Special to The Flash
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FRISCO – Tarleton women’s golf has a history of dominating opponents on the course and now they’re once again dominating the Lone Star Conference awards.
The TexAnns took home four of the five first-team all-conference awards and four of the five individual awards at the annual Lone Star Conference awards banquet at the Frisco Lakes Golf Club.
Casey Wild has been a star on the golf course and in the class room her whole career and the conference took notice. Wild was named the Lone Star Conference Player of the Year, Academic Player of the Year and is a first-team All-LSC selection.
It’s the first career Player of the Year award for Wild and she has claimed back-to-back Academic Player of the Year awards. Wild is the second TexAnn to win multiple Academic Player of the Year awards, joining Carla Cooper (2010-11). The junior from Australia is the No. 14-ranked player in the nation with a 74.0 scoring average, according to GolfStat.com. Wild has eight top-20 finishes and six top-10 finishes this season. Wild also took home four LSC Player of the Week awards this season and has eight for her career.
A TexAnn has won the LSC Player of the Year award in nine straight seasons (Isabel Jimenez-Perea, 2013-16; Jacqueline Lau, 2012; Carla Cooper, 2009-11). Wild joins Cooper (2010, 2011) as the only player in TexAnn history to win Player of the Year and Academic Player of the Year in the same season.
Lydia Traylor also took home a pair of awards, winning the LSC Newcomer of the Year and first-team All-LSC. Traylor, who is ranked No. 62 in the nation, has a scoring average of 76.1 in her first year with the TexAnns. The junior has five top-10 finishes this season.
Beatriz Prados was named first-team All-LSC for the third straight season. The senior from Spain has a scoring average of 75.2, which ranks second on the team. Prados has seven top-20 finishes and three top-10 finishes on the year.
Sarah Gee received her first career first-team All-LSC award, giving Tarleton four players on the first team. Gee is ranked No. 27 in the nation with a scoring average of 75.25 and has seven top-20 finishes and five top-10 finishes, including a first-place finish at the St. Edward’s Invitational.
Head coach Jerry Doyle won his 10th Lone Star Conference Coach of the Year award, by far a Lone Star Conference record with no one else having more than two.
The TexAnns teed off Monday in the LSC Championship at the Frisco Lakes Golf Club.
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