Craig, Hill, Sheary Garner All-ACC Academic Honors
7/16/2008 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
To be eligible for consideration, a student-athlete must have earned a 3.00 grade point average for the previous semester and maintained a 3.00 cumulative average during her academic career.
Hill and Sheary are two of eight ACC women's golfers to be named to both the 2008 All-Academic Team and the 2008 All-Conference Team.
Players earning both All-Academic and All-Conference honors this season were Duke's Amanda Blumenherst, Jennie Lee, Jennifer Pandolfi and Alison Whitaker; Caroline Westrup from Florida State; Sydney Crane from North Carolina and Wake Forest's Hill and Sheary.
Hill, a Sociology major, was one of 12 repeat honorees on the 21-member team. Craig, who majored in business at Wake Forest, was named to the team for the first time.
Sheary, undeclared in her major, was the 2008 Freshman of the Year in the ACC. She won the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge and recorded four top 10 finishes and seven top 20 finishes on the season.
Eleven golfers were repeat honorees from the 2007 All-ACC Academic team, which includes Duke's Blumenherst, Pandolfi and Whitaker; Florida State's Whitney Brummett and Westrup; Maryland's Kathryn Trotter; Miami's Jessica Steward; Sydney Crane and Ann Laney from North Carolina; Stephanie Derrey from NC State and Virginia's Whitney Neuhauser.
Duke and Florida State each placed four golfers on the team. NC State and Wake Forest followed with three honorees, while Miami, North Carolina each had two. Rounding out the 21-member team with one selection apiece were Boston College, Maryland and Virginia.
The 2008 All-ACC Academic Women's Golf Team
Name, Class, School, Major
Kelsey Rockey, Fr., Boston College, Undeclared
##Amanda Blumenherst, Jr., Duke, History
Jennie Lee, Jr., Duke, Sociology
#Jennifer Pandolfi, Sr., Duke, Philosophy
#Alison Whitaker, So., Duke, Psychology
##Whitney Brummett, Sr., Florida State, Political Science
Lauren Cousart, Sr., Florida State, PGM
Macarena Silva, Fr., Florida State, Business
##Caroline Westrup, Jr., Florida State, Sports Management
##Kathryn Trotter, Sr., Maryland, Finance/BMGT
Maria Ronderos, So., Miami, Architecture
#Jessica Steward, Sr., Miami, Sport Administration
##Sydney Crane, Jr., North Carolina, Exercise Sports Science
#Ann Laney, Sr., North Carolina, Exercise Sports Science
##Stephanie Derrey, Sr., NC State, Business
Joanna Saleeby, Jr., NC State, Communications
Julie Saleeby, Fr., NC State, Biological Sciences
#Whitney Neuhauser, So., Virginia, Foreign Affairs
Jordan Craig, Sr., Wake Forest, Business
!Nannette Hill, Jr., Wake Forest, Sociology
Natalie Sheary, Fr., Wake Forest, Undeclared
##Repeat honoree (2006-07)
#Repeat honoree (2007)
!Repeat honoree (2006)
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