July 12, 2007

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. - The Marshall women's golf team finished ninth in the 2006-07 National Golf Coaches Association (NGCA) All-Scholar Team GPA Award with a team GPA of 3.652, and three Marshall golfers, Allyson Hatcher (Wheeling, W.Va.), Tammy Mahar (Ashland, Ky.), and Whitney Wolejko (Hatfield, Mass.), were named to the NGCA All-American Scholar List.

The NFCA All-Scholar Team award recognizes the women's collegiate golf programs with the highest collective average team GPA's, which includes all of the team's student-athletes for the 2006-2007 season.

Marshall was the only Conference USA team to rank in the nation's top 25 women's golf GPA's.

Hatcher, Mahar, and Wolejko were three of 368 women's Division I, II, & III collegiate golfers recognized by the NGCA on their All-American Scholar Team. The criteria for selection to the All-American Scholar Team are some of the most stringent of all college athletics. The minimum cumulative GPA is 3.50 and student-athletes must have competed in at least 50% (Division I) or 66% (Division II & III) of the college's regularly scheduled competitive rounds during the year.

The National Golf Coaches Association, founded in 1983, is a non-profit organization representing women's collegiate golf coaches. The NGCA was formed to encourage the playing of college golf for women in correlation with a general objective of education and in accordance with the highest tradition of intercollegiate competition. Today, the NGCA represents over 400 coaches throughout the U.S. and is dedicated to educating, promoting and recognizing both its members and the student-athletes they represent.

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