FERRIS STATE LANDS THREE ON NGCA ALL-AMERICA SCHOLAR TEAM

Two-Time All-American Kathryn Bobbie Receives Honor For Second Straight Season

The National Golf Coaches Association (NGCA) recently named three Ferris State University women’s golf team members to its 2001-02 All-America Scholar Team as announced by the NGCA.

Selected to the NGCA All-America Scholar Team were junior Kathryn Bobbie (Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario/Sir James Dunn), a repeat pick after being named to the 2000-01 squad, along with sophomore Cassie Graves (Black Creek, Wis./Hortonville) and freshman Meredith Johnson (Fargo, N.D./North). All three FSU student-athletes are majoring in marketing/professional golf management.

The NGCA All-America Scholar Team recognizes and honors student-athletes who are outstanding in both academics and competitive golf at the collegiate level. NGCA Scholar Team honorees must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.40 or higher (on a 4.0 scale) for juniors and seniors only during their entire collegiate career while freshmen and sophomores are required to post at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average. Award recipients also must have competed in at least 66% of the college’s regularly-scheduled competitive rounds during the season nominated.

Bobbie, who holds the distinction of being Ferris’ first two-time All-American, earned NGCA Division II All-America Second Team laurels this season after garnering first-team accolades in the 2000-01 campaign. A two-time (2001-02) FSU Most Valuable Player, Bobbie earned first-team All-Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) honors for the second consecutive season this spring and repeated as the top individual medalist at the 2002 GLIAC Championships (4/20-21) while guiding the Bulldogs to their first-ever conference championship title. The 2000-01 GLIAC Women’s Golfer of the Year, Bobbie presently ranks first among the school’s all-time leaders with a career 80.49 stroke average (4,588 total strokes) in 57 career rounds. She recorded a team-high 80.71 stroke average (1,372 total strokes) in 17 rounds and placed tied for eighth at the 2002 NCAA-II National Championships (5/15-18) with a four-round 321 score. Bobbie was also chosen to the 2001-02 Verizon Academic All-District IV College Division Women’s At-Large Second Team as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

Graves and Johnson, who both received All-GLIAC Second-Team kudos this season, concluded the 2001-02 campaign with scoring averages of 89.00 (1,513 total strokes) in 17 rounds and 87.71 (1,842 total strokes) in 21 rounds, respectively. Graves ranked sixth among the team’s scoring leaders while Johnson finished fourth. For her two-year career, Graves has compiled an 89.49 career stroke average (3,490 total strokes) in 39 career rounds.

Bobbie and Graves were both named to the 2001-02 GLIAC All-Academic Team with Bobbie being a repeat selection after attaining conference all-academic recognition in the 2000-01 season.

The NGCA, which began in 1983 as an organization to promote participation in women’s golf, is the premier member-driven association for women’s golf coaches at NCAA Division I, II and III institutions. The 250-plus member NGCA encourages the playing of intercollegiate golf for women in correlation with a general objective of education and in accordance with the highest tradition of intercollegiate competition.