RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. -- The Great American Conference has revealed that Southwestern Oklahoma State University’s Haley Hise has made the league’s inaugural all-conference list for women’s golf. Hise joins nine other players from four other schools who were voted among the league’s top 10 golfers.
The Kermit, Texas senior was a second team selection after leading the Bulldogs in a number of tournaments this year and helped SWOSU to a third-place finish in the recently completed Great American Conference Championship. Hise’s average score of 80.63 is the lowest season total by a SWOSU woman since Jaryn Rainey set a school record with an average score of 80.33 in the 2007-08 season.
Hise had two top 10 finishes, including a fifth-place effort at the University of Arkansas Monticello Invitational last fall. She finished eighth at Northeastern State University where she turned in a final-round 74, the lowest mark by a SWOSU golfer this season.
Arkansas Tech freshman Rebecka Surtevall, who was named the league’s player of the year and freshman of the year in addition to earning a spot on the All-GAC first team.
Surtevall (Stockholm, Sweden) turned in a school-record three-round total of 232 at this past week’s GAC women’s golf championship tournament, including a final round score of 75 to win the individual title by one stroke. The freshman ranks in the top 60 of the Golfstat head-to-head rankings and had an average score of 77.9 during the regular season. She turned in seven top 10 finishes, including taking the individual medal at both the Arkansas-Monticello Classic and the Texoma Lion Invitational.
Harding freshman Emily Plyler was the next highest vote receiver in the all-conference race. The Glenwood, Ark. native tied for third at the GAC championships and helped her team capture the overall team title. Plyler averaged a 79.7 during the regular season, had six top 10 finishes, four top five finishes, one tournament victory and a low round of 73.
Joining Surtevall and Plyler on the All-GAC first team is Southern Arkansas senior Whitley Patterson (Meridian, Texas), Harding freshman Brittany Marquez (Cascade, Trinidad and Tobago) and Arkansas Tech senior Elizabeth Sweetnam (London, England).
Patterson finished 10th at the GAC tournament and led her team in scoring average this season with an average of 80 per round. Marquez finished fifth this past week after averaging 80.4 strokes per round during the season with five top 10 finishes, three top five finishes, one tournament victory and a low round score of 75. Sweetnam tied for seventh at the GAC tournament and turned in a season total of four top 10 finishes.
Joining Hise on the second team were ATU junior Niki Possage (Dardanelle, Ark.) and Harding junior So-Yun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), in addition to Henderson State sophomore Rachel Harmon (Horseshoe Bend, Ark.) and senior Julie Robinson (Sheridan, Ark.)
The league’s honorable mention team includes ATU freshman Taylor Kline (Springdale, Ark.) and East Central freshman Lindsey Lunceford (Huntsville, Texas).
Arkansas Tech head coach Amy White completed the Golden Suns’ sweep of the inaugural yearly awards by being voted as the league’s first ever coach of the year. White led the Golden Suns to nine top 10 finishes this season in all nine events in which the team participated. The lowest the team finished this season was a tie for 10th place out of 21 teams at the Central Oklahoma Fall Classic. ATU had three team championships this season and two runner-up performances, including this past week’s GAC championship tournament.
