Quartet Of Wittenberg Women’s Golfers Earn National Academic Awards

Springfield, Ohio – Wittenberg University women’s golfers Allie Lawwill (Springboro, Ohio/Middletown), Nicole Waers (Canton, Ohio/Perry), Carolyn Wong (Naperville, Ill./Central) and Macy Hubbard (Mason, Ohio/Mason) have been honored by the Women’s Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) with All-American Scholar awards. 

Lawwill, Waers, Wong and Hubbard are among 664 women’s collegiate golfers across all three NCAA divisions who have earned the prestigious honor. To make the list, a player must maintain a 3.5 cumulative grade point average and play in a minimum of 12 competitive rounds. 

Lawwill, a sophomore, ranked fourth on the team with a scoring average of 82.3, just 0.4 off the stroke average she posted in her inaugural collegiate campaign in 2012-13. For the second straight year, Lawwill played every round for the Tigers and also earned second-team All-North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) honors. She finished in the top 10 in three tournaments during the 2013-14 season and has a total of nine top-10s in her collegiate career. 

Waers, a junior, put together her finest season in the Red & White, leading the team with a career-best 80.75 scoring average. She finished in the top five in four tournaments during the 2013-14 season, and she moved up from second-team to first-team All-NCAC following a fifth-place finish in the league’s Championship Series. Waers holds the school record for one round score (73) and her best two-round score 152 ranks second in program history. 

Wong, a junior, ranked fifth on the team in stroke average after posting a mark of 83.85, the best of her collegiate career. For the second straight year, Wong played in every round for the Tigers as she earned one top-10 finish. She earned second-team All-NCAC honors. 

Hubbard turned in an outstanding freshman campaign, finishing third on the team with a scoring average of 81.89. She placed in the top 10 in three tournaments, and she came on strong late in the season to finish third in the NCAC Championship Series and earn first-team all-league honors. 

Wittenberg ranked in the top 25 throughout the 2013-14 season for a third straight year. The Tigers finished in the top five in nine of their 10 tournaments, including both competitions that made up the season-ending NCAC Championship Series. The Tigers placed second in the NCAC Championship Series and just missed out on an at-large berth in the NCAA Division III Tournament.

Written By: Ryan Maurer