Lee, Kinhult highlight Annika Award Watch List
Andrea Lee (Stanford Athletics photo)
Awards season is just around the corner in college golf, which means it’s time to start looking at potential candidates for golf’s highest honors.
For the sixth season, the Annika Award presented by 3M will recognize the most outstanding female collegian. The award is voted on by college golfers, coaches and members of the golf media. Maria Fassi, now in her final semester at Arkansas, won the 2018 award and is also on the most current watch list.
Andrea Lee tops the latest watch list. The Stanford junior collected the seventh win of her college career last month at the Norrthop Grumman Regional Challenge and is No. 1 in the
Golfweek/Sagarin College Rankings.
Florida State wonder-freshman Frida Kinhult and UCLA sophomore are lined up to the play the ANA Inspiration, an LPGA major, later this month. Stanford’s Albane Valenzuela will also play that event for the second year.
The entire list is below, and will be updated twice more this spring:
Andrea Lee, Stanford
Frida Kinhult, Florida State
Patty Tavatanakit, UCLA
Mariel Galdiano, UCLA
Albane Valenzuela, Stanford
Dylan Kim, Arkansas
Yu-Sang Hou, Arizona
Jiwon Jeon, Alabama
Emilia Migliaccio, Wake Forest
Hira Naveed, Pepperdine
Hailee Cooper, Texas
Malia Nam, USC
Abbey Carlson, Vanderbilt
Jaravee Boonchant, Duke
Gabriela Ruffels, USC
Maria Fassi, Arkansas
Kaitlyn Papp, Texas
Lois Kaye Go, South Carolina
Auston Kim, Vanderbilt
Sierra Brooks, Florida
ABOUT THE ANNIKA Award
Created in 2014, the ANNIKA Award presented by
Stifel is annually given to the top female U.S.
collegiate golfer; the winner voted on by college
golfers, coaches and members of the golf media.
Named for and presented by Annika Sorenstam, the
award was created in partnership with the Haskins
Foundation and ANNIKA Foundation to acknowledge
the top female golfer at the end of the season and to
match the Haskins Award presented by Stifel, which
acknowledges the top male Division I collegiate
golfer.
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