions (Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Sewanee and Vanderbilt) attended the SIAA organizational meeting in Atlanta on Dec. 22, 1894.

At the Southern Conference meetings on Dec. 8-9, 1932, the 13 members of the league located west and south of the Appalachian Mountains reorganized as the Southeastern Conference. Ten of those institutions still remain members today.

In 1990, Arkansas and South Carolina became the first schools added to the league in SEC history, joining 10 remaining charter members – Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Tennessee and Vanderbilt.

The Razorbacks and GameMarta Silva Zamora became Georcocks were fully incorporated into gia’s eighth SEC medalist last league competition in 1992 after spring. The freshman grabbed the lead with a second-round 67 and finparticipating in SEC championished with a 71 on Sunday en route ships for sports except football in to a four-shot victory. She became 1991-92. The SEC then introduced the third Bulldog freshman to win the nation’s first Division I football an SEC individual crown. championship game in 1992.

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Tuscaloosa, Ala. Crimson Tide Crimson & White 25,580 Dr. Robert Witt Mal Moore Mic Potter (205) 348-3439 Susan Rosentiel Camilla Lennarth, Brooke Pancake Jennifer Kirby Josh Maxson (205) 348-6084 (205) 348-8841 jmaxson@ua.ia.edu rolltide.com

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Nashville, Tenn.

Commodores Black & Gold 6,402 Nicholas S. Zeppos David Williams Greg Allen (615) 343-8097 Nicki Cutler Marina Alex, Megan Grehan Anna Leigh Keith Andy Boggs (615) 322-4121 (615) 343-7064 andy.boggs@vanderbilt.edu vucommodores.com

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A year ago, Kelley Hester spent a majority of the season in the same boat as Coach Norman Dale, Gene Hackman’s character in the classic “Hoosiers.” In the movie, Hackman molds a small-town high school basketball team and turns them into Indiana state champions. Hackman’s Hickory Husker roster features only six players – plus “Ollie,” a student equipment manager who plays out of necessity and hits a pair of crucial free throws in a playoff game.

Oh, what Hester probably would have given for her own version of “Ollie” last spring.

The Bulldogs played from November through May with only five scholarship golfers on their roster. Walk-on Melissa Brody joined the team in January and provided solid depth, but Hester’s hands were tied with virtually no ability to shake up her lineup.

Still, the Bulldogs put together what by most program’s standards would be a solid spring that culminated in a 15th-place finish at the NCAA Championships.

“A top-15 at nationals last year was a moral victory for the group we had,” Hester said. “We had low numbers. We were down a little.

I give our kids a lot of credit for that 15th; however, it’s not the benchmark of our program to finish 15th at nationals. I think that shows the strength of the program in general, that 15th feels not so good. I think we’ve got the pieces of the puzzle in place to get back into the top 10 and hopefully the top five.”

Hester certainly shouldn’t lose sleep over those depth issues any time soon. Georgia now sports a 10-deep roster, its largest since 1991-92 when Hester (then Kelley Richardson) was a true freshman who redshirted.

“We took care of the lack of depth that we had,” Hester said. “ We have three freshmen and two transfers. We will have some more depth and some competition within the team.”

The makeup of the Bulldogs’ lineup from tournament to tournament should feature a mix of both experience and newcomers.

Options

The only other golfer seemingly penciled into the Bulldogs’ playing five is senior Carolina Andrade. She was a second-team All-SEC performer a year ago and was the lone golfer to contribute 100 percent counting rounds for Georgia during the 2008-09 campaign.

“I look for ‘Caro’ to continue what she’s done at Georgia,” Hester said. “She’s been very consistent. She’s been a rock. We know we can count on her. I think the younger roster will invigorate Carolina. She’s our strongest upperclassmen and I believe she’ll take on a leadership role with this young team and thrive with those responsibilities.”

Behind Silva Zamora and Andrade is a talented and hungry group of returnees and newcomers who should make the team’s qualifying rounds tremendously competitive.

“We are going to have to fight it out,” Hester said. “We have 10 people for five spots. It’s a great place to be, in terms of building your program. It’s a little tough because you’ll leave some good players at home, but come the post season, you’ll know who it is that needs to be in the lineup.”

Senior Leigh Crosby and sophomore Tess Fordham were mainstays in the Georgia lineup last season. Hester is confident each golfer has the potential to contribute even greater in 2009-10.

After struggling through the late-Fall and early-Spring, Crosby notched a quartet of consecutive counters before injuring her wrist in the opening day of the SEC Championships. After taking “wd’s” during the second and third rounds, Crosby failed to break 80 in seven NCAA rounds.

“Leigh has outstanding golf skills,” Hester said. “The ball is going to be in her court. She has the opportunity to be a mainstay in our lineup. I think that if she works hard and gets her game where The Returnees Marta Silva Zamora, it can be, then she’ll be a factor for us. Leigh is an Athens girl, and who captured both the I know she would like to have a great senior season.”

Fordham joined the Georgia lineup after the surprise departure of SEC individual title and SEC Freshman of Krystle Caithness midway through the fall. An exceptional athlete the Year honors last who came to competitive golf later than most, Fordham showed spring, gives Georgia extremely positive signs during NCAA play. She posted her best an extremely solid No. score (3-over 73) at the East Regional and then recorded her top relation-to-par tally (2-over 74) at the NCAA Championships.

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“Tess played her best golf late in the season for us and was a “Marta has to be our top returner, without huge factor in us making it to the national championship.” Hester question,” Hester said. said. “She had her best round of the year at the Regional and then “She had a fantastic bettered it at the NCAAs on a day that we really needed to count freshman year and far a good score. I think that Tess is a tremendous competitor and our surpassed any expec- hardest returning worker. I look for her to thrive this year. She’s tations that she or I going to have to continue to improve to keep her spot in the lineup, as will Leigh. But if they respond, our team will be better for it as had.” will their stroke averages.”

Marta Silva Zamora garnered a pair of victories in Brody, who was scheduled to graduate last her initial collegiate campaign, tying with teammate spring, has delayed that process to secure Mallory Hetzel at the UNLV Spring Invitational a second bachelor’s degree from UGA and and then winning the SEC Championships by four strokes. spend a full season with the Bulldogs.

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2009-10 Outlook “Melissa’s a really neat story,” Hester said. “She’s got a crazyhigh grade point average, double major, ecology and biology and is in the honors college. For her, she has a great opportunity to hone her golf skills and to get in and out of the lineup some. She’s like our ‘Rudy.’ She works hard and she pushes others to work hard.”

The Newcomers

Freshmen Emilie Burger, Abby Johnson and Kendall Wright and sophomore transfers Kiara Hayashida and Milena Savich all have the potential to crack the playing five and be major contributors throughout the fall and spring.

“All five are very hard workers,” Hester said. “Each brings something a little bit different to the table for us.”

Of the freshmen, Hester expects Burger and Wright to make the most immediate impact.

“I would have to say that Emily and Kendall are the top two freshmen,” Hester said. “It will be interesting to see who surfaces at the top collegian between the two of them. I think that they are going to have a great four-year career, and they will spar against each other. As iron sharpens iron, I think they will make each other better. But they’re both very good players and both tremendous competitors. They like to win; they don’t like to lose.

“I would say that Kendall’s strength is her distance,” Hester continued. “She’s a very long player and really has the ability to overpower a golf hole. She continues to work on her short game. How well she scores depends on how well she chips and putts. Emilie does a good job of honing all areas of her game. I think that she has been on a steady incline of improvement over the last several years of her junior career Emilie Burger (below left) and Kendall Wright so I expect to see that (below right) were two of the top junior golfers in Georgia. Hester has made keeping Peach State continue.” products at home a top priority in building the Johnson was a Bulldogs into a national contender. two-sport standout at

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Buford High School who captained the Lady Wolves basketball team to a 32-1 record and the 2009 Georgia AA State Championship. She should benefit greatly from concentrating solely on golf.

“Abby Johnson is a basketball player turned golfer,” Hester said. “She is a very good athlete who comes from a good athletic family. So she knows about competing, she knows about hard work and she has already improved tremendously just since basketball season.

She has really dedicated herself to golf and has shot some really good scores this summer.”

Milena Savich posted nine top-20s in 13 events as Hayashida, who a freshman at Michigan last season. comes to Athens from Pepperdine, and Savich, who enjoyed a strong initial collegiate campaign at Michigan, both have impressive resumes. Hayashida’s junior career was highlighted by winning the 2007 South American Junior title, while Savich was a 2007 AJGA Junior All-American and recorded nine top20 finishes in 13 tournaments a year ago.

“Milena had a great freshman year at Michigan,” Hester said. “She would have been their top returner this year. She was a strong junior golfer and had a good solid year. I think she would have had the third-best stroke average on our team last year, if you take her Michigan stroke average so I look for her to be a factor immediately.

“Kiara was also an outstanding junior golfer with a tremendous international resume,” Hester continued. “She struggled a little bit at Pepperdine last year so I’m not really sure what to expect from her. I do know that she has been defined as one of the most talented junior golfers that the IJGA Academy has seen, and we will push her to work hard and continue to get better. If she returns to her junior golf form, she will be factor as well.”

Hester is overjoyed she’ll have tough decisions to make in the coming months, especially after last year’s depth dilemmas.

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KELLEY HESTER

Head Coach • University of Georgia 1996 • Third season at UGA

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The first six-plus years of Kelley Hester’s career as a collegiate head coach were spent almost exclusively trying to put programs on the map.

On June 6, 2007, Hester accepted a decidedly different challenge when she was introduced as the head coach at the University of Georgia, her alma mater. In returning to Ath Athens, Hester was charged with furthering the status of a traditional national powerhouse.

To say that Kelley Hester and the University of Georgia are a match made in Bulldog heaven would be a gross understatement.

The native of Macon, Ga., a winding 90-minute drive through Georgia’s backroads to Athens, had known for quite a while what her dream job would be.

“I teed it up for the first time as a Bulldog in 1992, and I think I knew then that I wanted to be a coach and ultimately coach here,” Hester said when hired.

Hester’s results prior to returning to Athens proved that Georgia Golf couldn’t be in better hands.

In six years at UNLV and Arkansas, she guided those institutions – one literally in its infancy and another mired in mediocrity – and quickly lifted them to heights previously thought improbable, if not impossible.

The responsibility Hester feels in guiding Georgia Golf goes much deeper than that of your traditional coach. Not only does she want to extend the program’s status among the nation’s elite, Hester is just as dedicated to paying homage to her predecessors.

Hester watched Liz Murphey, Beans Kelly and others work tirelessly to make Athens a shining star in the women’s college golf universe. In Hester’s mind, those individuals made Georgia Golf a special entity unlike any other and playing for the Bulldogs should be an experience – both on and off the course – like no other.

“It’s hard for me to put into words how much this opportunity means to me,” Hester said. “The University of Georgia has given me so much, and I’m excited about the opportunity to come home and give back. In my mind, there’s nothing better than being a Bulldog.”

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A product of the Georgia way

Hester

Hester was a standout golfer At a glance for Georgia from 1992-96 and Full Name: in many ways, her experiences Kelley Banks as a student-athlete are what she Richardson Hester hopes to emulate for her current golfers. She excelled not only on Birthdate: the course, but in the classroom Sept. 22, 1973 and in the community as well.

Hometown: Hester was a vital member of Macon, Ga. Georgia teams that placed fourth Spouse: at the 1993 NCAA ChampionMarried Trey Hester ships and captured SEC Chamin August 1999 pionships in both 1993 and 1994. Individually, she recorded Children: 21 top-20 finishes in 40 tournaElizabeth “Bebe” born ments played from 1993-96. in March 2007 Hester also graduated cum Education: laude from Georgia, was a twoHigh School: time NGCA All-America ScholFirst Presbyterian ar, served as president of UGA’s Day School (’91) Student-Athlete Advisory ComBachelor’s: mittee (SAAC) and was selected Public Relations to be the female student-athlete Georgia (’95) to the Athletic Board as a senior.

Master’s: After two years on the Futures Sport Management Tour (1996-97), a stint as an asArkansas (’05) sistant pro at Idle Hour Club in Macon (1997-99) and a season as head coach at Mercer (1998-99), she returned the Bulldogs as an assistant coach for three highly successful teams from 1999-01.

Stops along the road back to Athens

Hester was chosen by UNLV as its first-ever women’s golf coach in February 2001 and was charged with building a team from scratch to begin competition the following fall.

Hester’s efforts paid immediate dividends. Hwanhee Lee captured medalist honors at the fourth tournament in UNLV history, and the Lady Rebels wrapped up 2002-03 with a significant team milestone – breaking 300 for the first time in the final round of the Mountain West Conference Tournament.

Though Hester left UNLV after one season, her influence on the Lady Rebel program continued. The team she put together for UNLV earned a bid to the 2004 NCAAs where Sunny Oh, a Hester signee, won the 2004 West Regional and finished 11th individually at the NCAA Championships.

Hester then ventured to her SEC roots had a similar effect on an Arkansas program which by its own admission had lost its direction. She upgraded the Lady Razorbacks’ schedule and recruiting efforts and quickly reversed Arkansas’ fortunes on the course.

Arkansas won two team titles, produced one medalist and made just one appearance in the NCAA Regionals during its first seven seasons of existence.

Hester led Arkansas to a pair of victories in her first fall in Fayetteville, a campaign that culminated with the Lady Razorbacks securing their first of five straight NCAA Regional appearances.

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A peek at the future

Arkansas advanced through Regional play for the first time ever in 2005 and posted its first top-10 effort a year later.

All the while, the Lady Razorbacks were excelling individually as well. Four different golfers claimed a combined 13 individual titles under Hester, headlined by Stacy Lewis winning the 2007 NCAA title just weeks before Hester was named Georgia’s coach.

A proven formula for success

After putting UNLV and Arkansas on the map, Hester became Georgia’s fourth women’s golf head coach and took aim on taking the Bulldogs to greater heights.

In many ways, Hester’s hiring emulated a tried and true method of success in Athens. Georgia has been extremely successful entrusting youthful head coaches, most with collegiate playing careers as Bulldogs, and watching as their programs blossomed into nation’s elite in their respective sports. Among those: Jack Bauerle, who has won four NCAA titles and was head coach of the 2008 U.S. Women’s Olympic Swimming Team; Andy Landers, whose Lady Bulldogs have reached five Final Fours; baseball’s David Perno, who has led UGA to three College World Series in his first seven seasons; Jeff Wallace, who has led Georgia to two NCAA titles in women’s tennis; and Suzanne Yoculan, whose Gym Dogs have captured 10 NCAA titles including the last five crowns.

◊ NGCA Past president ◊ Coach of Stacy Lewis, 2007 NCAA medalist ◊ LPGA Teaching Pro

The 2009-10 campaign may be Hester’s third at Georgia but is the first in terms of where she sees the Playing Career future of her program. The Bulldogs ◊ Three-time All-SEC feature an extremely deep 10-golfer (1993, ’95 & ’96) roster that includes no less than six Peach State products, as opposed to ◊ Two-time NGCA just one Georgia native in her first All-Scholar (1995 & ’96) season in Athens. ◊ Member of 1993 & 1994 “Georgia has produced some SEC Champions great golfers and I feel like the best ◊ Three-time qualifier for way for us to grow junior girls’ golf the U.S. Women’s Am in the state is to keep the best play◊ Participant in the 1996 ers at home and have them here,” U.S. Women’s Open Hester said. “I take a lot of pride that I’m from Georgia and I had Coaching Career the wonderful opportunity to play Mercer here. I would love to be able to help ’98-99 Head Coach other players to have that same exUniversity of Georgia perience. We’ll still continue to re’99-01 Asst. Coach cruit the best players in the country and some of the best players in the Nevada-Las Vegas world. My goal is to have a good ’01-02 Head Coach combination.”

Arkansas Hester’s goals don’t stop with ’02-07 Head Coach having a talented roster. She foreGeorgia sees molding those golfers into a ’07-pres. Head Coach well-rounded unit that succeeds on every front, both as a team and individually. That, in turn, will keep Georgia Golf near the top of the college golf universe and put the Bulldogs close to Hester’s ultimate aspiration of winning “national titles”...with a distinct emphasis on that “s.”

Scholarship Endowments help ensure the future of UGA Athletics

In an effort to permanently fund UGA student-athlete scholarTo date, more than 200 scholarships have been endowed. As ships, the University of Georgia Athletic Association founded listed below, three of those are exclusively for women’s golf and the Athletic Scholarship Endowment Program. The Endowment two additional which include women’s golf for 2009-10.

Program allows friends of the Athletic Association to invest in the educational opportunities of our deserving student-athletes Mary B. Dinos Women’s Golf Scholarship Endowment through endowing a named scholarship for $150,000.

2009-10 Recipient: Tess Fordham The Athletic Association does not receive University, State or Federal funding to cover the full costs of in-state and out of state Vickie and Leon Farmer Scholarship Endowment student-athlete scholarships. The interest generated from the 2008-09 Recipient: Emilie Burger endowment is critical in offsetting the scholarship costs for our current student-athletes. As the costs of higher education escalate, Women’s Golf Scholarship Endowment building a strong endowment is crucial to enhancing the lives of 2008-09 Recipient: Marta Silva Zamora our student-athletes while preparing them for life beyond athletics. Contact the Athletic Association at 877-GA-DAWGS today Robert E. Dicks, III Athletic Scholarship Endowment Benefits a member of the football, men’s golf or women’s golf team to learn more about endowment opportunities for one of UGA’s 2009-10 Recipient: Leigh Crosby 21 varsity sports.

All Athletic Scholarship Endowment Donors are invited to an Ramsey Academic Scholarship annual dinner where they have the opportunity to connect with 2009-10 Recipient: Carolina Andrade the recipient of their scholarship.

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MARGARET SHIRLEY

Assistant Coach • Auburn University 2008 • First season at UGA

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Margaret Shirley, a native of Roswell, Ga., and a two-time winner of the Yamaha Georgia Women’s Open, was named assistant coach for the Bulldogs in July 2009.

“Margaret brings many great things to the table,” Kelley Hester said. “She has great ties to junior golf and golf in general inside the state of Georgia. One of my primary goals is to help with grassroots efforts in growing girls’ golf in the state. I think that Margaret can definitely assist with that.”

Shirley was a standout golfer at Auburn from 2004-08 and is one of seven players in the program’s history to compete in four straight NCAA Championships. She won the Georgia Women’s Open in both 2006 and 2008 while competing as an amateur.

Beans Kelly

Volunteer Assistant Coach

Bryant Odom

Hall of Fame coach Eileen “Beans” Kelly is in her second season as a volunteer assis-tant coach with the Bulldogs. A resident of Litchfield Beach, S.C., Kelly will take part in practice sessions when she’s in Athens (gen(gen erally on home football weekends for those of you who know her), will attend tournaments on occasion and will help strengthen alumni relations.

Earlier this year, she launched Beans@TheBeach LLC earlier this year, advertising “beach concierge services” for vacationers and lining up nine weeks of summer camps for kids.

“Beans has such a huge influence on my as a coach and on the entire Georgia Women’s Golf program,” head coach Kelley Hester said. “I think it’s great for these kids to experience Beans first-hand as our volunteer assistant coach.”

Kelly played for Georgia from 1981-83, including teams that produced top-five national finishes in 1982 and 1983 and won the 1983 SEC Championship. After a pro playing stint, Kelly returned to Athens to coach UGA from 1986-2000. She was National Coach of the Year in 1998 and led Georgia to eight top-10 finishes and coached Vicki Goetze to the 1992 NCAA individual title.

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Shirley

Shirley was a three-time AllAt a glance SEC performer for the Tigers and also was named to the SEC Personal Community Service Team on Full Name: three occasions. She helped AuMargaret Leslie Shirley burn capture back-to-back SEC Championships during her freshBirthdate: man and sophomore years, placMarch 26, 1986 ing third individually in 2006 Hometown: after tying for 16th in 2005. ShirRoswell, Ga. ley also led the Tigers at the 2008 Education: SECs where she tied for fourth in High School: the individual field.

Lassiter (‘04) Shirley also enjoyed a very Bachelor’s: successful junior career. She reCommunications corded five top-10 finishes on Auburn (‘08) the AJGA Tour. Shirley helped Lassiter High School capture Playing Career the Georgia AAAAA state title ◊ Three-time second-team as a freshman in 2001 and tied All-SEC honoree (with former Georgia All-Amer◊ Three-time member of ican Garrett Phillips) for medalthe SEC Community ist honors at the 2004 Georgia Service team AAAAA State Championships as a senior.

Coaching Career In 2008, Shirley received her bachelor’s degree in CommuniUniversity of Georgia cations from Auburn, where she ’09Asst. Coach minored in Sport Coaching. She played professionally on the Suncoast Series in 2008-09. posting two wins and finishing as the Tour’s leading money winner.

Graduate Assistant

Former Bulldog All-American Bryant Odom will serve as the Georgia Golf’s graduate assistant for the 2009-10 season.

Odom, a native of Cartersville, lettered for the Bulldogs from 1999-2002, garnered AllAmerica honors in 2001 and 2002 and was a three-time All-SEC selection. During Odom’s playing career in Athens, the Bulldogs won 13 tournaments, including the 1999 NCAA Championship and the 2000 and 2001 SEC titles. Odom also won medalist honors at the 2001 SECs. Odom also excelled in the classroom. He was named to SEC Academic Honor Roll four straight seasons. Odom graduated in 2002 with a degree in Sports Studies and will be working toward a master’s in Sports Management this year.

Odom played professionally from 2002-05 and again in 2008.

He competed in more than 70 events in five countries on the Nationwide, NGA Hooters and Tarheel tours. From 2006-07, Odom was the PGA Apprentice Professional at Ocean Forest Golf Club on Sea Island, Ga. Odom is married to the former Abbi Francis, who was a twoyear letterwinner for the Georgia women’s golf team.

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Administration & Support Staff Dr. Michael F. Adams University President

Damon Evans

Dr. Michael F. Adams was named the 21st president of the University of Georgia on June 11, 1997. He immediately focused on securing UGA’s future as one of America’s premier public research universities.

Widely recognized as a leader in higher education administration, he also has held a number of significant leadership positions in intercollegiate athletics. He is currently the chairman of the NCAA Executive Committee, the highest governance body in the NCAA. He has been chair of the Southeastern Conference and is a member of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. A college athlete himself – he lettered in track at Lipscomb – he values athletics as an important part of the college experience for athletes and non-athletes alike.

Dr. Adams recently completed a term as chairman of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges. He is the only person to have served as chair of that organization, the American Council on Education and National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. He has been chair of the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the accrediting body for higher education in the Southern U.S. He holds a doctorate in political communications with cognate studies in educational administration and a master’s in political communications from the Ohio State University, and a bachelor’s degree in speech and history from Lipscomb. At UGA, he holds an academic appointment as a professor of speech communication.

Director Of Athletics

UGA football letterwinner and double degree holder Damon Evans was selected as Director of Athletics in December 2003 and assumed the duties officially on July 1, 2004.

At the time, Evans was just 34 years of age, and one of the youngest athletic directors in the country. However, he had already established himself as an up-and-coming athletic administrator. Evans has received several honors, including being named to both Street and Smith’s Sports Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” list in 2004, 2005 and 2007 and to Sports Illustrated’s “101 Most Influential Minorities in Sports” as well as being honored by the UGA Terry College of Business as its “Outstanding Young Alumnus.”

Today, Evans oversees a nationally recognized program with 21 intercollegiate teams involving more than 600 student-athletes, a $84 million budget and a 260-person staff. He is a member of several SEC and NCAA committees, and is involved in volunteer and community service roles across the state of Georgia.

Under Evans’ leadership, Georgia squads have captured 11 national championships and 20 SEC Championships. In his five years as Director of Athletics, Georgia has finished seventh, ninth, 12th, 10th and 18th nationally in the Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup, by which NACDA annually recognizes the country’s most successful overall athletic programs.

A native of Gainesville, Ga., and a wide receiver for the Bulldogs from 1988-92, Evans earned two degrees from UGA, a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1992 and a master’s of education in sports management in 1994.

UGA Athletic Association Senior Staff & Golf Support Staff

Jere Morehead Faculty Athletics Representative

Executive Associate AD Finance/Administration

Senior Associate AD Student Services/SWA

Carla Williams

Arthur Johnson

Claude Felton

Matt Brachowski

Glada Horvat

Eric Baumgartner

Associate AD Sports Communications

Steve Bryant Athletic Training

Frank Crumley

Assistant AD Event Management

Claire Foggin

Academic Counselor

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Assistant AD Academics/Eligibility

Assistant AD Compliance

Josh Rucci

Denise Saliba

Strength/Conditioning

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Alan Thomas Associate AD External Affairs

Craig White

Associate AD Sports/Operations Women’s Golf Administrator

Charles Whittemore Assistant AD Facilities

Brenton Shiver

Marketing/Promotions

Dave Muia

Special Assistant To Director Of Athletics

Dave Williams

Event Management

2009-10 Georgia Golf

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Meet the Bulldogs

CAROLINA ANDRADE 5-7 • Senior • Right-handed • Cadiz, Spain • IES Pablo Ruiz Picasso

2008-09 Season

P R E V I E W

Prep/Amateur

◊ Enjoyed a stellar season both ◊ Placed third at the 2006 Spanish U18s after being on and off the course. the first- and second-round ◊ Earned second-team All-SEC leader. honors, as well as spots on ◊ Member of the Spanish Team both the SEC Community which finished first in Service and the NGCA Allstroke play and then was America Scholar teams. the runner-up at the 2006 ◊ The only Bulldog to notch counting scores for all 31 loops European Girls’ Team Georgia played in 2008-09.

Championships. ◊ Posted four top-20 finishes in nine events and missed two more ◊ Helped Spain to third place at top-20s by a single stroke. the 2005 European Girls’ ◊ Notched her first collegiate top-10 with a seventh-place Team Championships. showing at Auburn. ◊ Medalist at three Andalucian Regional events – the 2004 Ladies Open, the 2003 15◊ Qualified for the lineup for all 13 events and posted in 28 16 age group and the 2003 counting rounds (75.8 percent).

Ladies Open Foursomes ◊ Top individual finish was a tie for 16th at Stanford, her – as well as the 2003 U21 first career top 20. Also a top-20 finisher at both the Liz International Championship Murphey and the SECs. of Andalucia. ◊ Posted an undefeated 3-0-1 record to help Georgia to a runner◊ Member of Andalucian age up finish at the Hooter’s/NGCA Collegiate Match Play. group teams which won Secured decisive wins over opponents from New Mexico four Spanish titles – U16 (3-and-2), Auburn (4-and-3) and Florida (4-and-3) before (twice) and U21 (twice). halving her match with Duke in the final. ◊ Reached the quarterfinals of the 2004 British Am. ◊ Placed fifth in stroke play ◊ Member of the playing five for five of 11 tournaments. qualifying and then reached ◊ Competed in the first three tournaments of the fall and chipped the Round of 16 at the 2004 in six counting rounds and three par-or-better loops.

Girls’ British Amateur. ◊ Opened her collegiate career with an even-par 72 at the Mason ◊ Won the 2003 Spanish Ladies’ Rudolph which helped Georgia post an 8-under 280...the Closed Foursomes Match second best team round in the Bulldogs’ history.

Play title. ◊ Paced Georgia with a 1-under 71 in the first round of the Golf ◊ Finished 11th in stroke play Daytona Beach Fall Preview, a wire-to-wire victory for the at the 2003 Girls’ British Bulldogs.

Amateur and advanced the ◊ Posted a pair of par-or-better tallies on her way to tying for 24th round of 16. at the Preview. ◊ One of four golfers chosen to represent Spain in the 2002 English Open under-16 Stroke Play competition.

2007-08 Season

2006-07 Season

Personal

Carolina’s Scorecard

Career Statistics

sEason T RD STK AVG LOW ’06-07 5 15 1140 76.00 71 ’07-08 12 37 2790 75.41 71 ’08-09 11 31 2325 75.00 70 totaLs 28 83 6255 75.36 70 TOP 10 FINISHES: 1 (0/0/1) TOP 20 FINISHES: 7 (0/3/4) PAR OR BETTER ROUNDS: 13 (3/5/5) BEST FINISH: T7th – 2008 Auburn-Derby LOW ROUND: 70 [-2] 2009 UNLV-2nd 70 [-2} 2008 Fall Preview-2nd LOW TOURNAMENT: 219 [+3] 2008 Cougar Classic 219 [+3] 2008 Auburn-Derby

2006-07 Scores

T27 T24 T58 31 T56

Mason Rudolph .......72-76-73=221 Fall Preview .............71-80-72=223 Mercedes-Benz .......74-81-81=236 Puerto Rico ..............76-75-74=225 Liz Murphey .............78-79-78=235

T31 T42 T44 T16 T26 T41 T39 T18 T38 T20 T55 T54

Mason Rudolph .......74-76-72=222 Fall Preview .............77-77-71=225 Lady Tar Heel ..........79-73-75=227 Stanford Inter. .........72-76-72=220 Puerto Rico ..............77-74-73=224 UCF Challenge ........75-75-72=222 LSU Classic .............76-77-76=229 Liz Murphey .............78-79-73=230 ASU Classic.............80-73-72=225 SECs .......................77-76-78=231 NCAA East...............77-74-80=231 NCAAs ............... 77-78-78-71=304

20 T21 7 T24 T16 T22 T19 T35 T32 T30 T75

Fall Preview ..........76-70-76=222 Cougar Classic .....74-73-72=219 Auburn-Derby .......74-72-73=219 NGCA Q’fing ..............74-73=147 Puerto Rico ...........73-76-79=228 UNLV Invitational ..81-70-74=225 Liz Murphey ...................... 76=76 Bryan National ......75-77-78=230 SECs ....................77-77-72=226 NCAA East............73-77-71=221 NCAAs .............82-79-71-80=312

2007-08 Scores

2008-09 Scores

◊ Born August 25, 1987, Carolina is the daughter of Jose Maria and Philippa Andrade, who are golf professionals at Novo Sancti Petri Golf Club. ◊ Major: International Business. ◊ Recipient of the Georgia Women’s Golf Scholarship Endowment for 2007-08. ◊ Recipient of the Mary B. Dinos Women’s Golf Scholarship for 2008-09. ◊ Recipient of the prestigious Ramsey Academic Scholarship for 2009-10.

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MELISSA BRODY 5-7 • Senior • Right-handed • Atlanta, Ga. • Riverwood High School

Melissa’s Scorecard

2008-09 Season

◊ Joined the Bulldogs as a walkon after the holiday break. ◊ Competed as an individual for Career Statistics the Liz Murphey and then sEason T RD STK AVG LOW moved into the playing five ’08-09 2 4 344 86.00 82 totaLs 2 4 344 86.00 82 for the Bryan National. ◊ A Phi Beta Kappa student BEST FINISH: T75th – 2009 Liz Murphey who, in essence, completed LOW ROUND: requirements to receive 82 [+10] 2009 Liz Murphey-1st her degree in Biology LOW TOURNAMENT: last spring but delayed 82 [+10] 2009 Liz Murphey graduation to earn a second 2008-09 Scores degree in Ecology and be a T75 Liz Murphey .........................82=82 member of the Bulldogs for 95 Bryan National .........84-86-92=262 a complete season. ◊ Has been named a Presidential Scholar (4.0) or to the Dean’s List (3.5-3.99) every semester at Georgia.

Prep/Amateur

◊ Four-year captain of the girls’ golf team at Riverwood High School. ◊ Was a finalist for Georgia’s Female High School StudentAthlete of the Year as a senior in 2005.

◊ Tied for medalist honors at the Region 5AAA Championship as a senior before losing in a sudden-death playoff. ◊ Named to the All-Fulton County team as a senior. ◊ Placed second individually at the Region 5AAA Championship as a sophomore and junior. ◊ Served as captain of Riverwood’s golf, soccer and basketball teams as a senior. ◊ Also a four-year letterwinner in soccer and a two-year letterwinner in basketball. ◊ Named Riverwood’s Gatorade Player of the Year for soccer as a junior and a senior and also tabbed MVP of the basketball team as a senior. ◊ Helped lead Riverwood’s soccer team to the semifinals of the Class AAA State Tournament as a senior.

Personal

◊ Born February 9, 1987, Melissa is the daughter of Janet and Richard Brody. ◊ Majors: Biology & Ecology. ◊ Her sister, Sarah, played soccer from 2002-04 at Emory University in Atlanta.

EMILIE BURGER 5-9 • Freshman • Right-handed • Hoschton, Ga. • Mill Creek High School

Prep/Amateur

◊ Selected All-State by the GHSGCA in 2008 and 2009. ◊ Impressive resume includes stellar results on the junior and high ◊ Advanced to the 2008 U.S. Girls’ school levels.

Junior by ◊ Qualified for the 2009 U.S. Women’s winning a Am, where she advanced to match play qualifier in before falling in the first round.

Midlothian, ◊ Finished sixth at the 2009 AJGA Rolex Va., and then reached the second round of Tournament of Champion match play at the Girls’ Junior. ◊ Compiled a 2-2 record playing for the East ◊ The 2007 and 2008 Southern Junior Golf squad during the 2009 Canon Cup. Tour’s Tour Champion and also the 2008 ◊ In 2009, won both the Carolinas-Georgia SJGT Player of the Year.

Junior Invitational and the SJGT Four◊ From 2006-08, recorded a dozen wins (four in Ball Mixed Team Tournament. each year), six runner-up finishes and a total ◊ Led Mill Creek High School to of 28 top-five efforts while competing in consecutive Georgia AAAAA state AJGA, SJGT and PJGT events. championships as a junior and a senior. ◊ Secured the Georgia AAAAA individual state title as a junior and finished as ◊ Born March 2, 1991, Emilie is the daughter runner-up during her senior campaign. of Gary (who played football at South ◊ Posted 23 par-or-better tallies (9- or 18Carolina) and Joan (a UGA grad) Burger. hole scores) during her sophomore, ◊ Intended Major: Sport Management. junior and senior seasons at Mill Creek. ◊ Recipient of the “AJC Cup” for Mill Creek ◊ Recipient of the Vickie & Leon Farmer as the schools’ best all around senior.

Scholarship for 2009-10.

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LEIGH CROSBY 5-4 • Senior • Right-handed • Athens, Ga. • Oconee County High School

2008-09 Season

P R E V I E W

◊ In the Bulldogs’ lineup for all 11 events, contributing 12.67 counting rounds. ◊ Posted five straight counters in the spring before a wrist injury at the SECs forced her to withdraw for the second and third rounds.

2006-08 & 2007-08 Seasons

◊ Competed at UCF as a freshman and sophomore. ◊ Tabbed third-team All-Conference USA by league coaches. ◊ In the Golden Knights’ lineup for 15 of 20 events in her two seasons at UCF and chipped in 78.8 percent counting scores. ◊ Carded a pair of 1-under 71s en route to a 6-over 222 and a career-best tie for 15th at the 2008 Lady Puerto Rico Classic.

Prep/Amateur

◊ Began playing golf at the relatively late age of 14. ◊ Carded an event-record 69 to win the 2006 Georgia Peach Tourney, topping a field of 120 of the state’s top prep golfers. ◊ Shot 72 to finish second individually and lead Oconee County to a runner-up finish at the Georgia Class AAA State Tournament as a senior in 2006.

◊ Posted 17 top-10 finishes on the SJGT from 2003-06, including a win at the 2005 Junior at Opelika, Ala. ◊ Won the 2008 Georgia Top 60 Classic featuring the state’s top ladies amateurs. ◊ Quarterfinalist at the 2007 North and South Am.

Personal

◊ Born October 8, 1987, Leigh is the daughter of Craig and Paula Crosby. ◊ Her brother, Taylor, was a two-year letterman for the Georgia men’s golf team. ◊ Major: Sociology. ◊ Recipient of the Georgia Women’s Golf Scholarship Endowment for 2008-09. ◊ Recipient of the Robert E. Dicks III Athletic Scholarship for 2009-10.

Leigh’s UGA Scorecard

Career Statistics

sEason T RD STK AVG LOW ’06-08 15 44 3459 78.61 71 ’08-09 11 29 2357 81.28 76 totaLs 26 73 5816 79.67 71 TOP 20 FINISHES: 2 (0/2/0) PAR OR BETTER ROUNDS: 4 (1/3/0) BEST FINISH: 15th – 2008 Puerto Rico LOW ROUND: 71 [-1] 2008 Puerto Rico-1st & 3rd LOW TOURNAMENT: 222 [+6] 2008 Puerto Rico 58 T85 83 T74 T60 95 T39 68

2008-09 Scores

Fall Preview .........79-78-82=239 Cougar Classic ....76-77-83=236 Auburn-Derby ......79-88-80=247 Match Play Q’fing .....84-76=160 Puerto Rico ..........78-77-85=240 UNLV Invitational .90-89-78=257 Liz Murphey ..................... 78=78 Bryan National .....79-79-78=236 SECs ..........................78-wd-wd 104 NCAA East ...........82-86-83=251 123 NCAAs ............87-80-87-81=335

TESS FORDHAM 5-5 • Sophomore • Right-handed • Metter, Ga. • Metter High School

2008-09 Season

◊ Garnered four junior titles: SJGT Jekyll Island Junior ◊ Made her collegiate debut at and GPGA Sea Palms Junior the Auburn and remained in in 2007, GPGA Wilmington the lineup for eight of the Career Statistics Island Junior in 2006 and final nine events. sEason T RD STK AVG LOW the GPGA Junior Tour ◊ Began the spring campaign ’08-09 8 22 1757 79.86 73 totaLs 8 22 1757 79.86 73 Championship in 2004. with a career-best tie for ◊ Won the GSGA’s under-14 title TOP 20 FINISHES: 0 (0) 39th at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic.

BEST FINISH: in 2003. ◊ Posted her best gross and relation-to-par rounds of the season T39th – 2009 Puerto Rico ◊ As a 10-year-old, quarterduring NCAA play – a 3-over 73 in the East Regional first backed a boys’ football team LOW ROUNDS: round (to tie Carolina Andrade for UGA’s low tally that day) 73 [+3] 2009 NCAA East-1st to an undefeated season and a 2-over 74 on the third day of the NCAAs. 74 [+2} 2009 NCAAs-3rd and finished third in the LOW TOURNAMENT: state Punt, Pass and Kick 229 [+19] 2009 NCAA East competition. ◊ Captured medalist honors at the 2007 and 2008 Georgia AA 2008-09 Scores State Championships while also leading Metter to its firstT67 Auburn-Derby .......82-79-78=239 T66 Match Play Q’fing ......80-77=157 ever team title as a senior.

T39 Puerto Rico ...........78-79-79=236 ◊ Born April 11, 1990, the ◊ In addition, finished second individually in Class AA as a T76 UNLV Invitational ..86-77-80=243 daughter of Jincy and Dale freshman and third during her sophomore campaign.

96 Liz Murphey ...................... 88=88 Fordham. ◊ Fired a tourney-record of 4-under 68 to win the 2008 Georgia T49 SECs ....................78-78-80=236 T67 NCAA East............73-78-78=229 Peach Tournament, an all-classification event featuring more ◊ Intended Major: Pre-Business 118 NCAAs .............82-88-74-85=329 (Accounting). than 300 prep golfers from throughout the state. ◊ Recipient of the Mary B. Dinos ◊ Posted four wins, 28 top-5s and 47 top-10s in 52 events Women’s Golf Scholarship for 2009-10. sponsored by the SJGT, the AJGA and the Georgia PGA.

Tess’s Scorecard

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KIARA HAYASHIDA 5-7 • Sophomore • Right-handed • Lima, Peru • Heritage Academy • Tr.-Pepperdine

Prep/Amateur

2008-09 Season

◊ Ranked as Peru’s top amateur in 2008 and a member of Peru’s national team for the South American Amateur Championships from 2004-08. ◊ Prepped at the Hank Haney International Junior Golf Academy (with current teammate Marta Silva Zamora) as a junior and senior. ◊ Attended the Peruvian North American Abraham Lincoln School for her first two years of high school. ◊ Won the 2007 South American Junior where she posted a twostroke victory over UCLA’s Maria Jose Uribe, the 2007 U.S. Women’s Amateur Champion. ◊ Won Peru’s National Match Play Championship in 2005, as well as the Callaway Junior World Championship and the Doral Publix Junior Classic in 2001.

◊ Saw action in four events as a freshman at Pepperdine, posting a stroke average of 77.09 in 11 rounds. ◊ Best finish was a tie for 17th place at the Wave Invitational, where she shot 72-80=152. ◊ Recorded her best finish in a full tournament by tying for 39th at the Dick McGuire Invitational (80-73-78=231). ◊ Carded a 3-under 69 in the third round of the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown, her only sub-par round of the season.

Personal

◊ Born August 17, 1990, Kiara is the daughter of Luis Fernando Hayashida and Carmen de Hayashida. ◊ Intended Major: Art. ◊ Erika Hayashida, her aunt, was medalist at the 1992 U.S. Girls’ Junior, reached the match play finals of the 1993 U.S. Girls’ Junior and played on the LPGA Tour

ABBY JOHNSON 5-10 • Freshman • Right-handed • Buford, Ga. • Buford High School

Prep/Amateur

◊ Strong all-around athlete and competitor who should benefit greatly from focusing solely on golf. ◊ A four-year letterwinner in both golf and basketball at Buford. ◊ Helped lead the Lady Wolves to a 29-6 record in duel matches from 2007-09. ◊ Recorded back-to-back individual finishes at the Georgia Class AA Championships as a sophomore and junior. ◊ Finished fourth in Class AA in 2007, three shots off the pace of winner Tess Fordham, her current teammate at Georgia. ◊ Won medalist honors for Region 6AA in 2008 and then tied for fifth at the AA State Championship Tournament.

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◊ Won the 2008 SJGT Southeastern Junior in Columbus, Ga., in 2008 and also posted runner-up finishes at SJGT’s Fallen Oak Junior and West Lake Junior. ◊ Recorded 14 top-10 finishes on the SJGT from 2006-09. ◊ Played post and shooting guard for Buford’s highly successful basketball team. ◊ Earned Buford Basketball’s Most Improved Award as a freshman and Hustle Award as a sophomore and a junior before serving as team captain as a senior. ◊ Helped the Lady Wolves capture the 2009 Class AA State Championship while recording a 32-1 record.

Personal

◊ Born August 14, 1991, Abby is the daughter of Bill and Dawn Johnson. ◊ From an extremely athletic family. Her father was a four-year letterwinner at Northwestern Louisiana who is the current defensive line coach for the New Orleans Saints, while her older brother Billy is a redshirt freshman snapper on the Georgia football team. ◊ Intended Major: Sport Management.

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MARTA SILVA zAMORA 5-5 • Sophomore • Right-handed • Santiago de Compostela, Spain • Heritage Academy

2008-09 Season

P R E V I E W

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4 after shooting 1-under 142 to win the Verizon ◊ Enjoyed a stellar initial Junior, where she tied Paula collegiate campaign which Creamer’s tournament featured All-America Career Statistics record with a 5-under 67 in recognition from Golfweek sEason T RD STK AVG LOW the first round, and again (third team) and the NGCA ’08-09 11 31 2282 73.61 67 totaLs 11 31 2282 73.61 67 on May 12 after winning (honorable mention), as the IJGT at Falcon’s Fire by well as also being tabbed SEC Freshman of the Year and firstTOP 10 FINISHES: 5 (5) TOP 20 FINISHES: 7 (7) eight shots. team All-SEC. PAR OR BETTER ROUNDS: 13 (13) ◊ Recorded four more top-10s Became Georgia’s league-best eighth SEC Freshman of the BEST FINISH: in 2007-08: second at IJGT Year in women’s golf.

1st – 2009 SECs at Emerald Greens, fourth at Led the Bulldogs in stroke average (73.61), par-or-better rounds T1st – 2009 UNLV Invitational Golfweek Junior, fifth at the (13) and top-5 finishes (five).

LOW ROUND: Scott Robertson Memorial Fired a season-low 4-under 67 in the second round of the SEC 67 [-4] 2009 SECs-1st 68 [-4] 2008 Match Play Q’fying-2nd and ninth at AJGA Mizuno Championships in Blythewood, S.C. to grab the individual LOW TOURNAMENT: Junior at Innisbrook. lead en route to and eventual four-shot win over the field.

210 [-6] 2008 Cougar Clasic Led wire-to-wire while sharing medalist honors with teammate ◊ Stellar international results 2008-09 Scores include a victory at the Mallory Hetzel at the UNLV Spring Invitational...after a T26 Fall Preview ..........72-71-82=225 2006 International Portugal birdie at No. 18 pushed Hetzel into a tie, Silva Zamora, 3 Cougar Classic .....70-70-70=210 Championship and a runnerplaying in the next (and final) group, lipped out an eight-foot T24 Auburn-Derby .......81-75-72=228 up showing at the 2007 birdie putt for the outright win.

T10 Match Play Q’fing ......76-68=144 T4 Puerto Rico ...........73-74-74=221 French Ladies’ Juniors’.

Finished third individually at the Cougar Classic after finishing T1 UNLV Invitational ..70-74-70=214 ◊ Posted a 2-1 mark for Europe at 6-under 210, a tally that tied the fifth-best relation-to-par T19 Liz Murphey ...................... 76=76 in a 14-10 win in the 2007 effort in Georgia history.

T63 Bryan National ......87-71-77=236 PING Junior Solheim Cup. 1 SECs ....................72-67-71=210 ◊ Represented Spain at the T19 NCAA East............76-71-72=219 T25 NCAAs .............75-72-76-77=300 European Girls’ Team Graduated from Heritage Academy while training at the Hank Championships from 2005Haney International Junior Golf Academy in Hilton Head 08, with Carolina Andrade as a teammate in 2005. after attending her first two years of high school in Spain. ◊ In 2005 and 2006, helped Spain to first-place showings in Finished fourth at the 2009 Spanish Women’s Amateur. stroke play qualifying with Represented Spain in the 2009 European individual performances of fifth and Ladies Amateur Team Championships, sixth, respectively. where she finished fifth individually ◊ Posted a 3-1-1 record in match play in stroke play qualifying and helped competition in helping Spain to a Spain to a fourth-place effort in the runner-up finish in 2007. match play bracket. ◊ Finished fourth at the 2006 European Enjoyed two extremely impressive Young Masters after placing fifth at showings in professional events on the the same event in 2005.

Ladies’ European Tour (LET) in 2008. ◊ In 2004, won both the Doral Publix Shot 6-under 282 to tie for fifth – Junior Classic and the Lacoste and bypass a check for €14,460 Tournament. (approximately $22,600 at exchange rates at that time) – at the Tenerife Ladies’ Open in June. ◊ Born January 9, 1990, Marta is the Tied for 26th at the Women’s Spanish daughter of Jesus Silva and Maria Open in April, where she was tied for del Coro Zamora. sixth at 1-under at the midway point. ◊ Intended Major: Pre-Business Posted a quartet of junior wins during (Marketing).

2007-08, claiming titles at the IJGT at ◊ A cast member of the Golf Channel’s Saddlebrook Resort in October 2007, reality show “School of Golf” during the Verizon Junior Heritage and the her senior year of high school along IJGT at Kiawah Island Resort both with other students attending the in February 2008 and the IJGT at Hank Haney IJGA. Falcon’s Fire in May 2008. ◊ Recipient of the Georgia Women’s Twice named Golfweek’s Amateur Player Golf Scholarship for 2009-10. of the Week in 2008...first on February

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MILENA SAVICH 5-6 • Sophomore • Right-handed • Carmel, Ind. • Carmel High School • Tr.-Michigan

2008-09 Season

◊ Member of Michigan’s lineup for every event and its top individual finisher in six of 13 tournaments. ◊ Paced the Wolverines with nine top-20s and six top-10s and also posted the team’s second-best stroke average (77.04). ◊ Best finish was a tie for fourth at the Challenge at Wolfdancer. ◊ Notched three par-or-better loops including a 3-under 69 in the second round of The Landfall Tradition. ◊ Helped Michigan capture team titles at both the Wolverine and the Red Rocks Invitationals.

Prep/Amateur

◊ Named All-State by the IHSAA in 2006 and 2007 and ranked as the state’s top prospect in 2007 by the AJGA and Golfweek. ◊ Survived a seven-hole playoff in Sectional Qualifier to earn an alternate spot in the 2008 U.S. Open field but ultimately did not compete. ◊ Competed in the 2008 U.S. Women’s Am.

◊ An honorable mention member of the AJGA’s Rolex Junior AllAmerica team in 2007. ◊ Shot 71-75=146 to tie for medalist honors at the 2007 Indiana State Finals before falling in a two-hole playoff. ◊ Helped Carmel to a pair of top-10 team finishes at the Indiana State Finals, ninth in 2007 and fifth in 2004. ◊ Won regional medalist honors as a junior and senior and captured conference individual titles in her final three seasons at Carmel.

Personal

◊ Born March 20, 1990, Milena is the daughter of Fanny and Rade Savich. ◊ Her father played football at Central Michigan and her younger sister Ariana also is a standout golfer. ◊ Intended Major: Pre-Business.

(Marketing).

KENDALL WRIGHT 5-8 • Freshman • Right-handed • Duluth, Ga. • Whitmore School

Prep/Amateur

◊ A 10-time winner on the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) Georgia PGA Junior Tour (GPGAJT), Southeastern Junior Golf Tour (SJGT) between 2007-09, with five wins in 2007, seven in 2008 and two (while playing an abbreviated schedule) in 2009. ◊ Also recorded 16 runner-up and 38 total top-five finishes in 48 tournaments played from 2007-09. ◊ Shot 4-under 140 to tie (with former Georgia All-American and LPGA Tour player Angela Jerman) for third at the 2009 Yamaha Georgia Women’s Open.

Finished a stroke off the pace to earn a spot in a play-off. ◊ Came within a stroke of reaching a playoff for a qualifying spot for the 2009 U.S. Women’s Open. Shot 147 at the Sectional Qualifier in Sanford, N.C. Three golfers who shot 146 played for the final spot in the Open field from that site. ◊ Selected by the GSGA to play in the 29th Annual Georgia-Florida Team Matches in August 2009.

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◊ Won the GPGAJT’s Tour Championship in both 2007 and 2008. ◊ Shot 4-under 138 en route to a resounding 10-stroke win at the AJGA’s 2008 Medicus Preseason Junior at Chateau Elan. ◊ Posted rounds of 69-78 to finish at 3-over 147 and as runner-up at the 2008 Top 60 Classic, a GSGA tournament featuring most of the state’s top female amateurs. ◊ Finished as runner-up (to current UGA teammate Emilie Burger) at the 2008 CarolinasGeorgia Junior Championship.

Personal

◊ Born August March 22, 1991, Kendall is the daughter of Tom and Karla Wright. ◊ Intended Major: Speech Communication.

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Personality Profiles Kelley Hester

P R E V I E W

Favorite Movie: Sixteen Candles Favorite TV Show: Wipeout!

Favorite Song: Pale Blue Eyes Favorite Club: putter...I’m a great putter Course I would like to play: Pine Valley People would be surprised to know...I love the Grateful Dead & I love to play blackjack Best advice I’ve been given: If you don’t believe in yourself, you can’t expect anyone else to. Mom. Greatest achievement in golf: Playing in the 1996 U.S. Open Describe Margaret Shirley in 10 words: Wise beyond her years

Melissa Brody

Favorite Movie: A League of Their Own Favorite TV Show: The Office Favorite Reality Show: The Bachelorette Favorite Book: Catcher in the Rye Favorite Song: Under Pressure Favorite Club: 56 degree wedge Pre-round superstition: Jam out to MmmBop People would be surprised to know...I was so close to playing soccer in college Rounding out my dream foursome: Adam Scott, Lorena Ochoa & Jack Nicklaus Describe Margaret Shirley in 10 words: A little fireball

Tess Fordham

Favorite Movie: Happy Gilmore Favorite Reality Show: The Bachelor Favorite Song: Rumor Has It Favorite Club: 8 iron Rounding out my dream foursome: My dad, Tiger Woods & Phil Mickelson Most famous person I’ve met: Johnny Miller Best advice I’ve been given: Never let anyone out work you. If someone hits 100 golf balls, hit 101. Gregg Wolff.

Greatest golf achievement: signing with UGA Golf is the most frustrating game because... you can play great for 17 holes and play one bad hole and mess up a good round

Milena Savich

Favorite Movie: My Big Fat Greek Wedding Favorite Movie Star: Rachel McAdams Favorite website: google...it’s got everything Favorite Song: I have too many!

Favorite Golf Course: Silverleaf People would be surprised to know...

Growing up, I swam with current UGA swimmer Michelle McKeehan and we’re still great friends Most famous person I’ve met: Bill Clinton Golf is the greatest game because...you control your own destiny.

Describe Margaret Shirley in 10 words: always willing to help, fun, energetic

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Margaret Shirley

Favorite Movie: Panic Room Favorite Reality Show: The Next Food Network Star Favorite website: foxnews.com Pre-round superstition: Always mark my golf ball with a “P” for my grandfather Best advice I’ve been given: Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative. Grandfather.

Greatest achievement in golf: Winning two team SEC Championships at Auburn Golf is the greatest game because...every day brings a new challenge Golf is the most frustrating game because ...the harder you try, the hard it gets

Emilie Burger

Favorite Movie: Patch Adams Favorite Movie Star: Jim Carey Favorite TV Show: Seinfeld Favorite Book: The Last Lecture Favorite Song: I’m Yours Favorite Golf Course: Maple Ridge Rounding out my dream foursome: My dad, Tiger Woods & Charles Barkley Most famous person I’ve met: Kordell Stuart Golf is the greatest game because...no matter how good you are, you could always get better Describe Kelley Hester in 10 words: A great coach who wants the best for her team

Kiara Hayashida

Favorite TV Shows: Friends, Prison Break, How I met your mother Favorite Song: Video Killed The Radio Star Favorite Club: PW or putter (sometimes)...it’s a love-hate situation People would be surprised to know...I am left-handed by I play golf right-handed Rounding out my dream foursome: Roger Federer, Tiger Woods & Adam Sandler If I could play another sport it would be: Tennis or Snowboarding Describe Margaret Shirley in 10 words: Have you heard good things come in small packages? That’s her.

Marta Silva zamora

Favorite Movie Stars: Will Smith, Bruce Willis Favorite Songs: Don’t Worry, Be Happy; Me and MS. Jones Pre-round superstition: In competition, I play the first day with Titleist 1, second with a 2, third with a 3 and fourth with a 4 Best advice I’ve been given: Do everything you want in life, but never forget who you are. My parents.

Person I would like to meet: My future husband (FYI, same answer as 2008-09) Describe Kelley Hester in 10 words: Great coach who won’t let her team die of starvation

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Carolina Andrade

Favorite Movie Star: Johnny Depp Favorite Song: After Tonight Favorite Club: 6 iron Favorite Golf Course: Caves Valley Course I would like to play: St. Andrews Rounding out my dream foursome: My parents and my brother Person I’d like to meet: Leonardo da Vinci Best advice I’ve been given: Live the moment. Mom :).

If I could play another sport...I’d surf Describe Kelley Hester in 10 words: honest, caring, good person, understanding, fair...

Leigh Crosby

Favorite Movie: Dirty Dancing Favorite Movie Star: Gerard Butler Favorite TV Show: Two and a Half Men Favorite Reality Show: The Biggest Loser Favorite Song: It’s A Great Day To Be Alive Favorite Club: 60-degree wedge Favorite Golf Course: Pinehurst #2 Course I would like to play: Pebble Beach Pre-round superstition: make sure I have a quarter in my pocket Person I would like to meet: George H. Bush Describe Margaret Shirley in 10 words: a positive new addition to the UGA staff

Abby Johnson

Favorite Movie: Lion King Favorite TV Show: Grey’s Anatomy Favorite Reality Show: Dancing with the Stars Favorite website: Facebook & weather.com Favorite Song: Run to You Pre-round superstition: I listen to “Run to You” and only play with Titleist 1’s or 4’s People would be surprised to know...I was voted Most Athletic and Class Clown Rounding out my dream foursome: Tiger Woods, Natalie Gulbis & my brother Best advice I’ve been given: It’s a marathon not a spring. Don’t run out of fast too early.

My parents.

Kendall Wright

Favorite Movie: Fight Club Favorite TV Show: Seinfeld Favorite Reality Show: The Real World Favorite Song: Southern Comfort Pre-round superstition: Get a chicken biscuit before I play People would be surprised to know...I can play the saxophone Rounding out my dream foursome: Bobby Jones, Paine Stewart & Babe Zaharias Golf is the greatest game because...no matter how well you played, there is still a voice inside you’re head that says “Is that all you got?”

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Postcards from 2008-09

Orlando & P.R.

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Motion Picture Perfect!

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water hazard.

Coco Beach Resort

Caro, Marta, Tess & Leigh visit Univ ersal Studios while in Orlando for the Hooter’s Match Play Collegiate.

into the ultimate

Puerto Rican Paradise

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Caro, Marta, Mal, Tess & Leigh take a break in Puerto Rico.

Surfin’ UGA ...Marta distracts.

Leigh concentrates

Fantastic Freshmen

Tess and Marta hug in

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2008-09 Season Review Georgia goes “even steven” at NCAA Championships The No. 15-ranked Georgia women’s golf finished, appropriately enough, in 15th place at the 2009 NCAA Championships at Caves Valley Golf Club. The Bulldogs slipped one position on the leaderboard from the start of the final round, ending their hopes of a 10th top-10 finish in the last dozen years.

“We struggled with the putter early, and we just couldn’t seem to get it going,” head coach Kelley Hester said. “I’m proud of them. They represented Georgia and themselves well. This is sort of where I thought we’d be. It would’ve been great if we could’ve moved past a few people, but 15th is good with a blue-collar group of golfers.”

Though they placed out of the top 10 in 2008-09, the Bulldogs still recorded their 25th top-20 performance in the last 31 years.

A record-breaking performance

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2008-09 Bulldog Team Results

Date 9/7-8 9/14-16 10/24-26 11/2-4

Tournament Duramed Fall Preview Cougar Classic Auburn-Derby Invitational Hooters/NGCA Match Play

2/8-10 3/9-11 3/29 4/3-5 4/17-19 5/7-9 5/19-22

Lady Puerto Rico Classic UNLV Spring Invitational Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic Bryan National Collegiate SEC Championship NCAA East Regional NCAA Championship

Location Owings Mill, Md. Charleston, S.C. Auburn, Ala. Reunion, Fla. Stroke Play Match Play Rio Grande, P.R. Las Vegas, Nev. Athens, Ga. Browns Summit, N.C. Blythewood, S.C. Gainesville, Fla. Owings Mill, Md.

Result 4th of 15 (884) 1st of 22 (858) 6th of 17 (909) t-9th of 16 (591 (L-W-L) 3rd of 16 (910) 3rd of 18 (894) t-6th of 18 (305) t-14th of 18 (933) 6th of 12 (887) 8th of 21 (889) 15th of 24 (1234)

2008-09 Bulldog Individual Statistics

Name Events Rounds Strokes Avg. Low (PoB) Top 10 (20) Marta Silva Zamora 11 31 2282 73.61 67 (13) 5 (7) Mallory Hetzel 11 31 2294 74.00 68 (8) 3 (8) Carolina Andrade 11 31 2325 75.00 70 (5) 1 (4) Tess Fordham 8 22 1757 79.86 73 (0) 0 (0) Leigh Crosby 11 29 2357 81.28 76 (0) 0 (0) Melissa Brody 2 4* 344 86.00 82 (0) 0 (0) Krystle Caithness 2 6 435 72.50 67 (3) 1 (1) Individuals 11 153* 11712 76.55 67 (29) 10 (20) Team 11 31 9294 299.81 279 (4) 10 (11)

Georgia broke its team school record for a 54-hole tournament score en route to a wireto-wire victory at the College of Charleston’s Cougar Classic.

The Bulldogs’ 6-under 858 bested both the relation-to-par and gross score marks. The previous tallies were 4-under at the 1999 Liz Murphey Collegiate and an 862 at the 2006 Stanford Intercollegiate.

Individually, Marta Silva Zamora finished third at 6-under 210, and Mallory Hetzel, the * Brody’s LMCC scores, when she competed individually, not included; Denotes PoB=Par-or-Better Rounds. first- and second-round leader, placed fourth at 5-under 211. Silva’s effort equaled the fifthbest relation-to-par performance in Georgia history, while Hetzel In addition, Silva Zamora was tabbed the SEC Freshman of the tied the ninth-best mark.

Year. She and Hetzel also were named first-team All-SEC, while Carolina Andrade was a second-team All-SEC pick.

Silva zamora captures SEC individual title Silva Zamora became Georgia’s league-best eighth SEC Freshman Marta Silva Zamora earned medalist honors at the SEC Champi- of the Year in women’s golf, joining Tina Paternostro (1989), Luciana onship at the Cobblestone Park Golf Club outside Columbia, S.C. Bemvenuti (1991), Vicki Goetze (1992), Erin O’Neil (1994), Shauna She finished at 3-under 210 and secure a four-stroke victory.

Estes (1997), Reilley Rankin (1998) and Taylor Leon (2006).

With the win, Georgia has now produced eight SEC individual champions all time. That tally ties Florida for the most in conferAn emotional victory for Hetzel ence history. All told, the Bulldogs have captured a league-leading Mallory Hetzel shared medalist honors with teammate Marta Silva 19 SEC titles in women’s golf – 11 team championships in addition Zamora after birdieing three of the last five holes in the final round to the eight individual crowns. of the UNLV Spring Invitational on March 11.

Silva Zamora joined Shauna Estes and Reilley Rankin to become The victory completed an extremely emotional six-day span for the third Bulldog freshmen to secure the SEC individual title.

Hetzel. She traveled to Las Vegas a day after the unexpected death of “I came here to play like a normal tournament, and I just played her uncle, Patrick Hetzel, the younger brother of her father, Doug. very good,” Silva Zamora said. “I wasn’t playing with other girls “Mallory played with a very heavy heart,” head coach Kelley who were close so I just went out thinking ‘Play your game, do the Hester said. “The first thing she said when she won was that she best that you can and don’t get nervous.’ I couldn’t control what the wished her dad could have been here to see it. She dedicated the other girls were doing.” win to her uncle in the awards ceremony and I know it meant a lot to her to play well here in his honor.”

Hetzel, Silva zamora headline post-season honors Hetzel was playing in the group ahead of Silva Zamora, the firstFreshman Marta Silva Zamora and senior Mallory Hetzel led a and second-round leader, and battled down the stretch. plethora of accolades accumulated by Georgia golfers.

Hetzel moved into a tie after consecutive birdies at 14 and 15, but Most notably, both Silva Zamora and Hetzel were tabbed as All- Silva Zamora birdied 15 moments later. Silva Zamora bogeyed 16 Americans by both Golfweek and the National Golf Coaches Asso- to fall back to a tie; however, she birdied 17 to regain an edge. ciation (NGCA). Silva Zamora was a third-team pick by Golfweek Hetzel knotted the score with a birdie at 18 before Silva Zamora’s and an honorable mention selection of the NGCA, while Hetzel was eight-foot birdie putt on the closing hole that would have secured an an honorable mention choice of both. outright win lipped out.

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2008-09 Season Review 2008-09 Stroke Play Tournament Results

Tournament Information

Team Leaderboard

Lady Bulldog Individual Results

Duramed Fall Classic

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Arizona State ......................... 295-291-286=872 Southern Cal .......................... 298-297-285=880 Virginia ................................... 289-294-300=883 GEORGIA .............................. 293-286-305=884 Alabama ................................. 294-302-290=886

T4. Krystle Caithness........................70-72-74=216 T17. Mallory Hetzel .............................75-73-73=221 20. Carolina Andrade ........................76-70-76=222 T26. Marta Silva Zamora ....................72-71-82=225 58. Leigh Crosby ..............................79-78-82=239

Cougar Classic

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2.

3.

4.

5.

GEORGIA .............................. 288-279-291=858 Alabama ................................. 293-288-282=863 North Carolina ........................ 292-296-284=872 Virginia ................................... 288-292-294=874 Florida State........................... 292-299-284=875

3. Marta Silva Zamora ....................70-70-70=210 T4. Mallory Hetzel .............................68-69-74=211 T21. Carolina Andrade ........................74-73-72=219 T21. Krystle Caithness........................77-67-75=219 T85. Leigh Crosby ..............................76-77-83=236

Auburn-Derby Invitational

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Arizona State ......................... 300-284-285=869 Virginia ................................... 289-298-300=887 Alabama ................................. 294-302-296=892 Auburn ................................... 298-304-294=896 GEORGIA .............................. 308-305-296=909

7. Carolina Andrade ........................74-72-73=219 T17. Mallory Hetzel .............................74-79-73=226 T24. Marta Silva Zamora ....................81-75-72=228 T67. Tess Fordham .............................82-79-78=239 83. Leigh Crosby ..............................79-88-80=247

Lady Puerto Rico Classic

1. Purdue ................................... 304-288-296=888 2. Tennessee.............................. 312-300-297=909 3. GEORGIA .............................. 302-300-308=910 N.C. State .............................. 310-300-300=910 5. TCU........................................ 302-301-313=916

T4. Marta Silva Zamora ....................73-74-74=221 T12. Mallory Hetzel .............................78-73-76=227 T16. Carolina Andrade ........................73-76-79=228 T39. Tess Fordham .............................78-79-79=236 T60. Leigh Crosby ..............................78-77-85=240

UNLV Spring Invitational

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4.

UNLV ...................................... 312-283-289=884 Texas Tech ............................. 306-291-289=886 GEORGIA .............................. 312-292-290=894 Oregon ................................... 311-301-283=895 Washington ............................ 325-288-282=895

T1. MALLORy HETZEL ...................75-71-68=214 T1. MARTA SILVA ZAMORA ...........70-74-70=214 T22. Carolina Andrade ........................81-70-74=225 T76. Tess Fordham .............................86-77-80=243 95. Leigh Crosby ..............................90-89-78=257

Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic 1. Auburn ................................................. 299=299

T13. Mallory Hetzel ......................................... 75=75 T19. Carolina Andrade .................................... 76=76 T19. Marta Silva Zamora ................................ 76=76 T39. Leigh Crosby .......................................... 78=78 *T75. Melissa Brody ......................................... 82=82 96. Tess Fordham ......................................... 88=88

Sept. 7-8 Caves Valley Golf Club Owings Mills, Md. Par 72; 6216 Yards

Sept. 14-16 Yeamans Hall Golf Club Charleston, S.C. Par 72; 6159 Yards Oct. 24-26 Auburn University Club Auburn, Ala. Par 72; 6301 Yards Feb. 8-10 Coco Beach Resort Rio Grande, P.R. Par 72; 6168 Yards

March 9-11 Boulder Creek Golf Club Las Vegas, Nev. Par 72; 6234 Yards

March 27-29 University of Georgia Golf Course Athens, Ga. Par 72; 6335 Yards

Bryan National Collegiate

2. Alabama ............................................... 302=302 Kent State ............................................ 302=304 4. N. Carolina/Ohio State ......................... 304=304 6. GEORGIA ............................................ 305=305 LSU ...................................................... 305=305

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4.

T14.

LSU ........................................ 290-302-295=887 Virginia ................................... 304-300-287=891 Wake Forest ........................... 304-298-292=894 North Carolina ........................ 307-294-299=900 GEORGIA .............................. 318-304-311=933

T35. Carolina Andrade ........................75-77-78=230 T63. Mallory Hetzel .............................80-77-78=235 T63. Marta Silva Zamora ....................87-71-77=235 68. Leigh Crosby ..............................79-79-78=236 95. Melissa Brody .............................84-86-92=262

SEC Championship

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6.

Auburn ................................... 289-296-285=870 Alabama ................................. 295-287-296=878 LSU ........................................ 300-291-287=878 Tennessee.............................. 295-293-293=881 GEORGIA .............................. 300-292-295=887

1. MARTA SILVA ZAMORA ...........72-67-71=210 3. Mallory Hetzel .............................73-70-72=215 T32. Carolina Andrade ........................77-77-72=226 T49. Tess Fordham .............................78-78-80=236 Leigh Crosby .....................................78-wd-wd

NCAA Regionals

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8.

Denver ................................... 287-296-279=862 Alabama ................................. 284-291-291=866 Tennessee.............................. 292-293-288=873 Virginia ................................... 290-297-287=874 GEORGIA .............................. 297-295-297=889

T19. Marta Silva Zamora ....................76-71-72=219 T23. Mallory Hetzel .............................75-69-76=220 T30. Carolina Andrade ........................73-77-71=221 T67. Tess Fordham .............................73-78-78=229 104. Leigh Crosby ..............................82-86-83=251

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Arizona State ................ 302-298-291-291=1182 UCLA............................. 296-293-304-297=1190 Southern Cal ................. 301-295-294-301=1191 Oklahoma State ............ 303-297-309-290=1199 GEORGIA .....................316-307-201-310=1234

T25. Marta Silva Zamora .............. 75-72-76-77=300 T48. Mallory Hetzel ....................... 77-76-80-72=305 T75. Carolina Andrade .................. 82-79-71-80=312 118. Tess Fordham ....................... 82-88-74-85=329 123. Leigh Crosby ........................ 87-80-87-81=335

April 3-5 Bryan National Golf Course Browns Summit, N.C. Par 72; 6386 Yards

April 17-19 Cobblestone Park Golf Course Columbia, S.C. Par 71; 6204 Yards

May 7-9 UF Mark Bostick Golf Course Gainesville, Fla. Par 70; 6023 Yards

NCAA Championship

May 19-22 Caves Valley Golf Club Owings Mill, Md. Par 72; 6443 Yards

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2008-09 Season Review 2008-09 Georgia Bulldog Scorecard tournamEnt

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76-70-76 =222 (+6) 20th

70-72-74 79-78-82 =216 (E) =239 (+23) t-4th 58th

75-73-73 =221 (+5) t-17th

72-71-82 =225 (+9) t-26th

293-286-305 =884 (+20) 4th of 15

cougar cLassic Sept. 14-16 Charleston, S.C.

74-73-72 =219 (+3) t-21st

77-67-75 76-77-83 =219 (+3) =236 (+20) t-21st t-85th

68-69-74 =211 (-5) t-4th

70-70-70 =210 (-6) 3rd

288-279-291 =858 (-6) 1st of 22

auburn-dErby invitationaL Oct. 24-26 Auburn, Ala.

74-72-73 =219 (+3) 7th

79-88-80 82-79-78 74-79-73 81-75-72 =247 (+31) =239 (+23) =226 (+10) =228 (+12) 83rd t-67th t-17th t-24th

308-305-296 =909 (+45) 6th of 17

hootErs match PLay Nov. 2-4 Reunion, Fla.

74-73=147 (+3) t-24th L-L-L

84-76=160 80-77=157 75-70=145 76-68=144 304-287=591 (t-9th of 16) (+16) t-74th (+13) t-66th (+1) t-16th (E) t-10th l. VU (4-1), def. UF (3-2) L-W-L L-W-T F-F-F W-W-L l. Tenn. (4.5-0.5)

Lady PuErto rico cLassic Feb. 8-10 Rio Grande, P.R.

73-76-79 =228 (+12) t-16th

78-77-85 78-79-79 78-73-76 =240 (+24) =236 (+20) =227 (+11) t-60th t-39th t-12th

73-74-74 =221 (+5) t-4th

302-300-308 =910 (+46) 3rd of 16

unLv sPring invitationaL March 9-11 Las Vegas, Nev.

81-70-74 =225 (+9) t-22nd

90-89-78 86-77-80 =257 (+41) =243 (+27) 95 t-76th

75-71-68 =214 (-2) t-1st

70-74-70 =214 (-2) t-1st

312-292-290 =894 (+30) 3rd of 18

75 =75 (+3) t-13th

76 =76 (+4) t-19th

305 =305 (+17) t-6th of 18

80-77-78 87-71-77 =235 (+19) =236 (+19) t-63rd t-63rd

318-304-311 =933 (+69) t-14th of 18

LiZ murPhEy coLLEgiatE March 27-29 Athens, Ga.

82 =82 (+10) t-75th

78 =78 (+6) t-39th

bryan nationaL coLLEgiatE April 2-5 Browns Summit, N.C.

75-77-78 84-86-92 =230 (+14) =262 (+46) t-35th 95th

79-79-78 =236 (+20) 68th

sEc chamPionshiP April 17-19 Columbia, S.C.

78-78-72 =226 (+13) t-32nd

ncaa rEgionaL May 7-9 Gainesville, Fla. ncaa chamPionshiP May 19-22 Owings Mill, Md.. tournEys rounds countErs PErcEntagE

76 =76 (+4) t-19th

73-70-72 =215 (+2) 3rd

72-67-71 =210 (-3) 1st

300-292-295 =887 (+35) 6th of 12

73-77-71 =221 (+11) t-30th

82-86-83 73-78-78 75-69-76 =251 (+41) =229 (+19) =220 (+10) 104th t-67th t-23rd

76-71-72 =219 (+9) t-19th

297-295-297 =889 (+49) 8th of 21

82-79-71-80 =312 (+24) t-75th

87-80-87-81 82-88-74-85 77-76-80-72 75-72-76-77 =335 (+47) =329 (+41) =305 (+17) =300 (+12) 123rd 118th t-48th t-25th

316-307-301-310 =1234 (+82) 15th of 24

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88 =88 (+16) 96th

11 31 29.50 .952

11 31 124.0 100.0

2325 344 435 2357 1757 2294 2282 75.00 86.00 72.50 81.28 79.86 74.00 73.61 835 (75.91) 166 (83.00) 147 (73.50) 890 (80.91) 647 (80.88) 825 (75.00) 828 (75.27) 744 (74.40) 86 (86.00) 139 (69.50) 730 (81.11) 556 (79.43) 727 (72.70) 713 (71.30) 666 (74.00) 92 (92.00) 149 (74.50) 656 (82.00) 469 (78.17) 670 (74.44) 664 (73.77)

I-11712 / t-9294 I-76.55 / t-299.91 3343 (303.91) 2947 (294.70) 2694 (299.33)

70 5 1 (4) 7th-ATDI

2* 4* 1.0 .333

82 0 0 (0) 75th-LMC

2 6 5.00 .833

67 3 1 (1) t4th-DFP

11 29 12.67 .437

78-78-80 =236 (+23) t-49th

76 0 0 (0) 39th-LMC

8 22 14.17 .644

11 31 30.67 .989

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All-Time Letterwinners A

Beth Kurtz .............................1984-85-86-87 Heather Kuzmich .................. 1985-86-87-88

Lisa Alvey ....................................... 1983-84 Carolina Andrade ..................... 2007-08-09 Victoria Askerberg ................................1974

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Betsy Majors .........................................1978 Stefi Markovich .....................1994-95-96-97 Allison Martin .................................. 2004-05 Laura Mays ...........................................1983 Gena McCall .........................1973-74-75-76 Sara Miley.............................1990-91-92-93 Sabra Gray Tish Miller ....................................... 1979-80 G Kristin Milligan ......................1990-91-92-93 Bobbie Jo Gabrielsen ...........................1969 Marrion Mitcham ...................................1977 Lori Gaffney .................................... 1985-86 Vicki Goetze ................................... 1992-93 Terri Moody ...........................1978-79-80-81 Caroline Gowan ....................1981-82-83-84 Paula Morabito .......................... 1974-75-76 Sabra Gray ...........................1994-95-96-97

Debbie Battle ............................. 1981-82-83 Jackie Beers .........................2003-04-05-06 Luciana Bemvenuti ......................... 1991-92 Joann Blackwell .................... 1976-77-78-79 Julia Boros ............................1995-96-97-98 Nanci Bowen ........................ 1986-87-88-89 Melissa Brody .....................................2009 Anne Cain .............................1987-88-89-90 Krystle Caithness..................................2008 Diana Carlton........................................1973 Leann Casey ........................................1975 Leanne Casey ...................... 1986-87-88-89 Whitney Christie ................... 2001-02-03-04 Lori Clark ..............................1978-79-80-81 Amanda Cockburn ..................... 1988-89-90 Carrie Conrad ............................ 1979-80-81 Debbie Cosgrove ..................................1977 Leigh Crosby.......................................2009 Michelle Cuccio ......................... 1987-88-89

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Donna Lawson................................ 1977-78 Ruth Ann Lazenby .......................... 1982-84 Alina Lee.................................... 2006-07-08 Taylor Leon ..................................... 2006-07 Joni LeSage............................... 1979-80-81 Stephanie Lowe ....................1984-85-86-88 Sandy Lumpkin .......................... 1976-77-78

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Melissa Nault .................................. 1979-80 Laura Henderson .................. 1998-99-00-01 Natalia Nicholls .....................2002-03-04-05 D Linda Dalton .........................................1971 Ruth Ann Hendrix .................................1975 Donna Noonan .....................1975-76-77-78 Carol Donald.........................1976-77-78-79 Mallory Hetzel .......................2006-07-08-09 Nancy Nutting .......................................1970 Sarah Donald.................................. 2005-06 J O Kelly Doohan ........................ 1991-93-94-95 Angela Jerman .....................1999-00-01-02 Courtney Octave...................1996-97-98-99 Lauren Jeske .................................. 2000-01 Shannon Ogg .......................1997-98-99-00 E Erin O’Neil ............................1994-95-96-97 Mitzi Edge .............................1979-80-81-82 K Janie Edmond.......................................1979 P Karen Epermanis .................. 1978-79-80-81 Sherry Kamens .....................1976-77-78-79 Shauna Estes ....................... 1997-98-99-00 Beans Kelly..................................... 1982-83 Judy Parker .................................... 1975-76 Denise King ..........................1981-82-83-84 Barbara Parsons...................................1970 Mary King ............................................1973 Tina Paternostro ...................1989-90-91-92 F Tess Fordham .....................................2009 Sharon King .................................... 1974-75 Garrett Phillips ................................ 2007-08 Abbi Francis.................................... 2002-03 Jill Kinloch.............................1987-88-89-90 Cindy Pleger .........................1980-81-82-83 Kelly Froelich ........................ 2003-04-05-06 Kelly Kluska ..........................1989-90-91-92 Carol Preisinger ......................... 1982-83-84 Angela Prybis ................................. 1991-92

100 Percent Club includes some of UGA’s greatests One of the most elite associations with Bulldog golf is the “100 Percent Club.” To qualify, a player must represent UGA at every event in her career, a feat only accomplished by eight golfers in the program’s history.

Cindy Pleger, who was second individually at the 1982 AIAWs; Tina Paternostro, a four-time medalist and the 1991 NCAA Long Driving Champion; Erin O’Neil, UGA’s

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first four-time All-SEC; Julia Boros, an All-America and Academic All-America honors in 1998; Shauna Estes, UGA’s only four-time All-American; Laura Henderson, a four-time All-SEC honoree; Angela Jerman, the 2002 SEC Golfer of the Year who holds single season stroke average record (72.91); and Summer Sirmons (pictured on Page 29), the only Bulldog to win her collegiate debut.

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All-Time Letterwinners & Head Coaches R

Cameron Rabb .....................................1978 Reilley Rankin............................ 1998-99-01 Claudia Register ...................................1977 Kelley Richardson................. 1993-94-95-96 Joy Richman .............................. 1973-74-75 Petra Rigby ..................................... 1990-91 Lianne Ritchie ............................ 1983-84-85 Lee Roquemore .............................. 1977-78

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Jennifer Schuck .............................. 1993-94 Cindy Schreyer ..................... 1982-83-84-85 Marta Silva Zamora.............................2009 Summer Sirmons .................. 1999-01-02-03 Kathy Spaugh ................................. 1977-78 Ann Stacy .............................................1984 Martha Stacy ........................ 1980-81-82-83 Liz Stuart ..............................................2001

Liz Murphey (Head coach from 1978-86)

Liz Murphey, a leading figure in the evolution of women’s intercollegiate athletics, came to the University of Georgia in 1967 as assistant professor of physical education and women’s golf coach.

When UGA officially added women’s golf as an intercollegiate sport in the fall of 1978, Murphey already had a solid foundation in place. She led the Lady Bulldogs to 21 team and 18 individual titles from 1978-86. Most notably, Georgia posted top-10 finishes at each national championship from 1979-83, and Terri Moody (1981) and Cindy Schreyer (1984) both won individual national titles.

Murphey made her lasting impression not only on Georgia’s golf team, but with the overall women’s athletic program at UGA. She served 18 years in athletic administration and guided Georgia to six SEC All-Sports titles from 1984-94. Murphey also hired many of Georgia’s most successful coaches including Jack Bauerle, Andy Landers, Jeff Wallace and Suzanne Yoculan – a quartet that has won 14 NCAA Championships.

A charter member of the NGCA Hall of Fame, Murphey was named National Coach of the Year in 1984 and was selected to manage the U.S.-Japan Match in 1983.

Beans Kelly (Head coach from 1986-2000)

Summer Sirmons T

Innapha Tantanavivat ...........................2008 Marie Thomas................................. 1990-91 Sue Thomas .........................1985-86-87-88 Sarah Trew ...........................................2002 Lisa Tyler ..............................2003-04-05-06

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Geri Vartabedian................... 1990-91-93-94

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Whitney Wade ...................... 2004-05-06-07 Heidi Wall .............................................1993 Anne Washington ................. 1975-76-77-78 Janet Webber .......................................1971 Marcie White.............................. 1988-89-90 Melanie Wilson .......................... 1984-85-86 Debbie Wooley ............................... 1978-79 Misty Wray ..................................... 1979-80

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Dawn Young .........................1973-74-75-76 Jean Zuckerman ...................................1972

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Never one to be labeled predictable, Beans Kelly resigned as Georgia’s head coach in 2000 while seemingly on top of the golf world. But that’s exactly where she spent her entire career.

As a player from 1981-83, Kelly was a standout for Georgia teams which placed fourth at the 1982 AIAWs and third at the 1983 NCAAs. After a pro playing stint, Beans returned to Athens in 1986 as assistant then head coach. Under Kelly’s tutelage, the Lady Bulldogs won 43 team and 33 individual titles, including Vicki Goetze’s 1992 NCAA title, captured seven SEC Championships and posted eight NCAA top-10 finishes. Beans was named National Coach of the Year in 1998 and in 2000 became the youngest coach ever inducted into the National Golf Coaches Association (NGCA) Hall of Fame in 2000.

Kelly spent seven years teaching golf and fishing lessons on the South Carolina coast before returning to coaching at Coastal Carolina in 2008. Four months later was named Big South Coach of the Year after leading the Coastal to a second-place finish at the league championships. Kelly retired again after that season and is now a volunteer assistant coach.

Todd McCorkle (Head coach from 2000-07)

Todd McCorkle arrived in Athens in the summer of 2000 just months after leading Arizona to a dominating performance en route to capturing the NCAA Championship. The following spring, McCorkle put together the pieces of a talented puzzle already in place to lead Georgia to the only item missing from the Bulldogs’ competitive resume – the program’s first-ever team NCAA title.

In the process, McCorkle became just the second coach in NCAA Division I history (joining swimming and diving’s Richard Quick) to win back-to-back national championships at different schools.

McCorkle’s seven-season tenure included a bevy of individual and team accomplishments and rewrote the Bulldogs’ record books. The Bulldogs secured SEC Championships in both 2001 and 2007, while seven golfers combined to earn 11 All-America certificates. During that span, Georgia posted the five best team stroke average records in program history, and Bulldog golfers bettered the school individual season stroke average record three times.

McCorkle was named SEC Coach of the Year in both 2005 and 2007.

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All-Time Results 1978-79 Season

Lady Mountaineer Invit. ........... 1st (627) Lady Seminole Invit. ............... 2nd (930) Lady Tar Heel Invit. ................. 2nd (642) Lady Gator Invit. ...................... 5th (933) Beacon Woods Invit................ 2nd (628) Peggy Kirk Bell Invit........ 8th of 14 (657) Duke Invit. ...................... 1st of 18 (313) Lady Paladin Invit. .......... 1st of 21 (942) Lady Buckeye Invit. ....... 2nd of 18 (648) Southern Inter. ................ 1st of 25 (948) AIAW Champ. ............... 8th of 27 (1257)

1979-80 Season

Lady Mountaineer Invit. .. 1st of 14 (613) Lady Seminole Invit. ....... 1st of 16 (898) Nancy Lopez Invit. .......T-3rd of 15 (952) Lady Gator Invit. ............ 2nd of 12 (930) South Florida Invit............4th of 11 (969) Tiger-Tide Invit. .............. 1st of 8 (619) Duke Invit........................ 1st of 16 (948) Lady Paladin Invit. .......... 1st of 24 (608) Lady Buckeye Invit. ....... 2nd of 17 (964) Southern Inter. ................ 1st of 27 (922) AIAW Champ. ............... 9th of 28 (1234)

1980-81 Season

Lady Seminole Invit. ...... 2nd of 16 (890) Nancy Lopez Invit. ......... 2nd of 15 (928) Georgia Invit. ................. 1st of 22 (964) Lady Tar Heel Invit. ........ 1st of 27 (912) Lady Gator Invit. ............. 6th of 18 (909) Lady Spartan Invit.......... 2nd of 13 (929) Lady Paladin Invit. .......... 3rd of 23 (905) Southern Inter. ................ 1st of 18 (913) Tiger-Tide Invit. ............... 1st of 13 (935) Lady Kat Invit. ................. 1st of 18 (908) SEC Champ..................... 2nd of 6 (882) Lady Buckeye Invit. ........ 1st of 14 (915) AIAW Champ. .............. 2nd of 25 (1223)

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1981-82 Season

Lady Seminole Invit. ...... 2nd of 17 (916) Lady Tar Heel Invit. ......... 1st of 20 (874) Nancy Lopez Invit. .......... 7th of 16 (959) Monterrey Invit. ............... 3rd of 15 (901) South Florida Invit........... 3rd of 10 (941) Lady Spartan Invit........... 6th of 12 (939) LSU-Fairwood Invit. ........ 3rd of 14 (321) Lady Paladin Invit. .......... 1st of 22 (897) Southern Inter. ................ 3rd of 18 (935) SEC Champ.................... 2nd of 6 (901) AIAW Champ. .............. 4th of 25 (1214)

1982-83 Season

Lady Seminole Invit. ....... 1st of 19 (886) Nancy Lopez Invit. .......... 9th of 15 (966) Torneo Universitario........ 8th of 12 (927) Suncoast Invit. ................ 6th of 12 (936) Lady Gator Invit. ............. 6th of 18 (627) Lady Mustang ................ 2nd of 12 (957) Betsy Rawls Invit. ..........11th of 20 (930) Cancelled Classic ............. 1st of 8 (933) Southern Inter. ................ 3rd of 17 (930) SEC Champ...................... 1st of 5 (890) NCAA Champ. .............. 3rd of 17 (1206)

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1983-84 Season

Year-by-Year Results

Lady Seminole Invit. ....... 1st of 16 (910) Pat Bradley Invit. ............ 8th of 17 (947) Lady Tar Heel Invit. ......... 6th of 19 (632) Suncoast Invit. ................ 7th of 15 (942) Lady Gator Invit. ............. 6th of 17 (927) Lady Paladin Invit. .......... 4th of 20 (932) Betey Rawls Classic ..... 10th of 18 (953) Cancelled Classic ...........2nd of 11 (960) Southern Inter. ................ 4th of 17 (941) SEC Champ.................... 2nd of 6 (912)

Season 1978-79 1979-80 1980-81 1981-82 1982-83 1983-84 1984-85 1985-86 1986-87 1987-88 1988-89 1989-90 1990-91 1991-92 1992-93 1993-94 1994-95 1995-96 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 Totals

1984-85 Season

Lady Seminole Invit. ....... 7th of 17 (912) Lady Tar Heel Invit. ......... 1st of 14 (894) Memphis State Invit. ....... 6th of 18 (640) Pat Bradley Invit. ............ 9th of 15 (980) Guadalajara Invit. ........... 6th of 16 (925) Betsy Rawls Invit. ........... 4th of 18 (914) South Carolina Invit. ....... 3rd of 14 (931) Southern Inter. ................ 3rd of 16 (927) Lady Gator Invit. ............. 4th of 15 (909) Lady Paladin Invit. .......... 4th of 23 (947) Cancelled Classic ............. 1st of 9 (926) SEC Champ...................... 1st of 6 (900) NCAA Champ. ........... T-6th of 18 (1257)

1985-86 Season

Lady Seminole Invit. ....... 7th of 19 (916) Lady Tar Heel Invit. ......... 8th of 14 (943) Lady Buckeye Invit. ........ 8th of 15 (938) Ford Collegiate Invit........ 7th of 12 (946) Guadalajara Invit. ........... 3rd of 15 (893) Betsy Rawls Classic ....... 7th of 18 (932) Metro Invit. ...................... 2nd of 7 (885) Lady Gator Invit. ............. 5th of 12 (921) South Carolina Invit. ....... 1st of 13 (916) Southern Inter. ............... 7th of 16 (930) SEC Champ..................... 4th of 7 (936) NCAA Champ. ........ 13th of 17 (1225)

1986-87 Season

Ford Collegiate Invit........ 5th of 12 (943) Beacon Woods Invit........ 4th of 12 (908) Lady Tar Heel Invit. ......... 4th of 16 (918) U.S. International Invit. .. 2nd of 15 (919) Guadalajara Invit. ........... 5th of 14 (924) Lady Gator Invit. ............. 6th of 12 (312) Betsy Rawls Classic ....... 5th of 18 (938) South Carolina Invit. ....... 4th of 12 (917) Lady Paladin Invit. .......... 3rd of 10 (925) Southern Inter. ................ 4th of 17 (947) SEC Champ..................... 2nd of 8 (912)

1987-88 Season

Beacon Woods Invit....... 2nd of 14 (904) Lady Tar Heel Invit. ........ 2nd of 18 (917) SIC Fall Classic ................ 1st of 9 (916) UCLA Desert Classic ..... 2nd of 15 (915) Guadalajara Invit. .......... 2nd of 12 (926) Betsy Rawls Invit. .......... 2nd of 18 (928) South Carolina Invit. ...... 2nd of 15 (921) Lady Mustang Roundup . 4th of 12 (955) Woodbridge Collegiate ..... 3rd of 9 (914) Women’s Southern Inter. 1st of 15 (879) SEC Champ...................... 1st of 9 (864) NCAA Champ. .......... T-2nd of 17 (1182)

Team Indiv.

SEC Regional Nat’l Wins Wins Finish Finish Finish 0 2 – – 8th 6 3 – – 9th 6 4 2nd – 2nd 2 3 2nd – 4th 3 0 1st – 3rd 1 2 2nd – – 3 4 1st – t-6th 1 0 4th – 13th 0 0 2nd – – 3 3 1st – t-2nd 0 1 4th – 6th 5 4 1st – 17th 4 2 t-2nd – 5th 4 4 2nd – 3rd 1st 1st 4th 6 4 1 0 1st 14th – 1 1 t-3rd 5th 18th 0 1 6th 10th – 2 3 1st t-8th – 7 5 1st 1st t-10th 7 3 1st 1st t-2nd 2 2 4th t-9th 7th 2 3 1st 3rd 1st 1 0 5th 7th 5th 0 0 7th t-2nd 11th 3 1 6th 5th 9th 2 3 *2nd 9th – 3 1 3rd 5th 6th 2 2 1st 2nd 8th 1 0 3rd 3rd t-10th 1 3 6th 8th 15th 79 64 Titles 11 3 1 * lost in a sudden-death playoff

1988-89 Season

Beacon Woods Invit........ 4th of 12 (918) SIC Fall Classic ............... 2nd of 8 (953) UCLA Desert Classic ...... 6th of 18 (916) Lady Gator Invit. ............. 4th of 12 (937) Patty Sheehan Invit. ......11th of 15 (944) Betsy Rawls Invit. ........... 6th of 18 (920) South Carolina Invit. ...... 2nd of 13 (921) Woodbridge Collegiate ..... 4th of 9 (949) Southern Inter. ................2nd of 11 (901) SEC Champ...................... 4th of 9 (935) NCAA Champ. .............. 6th of 17 (1234)

1989-90 Season

Beacon Woods Invit........ 1st of 12 (888) Tiger-Tide Invit. ............... 1st of 20 (882) UCLA Desert Classic ...... 8th of 12 (994) Lady Gator Tournament .. 7th of 12 (944) Jostens Invit................. T-9th of 15 (962) Betsy Rawls Invit. ........... 5th of 18 (933) South Carolina Invit. ....... 1st of 14 (921) Woodbridge Collegiate .. 2nd of 10 (925) Southern Inter. ................ 1st of 13 (924) SEC Champ...................... 1st of 9 (607) NCAA Champ. ............ 17th of 17 (1284)

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1990-91 Season

Roadrunner Invit. .........T-3rd of 12 (940) Ohio State Invit. ............. 3rd of 19 (936) Beacon Woods Invit.........1st of 11 (882) Tiger-Tide Invit. ................ 1st of19 (916) Guadalajara Invit. ............1st of 11 (932) Lady Gator Invit. ............. 9th of 12 (970) Longhorn Invit. ................ 5th of 17 (634) Lady Paladin Invit. ........... 2nd of 9 (915) Woodbridge Collegiate .... 2nd of 9 (933) Women’s Southern Inter. 1st of 13 (930) SEC Champ.................. T-2nd of 9 (942) NCAA Champ. .............. 5th of 17 (1222)

1991-92 Season

Shiseido Cup ................... 2nd of 9 (945) Ping Lady Sun Devil ....T-3rd of 18 (913) Beacon Woods Invit........ 1st of 12 (893) Tiger-Tide Invit. ............... 1st of 15 (942) UCF Inter. Classic............1st of 15 (911) Betsy Rawls Classic ...... 2nd of 18 (937) Lady Mustang Invit. ........ 1st of 12 (928) Women’s Southern Inter. 2nd of 17 (918) SEC Champ................... 2nd of 10 (899) NCAA Champ. .............. 3rd of 17 (1181)

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All-Time Results 1992-93 Season

Beacon Woods Invit........ 1st of 12 (895) Georgia Preview Invit. .... 1st of 19 (916) Tiger-Tide Invit. ............... 1st of 20 (909) Carolyn Cudone Inter...... 3rd of 15 (949) Lady Gator Invit. ............. 3rd of 12 (952) Betsy Rawls Classic ...... 2nd of 18 (646) Rainbow Wahine Invit. .... 1st of 16 (914) Women’s Southern Inter. 3rd of 19 (933) SEC Champ.................... 1st of 12 (605) NCAA East...................... 1st of 18 (897) NCAA Champ. ...............4th of 17 (1197)

1993-94 Season

Oregon Fall Preview ......11th of 17 (670) Beacon Woods Invit........ 7th of 12 (926) Tiger-Tide Invit. ............. 13th of 20 (666) Carolyn Cudone Inter...... 4th of 16 (935) Lady Gator Invit. ............ 2nd of 12 (913) Betsy Rawls Classic ....... 7th of 15 (980) Rainbow Wahine Inter. . 13th of 20 (340) Women’s Southern Inter. 3rd of 20 (939) SEC Champ.....................1st of 11 (890) NCAA East.................... 14th of 19 (966)

1994-95 Season

Tiger-Tide Invit. ............... 4th of 12 (614) Beacon Woods Invit........ 3rd of 12 (923) Lady Paladin Invit. ......... 2nd of 23 (903) Carolyn Cudone Inter.......7th of 12 (911) Preview Invit. .................. 9th of 22 (952) Lady Gator Invit. ............ 2nd of 13 (921) Betsy Rawls Invit. ......... 10th of 16 (960) Rainbow Wahine Inter. ....1st of 19 (911) Liz Murphey Classic ...... 2nd of 15 (923) SEC Champ................. T-3rd of 11 (938) NCAA East...................... 5th of 19 (912) NCAA Champ. ............ 18th of 18 (1235)

1995-96 Season

Rolex Fall Preview ..... T-12th of 19 (928) Auburn Tiger Invit. ......... 2nd of 12 (607) Roadrunner Invit. ............ 7th of 16 (946) Lady Paladin Invit. ........ 13th of 23 (936) Carolyn Cudone Inter. T-11th of 15 (961) Lady Gator Invit. ............. 4th of 13 (915) Fripp Island Invit. ............ 4th of 24 (645) Rainbow Wahine Inter. ... 5th of 19 (936) Liz Murphey Classic .... T-7th of 22 (927) SEC Champ.................... 6th of 12 (628) NCAA East.................... 10th of 19 (932)

1996-97 Season

Auburn Tiger Invit. .......... 3rd of 12 (600) Rolex Fall Preview ..... T-17th of 21 (983) Lady Paladin Invit. .......... 9th of 21 (934) Pat Bradley Inter. ............ 3rd of 15 (915) Lady Gator Invit. ............. 7th of 15 (925) Fripp Island Invit. ........... 2nd of 17 (925) Lady Gamecock Classic . 7th of 15 (916) Liz Murphey Classic ....... 1st of 19 (907) SEC Champ.................... 1st of 12 (899) NCAA East................... T-8th of 19 (958)

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1997-98 Season

Auburn Tiger Invit. .......... 1st of 12 (876) Mercedes-Benz Coll. .. T-2nd of 18 (909) Lady Paladin Invit. .......... 3rd of 21 (898) Memphis Women’s Inter. 1st of 15 (913) Lady Gator Invit. ............. 1st of 19 (865) Fripp Island Invit. ............ 1st of 18 (916) Bryan National ............... 2nd of 15 (903) Liz Murphey Classic ....... 1st of 17 (883) SEC Champ.................... 1st of 12 (894) NCAA East...................... 1st of 19 (882) NCAA Champ. ......... T-10th of 19 (1201)

1998-99 Season

Auburn Tiger Invit. .......... 1st of 12 (574) Bama Fall Preview....... T-5th of 18 (614) Mercedes-Benz Coll. ...... 3rd of 16 (908) Lady Paladin Invit. .......... 1st of 18 (905) Golf World Invit. .............. 7th of 12 (908) Regional Challenge ........ 1st of 18 (901) Lady Gator Invit. ............. 1st of 19 (600) Liz Murphey Collegiate ... 1st of 18 (872) SEC Champ.................... 1st of 12 (887) NCAA East...................... 1st of 19 (884) NCAA Champ. ............ T-2nd of 19 (903)

1999-2000 Season

NCAA Fall Preview ......... 6th of 21 (906) Auburn Tiger Invit. .......... 1st of 13 (886) Mercedes-Benz Coll. ...... 1st of 18 (906) Lady Paladin Invit. ...........4th of 24 (911) Golf World Invit. .............. 9th of 12 (919) Regional Challenge .....T-3rd of 18 (894) Wildcat Invit. ................... 9th of 18 (888) Liz Murphey Collegiate ... 3rd of 17 (899) SEC Champ.................... 4th of 12 (932) NCAA East................... T-9th of 24 (914) NCAA Champ. .............. 7th of 24 (1209)

2000-01 Season

NCAA Fall Preview ....... 12th of 21 (625) Lady Tar Heel Invit. ......... 3rd of 17 (922) Lady Paladin Invit. .......... 6th of 22 (901) Golf World Invit. .............. 5th of 12 (885) CGF Match Play ............... 2nd of 8 (2-1) Lady Gator Invit. ............ 2nd of 17 (878) South Carolina Invit. .......2nd of 11 (892) Liz Murphey Collegiate .. 2nd of 18 (913) LSU/Cleveland Classic ... 3rd of 11 (884) SEC Champ.................... 1st of 12 (872) NCAA East...................... 3rd of 21 (887) NCAA Champ. ...............1st of 24 (1176)

2002-03 Season

NCAA Fall Preview ......... 8th of 18 (913) ACC-SEC Challenge ...... 9th of 12 (917) Stanford Inter. ................. 7th of 17 (903) Auburn-Derby Invit.........11th of 13 (913) Regional Challenge ... T-10th of 18 (635) Lady Puerto Rico ........... 2nd of 15 (901) Bryan National ................ 3rd of 18 (596) Liz Murphey Collegiate ... 6th of 17 (894) SEC Champ.................... 7th of 12 (937) NCAA East.................. T-2nd of 21 (865) NCAA Champ. .............11th of 24 (1226)

2003-04 Season

NCAA Fall Preview ....... 14th of 18 (917) Mason Rudolph Champ. . 1st of 17 (874) Mercedes-Benz Coll. ...... 4th of 17 (897) Lady Paladin Invit. .......... 1st of 17 (864) National Match Play........ 2nd of 16 (3-1) Regional Challenge ...... 10th of 15 (926) Lady Puerto Rico ........... 2nd of 15 (885) Liz Murphey Collegiate ... 1st of 18 (865) Bryan National ..............11th of 18 (914) SEC Champ.................... 6th of 12 (890) NCAA West..................... 5th of 21 (900) NCAA Champ. ...............9th of 24 (1190)

2004-05 Season

Dick McGuire Invit. ...........1st of 17 (874 NCAA Fall Preview ......... 6th of 21 (872) Mason Rudolph Champ. . 3rd of 18 (876) Lady Paladin Invit. ......... 2nd of 23 (872) Lady Puerto Rico ........... 5th of 14 (912) Lady Gator Invit. ............. 7th of 18 (927) Liz Murphey Collegiate ... 1st of 18 (892) Bryan National ................ 3rd of 17 (903) SEC Champ................ 2nd of 12 (904)** NCAA West......................9th of 21 (911) ** lost on second hole of playoff

2005-06 Season

Cougar Classic .............. 2nd of 17 (872) Mason Rudolph Champ.. 2nd of 15 (881) Mercedes-Benz Coll. ...... 1st of 15 (882) Auburn-Derby Invit.......... 3rd of 17 (892) Wildcat Invit. ..................11th of 18 (879) Guadalahara Invit. ....... T-4th of 11 (882) Liz Murphey Collegiate ... 1st of 18 (903) Bryan National ................ 1st of 17 (875) SEC Champ.................... 3rd of 12 (885) NCAA West .................... 5th of 21 (900) NCAA Champ. ........... T-6th of 24 (1202)

2006-07 Season

Mason Rudolph Champ.. 2nd of 15 (866) NCAA Fall Preview ......... 1st of 15 (869) Mercedez-Benz Coll. ..... 2nd of 15 (887) Stanford Intercollegiate... 3rd of 15 (862) NGCA Match Play............3rd of 16 (3-1) Lady Puerto Rico ........ T-2nd of 16 (878) UCF Challenge .............. 2nd of 13 (886) Liz Murphey Collegiate ... 8th of 18 (907) Bryan National ................ 6th of 18 (908) SEC Champ.................... 1st of 12 (865) NCAA Central ................ 2nd of 21 (880) NCAA Champ ............... 8th of 24 (1205)

2007-08 Season

Mason Rudolph Champ... 9th of 17 (880) NCAA Fall Preview .... T-10th of 18 (892) Lady Tar Heel Invit. ...... T-3rd of 18 (885 Stanford Intercollegiate... 6th of 18 (896) NGCA Match Play........... 2nd of 16 (3-1) Lady Puerto Rico ......... T-7th of 18 (890) UCF Challenge ............ T-6th of 18 (872) LSU/Cleveland Classic ... 6th of 17 (898) Liz Murphey Collegiate ... 1st of 18 (900) PING/ASU Classic .......... 5th of 17 (880) SEC Champ.................... 3rd of 12 (903) NCAA East...................... 3rd of 21 (889) NCAA Champ .......... T-10th of 24 (1197)

2008-09 Season

Duramed Fall Preview ......4th of 15 (884) Cougar Classic .................1st of 22 (858) Auburn Derby-Invit. ..........6th of 17 (909) NGCA Match Play....... T-9th of 16 (1-2-0) Lady Puerto Rico ..............3rd of 16 (910) UNLV Invitational ..............3rd of 18 (894) Liz Murphey Collegiate ..T-6th of 18 (305) Bryan National .............T-14th of 18 (933) SEC Champ......................6th of 12 (887) NCAA East........................8th of 21 (889) NCAA Champ ...............15th of 24 (1234)

Fantastic Final Rounds

Final-round heroics have often helped the Bulldogs. Georgia won the 2003 Mason Rudolph Championship over UCLA, the eventual 2004 NCAA Champion. The Dogs closed with a 293 that turned a five-shot deficit entering the final day into a four-stroke victory over the Bruins.

2001-02 Season

NCAA Fall Preview ......... 8th of 24 (603) Lady Tar Heel Invit. ......... 5th of 14 (922) Mercedes-Benz Coll. ...... 3rd of 14 (910) Auburn-Derby Invit.......... 1st of 12 (885) Regional Challenge ...... 12th of 18 (924) Lady Gator Invit. ............. 3rd of 15 (910) Liz Murphey Collegiate ... 3rd of 18 (894) Bryan National ............... 2nd of 17 (882) SEC Champ.................... 5th of 12 (888) NCAA East .................... 7th of 21 (892) NCAA Champ. ...............5th of 24 (1176)

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Team Championships 1979-80 (6)

Lady Mountaineer Invitational........ 307-306–613 Lady Seminole Classic ........... 298-305-295–898 Tiger-Tide Invitational .................... 316-303–619 Duke Invitational ..................... 307-316-325–948 Southern Intercollegiate............ 304-311-307–922 Lady Paladin Invitational................ 305-303–608

1980-81 (6)

Georgia Invitational................. 323-328-313–964 Lady Tar Heel Invitational ....... 304-307-301–912 Tiger-Tide Invitational ............. 313-318-304–935 Lady Kat Invitational ............... 301-302-305–908 Southern Intercollegiate............ 312-305-296–913 Lady Buckeye Classic ............ 306-302-307–915

1981-82 (2)

Lady Tar Heel ......................... 291-291-292–874 Lady Paladin Invitational......... 297-298-301–896

1992-93 (continued)

Tiger-Tide Invitational ............. 300-293-316–909 Rainbow Wahine Invitational .. 314-300-300–914 SEC Championship ....................... 304-301–605 NCAA East Regional .............. 307-295-295–897

1993-94 (1)

SEC Championship ................ 287-294-309–890

1994-95 (1)

Rainbow Wahine Invitational .. 297-304-310–911

1996-97 (2)

Liz Murphey Collegiate ........... 304-300-303–907 SEC Championship ................ 308-292-299–899

1997-98 (7)

Lady Seminole Classic ........... 295-296-295–886 Cancelled Classic ................... 308-306-319–933 SEC Championship ................ 297-296-297–890

Auburn Tiger Invitational ......... 294-291-291–876 Memphis Intercollegiate............ 304-306-303–913 Lady Gator Invitational............ 296-282-287–865 Fripp Island Invitational........... 304-303-309–916 Liz Murphey Collegiate ........... 305-289-289–883 SEC Championship ................ 295-297-302–894 NCAA East Regional .............. 293-292-297–882

1983-84 (1)

1998-99 (7)

1982-83 (3)

Lady Seminole Classic ........... 308-302-300–910

1984-85 (3)

Lady Tar Heel ......................... 301-299-294–894 Cancelled Classic ................... 307-307-312–926 SEC Championship ................ 303-302-295–900

1985-86 (1)

South Carolina Invitational...... 313-303-300–916

1987-88 (3)

H I S T O R Y

All-Time Championships (79)

SIC Fall Classic ...................... 304-313-299–916 Southern Intercollegiate............ 294-293-292–879 SEC Championship ................ 291-278-295–864

1989-90 (5)

Auburn Tiger Invitational ................ 293-281–574 Lady Paladin Invitational......... 305-300-300–905 Regional Challenge ................ 301-301-299–901 Lady Gator Invitational................... 303-297–600 Liz Murphey Collegiate ........... 293-291-288–872 SEC Championship ................ 299-297-291–887 NCAA East Regional .............. 300-294-290–884

1999-2000 (2)

Auburn Tiger Invitational ......... 296-291-299–886 Mercedes-Benz Collegiate ..... 297-303-306–906

2000-01 (2)

SEC Championship ................ 290-290-292–872 NCAA Championship ..... 298-295-293-290–1176

2001-02 (1)

Auburn-Derby Invitational ....... 297-297-294–885

2003-04 (3)

Mason Rudolph ...................... 288-293-293–874 Lady Paladin Invitational......... 291-283-292–864 Liz Murphey Collegiate ........... 292-288-285–865

2004-05 (2)

Dick McGuire Invitational ........ 287-299-288–874 Liz Murphey Collegiate ........... 298-294-300–892

2005-06 (3)

Mercedes-Benz Collegiate ..... 297-293-292–882 Liz Murphey Collegiate ........... 301-302-300–903 Bryan National Collegiate ....... 300-291-284–875

2006-07 (2)

NCAA Fall Preview ................. 289-295-285=869 SEC Championship ................ 285-291-289=865

2007-08 (1)

Liz Murphey Collegiate ........... 302-300-398=900

2008-09 (1)

Cougar Classic ....................... 288-279-291=858

Hester’s First Win With Bulldogs

Kelley Hester will long remember her first victory as head coach at her alma mater. The Bulldogs topped Purdue in a sudden-death playoff to capture top honors at the 36th annual Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic in 2008. Pictured with the championship trophy are (L-R): Innapha Tantanavivat, Krystle Caithness, Mallory Hetzel, Hester, assistant coach Véronique Drouin, Carolina Andrade and Garrett Phillips.

Beacon Woods Invitational ..... 302-289-297–888 Tiger-Tide Invitational ............. 290-295-297–882 South Carolina Invitational.......311-311-299–921 Southern Intercollegiate............ 312-307-305–924 SEC Championship ....................... 306-301–607

1990-91 (4)

Beacon Woods Invitational ..... 293-296-293–882 Tiger-Tide Invitational ............. 296-316-304–916 Guadalajara Invitational .......... 315-304-313–932 Southern Intercollegiate............ 311-300-319–930

1991-92 (4)

Beacon Woods Invitational ..... 298-298-297–893 Tiger-Tide Invitational ............. 316-308-318–942 UCF Invitational ...................... 317-298-296–911 Lady Mustang Invitational ....... 302-316-310–928

1992-93 (6)

Beacon Woods Invitational ..... 305-299-291–895 Georgia Preview Invitational ... 318-304-294–916

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Individual Championships 1978-79 (2)

All-Time Medalist Honors (64) 1995-96 (1)

Terri Moody, Lady Mountaineer ......... 74-73–147 Lori Clark, Tiger-Tide ......................... 77-74–151

Erin O’Neil, Auburn Tiger ................... 74-71–145

1979-80 (3)

Shauna Estes, Fripp Island .......... 74-73-72–219 Shauna Estes, Liz Murphey.......... 70-73-73–216 Shauna Estes, SECs .................... 71-73-71–215

1980-81 (4)

Julia Boros, Lady Gator ................ 72-66-69–207 Reilley Rankin, Bryan National ..... 73-71-73–217 Reilley Rankin, Liz Murphey ......... 70-69-69–208 Reilley Rankin, SECs ................... 72-71-72–215 Reilley Rankin, NCAA East........... 70-75-71–216

Terri Moody, Lady Seminole ......... 69-72-73–214 Caroline Gowan, Tiger-Tide .......... 79-80-72–231 Martha Stacy, ’80 WSIC .............. 72-77-78–227 Terri Moody, Georgia Invitational .. 75-77-79–231 Mitzi Edge, Lady Tar Heel............. 75-74-73–222 Mitzi Edge, WSIC ....................... 76-73-72–221 Terri Moody, AIAWs .................73-72-75-76–296

1981-82 (3)

Caroline Gowan, Lady Seminole .. 78-73-73–224 Cindy Pleger, Lady Tar Heel ......... 69-73-70–212 Mitzi Edge, Lady Paladin .............. 74-72-72–218

1983-84 (2)

Cindy Schreyer, Lady Seminole ... 71-69-74–214 Cindy Schreyer, NCAAs ..........75-70-76-76–297

1996-97 (3)

1997-98 (5)

1998-99 (3)

Summer Sirmons, Auburn Tiger ........ 73-70–143 Shauna Estes, Liz Murphey.......... 71-71-72–214 Shauna Estes, SECs .................... 67-73-70–210

1999-2000 (2)

Shauna Estes, Mercedes-Benz .... 70-71-76–217 Shauna Estes, SMU-OSU ............ 70-68-74–212

1984-85 (4)

Cindy Schreyer, South Carolina. .. 73-73-76–222 Cindy Schreyer, Betsy Rawls ....... 72-74-68–214 Cindy Schreyer, Cancelled Classic .. 76-73-77–226 Cindy Schreyer, SECs .................. 72-76-68–216

Sirmons Starts With A Bang

Summer Sirmons became the first and only Georgia golfer to win her collegiate debut when she captured medalist honors at the 1998 Auburn Tiger Invitational. Sirmons did so by winning a five-person playoff which ironically included her teammate and classmate Angela Jerman.

2004-05 (3)

1987-88 (3)

Kelly Froelich, Dick McGuire ........ 68-73-68–209 Jackie Beers, Mason Rudolph ...... 75-69-68–212 Kelly Froelich, Liz Murphey .......... 74-73-71–218

1988-89 (1)

Taylor Leon, Bryan National ......... 73-71-68–213

1989-90 (4)

Alina Lee, Lady Puerto Rico ......... 72-72-73=217 Taylor Leon, SECs ........................ 69-72-67=208

Heather Kuzmich, South Carolina. .. 75-72-76–223 Sue Thomas, WSIC ..................... 73-71-75–219 Stephanie Lowe, WSIC ............... 71-75-73–219

2005-06 (1)

Tina Paternostro, South Carolina . 73-75-74–222 Tina Paternostro, Tiger-Tide ......... 73-68-71–212 Anne Cain, South Carolina ........... 78-77-70–225 Anne Cain, WSIC ........................ 75-75-73–223 Anne Cain, SECs.......................... 75-69–144

1990-91 (2)

Tina Paternostro, Roadrunner ...... 75-74-76–225 Tina Paternostro, Tiger-Tide ......... 69-74-69–212

1991-92 (4)

Vicki Goetze, Tiger-Tide ............... 77-74-74–225 Vicki Goetze, Betsy Rawls............ 75-75-75–225 Vicki Goetze, WSIC . .................... 77-75-71–223 Vicki Goetze, NCAAs...............69-74-72-65–280

1992-93 (4)

Vicki Goetze, Beacon Woods ....... 72-72-68–212 Vicki Goetze, Georgia Preview ..... 73-72-68–213 Vicki Goetze, Lady Gator.............. 73-72-73–218 Sara Miley, SECs............................... 74-73–147

1994-95 (1)

Kelly Doohan, Rainbow Wahine ... 71-71-76–218

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2006-07 (2)

Estes Equals Records For Wins

Shauna Estes receives the championship trophy at the 1999 Mercedes-Benz Collegiate, the sixth of her school-record seven trips to the winner’s circle as a Bulldog.

2008-09 (3)

Mallory Hetzel, UNLV ................... 75-71-68=214 Marta Silva Zamora, UNLV ........... 70-74-70=214 Marta Silva Zamora, SECs ........... 72-67-71=210

2000-01 (3)

Summer Sirmons, Lady Gator ...... 73-69-71–213 Angela Jerman, South Carolina.... 72-74-73–219 Reilley Rankin, LSU ..................... 76-68-67–211

2003-04 (1)

Natalia Nicholls, Lady Paladin ...... 73-72-70–215

Leon Leads Way To SEC Titles

Taylor Leon cemented her status as SEC Player of the Year with a 5-under final round en route to a four-stroke win over teammate Garrett Phillips at the 2007 SECs. Leon became Georgia’s seventh SEC individual champ while leading the Bulldogs to their league-best 11th SEC Championship.

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SEC Championship Results Georgia’s Year-by-Year SEC Results (11 Team Championships / 8 Individual Medalists) year 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Host Pine Mountain, Ga. Pine Mountain, Ga. Pine Mountain, Ga. Pine Mountain, Ga. Pine Mountain, Ga. Pine Mountain, Ga. Pine Mountain, Ga. Gulf Breeze, Fla. Ponte Vedra, Fla. Greensboro, Ga. Nicholasville, Ky. Baton Rouge, La. Jackson, Miss.

West Point, Miss.

Franklin, Tenn.

Knoxville, Tenn.

Columbia, S.C. Birmingham, Ala. Auburn, Ala. Fayetteville, Ark. Gainesville, Fla. Athens, Ga. Lexington, Ky. Baton Rouge, La. Tunica, Miss.

Franklin, Tenn.

West Point, Miss.

Loudon, Tenn.

Blythewood, S.C.

Team Title Score Florida 875 Florida 880 Georgia 890 Florida 906 Georgia 900 Florida 898 Florida 910 Georgia 864 Auburn 902 Georgia 607 Florida 936 LSU 892 Georgia 605 Georgia 890 Florida 892 Auburn 604 Georgia 899 Georgia 894 Georgia 887 Auburn 919 Georgia 872 S. Carolina 861 Auburn 903 Vanderbilt 877 *Auburn 904 Auburn 875 Georgia 865 Florida 874 Auburn 870

UGA Score 2nd 882 2nd 901 Florida 906 2nd 912 Florida 903 4th 936 2nd 912 Florida 869 4th 935 Auburn 613 T-2nd 942 2nd 899 Tenn.

611 Alabama 900 T-3rd 938 6th 628 LSU 905 LSU 899 Tenn.

905 4th 932 LSU 877 5th 888 7th 937 6th 890 2nd 904 3rd 885 Florida 881 3rd 903 6th 887

Medalist (Score) Lynn Connelly, Florida (217) Deb Richard, Florida (216) Deb Richard, Florida (217) Deb Richard, Florida (218)* Cindy Schreyer, Georgia (216) Karen Davies, Florida (221) Margaret Platt, Auburn (222)* Cheryl Morley, Florida (211) Diana Rama, Auburn (223) Anne Cain, Georgia (144) Kristi Coats, LSU (224) Carrie Wood, Miss. St. (217) Sara Miley, Georgia (147)* Katharina Larsson, Tenn. (209) Jeanne-Marie Busuttil, Florida (217) Marci Clemons, Auburn (144) Shauna Estes, Georgia (215) Reilley Rankin, Georgia (215) Shauna Estes, Georgia (210) Danielle Downey, Auburn (224) Kristy McPherson, S. Carolina (207) Kristy McPherson, S. Carolina (209) Aimee Cho, Florida (216) May Wood, Vanderbilt (213)* Stacy Lewis, Arkansas (214) Maria Martinez, Auburn (211) Taylor Leon, Georgia (208) Stacy Lewis, Arkansas (214) Marta Silva Zamora, Georgia (210)

Top Georgia (Score) 3. T. Moody/C. Pleger (220) 3. M. Edge/C. Gowan (221) 2. Cindy Pleger (220) 2. Cindy Schreyer (218) K. Kingston, MSU (220) 9. Heather Kuzmich (231) 2. Nanci Bowen (222) 2. Sue Thomas (213) 2. Tina Paternostro (226) 2. Petra Rigby, Georgia (148) 2. Luciana Bemvenuti (226) 6. Vicki Goetze (223) C.Wood, MSU (147) 3. Erin O’Neil (218) 8. Kelly Doohan (230) 17. Kelley Richardson (155) S. Beautell, Florida (218) K. Cusick, Alabama (218) Young-A Yang, Tenn. (219) 2. Shauna Estes (226) 3. R. Rankin/S. Sirmons (214) 9. Angela Jerman (218) 10. Kelly Froelich (225) 14. N. Nicholls/W. Wade (222) 4. Whitney Wade (223) 5. Taylor Leon (220) Phillips/M. Turner (UT) (212) 7. Krystle Caithness (221) B. Toumpsin, S.C. (214)

* - Denotes playoff ◊ Note: in instances where Georgia won the team championship or medalist honors, the second-place finisher is listed.

Top-10 Individual Finishes at the SEC Championships

H I S T O R Y

1st Marta Silva Zamora, 2009....... 72-67-71=210 Taylor Leon, 2007 ..................... 69-72-67=208 Shauna Estes, 1999 ................. 67-73-70=210 Reilley Rankin, 1998................. 72-71-72=208 Shauna Estes, 1997 ................. 71-73-71=215 Sara Miley, 1993 ............................ 74-73=147 Anne Cain, 1990 ............................ 75-69=144 Cindy Schreyer, 1985 ............................... 216 2nd Garrett Phillips, 2007 ................ 67-72-73=212 Shauna Estes, 2000 ................. 77-77-72=226 Luciana Bemvenuti, 1991 ......... 76-70-80=226 Petra Rigby, 1990 .......................... 75-73=148 Tina Paternostro, 1989 ............. 75-75-76=226 Sue Thomas, 1988 ................... 70-72-71=213 Nanci Bowen, 1987 .................. 76-72-74=222 Cindy Schreyer, 1984 ............................... 218 Cindy Pledger, 1983 ................................. 220 3rd Mallory Hetzel, 2009 ................. 73-70-72=215 Reilley Rankin, 2000................. 70-74-70=214 Summer Sirmons, 2000 ............ 73-69-72=214 Summer Sirmons, 1999 ............ 77-73-70=220 Erin O’Neil, 1997 ...................... 82-66-74=222 Erin O’Neil, 1994 ...................... 71-73-75=219 Vicki Goetze, 1993 ........................ 77-72=149

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3rd (continued) Heather Kuzmich,1988 ............. 73-68-74=215 Mitzi Edge, 1982 ....................................... 221 Caroline Gowan, 1982 .............................. 221 Cindy Pledger, 1981 ................................. 220 Terri Moody, 1981 ..................................... 220 4th Whitney Wade, 2005 ................ 78-77-68=223 Stephanie Lowe, 1988 .............. 74-69-73=216 Martha Stacy, 1983................................... 223 5th Taylor Leon, 2006 ..................... 75-68-77=220 Sue Thomas, 1987 ................... 75-76-76=227 Mitzi Edge, 1981 ....................................... 222 6th Natalia Nicholls, 2005 ............... 75-75-76=226 Laura Henderson, 2001 ............ 69-74-75=218 Vicki Goetze, 1992 ................... 80-71-72=223 Caroline Gowan, 1984 .............................. 226 Caroline Gowan, 1983 .............................. 224 Cindy Pledger, 1982 ................................. 224 Denise King, 1981 .................................... 223 7th Krystle Caithness, 2008............ 71-75-75=221 Mallory Hetzel, 2006 ................. 81-70-70=221 Kelly Doohan, 1994 .................. 70-72-82=224

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7th (continued) Stefi Markovich, 1994 ............... 72-79-73=224 Cindy Schreyer, 1983 ............................... 225 8th Kelly Doohan, 1995 .................. 76-75-79=230 Nanci Bowen, 1989 .................. 79-77-73=229 Nanci Bowen, 1988 .................. 74-69-77=220 9th Angela Jerman, 2002 ............... 74-74-70=218 Laura Henderson, 1999 ............ 81-73-76=230 Jill Kinloch, 1990............................ 76-80=156 Heather Kuzmich, 1987 ............ 78-75-77=230 Heather Kuzmich, 1986 ............................ 231 Stephanie Lowe, 1985 .............................. 230 10th Kelly Froelich, 2003 .................. 71-77-77=225 Summer Sirmons, 2002 ............ 73-75-71=219 Nanci Bowen, 1986 .................................. 232

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SEC Champions Team Championships (11); Individual Medalists (8)

1983 Team

Georgia captured its first-ever SEC Championship in impressive fashion in 1983. The Bulldogs posted sub-300 rounds during all three days of play which in turn led to what is still perhaps the most dominating set of individual finishes in league history. Cindy Pleger led Georgia with a runner-up finish, while Martha Stacy tied for fourth, Caroline Gowan placed sixth, Cindy Schreyer tied for seventh and Beans Kelly tied for ninth.

1985 Team & Individual

A final-round 68 by Cindy Schreyer sparked the Bulldogs to the 1985 SEC title. Georgia led wire-to-wire and owned a nine-shot lead entering the last round. The Bulldogs posted a respectable 295 on the third day but needed Schreyer’s tally, a UGA-record loop at the time, to hold off Florida, which finished just three shots back.

Schreyer captured her fourth title of the 1985 calendar year and won Georgia’s first-ever league individual title. She was SEC runner-up the previous year after losing in a playoff.

1997 Team & Individual

Shauna Estes capped the most fruitful freshman campaign in SEC history by capturing the league’s “triple crown” and leading Georgia to the SEC title in 1997. The No. 22-ranked Bulldogs defeated four higher-ranked teams to win the SEC crown. Estes took medalist honors to validate the SEC Player of the Year and SEC Freshman of the Year accolades she collected earlier in the weekend. Senior Erin O’Neil shot a second-round 66 to help her finish third, the same spot she occupied while leading UGA to the 1994 SEC title as a freshmen.

1998 Team & Individual

1988 Team

The Bulldogs posted an SEC-record even-par 864 en route to 1988 league title, a mark which stood as Georgia’s best 54-hole team tally for almost two decades. Four Bulldogs finished among the top-10 performers in the individual field: Sue Thomas finished second, second-round leader Heather Kuzmich placed third, Stephanie Lowe was fourth and Nanci Bowen came in eighth.

1990 Team & Individual

Anne Cain and Petra Rigby led Georgia to the 1990 Southeastern Conference crown. Cain and Rigby fired first-round 75s to place themselves in a four-way tie for the lead and Georgia one stroke ahead of Auburn. Following a rained-out second round, Cain shot 69 while Rigby posted a 73 to finish 1-2 overall, the first and only time two Bulldogs had done so.

Anne Cain – 1990

1993 Team & Individual

The same formula as the one used in 1990 – two steady rounds sandwiched around a rained-out second day – helped Georgia to both team and individual titles at the 1993 SECs. Senior Sara Miley secured the only individual title of her career, defeating Mississippi State’s Carri Wood on the first hole of a playoff. Three strokes back after the first day, UGA posted the low score of the final round to edge second-place Tennessee by six shots.

1994 Team

Reilley Rankin – 1998

It was a repeat performance in more ways than one at the 1998 SECs. Freshman Reilley Rankin shot 7271-72=215 to become the second straight UGA freshman to claim SEC medalist honors while winning the third of four consecutive individual titles she claimed in a red-hot spring. Rankin followed Estes’ lead from the previous year by earning SEC Player of the Year and SEC Freshman of the Year honors.

She also was named 1998 National Freshman of the Year.

1999 Team & Individual

Georgia posted the low team tally on each day to capture the 1999 SEC title by 18 strokes. Shauna Estes’ first-round 67 propelled the Bulldogs to a seven-shot lead. That margin doubled during the second round and grew even more on the final day. Estes became Georgia’s first two-time SEC champ, doing so with league-record nine-shot margin of victory.

2001 Team

The Bulldogs collected Georgia’s first win of the campaign at the 2001 SEC Championships. The Lady Dogs trailed LSU by three shots after round one and by four strokes entering the third round but used a 292 to emerge victorious by five. Summer Sirmons and Reilley Rankin tied for third overall.

2007 Team & Individual

The 1-2 finishes of Taylor Leon and Garrett Phillips paced Georgia to the 2007 SEC title. Phillips led following the first two rounds, but Leon captured the league title with a 5-under 67 on Sunday. The Bulldogs led wire-to-wire in earning the team title by 16 strokes.

Sara Miley – 1993

A school-record 287 in the first round gave Georgia a lead it would never relinquish en route to winning the 1994 SECs. Kelly Doohan paced UGA on the first day with a 70, while Erin O’Neil, who eventually finished a team-best third individually, shot 71, Stefi Markovich carded a 72 and Kelley Richardson shot 74.

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Shauna Estes – 1997, ’99

2009 Individual

Marta Silva Zamora capped a stellar initial collegiate campaign by capturing medalist honors at the 2009 SECs. Silva Zamora surged to the top of the leaderboard with a 4-under 67 in the second round.

A 71 on Sunday supplied a four-shot victory – and also locked up SEC Freshman of the Year accolades.

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National Championship Results Year-by-Year National Championship Results (1 Team Championship / 3 Individual Medalists)

H I S T O R Y

year 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Host Mt. Holyoke San Diego State Arizona Michigan State Hawaii Florida Oklahoma State New Mexico Georgia Ohio State-AIAW Stanford-NCAA Georgia Georgia Amherst Ohio State New Mexico New Mexico St. Stanford South Carolina Ohio State Arizona State Georgia Oregon UNC-Wilmington UCLA Ohio State Wisconsin Tulsa Oregon State Stetson Washington Purdue Auburn Oregon State Ohio State UCF New Mexico Georgetown

Team Title UNC-G’boro Rollins Arizona St. Furman Miami Miami SMU Tulsa Florida St. Tulsa Tulsa TCU Miami Florida Florida San Jose St. Vacated San Jose St. Arizona St. *UCLA San Jose St. Arizona St. Arizona St. Arizona St. *Arizona Arizona St. Arizona St. Duke Arizona Georgia Duke USC UCLA Duke Duke Duke USC Arizona St.

Score 1281 1281 1251 1220 1218 1208 1188 1220 1205 1191 1193 1214 1218 1180 1187 1208 1206 1197 1171 1187 1189 1155 1240 1178 1155 895 1175 1176 1164 1197 1148 1170 1167 1170 1168 1182

UGA Score

8th 9th 2nd 4th -3rd -t-6th 13th -t-2nd 6th 17th 5th 3rd 4th 14thE 18th 10thE t-8thE t-10th t-2nd 7th Duke 5th 11th 9th 9thW t-6th 8th t-10th 15th

1257 1234 1223 1214 1206 1257 1225 1182 1234 1284 1222 1181 1197 966 1235 932 958 1201 903 1209 1179 1176 1226 1190 911 1202 1205 1197 1234

Medalist (Score) Bonnie Lauer, Michigan St. (305) Mary Budke, Oregon St. (301) Barbara Barrow, SDSU (300) Nancy Lopez, Tulsa (302)* Cathy Morse, Miami (299) Debbie Petrizzi, Texas (291) Kyle O’Brien, SMU (292) Patty Sheehan, San Jose St. (289) Terri Moody, Georgia (296)* Amy Benz, SMU (290) Kathy Baker, Tulsa (295) Penny Hammel, Miami (284) Cindy Schreyer, Georgia (297)* Danielle Ammaccapane, ASU (298) Page Dunlap, Florida (291) Caroline Keggi, New Mexico (289)* Melissa McNamara, Tulsa (287) Pat Hurst, San Jose St. (292) Susan Slaughter, Arizona (297)* Annika Sorenstam, Arizona (290) Vicki Goetze, Georgia (280) Charlotta Sorenstam, Texas (287) Emilee Klein, Arizona St. (286) Kristel M. d’Algue, Arizona St. (283) Marisa Baena, Arizona (296) Heather Bowie, Texas (285) Jennifer Rosales, USC (279) Grace Park, Arizona St. (212) Jenna Daniels, Arizona (289) Candy Hannemann, Duke (285)* Oui Nirapathpongporn, Duke (279) Mikaela Parmlid, USC (297)* Sarah Huarte, Cal (278) Anna Grzebien, Duke (286) Dewi Schreefel, USC (286) Stacy Lewis, Arkansas (282) Azahara Munoz, Arizona St. (287) Maria Hernandez, Purdue (289)

Top Georgia (Score)

2. Terri Moody (296) 10. Terri Moody (301) Patti Rizzo, Miami (296) 2. Cindy Pleger (302) -8. Caroline Gowan (297) Foyer/Berteotti (297) 9. Heather Kuzmich (307) 29. Heather Kuzmich (303) 9. Heather Kuzmich (294) 4. Heather Kuzmich (291) 6. Nanci Bowen (298) 48. Tina Paternostro (315) 6. Luciana Bemvenuti (296) Annika Sorenstam (283) 5. Vicki Goetze (292) -44. Kelly Doohan (306) -4. Shauna Estes (289) 14. Julia Boros (294) 3. Shauna Estes (216) 7. Laura Henderson (296) 10. Reilley Rankin (292) 2. Summer Sirmons (284) 19. Kelly Froelich (303) 20. Kelly Froelich (292) -16. Taylor Leon (296) 14. Taylor Leon (298) 3. Garrett Phillips (289) 25. Marta Silva Zamora (300)

Top-20 Individual Finishes at the National Championships

1st Vicki Goetze, 1992 .............69-74-72-65 =280 Cindy Schreyer, 1984 .........75-70-76-76 =297 Terri Moody, 1981 ...............73-72-75-76 =296 2nd Summer Sirmons, 2002 ......69-68-73-74 =284 Cindy Pleger, 1982 .............75-76-75-76 =302 Terri Moody, 1979 ...............76-73-72-75 =296 3rd Garrett Phillips, 2008 ..........71-74-71-73 =289 Shauna Estes, 1999 ................ 77-70-69 =216 4th Shauna Estes, 1997 ...........73-75-71-70 =289 Heather Kuzmich, 1988 ......74-73-71-73 =291 5th Vicki Goetze, 1993 .............72-75-72-73 =292 6th Angela Jerman, 2002 .........70-74-71-70 =285 Luciana Bemvenuti, 1991 ...74-75-73-74 =296

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6th (continued) Nanci Bowen, 1989 ...........75-75-74-74 =298 7th Laura Henderson, 2000 ......74-71-72-79 =296 8th Caroline Gowan, 1983 ........75-74-77-71 =297 9th Reilley Rankin, 1999................ 75-76-74 =225 Heather Kuzmich, 1985 ......77-77-77-76 =307 10th Reilley Rankin, 2001...........72-78-70-72 =292 Terri Moody, 1980 ...............74-76-76-75 =301 12th Mitzi Edge, 1981 .................75-77-76-77 =305 13th Laura Henderson, 2001 ......75-72-74-73 =294 Angela Jerman, 2001 .........77-71-73-73 =294 Cindy Schreyer, 1982 .........78-77-72-76 =303

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14th Taylor Leon, 2007 ................74-74-73-77=298 Julia Boros, 1998 ................70-70-75-79 =294 15th Shauna Estes, 1998 ...........74-76-74-71 =295 Caroline Gowan, 1984 ........77-74-77-77 =305 16th Taylor Leon, 2006 ................75-75-71-75=226 Cindy Schreyer, 1985 ......... 81-75-81-74 =311 17th Cindy Pleger, 1983 .............78-77-74-74 =303 18th Summer Sirmons, 2001 ......74-74-76-72 =296 Kristin Milligan, 1993 ..........73-74-78-74 =299 19th Kelly Froelich, 2003 ............81-77-75-70 =303 20th Kelly Froelich, 2004 ............79-74-68-71 =292

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National Champions Team Championships (1); Individual Medalists (3)

1981 AIAW National Championships

Terri Moody moved atop the leaderboard midway through the second round of the 1981 AIAW National Championships on the UGA Golf Course and held off a late charge from Miami’s Patti Rizzo to win Georgia’s first-ever individual national title by a female student-athlete in any sport.

Moody was among a group of five golfers tied for second following an opening-round 73, but grabbed a onestroke lead over Rizzo with a 72 on her second loop. The Athens native maintained that advantage when she and Rizzo both carded third-round 75s.

On the final day, Rizzo’s 75 knotted the score atop the leaderboard and forced a three-hole playoff. Moody completed the trio of holes at 1-under while Rizzo was 1-over.

1992 NCAA Championships

Vicki Goetze turned in one of the most impressive single rounds in the history of women’s collegiate golf en route to capturing top individual honors at the 1992 NCAA Championships on Arizona State University’s Karsten Golf Course. Goetze and Stanford’s Audrey Wooding led following firstround, 3-under 69s; however, Annika Sorenstam of Arizona grabbed a threeshot advantage with a second-round 68. Sorenstam maintained that lead after both she and Goetze shot 72s in the third round. Goetze then torched the course with a 7-under 65 on the fourth day to top Sorenstam by three shots. Goetze’s effort remains the Bulldogs’ lowest single-round of all time.

Terri Moody

1981 AIAW Champion

1984 NCAA Championships

Cindy Schreyer capped her junior season with a dramatic win at the 1984 NCAA Championships. Schreyer won a three-hole playoff with SMU’s Martha Foyer and Miami’s Michele Bertroitti with a birdie at No. 12. Schreyer had battled Arizona State’s Heather Farr through most of the tournament.

Farr carded an opening-round score of 71, a course record at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club in Tarpon Springs, Fla. Schreyer, who was among seven golfers tied for eighth after the first day, rebounded to break the course record with a second-round 70 and knot herself with Farr on the leaderboard. Farr regained a one-shot lead following the third round. While Schreyer shot 76 Cindy Schreyer 1984 NCAA Champion in the final round, Foyer and Berteotti carded 75s to force the playoff. Farr slipped to fourth with a 79, two strokes off the playoff-forcing score of 297.

For a complete recap of Georgia’s 2001 NCAA Championship team title please see Page 38.

Georgia has won the NCAA East Regional three times since the qualifying tourney for the NCAA Championships was introduced in 1993, collecting top honors in 1993, ’98 and ’99. Most recently, the Bulldogs erased an 11-stroke deficit during a miraculous final-round rally.

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Vicki Goetze

1992 NCAA Champion

2001 NCAA Team Champions

(L-R) Summer Sirmons, Reilley Rankin, Todd McCorkle, Laura Henderson, Angela Jerman & Whitney Christie

NCAA Long Driving Champions

Heather Kuzmich 1988 (278 Yards)

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Tina Paternostro 1991 (271 Yards)

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National Champions Bulldogs earn first-ever NCAA team title in dramatic fashion

H I S T O R Y

Ask any edition of the Georgia golf team – or any collegiate squad for that matter – which two tournaments they would like to win during a season, and to a person, you would almost certainly receive the same reply — the SEC and NCAA Championships.

The chances of pulling off that double are improbable indeed, even more so for a team that failed to post a team “W” throughout the fall and spring campaigns.

But the Bulldogs of 2001 did just that, playing their best golf at the perfect time and hitting the lottery of championships.

On May 25, Georgia fired a 2-over 290 during the final round of the NCAA Championhips at Mission Inn Golf & Tennis Resort in Howeyin-the-Hills, Fla., to claim the first national title in the program’s illus- A balanced effort led Georgia to its first-ever NCAA Championship in 2001. trious history. The Bulldogs erased Four Bulldogs placed between 10th and 18th in the individual field: (above a four-shot deficit entering the day L-R) Rankin, Henderson, Jerman and (R) Sirmons. and finished three shots ahead of The Bulldogs knotted the score top-ranked Duke, 1176 to 1179.

Ironically, a month earlier, Georgia trailed LSU by four shots again at No. 5 and took control entering the final round of the SEC Championships at the University soon thereafter.

On the par-4 No. 6, Rankin and of Florida Golf Course and won there as well.

“I don’t know what the probability of just winning the SECs and Sirmons posted birdies, while HenNCAAs happening is, but I’m sure it’s not very good,” said Laura derson and Jerman recorded pars.

Henderson, the lone senior in the Georgia lineup. “If there’s any team Duke played the same hole 1-over to do it, I guess it’s us. We were so focused and so well prepared for to give Georgia a three-shot lead those two events. To win the national championship in the last round and an edge it would never relinof my last collegiate tournament...I don’t know if I can express how quish. The margin was trimmed to two at the turn, but the Blue Devils much that means to me.”

Reilley Rankin and Summer Sirmons carded even-par 72s, while never got closer.

For Georgia, the victory was Henderson and Angela Jerman shot a pair of 73s to round out Georgia’s counting rounds en route to hoisting the NCAA Championship perhaps more gratifying because of trophy. Whitney Christie shot 82 for the Lady Dogs, playing the back the path the Bulldogs took to claim the title. During the fall, Georgia nine at 1-under after struggling on the front.

“This has to be the greatest day of my life,” first-year head coach slipped as low as No. 17 nationally.

Todd McCorkle said. “These girls have worked so hard to get here. Two solid performances to end the 2000 calendar year propelled Georgia into the spring.

It just makes this that much more special.”

“A lot of the girls wanted to know when we started the season if The Bulldogs claimed the title in true championship fashion.

When its lead was in jeopardy coming down the stretch, Georgia I thought we were good enough to win the national championship,” responded. After all four Bulldogs who posted counting rounds McCorkle said. “I told them I didn’t know. I knew we could be very bogeyed No. 16, Sirmons, Jerman and Rankin responded with a good, but you also have to have a little luck to win a national title. trio of birdies on No. 17 to all but ensure the victory. That quartet I do know we are the most improved team in the country. I knew then posted pars on No. 18, with Rankin’s tap-in in the final group that before we even came to nationals, though. It all came together at the right time.” setting off a celebration.

McCorkle shocked most of the collegiate golf world in June of “They’re going to have to make a new word to add to the dictionary to describe what I’m feeling,” said Rankin, who posted six birdies 2000. After leading Arizona to the 2000 NCAA Championship (and with a stellar recruiting class arriving last fall), he left Tucson to take and six bogeys en route to an even-par tally.

Overall individually, Rankin finished tied for 10th at 292, Hen- over as head coach at Georgia. Less than a year later, no one was derson and Jerman both tied for 13th at 294, Sirmons tied for 18th questioning the decision after McCorkle.

“I couldn’t be happier,” he said. “I don’t know many people who at 296 and Christie tied for 106th.

The Bulldogs grabbed the lead early in the final round and never would be dumb enough to leave a school just after winning a national trailed the rest of the day. Georgia tied the score at No. 3 before the title. I don’t know if it’s ever happened, but I’m sure there aren’t very many.”

Blue Devils surged ahead by a single stroke at No.4.

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Individual & Team Records Individual Lowest Rounds (Gross)

Tot. Player, Tournament Rd. Net 65 Vicki Goetze, 1992 NCAAs 4th -7 66 Shauna Estes, 1998 Mercedes-Benz 2nd -6 Julia Boros, 1998 Lady Gator 2nd -4 Erin O’Neil, 1997 SECs 2nd -5 67 Marta Silva Zamora, 2009 SECs 2nd -4 Krystle Caithness, 2008 Cougar 2nd -5 Taylor Leon, 2007 SECs 3rd -5 Garrett Phillips, 2007 SECs 1st -5 Whitney Wade, 2006 Stanford 1st -4 Kelly Froelich, 2003 NCAA East 3rd -4 Angela Jerman, 2002 Bryan National 1st -5 Reilley Rankin, 2001 LSU Classic 3rd -5 Shauna Estes, 1999 SECs 1st -5 68 Mallory Hetzel, 2009 UNLV 3rd -4 Marta Silva Zamora, 2008 Match Play 1st -4 1st -4 Mallory Hetzel, 2008 Cougar Alina Lee, 2007 Lady Tar Heel 2nd -4 Garrett Phillips, 2007 Lady Puerto Rico 3rd -4 Taylor Leon, 2007 NCAA Central 1st -3 Taylor Leon, 2006 SECs 2nd -4 Whitney Wade, 2005 SECs 3rd -4 Jackie Beers, 2004 Mason Rudolph 3rd -4 Allison Martin, 2004 NCAA Preview 1st -3 Kelly Froelich, 2004 Dick McGuire 3rd -5 Kelly Froelich, 2004 Dick McGuire 1st -5 Kelly Froelich, 2004 NCAAs 3rd -4 Whitney Wade, 2003 Lady Paladin 2nd -4 Summer Sirmons, 2002 NCAAs 2nd -4 Reilley Rankin, 2001 LSU Classic 2nd -4 Shauna Estes, 2000 SMU-OSU Challenge 2nd -3 Vicki Goetze, 1992 Georgia Preview 3rd -5 Vicki Goetze, 1992 Beacon Woods 3rd -4 Tina Paternostro, 1989 Tiger-Tide 2nd -4 Heather Kuzmich, 1988 SECs 2nd -4 Cindy Schreyer, 1985 SECs 3rd -4 Cindy Schreyer, 1985 Betsy Rawls 3rd -4 Mitzi Edge, 1981 Lady Tar Heel 1st -4 Net -11 -10 -8

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Tot. 278 279 280 281 PHILLIPS

RANKIN

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Gross 208 209 208 280 210 210 210 213 211 211 211 211 214 212 212 209 212 212 284 212 212 212 212 212

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Individual Low Season Average

Player (Strokes/Rounds) Taylor Leon (2,179/30) Angela Jerman (2,406/33) Taylor Leon (2,490/34) Reilley Rankin (1,831/25) Vicki Goetze (2,127/29) Reilley Rankin (2,494/34) Summer Sirmons (2,426/33) Marta Silva Zamora (2,282/31) Whitney Wade (2,506/34) Shauna Estes (2,212/30)

Team Low Round (Gross)

Season 2006-07 2001-02 2005-06 2000-01 1992-93 1997-98 2001-02 2008-09 2005-06 1998-99

Tournament 1988 SEC Championships 2008 Cougar Classic 2006 Mason Rudolph Championship 2003 NCAA East Regional 1998 Auburn Tiger Invitational 1998 Lady Gator Invitational 2003 Lady Paladin Invitational 2006 Stanford Intercollegiate 2006 Bryan National Collegiate 2005 Bryan National Collegaite Five times, most recently 2007 SEC Championships

Rd. Net 2nd -10 2nd -9 1st -8 3rd -7 2nd -7 2nd +2 2nd -5 1st Even 3rd -4 1st -4

Tournament 2008 Cougar Classic 2006 Stanford Intercollegiate 1988 SEC Championships 2007 SEC Championships 2004 Liz Murphey Collegiate 2003 NCAA East Regional 1998 Lady Gator Invitational 866 2006 Mason Rudolph Championship 2003 Lady Paladin Invitational 869 2006 NCAA Fall Preview 872 Six times, most recently 2008 UCF Challenge

Net -6 +10 Even +1 +1 +13 +25 +2 +2 +5

282 283 284 285

Individual Low Tournament (Net)

Player/Tournament Reilley Rankin, 1998 Liz Murphey Kelly Froelich, 2004 Dick McGuire Taylor Leon, 2007 SECs Vicki Goetze, 1992 NCAAs -6 Marta Silva Zamora, 2008 Cougar Allison Martin, 2004 Liz Murphey Shauna Estes, 1999 SECs Vicki Goetze, 1992 Georgia Preview -5 Mallory Hetzel, 2008 Cougar Garrett Phillips, 2008 UCF Challenge Angela Jerman, 2002 Bryan National Reilley Rankin, 2001 LSU Classic Shauna Estes, 1999 Liz Murphey -4 Alina Lee, 2007 Lady Tar Heel Garrett Phillips, 2007 SECs Whitney Wade, 2006 Stanford Garrett Phillips, 2006 Mason Rudolph Jackie Beers, 2004 Mason Rudolph Summer Sirmons, 2002 NCAAs Vicki Goetze, 1992 Beacon Woods Tina Paternostro, 1990 Beacon Woods Tina Paternostro, 1989 Tiger-Tide Mitzi Edge, 1981 Lady Tar Heel Cindy Pleger, 1981 Lady Tar Heel

Avg. 72.63 72.91 73.24 73.24 73.34 73.35 73.52 73.61 73.71 73.73

Tot. 858 862 864 865

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Team Low Tournament Total (Gross)

Avg. 294.50 295.68 296.81 297.76 298.13

Team Low Season Average year 2006-07 2005-06 2007-08 2003-04 2004-05

Tour.

11 11 12 11 10

Rds. 34 34 37 34 30

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+8 Strokes 10,013 10,053 10,982 10,124 8,944

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Honors & Awards National Players of the Year

Terri Moody

1981 (Honda Broderick)

National Coach of the Year

Cindy Schreyer

Vicki Goetze

1984 (Honda Broderick)

1992 (Honda Broderick) 1993 (NGCA)

U.S. Am Champion

NGCA Hall of Fame

Vicki Goetze – 1989 & ‘93

Liz Murphey (c) – 1984 Cindy Schreyer (p) – 1999 Beans Kelly (c) – 2000 Terri Moody (p) – 2000 Shauna Estes (p) – 2009

Canadian Am Champion Laura Matthews – 2005

French Junior Champion

NGCA Gladys Palmer Meritorious Service Award

Kelly Froelich – 2003

World Team Amateur

H I S T O R Y

Liz Murphey – 1984

Liz Murphey – 1996 Beans Kelly – 2007

Vicki Goetze – 1990 & ‘92 Laura Henderson (Canada) – 2000, ‘02 & ‘04 Krystle Caithness (Scotland) – 2006 & ‘08 &

UGA Circle of Honor

Curtis Cup

Terri Moody – 1980 Cindy Schreyer – 1986 Vicki Goetze – 1990 & ’92 Angela Jerman – 2002 Taylor Leon – 2006 Krystle Caithness (Scotland) – 2008

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Reilley Rankin 1998 (NGCA)

SEC Coach of the Year

Beans Kelly – 1989, ‘91 & ‘98 Todd McCorkle – 2005 & ‘07

SEC Female Athlete of the Year Vicki Goetze – 1992

(top female athlete for all sports)

SEC Golfer of the Year

Vicki Goetze – 1992 & ‘93 Shauna Estes – 1997 & 2000 Reilley Rankin – 1998 Angela Jerman – 2002 Taylor Leon – 2007

SEC Freshman Golfer of the Year

NCAA-Japan Match Play

Beans Kelly – 1998

National Freshman of the Year

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Tina Paternostro – 1989 Luciana Bemvenuti – 1991 Vicki Goetze – 1992 Erin O’Neil – 1994 Shauna Estes – 1997 Reilley Rankin – 1998 Taylor Leon – 2006 Marta Silva Zamora – 2009

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Honors & Awards All-Americans (26 Athletes/42 Certificates) 1980 – Terri Moody 1981 – Mitzi Edge, Terri Moody 1982 – Mitzi Edge, Cindy Pleger 1983 – Cindy Pleger (2nd) 1984 – Cindy Schreyer, Caroline Gowan (2nd) 1985 – Cindy Schreyer 1986 – Stephanie Lowe (HM) 1988 – Nanci Bowen (HM), Heather Kuzmich (HM), Sue Thomas (HM) 1989 – Nanci Bowen (HM) 1990 – Anne Cain (2nd) 1991 – Luciana Bemvenuti (HM) Tina Paternostro (HM), Petra Rigby (HM) 1992 – Vicki Goetze 1993 – Vicki Goetze 1997 – Shauna Estes 1998 – Reilley Rankin, Shauna Estes (2nd), Julia Boros (HM) 1999 – Shauna Estes, Angela Jerman (2nd) 2000 – Shauna Estes 2001 – Reilley Rankin (2nd), Summer Sirmons (2nd) 2002 – Angela Jerman, Summer Sirmons (2nd) 2005 – Kelly Froelich (HM), Whitney Wade (HM) 2006 – Taylor Leon (2nd), Whitney Wade (3rd), Mallory Hetzel (HM) 2007 – Taylor Leon (1st), Whitney Wade (HM) 2008 – Krystle Caithness (HM), Garrett Phillips (HM) 2009 – Mallory Hetzel (HM) Marta Silva Zamora (HM)

JERMAN

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All-SEC Performers 1982 – Mitzi Edge, Caroline Gowan 1983 – Caroline Gowan, Cindy Pleger, Martha Stacy 1984 – Caroline Gowan, Cindy Schreyer 1985 – Cindy Schreyer 1986 – Stephanie Lowe 1987 – Heather Kuzmich 1988 – Heather Kuzmich, Sue Thomas 1989 – Nanci Bowen 1990 – Anne Cain, Tina Paternostro 1991 – Luciana Bemvenuti, Tina Paternostro, Petra Rigby 1992 – Luciana Bemvenuti, Vicki Goetze, Tina Paternostro 1993 – Vicki Goetze, Sara Miley 1993 – Kristin Milligan, Kelly Doohan (2nd) 1994 – Erin O’Neil, Kelley Richardson (2nd) 1995 – Kelly Doohan (2nd), Erin O’Neil (2nd), Kelley Richardson (2nd) 1996 – Erin O’Neil, Kelley Richardson (HM) 1997 – Shauna Estes, Julia Boros (HM), Erin O’Neil (HM) 1998 – Shauna Estes, Reilley Rankin, Julia Boros (2nd), Laura Henderson (2nd) 1999 – Shauna Estes, Laura Henderson, Angela Jerman, Summer Sirmons (2nd) 2000 – Shauna Estes, Laura Henderson, Angela Jerman 2001 – Reilley Rankin, Summer Sirmons, Laura Henderson (2nd), Angela Jerman (HM) 2002 – Angela Jerman, Summer Sirmons 2003 – Kelly Froelich (2nd), Summer Sirmons (2nd) 2004 – Whitney Wade, Kelly Froelich (2nd), Natalia Nicholls (2nd), Lisa Tyler (2nd) NICHOLLS 2005 – Kelly Froelich, Whitney Wade, Natalia Nicholls (2nd) 2006 – Taylor Leon, Whitney Wade, Mallory Hetzel (2nd) 2007 – Taylor Leon, Whitney Wade, Alina Lee (2nd), Garrett Phillips (2nd) 2008 – Krystle Caithness (2nd), Garrett Phillips (2nd) 2009 – Mallory Hetzel, Marta Silva Zamora, Carolina Andrade (2nd)

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Honors & Awards Edith Munson Award

CoSida At-Large Academic All-Americans 1997 – Julia Boros (2nd) 1998 – Julia Boros (1st) 2000 – Shannon Ogg (2nd) (The At-Large team is comprised of student-athletes who compete in the sports of crew, gymnastics, skiing, fencing, ice hockey, swimming, water polo, field hockey, lacrosse, tennis, golf and rifle.)

BOROS

OGG

NGCA All-American Scholars (15 Athletes/26 Certificates) 1986 – Sue Thomas, Melanie Wilson 1988 – Anne Cain, Jill Kinloch, Beth Kurtz 1990 – Anne Cain, Jill Kinloch 1992 – Luciana Bemvenuti Julia Boros 1995 – Stefi Markovich, 1998 (National Golf Coaches Assoc.)

Kelley Richardson Awarded to the graduating senior All-American with the highest grade point average.

1996 – Julia Boros, Sabra Gray, Stefi Markovich, NCAA Post-Graduate Kelley Richardson Scholarship Recipients 1997 – Julia Boros, Stefi Markovich 1983 – Cindy Pleger 1998 – Julia Boros, Shannon Ogg 1998 – Julia Boros 1999 – Shannon Ogg 2000 – Shannon Ogg Joel Eaves Scholar-Athlete 2006 – Alina Lee 2007 – Alina Lee 1997 – Sabra Gray 2008 – Alina Lee, 1998 – Julia Boros Innapha Tantanavivat 2000 – Shannon Ogg (Awarded to the UGA female and male stu- 2009 – Carolina Andrade, Tess Fordham H I S T O R Y

dent-athlete with the highest GPA entering their senior year)

Marilyn Vincent Academic Award

1983 – Cindy Pleger 1990 – Jill Kinloch 1997 – Sabra Gray 2000 – Shannon Ogg

(Awarded to the UGA female student-athlete with the highest GPA)

Carolina Andrade

Faculty Athletic Representative’s Award 1985 – 3.02 1987 – 3.26 1988 – 3.15 1991 – 3.08 1992 – 3.08 1994 – 3.45

1995 – 3.44 1996 – 3.30 1997 – 3.53 1998 – 3.43 2005 – 3.25 2009 – 3.34

Awarded to the Georgia women’s and men’s athletic teams with the highest combined grade point average (GPA) for the academic year.

Shannon Ogg

1998, 1999 & 2000 NGCA All-American Scholar

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Bulldogs on the LPGA Tour Former Tour Members

Nanci Bowen

1995 Nabisco Dinah Shore Champion Luciana Bemvenuti

Career Earnings: $500,109

Stephanie (Lowe) Brecht

Vicki Goetze-Ackerman

Career Earnings: $1,651,997

Angela Jerman

Career Earnings: $205,634

Career Earnings: $473, 344

Nanci Bowen

Career Earnings: $1,175,749

Mitzi Edge

Career Earnings: $912,630

Caroline Gowan

Career Earnings: $141,244

Cindy (Pleger) Mackey Career Earnings: $313,010

Terri Moody

Career Earnings: $57,066

Sue Thomas

Career Earnings: $214,890

Cindy Schreyer

Career Earnings: $1,473,602

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Luciana Bemvenuti Julia Boros Anne Cain Kelly Doohan Shauna Estes Kelly Froelich Caroline Gowan Mallory Hetzel Heather Kuzmich Taylor Leon Stefi Markovich

Kristin Milligan Erin O’Neil Tina Paternostro Reilley Rankin Kelley Richardson Petra Rigby Summer Sirmons Whitney Wade*

Wade earned her LPGA card for 2010 by finishing sixth on the 2009 Futures Tour season money list

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H I S T O R Y

Georgia Golf History Bulldogs have long been among nation’s top programs

It all began in 1967, when Liz Murphey In 2001, after posting 14 top-10 and joined the University of Georgia staff as seven top-five finishes at the previous an assistant physical education profes17 national championships, the Bulldogs sor and golf coach. She built Georgia finally captured their first team national into a national powerhouse...status the title. Georgia rallied from a four-shot Bulldogs have maintained for decades. deficit entering the final round to secure Today, the Georgia tradition is perhaps the victory in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla. as deep as any in the country.

In the past three decades, the Bulldogs Premier amateurs have earned four national championships Vicki Goetze arrived in Athens as one – one team and three individual titles. of the most celebrated and decorated Georgia has won an SEC-best 19 team junior golfers ever. Goetze was a sixand individual league titles. time AJGAAll-American and three-time On the team front , Georgia has finished National Junior Golfer of the Year. She among the top 20 schools at the national won the 1989 U.S. Amateur during the championships during 24 of the last 31 Georgia Women’s Golf’s Founding Females – Terri Moody summer after her sophomore year of high years – 20 of those in the top 10. UGA and Liz Murphey – take in the action at the 2000 Liz Murphey school and won a second Am in 1992 has captured 11 SEC team crowns, in- Collegiate Classic. Murphey started the program from scratch following her freshman year at UGA. cluding an unprecedented three straight and was head coach from 1967-87. She also was the senior Goetze is one of UGA’s premier woman administrator while UGA developed into a national from 1997-99, amateurs, a list that continues to grow. power in women’s athletics. Moody, an Athens native who Individually, Georgia golfers have was the first female to receive a full athletic scholarship to The year before Terri Moody won her individual national crown, she became posted 35 top-20 individual finishes at UGA, paid major dividends on that investment by winning the UGA’s first representative on the U.S. nationals, highlighted by 2001 when schools’s first-ever national title in women’s athletics. team for the Curtis Cup, the biennial Reilley Rankin, Laura Henderson, Angela Jerman and Summer Sirmons all did so en route to securing the competition between top amateurs from the U.S. and Great Britain & team national title. Those four are among a ledger of 26 golfers who Ireland. Bulldogs have represented the U.S. five more times – Cindy have been named All-America a combined 42 times. Seven Bulldog Schreyer in 1986; Goetze in 1990 and ’92; Angela Jerman in 2002; golfers have combined to win eight SEC individual titles, including and Taylor Leon in 2006 – while Krystle Caithness became UGA’s two-time winner Shauna Estes (1997 and 1999), seven SEC Golfer first representative for Great Britain & Ireland at the 2008 Cup. of the Year honors and eight SEC Freshman of the Year accolades.

Dominating the SEC in Beans’ “Glory Days”

The quartet of coaches

H I S T O R Y

In 1986, Beans Kelly, a member of Bulldog teams that finished fourth and third at the 1982 and 1983 national championships, respectively, took the reins from her mentor and continued to build upon the foundation Liz Murphey established.

Todd McCorkle assumed the helm in 2000 and delivered the program’s first-ever team national title the following spring.

Kelley Hester, a three-time All-SEC performer as the former Kelley Richardson, christened the newest chapter in Georgia Golf lore in 2008 and has led the Bulldogs to two more top-20 finishes.

National titles make their way to Athens

Georgia Golf owns four national championships – three individual crowns and one team title.

Athens native Terri Moody was the first woman ever to receive a full athletic scholarship to UGA. As a senior, Moody became the Bulldogs’ first national medalist. She captured the 1981 AIAW title on the University of Georgia layout and did so in a most dramatic fashion by winning a three-hole playoff over Miami’s Patti Rizzo.

Cindy Schreyer, who went on to win nearly $1.5 million on the LPGA Tour, secured Georgia’s first NCAA medalist honor by winning at the Innisbrook Resort in Tarpon Springs, Fla., in 1984. She did it in much the same style as Moody, in three-hole playoff win over SMU’s Martha Foyer and Miami’s Michele Berteotti.

Perhaps no other player in Georgia history made the impact that Vicki Goetze did in her two-season stint in Athens. A native of nearby Watkinsville, Goetze capped her freshman year by shooting a tourney-record 65 on the last day of the 1992 NCAA Championships in Tempe, Ariz., to win medalist honors by three shots over Arizona’s Annika Sorenstam.

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Shauna Estes and Reilley Rankin were the driving forces behind teams which won an unprecedented trio of three straight SEC Championships between 1997-99.

In 1997, Estes became the first player ever to claim the league’s “Triple Crown” – earning SEC Player and Freshman of the Year accolades and medalist honors at the SEC Championships.

In 1998, individual accolades were again plentiful as Beans Kelly was tabbed National Coach of the Year and Rankin followed in Estes’ footsteps as only the second SEC “Triple Crown” performer.

In 1999, the Bulldogs not only won their third straight SEC title but also captured a second consecutive NCAA East Regional crown.

Georgia then equaled what was then its best-ever NCAA finish by tying for second.

During 2000, Kelly’s final season as head coach, the Dogs finished seventh at the NCAAs and Estes became the first four-time All-American in school history.

Standouts in the classroom as well

For all the successes Georgia has enjoyed on the course, the Bulldogs’ academic resume is equally impressive.

The women’s golfers have captured UGA’s Faculty Athletic Representatives Award – given annually to the women’s and men’s teams with the highest grade point average for the year – 11 times.

Julia Boros capped her collegiate career in 1998 by earning the Edith Munson Award as the senior All-American golfer with the highest cumulative GPA. Boros was a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-America honoree and also earned an NCAA post-graduate scholarship. Cindy Pleger was awarded a post-graduate scholarship from the NCAA, while Shannon Ogg was named CoSIDA Academic All-America in 2000.

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Athens, Ga. Nestled below the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the “Classic City” fosters an eclectic environment where music lovers, sports enthusiasts and college students find common ground. Athens is a place where Southern history merges with 21st century technology, creating one of America’s premier college towns.

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“...a place that celebrates and creates music of every kind, especially live music. America’s hippest music scene happens to thrive in a town that also boasts a generous stock of Old South architecture, beautiful and walkable campus quads, and all the art and cultural goodies spawned by a major university.”

– Steve Hendrix, Washington Post

Athens’ diverse music scene spawned worldwide supergroup REM in the 1980s. Today, many of music’s biggest names – like Taylor Swift and John Mayer – played intimate Athens venues like the Georgia Theatre on their way to worldwide stardom.

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Not only is Athens the consumate college town it is only about an hour from either the mountains and Atlanta with all each has to offer. ▼

UGA’s Sanford Stadium hosted the medal rounds of soccer during the 1996 Olympics when 76,481 fans – then the largest-ever crowd for a women’s sporting event – watched the U.S. women capture Gold. ▼

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University of Georgia On Jan. 27, 1785 – two years after the Revolutionary War ended and still four years prior to George Washington’s inauguration as our first President – the Georgia Legislature adopted the charter to create the University of Georgia and make UGA the birthplace of public higher education in America.

UGA Quick Facts

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Agricultural & Environmental Sciences Arts and Sciences Business Ecology Education Environment and Design Family and Consumer Sciences Forest Resources Graduate School Journalism & Mass Communication Law Pharmacy Public Health Public and International Affairs Social Work Veterinary Medicine

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22 Baccalaureate degrees in 140 fields 33 Master’s degrees in 123 fields 19 Educational Specialist degrees 4 Doctoral degrees in 89 areas Professional degrees in law, pharmacy & veterinary medicine • 170 study-abroad & exhange programs

UGA’s $43 million Student Learning Center (below right) is one of the nation’s most technologically advanced teaching facilities. The Tate Student Center Renovation and Expansion (below left) was christened in August 2009. The $58.2 million project drastically ▼ increased space for student programs and activities in the heart of the UGA campus. ▼

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s UGA’s thriving East Campus is less than two miles from the UGA Golf Course. The area includes four extravagant dorms for 1,200 with separate bedrooms for every student.

s Georgia’s campus-wide dining halls are award-winning. Since

1986, UGA food services has won 63 Horton Awards from the National Association of College and University Food Services, among the most of any school in the nation. The most luxurious is East Village Commons, which is adjacent to the ECV dorms.

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UGA Athletics UGA’s athletics program has long been among the best in the nation. Georgia has posted top-20 finishes in the NACDA Director’s Cup each of the last 12 years.

All told, Georgia teams have captured 37 national championships and 130 SEC crowns, while Georgia student-athletes own 148 individual national titles.

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finishes listed are from each sport’s respective national championship

The Gym Dogs are Georgia’s most successful team, with 10 NCAA titles including the last five crowns.

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These student-athletes are entrusted to my care. I will train them to the best of my ability. I will develop them into smartly disciplined, physically fit, highly-trained athletes thoroughly indoctrinated in love for the Georgia Bulldogs who represent the University of Georgia and the athletic program in the highest possible manner. I will encourage our athletes and insist that they perform to the best of their ability in the classroom as well as in the arena of competitive athletics. I will require of them, and demonstrate by my own example, the highest standards of integrity, personal conduct, morality, sportsmanship and professional skill.

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UGA Athletics

NACDA’s Directors’ Cup Finishes

Bulldog teams have won 18 NCAA Championships over the past 11 years, with teams then making frequent trips to the White House to receive Presidential congratulations.

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their sports. Jack Bauerle has led UGA to four NCAA titles in women’s swimming and diving and was head coach of the women’s 2008 U.S. Olympic Team in Beijing.

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On fall Saturdays, 92,746 fans pack Sanford Stadium for Bulldog football games and the entire UGA campus turns into tailgating central. Those folks have had plenty to cheer about lately as Georgia has posted top-10 finishes ▼ in six of the last seven seasons.

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Georgia Golf Georgia women’s golf has ranked among the nation’s elite for three decades. The tradition of Georgia golf is perhaps as deep as any in the country. The Bulldogs have produced three individual national champions and claimed the 2001 NCAA team title.

UGA has won a league-best 19 SEC titles (11 team and eight individual). A total of 26 Bulldogs have combined to earn 42 All-America certificates and 14 of those have gone on to the LPGA Tour.

Championships hosted at the UGA Golf Course

◊ 1981 AIAW Championships ◊ ◊ 1983 NCAA Championships ◊ ◊ 1993 NCAA Championships ◊ ◊ 2002 SEC Championships ◊ ◊ 2008 NCAA East Regional ◊

“As our sport has gotten stronger and courses have gotten longer, one great thing about our UGA Golf Course is that we still have the ability to continue to challenge our players with length off the tee. The improvements made to our course in the last few years have made the greens even more challenging. If we can play well on our golf course, we can play well anywhere.”

– Kelley Hester

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University of Georgia Golf Course its own “Amen Corner,” if you will.

From this junction of holes 12, 13 and 14, a spectator can view as many as 10 different shots.

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s Athens native Terri Moody was the first female to receive a full athletic scholarship to UGA, a move that paid major dividends.

Moody became UGA’s first-ever female individual national champion in any sport in 1981 and also led Georgia to three top-10 national finishes.

“I like the UGA Course because it requires us to shape our tee shots.

On pretty much every hole you need a particular shape, it’s not necessarily just straight. Some you need to fade it. Some you need to draw it.

That’s really good for our practice and preparing for tournaments.”

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s The practice area includes multiple tees with target greens, three putting greens and wedge play and practice bunkers.

s The Jack Lumpkin Indoor ▼

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David Boyd was a twotime All-American for Georgia in 1961 and 1962 who led the Dogs to a trio of SEC crowns.

Practice Facility provides both ability to hit in inclement weather and extensive computerized swing analysis.

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with a lavish clubhouse and some of the premier practice facilities in the nation. The facility is 50 yards from both state-of-the-art practice areas and the 18th green of the UGA Golf Course.

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Athens-area Golf Courses

Georgia golfers enjoy not only playing their home layout, they also practice on a regular basis at several stellar courses in the surrounding area, most notably Athens Country Club, Georgia Club and Jennings Mill Country Club. In addition, the Bulldogs trek to Augusta National on an annual basis to play one of the game’s masterpiece designs.

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“Playing Augusta National is a treat for any golfer. It’s hard not to think about the fact that Nicklaus and Palmer and Player and the more modern players like Woods and Mickelson...all those folks have teed it up the same way. I don’t care who you are, if you don’t get special feelings out there, something’s wrong.”

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Georgia Traditions Bulldogs

Many oldtimers say Georgia acquired the nickname, ‘‘Bulldogs,’’ because of the strong ties with Yale. Georgia’s first president, Abraham Baldwin, was a Yale man and the early buildings on campus were designed from blueprints of the same building at Yale. But on Nov. 3, 1920, Morgan Blake of the Atlanta Journal wrote about school nicknames and said, ‘‘The Georgia Bulldogs would sound good because there is a certain dignity about a bulldog, as well as ferocity.’’ After a 0-0 tie with Virginia in Charlottesville on Nov. 6, 1920, Atlanta Constitution writer Cliff Wheatley used the name ‘‘Bulldogs’’ in his story five times. The name has been used ever since.

The Chapel Bell

The ringing of the chapel bell after a Georgia victory is a tradition that continues even though freshmen are no longer ordered to do the chore. In the 1890s, the playing field was located only yards from the Chapel and firstyear students were compelled to ring the bell until midnight in celebration of a Bulldog victory.

Today, students, alumni, and townspeople still rush to the Chapel to ring the bell after a gridiron victory.

The Arch

The historic Arch which sits on the edge of North campus was installed in 1864. For years, freshmen were forbidden to walk under the Arch. Violators risked punishment from upperclassmen. Once rigidly enforced, the tradition of hazing of freshmen became passe’. However, many freshmen, learning of the tradition during orientation or from other sources, still choose to honor the century-old tradition.

Silver Britches

Silver Britches were an innovation of Coach Wally Butts, who took over as head coach in 1939. The handsome pants, complimented by a bright red jersey, made for a striking uniform. Through the years, fans referred to the Bulldogs’ silver britches in their chants and on banners, but the phrase really caught on in the early 1950s with a cheer, banners and colorful vests that proclaimed ‘‘Go You Silver Britches.’’ Coach Vince Dooley redesigned the uniform when he came in 1964 and used white pants; however, he re-instituted the silver britches in 1980 just prior to Georgia’s national championship season.

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Glory, Glory

Among the University’s oldest and most lasting traditions is the school fight song, ‘‘Glory, Glory,’’ which is sung to the tune of ‘‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic.’’ It was sung at games in the 1890s, but arranged in its present form by Georgia’s immortal musician-composer Hugh Hodgson in 1915.

This is a slogan of recent vintage, but one that has become a battle cry of Bulldog fans probably because of its obvious grammatical slur. It first surfaced during the 1970s, especially during the 1978 season when the Bulldogs posted several come-frombehind victories.

It gained national attention and exposure when Georgia won the national championship in 1980. A major wire-service used the phrase in its story of Georgia’s victory over Notre Dame.

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Between The Hedges

A reference to Sanford Stadium that dates back to the early 1930s. The famous English privet hedges that surround Sanford Stadium’s playing field were only one foot high when the stadium was dedicated in 1929 and were protected by a wooden fence. It was natural for a clever sports writer, referring to an upcoming home game, to observe ‘‘that the Bulldogs will have their opponent ‘between the hedges.’’’

At least one old-timer says the phrase was first coined by legendary Atlanta sportswriter Grantland Rice.

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Uga: The Nation’s Most Beloved Mascot Uga VII carries on the great tradition of representing Georgia

Uga (pronounced Ugg-ah), the University of Georgia’s mascot, has established himself as the nation’s most well-known figures in college athletics. The current mascot, Uga VII, was introduced during pre-game ceremonies prior to the 2008 season-opening football game against Georgia Southern.

Owned by the Frank W. “Sonny” Seiler family of Savannah, Ga., since Uga I first graced the campus in 1956, each Uga has is awarded a varsity letter plaque, identical to those presented to UGA athletes.

As determined and published by the Pittsburgh Press, Georgia is the only major college that actually buries its mascots within

the confines its football stadium. Epitaphs to the dogs are inscribed in bronze, and before each home game flowers are placed on a statue adjacent to the tombs.

Uga’s jerseys are custom-made from the same material used for the football players’ jerseys. Uga also has been defined by his spiked collar, a symbol of the position which he holds. Uga’s on-field home is an air conditioned doghouse located next to the cheerleaders’ platform, providing comfort in the heat of August and September.

Whenever Uga appears at any event, whether Georgia related or not, he instantly draws a crowd generally overshadows everyone else in attendance.

Uga I

Uga IV

The Uga line began with Uga I, born Hood’s Ole Dan. Uga I was given to Cecelia Seiler by a friend, Frank Heard of Columbus. The practice of having Uga wear a red jersey on the sideline at games began during his reign, which lasted from 1956-67.

Uga II

Uga V

Uga II, born Ole Dan’s Uga, took over at Homecoming, 1966. As he was led to midfield at Sanford Stadium, the student body erupted in a cheer that was picked up by the entire stadium, ‘‘Damn Good Dog!’’ His reign lasted until 1972.

Born Uga IV’s Magillicuddy II and reigning from 199099, Uga V appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated, which proclaimed him the nation’s best college mascot.

Uga V also appeared in Clint Eastwood’s “Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil.”

Uga III

Uga III, born Seiler’s Uga Three, was present for Georgia football’s finest moment as Herschel Walker guided the Bulldogs to the 1980 national championship. Uga III reigned from 1973-80, retiring on the 100th football game of his career.

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Uga IV, born Seiler’s Uga Four, appeared at the Heisman Trophy banquet with Herschel Walker in 1982, the first mascot ever invited to the ceremony. Following his reign from 1981-89, Uga IV was declared “Dog of the Decade” by Vince Dooley in 1991.

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Uga VI

Uga VI, born Uga V’s Watchagot Loran, represented UGA Athletics from 199908. Georgia captured 19 of its 35 national championships under his watch. Uga VI was featured in an Emmy-winning episode of Turner South’s Liars and Legends and as part of a college football segment on NBC Nightly News.

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