Brady Voted First Team All-SEC

Brady Voted First Team All-SEC

4/28/2005

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Vanderbilt sophomore Chris Brady has been chosen to the first team of the 2005 All-Southeastern Conference honor squad by a vote of league coaches.

Brady, who won two tournaments during the course of the season and owns the school record with four victories, was a second team all-SEC choice a year ago. The North Carolina product averaged 74 strokes over 27 tournament rounds and won the Landfall Tradition and LSU/Cleveland Invitational during the course of the year.

She will lead her Vanderbilt team into next week’s NCAA East Regional Championships in Gainesville, Fla.

Georgia head coach Todd McCorkle, Tennessee’s Violeta Retamoza and Arkansas’ Stacy Lewis were accorded major honors as announced by conference officials.

McCorkle was voted SEC Coach of the Year by her peers while Retamoza was named the SEC Golfer and Scholar-Athlete of the Year.  Lewis was tabbed SEC Freshman of the Year.

The Coach of the Year honor for McCorkle is his first in the SEC.  In 2000, he was named the Golfweek National Coach of the Year after helping lead Arizona to the NCAA Championship.  The following year, in 2001, he directed the Lady Bulldogs to the national championship.

Retamoza, a junior from Aguascalientes, Mexico, is ranked ninth in the nation in the latest Golfweek ratings.  She also leads the SEC in scoring, averaging 73.15 strokes per round.

Lewis, a native of The Woodlands, Texas, is ranked 11th in the nation in the latest Golfweek rankings.  She is third in the SEC in scoring, averaging 74.00 strokes per round. 

Retamoza earned her third consecutive first-team All-SEC honor while Auburn’s Maria Martinez and Georgia’s Whitney Wade earned their second such recognition.  Lewis, Auburn’s Diana Ramage, Georgia’s Kelly Froelich, LSU’s Melissa Eaton rounds out the first-team.  Below is a complete list of all 2005 SEC Women’s Golf Postseason Awards.

SEC COACH OF THE YEAR
Todd McCorkle, Georgia

SEC SCHOLAR-ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
Violeta Retamoza, Tennessee

SEC GOLFER OF THE YEAR
Violeta Retamoza, Tennessee

SEC FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR
Stacy Lewis, Arkansas

FIRST-TEAM ALL-SEC
Diana Ramage, Auburn, Sr.
Violeta Retamoza, Tennessee, Jr.
Stacy Lewis, Arkansas, Fr.
Maria Martinez, Auburn, Jr.
Kelly Froelich, Georgia, Jr.
Chris Brady, Vanderbilt, So.
Whitney Wade, Georgia, So.
Melissa Eaton, LSU, So.

SECOND-TEAM All-SEC
Tiffany Chudy, Florida, Fr.
Nicole Hage, Auburn, So.
Amanda McCurdy, Arkansas, Jr.
Rebecca Kuhn, LSU, Fr.
Brooke Shelton, LSU, Sr.
Natalia Nicholls, Georgia, Sr.
Amanda Mathis, Miss. State, So.
Jessica Shepley, Tennessee, Sr.