Alvarez Named C-USA Freshman Of The Year
May 2, 2003 | Women's Golf
May 2, 2003
NEW ORLEANS, La. - Tulane women's golf standout Liliana Alvarez was named Conference USA Freshman of the Year, and is one of four Green Wave golfers to earn All-C-USA honors the league announced Friday.
Alvarez joined junior Carolin Landmann and sophomore Lindsay Hulwick on the first team, and claimed a spot on the C-USA All-Freshman squad. Sophomore Alexis Wooster rounds out the Tulane honorees, claiming third-team all-league recognition.
The honors come after the Green Wave squad posted a school-record 299.48 shooting average and qualified for its third NCAA Regional appearance in school history. Tulane earned the No. 8 seed at the East Regional, and will open postseason play on Thursday, May 8 at the Salem Glen Country Club in Clemmons, N.C.
Alvarez, Hulwick and Landmann - who shared team MVP honors as announced Monday at the Tulane Varsity Ball - finished the regular season within seven strokes of each other for the tightest team-lead race in school history. Landmann paces the team with a 74.72 average, one stroke better than Hulwick who finished with a 74.76 mark. Alvarez, meanwhile, finished third on the squad with a 75.03 average.
All three golfers won an individual tournament title - Alvarez and Landmann sharing the championship at the USF/Beacon Woods Invitational, and Hulwick taking the Tulane Invitational crown - and were instrumental in the Green Wave's team victories at Beacon Woods, the Tulane Invitational and the Edwin Watts/Palmetto Intercollegiate.
Wooster, the 2002 C-USA Freshman of the Year, earned third-team all-conference honors after finishing fourth on the team with a 76.86 stroke average. She posted a season-low 71 on three occasions, and finished a season-best third at the Beacon Woods Invitational.
Joining the Tulane trio on the C-USA first team are Brooke Tull of TCU - the league's player of the year - and Fany Schaeffer of South Florida. East Carolina's Adrienne Millican and Jessica Krasny join Katie Ruhe of South Florida, Marianne Ruud of Memphis and D'Rae Ward of TCU on the second-team, and Wooster is joined by UAB's Brooke Mangan, South Florida's Kelly Martin, Jennifer Jaszek of Memphis and Morgan Hapney of Louisville on the third team.
Alvarez, meanwhile, is joined on the All-Freshman Team by TCU's Stephanie Godare, East Carolina's Heidi Helliesen, Elly Leonard of Louisville and Danielle Reilly of Memphis. The Coach of the Year award went to East Carolina's Kevin Williams.
