July 8, 2019 - by Chuck Walsh
Doherty, Thomsen Named WGCA Academic All-Americans
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (seminoles.com) – Florida State junior Amanda Doherty and freshman Puk Lyng Thomsen have been named Academic All-Americans by the Women's Golf Coaches Association. It marks the sixth consecutive year at least one member of the Seminole Women's Golf Team has been named to the WGCA Scholar Athlete team. Doherty is the just the ninth golfer in school history to be named an Academic All-American by the WGCA three or more times.
Doherty joins an exclusive group of 13 Seminoles who have been named Academic All-Americans multiple times since the team was first named in 1994.
Florida State's two selections to the WGCA Scholar Athlete Team give the Seminoles 15 selections to the team in the first nine seasons of Head Coach Amy Bond's tenure at Florida State. The Seminoles have had at least one golfer named to the prestigious team in 22 of the 26 years the team has been compiled by the coaches' association.
"The Academic All-America Award is my favorite of all the awards presented by the WGCA." said Bond. "It extols the academic commitment of all of the honorees. It is an individual award in a team sport but our team has made it a team award. Each of our players lists this award on their list of goals each year; I am thrilled each year it is announced because I know how hard each of our players work in the classroom. I am very proud of Amanda and Puk for their outstanding academic success."
Doherty, who is majoring in Sport Management, earned her way onto the team for the third consecutive season with a 3.90 GPA during the spring season and has a 3.94 GPA for her three-year career as a Seminole. She earned President's List honors for the fourth time in six semesters as a Seminole during the fall 2018 semester. Doherty has also earned Dean's List honors twice as a Seminole.
Doherty, who served as Florida State's team captain this past season, played in all of the Seminoles' 11 matches and helped the team to second place finishes in ACC and NCAA Regional Championships and a 12th place finish in the in NCAA Championship Finals. She finished third on the team in stroke average (73.26), finished tied for ninth in ACC Championship and tied for third in the NCAA Auburn Regional Championship.
Thomsen, an Economics major, earned a perfect 4.0 GPA in the spring semester while helping the Seminoles to a top-10 final national ranking. She was in Florida State's lineup for its second place team finishes at the ACC Championship and the NCAA Auburn Regional and helped the Seminoles to a 12th place finish in the NCAA. Thomsen averaged 75.80 stokes in nine events as a freshman and earned one top-10 finish as she finished in a tied for eighth place in her first career ACC Championship appearance.
The Seminoles tied the school record for best finish in an NCAA Regional Championship (second) and in the ACC Championship (second). Under Bond, the Seminoles appeared in the NCAA Championship Finals for the school-record fourth consecutive season. Florida State finished in a tie for 12th place in the NCAA Championship Finals in 2018 and 2019 – the second best national finish in school history.
The criteria for selection as a WGCA Academic All-American are some of the most stringent in all of college athletics. The minimum cumulative GPA is 3.50 for the golfer's entire career.
Seminoles as WGCA Academic All-American
Year, Players
1994, Tiffany Faucette, Mabel Pascual del Pobil
1995, Tiffany Faucette, Aguri Okura, Mabel Pascual del Pobil
1996, Aguri Okura, Mabel Pascual del Pobil
1997, Sarah Capie, Aguri Okura
1998, Sarah Capie
1999, Louise Wright
2000, Louis Wright
2001, Kristin Tamulis
2002, Alison Curdt
2003, Alison Curdt, Caroline Larsson
2005, Whitney Brummett, Caroline Larsson, Kristin Sordel
2006, Whitney Brummett, Jaclyn Burch, Caroline Larsson
2007, Whitney Brummett, Jaclyn Burch, Caroline Westrup
2008, Whitney Brummett, Caroline Westrup
2009, Caroline Westrup
2014, Laure Castelain
2015, Kayla Jones, Kim Metraux, Morgane Metraux
2016, Kim Metraux, Morgane Metraux
2017, Amanda Doherty, Kim Metraux, Morgane Metraux
2018, Amanda Doherty, Kim Metraux, Morgane Metraux, Kathleen Sumner
2019, Amanda Doherty, Puk Lyng Thomsen
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