ATLANTA – Lipscomb's Mary Kate Smith earned the Atlantic Sun Conference Women's Golfer of the Week recognition, announced by the league office on Thursday afternoon.
Women's Golfer of the Week
Mary Kate Smith, Lipscomb
Graduate Student | Melbourne, Fla.
- First Career ASUN Women's Golfer of the Week honor; 15th overall accolade as a program for the Bisons
- Carded rounds of 69-74-76 to finish six-over (219) to earn medalist honors at the French Broad Collegiate Invitational
- Led Lipscomb to a first-place finish, its second of the fall season, after defeating Abilene Christian in a playoff
- Was one of only four student-athletes to record a round below par with her 69 in the opening round
- Finished with a total of eight birdies over the three rounds with four coming during her first round (69)
Other nominees: Pim-Orn Thitisup, Central Arkansas; Christin Eisenbeiss, North Florida.
Weekly Award Winners
Nov. 2: Mary Kate Smith, Lipscomb
Oct. 26: Nyah Kelly, Kennesaw State
Oct. 19: Madison Holmes, Central Arkansas
Oct. 12: Nyah Kelly, Kennesaw State
Oct. 5: Erica Scutt, Austin Peay
Sept. 28: Kady Foshaug & Erica Scutt, Austin Peay; Lauren Thompson, Lipscomb
Sept. 21: Maggie Glass, Austin Peay
Sept. 14: Caitlyn Campbell-Nyman, Kennesaw State
Sept. 07: Alaina Schmitt, Bellarmine