preseason notebook summer provides fruitful results
Georgia golfers enjoyed a very solid summer campaign. Emilie Burger, who missed a playoff to advance to the NCAA Championships individuallly along with Marta Silza Name Ht. Cl. Hometown / Previous School Zamora by one stroke, shot 67 to win a qualifier for the U.S. Collins Bradshaw 5-0 Fr. Columbia, S.C. / Flora HS Public Links Championships in May. Emilie Burger 5-9 Jr. Hoschton, Ga. / Mill Creek HS Burger then finished second in two rounds of stroke play 5-4 Sr. Metter, Ga. / Metter HS qualifying at the Publinks Championships at Bandon Dunes Tess Fordham Golf Resort before losing a 1-up decision of Wake Forest’s Kiara Hayashida 5-7 Sr. Lima, Peru / Pepperdine Marissa Dodd in the second round of match play. Amelia Hill 5-6 So. St. Simons Island, Ga. / Rocio Sanchez Lobato and Marta Silva Zamora placed Frederica Academy third and fourth, respectively, at the Spanish Women’s Am- Abby Johnson 5-10 Jr. Buford, Ga. / Buford HS ateur in May. Silva Zamora did so a week after wrapping up her col- Rocio Sanchez Lobato 5-6 Fr. Marbella, Spain / Instito Ortega y Gassett legiate season in the U.S. After wrapping up the NCAAs Milena Savich 5-6 Sr. Carmel, Ind. / Michigan on Saturday, Silva Zamora flew home Sunday and arrived 5-4 Sr. Santiago de Compostela, Spain / in Spain early Monday morning. She was home for less Marta Silva Zamora Heritage (S.C.) Academy than 24 hours before traveling to the Pedrena Golf Club on Tuesday, playing a practice round on Wednesday and then Head Coach: Kelley Hester (Georgia ’95) Fifth season competing in a second 72-hole event in a dozen days. Assistant Coach: Jeff Hull (South Carolina ’89) First Season Silva Zamora and Sanchez Lobato then helped Spain to Pronunciation Guide a runner-up showing at the European Ladies Team Cham- Kiara (Key-are-ah) Hayashida (High-ah-she-duh) pionships in Murhof, Austria. Silva Zamora finished second Rocio (rolled “r” from Rrrroh-theo) Sanchez Lobato (Low-bah-toe) in stroke play qualifying and then recorded a 4-2 match Milena (May-lay-nah) Savich (Sav-itch) play record in wins over England and Belgium and a loss to Marta (Mar-tah) Silva Zamora (Zah-more-ah) Sweden in the championship. Sanchez Lobato shot 152 in The brief but ultrasuccessful collegiate career of Goetze includstroke play and was 1-1-1 in match play competition. ed National Player of the Year honors in both of her seasons as In addition: • Silva Zamora advanced to the round of 16 at the Ladies British a Bulldog. Goetze was honored by the Honda/Broderick Cup after winning the 1992 NCAA Championships and was selected as the Amateur Championship; • Tess Fordham finished eighth at the Georgia State Golf Asso- NGCA National Player of the Year in 1993. ciation’s Top 60 tournament; Bulldogs feature athletic Family Ties • Silva Zamora posted a 3-1 match play record to help Europe defeat Great Britain & Ireland, 15.5-8.5, and capture the Va- Several members of the Georgia roster are from athletic families. Collins Bradshaw’s father, Bill, played wide receiver and quartergliano Trophy; back at South Carolina and her mother, Sherry, was a cheerleader • Amelia Hill tied for sixth at the Georgia Women’s Open; • Fordham finished eighth and Abby Johnson placed 10th at the at Clemson. Collins’ brothers, Brewer and Thomas, both currently play golf for Clemson. Georgia Women’s Am; • Collins Bradshaw shot 72 to win a U.S. Girls’ Junior Qualifier at Emilie Burger’s dad, Gary, also played football at South Carolina. Kiara Hayashida’s aunt, Erika, was medalist at the 1992 U.S White Columns Country Club in Milton, Ga.; • Bradshaw then shot 155 at the U.S. Girls’ Junior at Olympia Girls’ Junior, reached the finals of the 1993 U.S. Girls’ and played on the LPGA Tour. Fields Country Club and missed a playoff Abby Johnson’s (left) dad, Bill, played footto advance to match play by one stroke. ball at Northwestern Louisiana is now the de fensive line coach for the New Orleans Saints. Silva Zamora looks to Repeat In addition, Abby’s older brother, Billy, is a Marta Silva Zamora became Georgia Golf’s deep snapper for the Georgia football team. fourth National Player of the Year in women’s golf Milena Savich’s father, Rade, played footlast spring when she was the consensus pick as ball at Central Michigan and her younger sisthe premier player in the country for 2010-11. ter, Arianna, is a freshman of the Missouri golf This year, the senior from Santiago de Comteam (that will compete in the 2012 Liz Murpostella, Spain, will attempt to join Vicki Goetze phey Collegiate). as the Bulldogs’ second two-time honoree. Terri Moody became Georgia’s first Player of Bradshaw arrives early the Year honoree in 1981 after she capped her Collins Bradshaw, expected to be a top recollegiate career with medalist honors at the cruit in the class of 2013, seized an opportuAIAW Championships at UGA Golf Course. nity to come to Athens earlier than expected. In 1984, Cindy Schreyer secured the same acWhen a spot on the UGA roster opened up, colade after securing the NCAA individual title Bradshaw opted to complete her high school as a junior. Although not repeating as National degree requirements and arrive in 2012. Player of the Year the following season, Schreyer “We’re thrilled to get Collins,” Kelley Hester still enjoyed a tremendous finale for Georgia. said when Bradshaw signed with Georgia in She won four individual titles, including the SEC April. “We’re even more thrilled to be getting Championships, earned first-team All-America her a year earlier than we thought.” honors and finished 16th at the NCAAs.
2011-12 Georgia Roster
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