PEORIA, Ill. -- Four members of the Bradley women's golf team were named National Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholars, according to a release by the NGCA. Watonga Award tri-winner Meaghan LeBlanc headlined a group that included senior Charlotte McGinnis, junior Whitney Cox and sophomore Bari-Lynn Erais for the Braves.
The NGCA All-American Scholar Team included a total of 371 women's collegiate golfers from Division I, II & III. The criteria for selection to the team required a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.50 and student-athletes must have competed in at least 50 percent of the regularly schedule rounds during the year.
Bradley won its fourth State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Championship this past spring and made its third NCAA Regional appearance. All seven members of the 2005-06 team earned a spot on the Athletic Director's Honor Roll with four individuals boasting a 3.60 GPA this spring, including perfect 4.0 semester GPA's by LeBlanc and McGinnis.
LeBlanc graduated with a 3.77 cumulative GPA in finance and was named the to the MVC Scholar-Athlete team for the third consecutive year and also earned first-team ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District V honors this past spring.
One of two women in the history of the MVC to win back-to-back individual women's golf championships and collect four All-MVC awards (2003, 04, 05 and 06), LeBlanc claimed medalist honors in three of the final four regular-season tournaments. She set a Bradley season record with her 76.6 stroke average in 2005-06 and also set the Braves career mark with a 78.2 average.
An English major with a 4.00 cumulative grade point average, McGinnis ranked fourth on the team with an 81.1 stroke average in her first season on The Hilltop after transferring from Boise State. She posted two top 10 finishes in 2005-06 and one top 20 showing.
Cox owns a 3.61 cumulative GPA and is majoring in finance. She was fifth on the team with an 81.8 stroke average as a sophomore and owned two top 20 finishes and was Bradley's top finisher at the Minnesota Invitational in the fall of 2005, tying for 17th place.
Erais is enrolled in Bradley's Academic Exploration Program and posted a 3.68 GPA her freshman year. She broke Bradley freshman records for stroke average (78.4) and rounds in the 70's (18), ranking second on the squad in both. Erais earned All-MVC honors as a freshman and tied for 10th at the State Farm MVC Championship.
