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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Three Women's Golfers Named To All-Scholar Team
June 08, 2001 | Women's Golf
June 8, 2001
Three members of the Bowling Green State University women's golf team have been named to the National Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar Team. Approximately 120 Division I women's golf student-athletes were named to the team.
Junior Shannon Smith and sophomores Shelley Binzel and Stephanie Elsea were named to the 2000-01 team. Smith is a repeat selection, having earned the honor last year, while Binzel and Elsea were eligible for the award for the first time this season.
To be nominated, a student-athlete must have an overall grade-point average of 3.40 or higher for the entire collegiate career, be a sophomore, junior or senior academically and have been in attendance at least one full academic year at the college making the nomination, be of high moral character and in good standing at the college making the nomination, and must have played in 66% of the college's regularly scheduled competitive rounds during the year nominated.
Smith, a native of Waynesville, Ohio, maintains a 3.57 GPA as a sport management major. Both Binzel, a Dublin, Ohio, native, and Elsea, who hails from Worthington, Ohio, currently maintain perfect 4.00 GPAs. Binzel is a marketing major, while Elsea majors in information systems auditing and control.
The Falcons of head coach Kurt Thomas finished fifth at the 2001 Mid-American Conference Championships in late April. Binzel finished eighth at that tourney, while Elsea tied for 23rd and Smith was 36th.
