Kuehn, Deacs Continue to Make History
6/20/2023 11:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
GREENSBORO, N.C. - The 2023 Wake Forest women's golf team will go down in history once again. The National Champions are not only winners on the course, but also in the classroom.
Future graduate student Rachel Kuehn has been named the 2023 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) women's golf Scholar Athlete of the Year, and all five Demon Deacons in the lineup (Kuehn, Lauren Walsh, Emilia Migliaccio, Carolina Chacarra and Mimi Rhodes) have been named to the ACC All-Academic team.
This is the first time in program history that five players have earned All-Academic honors, along with being the first in that the Deacs have earned Player of the Year and Scholar Athlete of the Year honors from the conference. This is the second time, and first since Natalie Sheary in 2011, that Wake Forest has landed the women's golf Scholar Athlete of the Year. Wake Forest joins Duke as the only two ACC schools to have the same player earn women's golf Player of the Year and Scholar Athlete of the Year in a single year.
Kuehn, a 2023 graduate with her bachelor's degree in Business and Enterprise Management, will be pursuing her master's degree and competing for the Deacs in 2023-24 for her final year of eligibility. The four-year player is a two-time ACC Player of the Year, four-time All-American and has won six individual titles during her career. Her 2022-23 stroke average of 20.53 is the lowest single-season stroke average in program history and she is on pace to have the lowest career scoring average in program history when she wraps her collegiate career next spring.
Emilia Migliaccio, who earned her master's degree in communications last month, is a four-time All-American and finished inside the top 25 in all 11 events this season. She was fourth on the team with a 71.88 stroke average and was selected for a record fifth time to represent the United States at the 2023 Arnold Palmer Cup this summer.
Prior to returning to the Deacs for her fifth and final year, Migliaccio held the second-lowest career stroke average in program history with a 71.96. Now, at the conclusion of her five-year collegiate career, she has maintained the second-lowest career average with a 72.00 and has played 142 rounds of golf for Wake Forest – the most rounds by any Wake Forest women's golfer ever.
Lauren Walsh, a three-time All-American and All-ACC selection, graduated last month with her bachelor's degree in Mathematical Business and will be making her LPGA debut at the Dana Open in July in Colorado. She finished inside the top 15 as an individual at the NCAA Championships, a tie for seventh, and had eight top-15 finishes in 12 events this season. She was second on the team with a 71.39 stroke average and ended her collegiate career with a 72.25 stroke average – the third-lowest career stroke average in program history.
Carolina Chacarra, a two-time All-American, will start her junior year as a Deac in the fall as a Psychology major with a creative writing minor. She had nine top-20 finishes in 11 events this season and finished inside the top 25 at NCAA Championships. She is third on the team with a 71.69 stroke average.
Mimi Rhodes is a Communications major and will be a senior in the fall. She was fifth on the team with a stroke average of 72.92 over 36 rounds played this season. She had six top-25 finishes, including a seventh-place finish in stroke play at the ACC Championships, which resulted as her best finish of the year. Rhodes' scoring average has improved by more than a full stroke since arriving on campus in the fall of 2020.
Along with winning the program's first national title, the Deacs also made history with a program-record five regular-season titles and had five All-ACC honorees. The Deacs' six team titles in total this season is also the most ever in a single year by the program. Wake also had four All-Americans for the first time since 2020, along with three Arnold Palmer Cup selections and three players that competed in the 2023 Augusta National Women's Amateur.
Future graduate student Rachel Kuehn has been named the 2023 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) women's golf Scholar Athlete of the Year, and all five Demon Deacons in the lineup (Kuehn, Lauren Walsh, Emilia Migliaccio, Carolina Chacarra and Mimi Rhodes) have been named to the ACC All-Academic team.
This is the first time in program history that five players have earned All-Academic honors, along with being the first in that the Deacs have earned Player of the Year and Scholar Athlete of the Year honors from the conference. This is the second time, and first since Natalie Sheary in 2011, that Wake Forest has landed the women's golf Scholar Athlete of the Year. Wake Forest joins Duke as the only two ACC schools to have the same player earn women's golf Player of the Year and Scholar Athlete of the Year in a single year.
Kuehn, a 2023 graduate with her bachelor's degree in Business and Enterprise Management, will be pursuing her master's degree and competing for the Deacs in 2023-24 for her final year of eligibility. The four-year player is a two-time ACC Player of the Year, four-time All-American and has won six individual titles during her career. Her 2022-23 stroke average of 20.53 is the lowest single-season stroke average in program history and she is on pace to have the lowest career scoring average in program history when she wraps her collegiate career next spring.
Emilia Migliaccio, who earned her master's degree in communications last month, is a four-time All-American and finished inside the top 25 in all 11 events this season. She was fourth on the team with a 71.88 stroke average and was selected for a record fifth time to represent the United States at the 2023 Arnold Palmer Cup this summer.
Prior to returning to the Deacs for her fifth and final year, Migliaccio held the second-lowest career stroke average in program history with a 71.96. Now, at the conclusion of her five-year collegiate career, she has maintained the second-lowest career average with a 72.00 and has played 142 rounds of golf for Wake Forest – the most rounds by any Wake Forest women's golfer ever.
Lauren Walsh, a three-time All-American and All-ACC selection, graduated last month with her bachelor's degree in Mathematical Business and will be making her LPGA debut at the Dana Open in July in Colorado. She finished inside the top 15 as an individual at the NCAA Championships, a tie for seventh, and had eight top-15 finishes in 12 events this season. She was second on the team with a 71.39 stroke average and ended her collegiate career with a 72.25 stroke average – the third-lowest career stroke average in program history.
Carolina Chacarra, a two-time All-American, will start her junior year as a Deac in the fall as a Psychology major with a creative writing minor. She had nine top-20 finishes in 11 events this season and finished inside the top 25 at NCAA Championships. She is third on the team with a 71.69 stroke average.
Mimi Rhodes is a Communications major and will be a senior in the fall. She was fifth on the team with a stroke average of 72.92 over 36 rounds played this season. She had six top-25 finishes, including a seventh-place finish in stroke play at the ACC Championships, which resulted as her best finish of the year. Rhodes' scoring average has improved by more than a full stroke since arriving on campus in the fall of 2020.
Along with winning the program's first national title, the Deacs also made history with a program-record five regular-season titles and had five All-ACC honorees. The Deacs' six team titles in total this season is also the most ever in a single year by the program. Wake also had four All-Americans for the first time since 2020, along with three Arnold Palmer Cup selections and three players that competed in the 2023 Augusta National Women's Amateur.
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