FERRIS STATE RECEIVES RECOGNITION BY THE NGCA

Bobbie Earns First Team All-America Honors; Bedortha Tabbed District Coach Of The Year

*2002-03 National Golf Coaches Association Division II Women's Golf Award Winners* PDF

Senior Kathryn Bobbie (Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario/Sir James Dunn) of the Ferris State University women’s golf team has been named to the 2002-03 National Golf Coaches Association (NGCA) Division II Women’s Golf All-America First Team, which was recently announced at the annual NGCA Division II Awards Banquet in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla.

Bobbie, who now holds the distinction of being the only three-time (2000-03) All-American in FSU Women’s Golf history, received second-team accolades a season ago after garnering first-team laurels for the 2000-01 campaign. Bobbie was among six individuals named to the NGCA All-America First Team and was one of 19 student-athletes chosen to one of the three NGCA All-America teams.

Kathryn Bobbie became a three-time All-American as a result of attaining first-team All-America kudos this spring.

Bobbie concluded her four-year Ferris State career as the program’s all-time leader with a 79.69 stroke average (7,093 total strokes in 89 rounds) and is the program’s current record holder for the lowest 36-hole score – 148 at Tri State Fall Invitational (Oct. 22-23, 2000).

This season, Bobbie was selected the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Women’s Golf Athlete of the Year for the second time in her career after initially receiving the honor in the 2000-01 season. The three-time (2000-03) All-GLIAC First-Team pick was the top individual medalist at the GLIAC Championships (April 26-27) for the third consecutive season with a two-round 148 score and recorded a team-leading 10 top 20 finishes which included a squad-best seven top five individual efforts. She registered a seventh-place finish (313 score) at the 2003 NCAA Division II National Championships (May 14-17) in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla., after finishing in an eighth-place tie at the 2002 NCAA-II Championships (May 15-18) in Allendale, Mich., with a four-round 321 score. As a result, Bobbie earned the distinction of being only the second women’s golfer in FSU history to advance on an individual basis joining Amy Summers (1992).

Bobbie, who was named Ferris’ Most Valuable Player this season for the third straight year after being selected an award co-recipient in 1999-00, paced the Bulldogs this campaign with a single-season school-record 78.28 stroke average in 32 total rounds and also is the holder of the program’s all-time second-best single-season mark with a 79.88 average in 26 rounds set in 2000-01. A two-time (2000-02) GLIAC All-Academic and Verizon Academic All-District IV College Division Women’s At-Large Second Team honoree, Bobbie has been chosen as a member of the NGCA’s All-America Scholar Team the previous two seasons (2000-02).

The criteria for being chosen a NGCA All-American consists of NCAA qualifying averages (all rounds minus three highest rounds), tournament wins and average place of finish, quality of field in tournaments and a NCAA Medalist (automatic inclusion).

Head Coach Brad Bedortha was recognized as the NGCA's Division II East District Coach of the Year for the second time in his FSU coaching career.

Ferris State head coach Brad Bedortha was recognized as the 2002-03 NGCA Division II East District Coach of the Year. The fourth-year mentor garnered GLIAC Women’s Golf Coach of the Year honors this season for the second time in his coaching career (2000-01) and was a co-winner of the NGCA East Regional Coach of the Year Award in the 2000-01 campaign.

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, which is headquartered in Chicago, Ill., 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.