ANA MORALES NAMED FIRST-TEAM ALL-GSC WOMEN'S GOLF SELECTION

        BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Arkansas Tech’s Ana Morales has been named a First-Team All-Gulf South Conference Women’s Golf selection on Friday by the league office.

Morales becomes the second Golden Sun to earn First-Team honors in women’s golf as Jamie Moore was honored last season by the league.

The women’s golf coaches in the league voted for the team and the coaches weren’t allowed to vote for their own players.

Henderson State, Montevallo, West Florida and West Georgia each collected two honorees on one of the two All-GSC squads. West Florida, who is the two-time defending GSC Champions and the No. 12 team in NCAA Division II, leads the way with two First-Team performers, while Henderson State and Montevallo had a player named to both the first and second teams and West Georgia had two Second-Team selections.

In the individual awards given out by the league, Henderson State’s Jenna Chadwick and West Florida’s Bhavna Shetty were named Co-GSC Players of the Year, while Shetty was named to the league’s Freshman of the Year. West Florida’s Robin Cook-Dezarn was named the GSC Coach of the Year for the third consecutive year.

Morales, a freshman from Bogota, Columbia, earns her first team honor after leading the way for Tech with a team-best 83.5 scoring average in 15 rounds of golf and eight tournaments. On the season, Morales has had six Top 10 finishes, including three tournament runner-ups and has finished in the Top 15 in all eight of her tournaments. Shot a season-best 160 enroute to a second-place finish at the Lady Bison Fall Classic and had a season-best round of 77 in the first round of this week’s Natural State Classic. In 15 rounds of golf, Morales has had five rounds in the 70s and helped lead Tech to team titles at both the Rhodes College Fall Classic in Tunica, Miss., and at the UAFS Lady Lions Spring Classic in Fort Smith, Ark.

Morales is joined on the All-GSC First-Team by Chadwick, Shetty, Montevallo’s Morgan Bell and West Florida’s Natalie Espinosa.

Meanwhile, the Second-Team included Henderson State’s Meredith Mosel, Montevallo’s Emily Gibson and West Georgia teammates, Sarah Ross and Regan Freville.

Morales and the rest of the Golden Suns will return to action this weekend when they compete at the 2008 GSC Golf Championships at the Hot Springs Country Club in Hot Springs, Ark. The meet will get underway with 18 holes on Sunday, April 20 and conclude with another 18 holes on Monday, April 21. Last season, Tech had a school-best second-place finish at the GSC Championships.

 2008 All-GSC Women's Golf Teams

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