SAN FRANCISCO – National champion head coach Missy Farr-Kaye and NCAA individual medalist Monica Vaughn have been named Pac-12 Coach and Women's Golfer of the Year, as announced by the Pac-12 Conference Wednesday.
2017 marks just the third time in ASU women's golf's illustrious history that the program has earned both Pac-12 Coach and Golfer of the Year in the same season (also: 1993, 2007).
For Farr-Kaye, who has now won an NCAA title at Arizona State at three different levels – it's the completion of another trifecta, named Conference, Regional, and National Coach of the Year in 2017. She is the third coach from ASU to be named for the eighth all-time honor for the program, matching the program's nation-high eighth NCAA title earned this season.
Linda Vollstedt (1989, 1993, 1994, 1995) and Melissa Luellen (2006, 2007, 2009) have also received past Pac-12 Coach of the Year awards while at the helm of the Sun Devil program.
The honor caps a momentous senior season for Vaughn, who recently was named the Honda Award winner for women's golf, and is now in contention for the Honda Cup, awarded to one student-athlete from the Honda Award winners for 12 NCAA women's sports. She became the sixth NCAA individual medalist from Arizona State before helping lead the Sun Devils to a team title two days later.
Vaughn becomes the fifth Sun Devil to earn Pac-12 Golfer of the Year honors, first since 2012 (Giulia Molinaro), following Wendy Ward (1993), Louise Stahle (2005), and Anna Nordqvist (2007).
The All-Pac-12 teams were also re-released, after being awarded following April's Pac-12 championships, with Olivia Mehaffey, Linnea Strom, and Vaughn named to the First Team. Sophia Zeeb represented ASU on the Second Team.
2017 marks just the third time in ASU women's golf's illustrious history that the program has earned both Pac-12 Coach and Golfer of the Year in the same season (also: 1993, 2007).
For Farr-Kaye, who has now won an NCAA title at Arizona State at three different levels – it's the completion of another trifecta, named Conference, Regional, and National Coach of the Year in 2017. She is the third coach from ASU to be named for the eighth all-time honor for the program, matching the program's nation-high eighth NCAA title earned this season.
Linda Vollstedt (1989, 1993, 1994, 1995) and Melissa Luellen (2006, 2007, 2009) have also received past Pac-12 Coach of the Year awards while at the helm of the Sun Devil program.
The honor caps a momentous senior season for Vaughn, who recently was named the Honda Award winner for women's golf, and is now in contention for the Honda Cup, awarded to one student-athlete from the Honda Award winners for 12 NCAA women's sports. She became the sixth NCAA individual medalist from Arizona State before helping lead the Sun Devils to a team title two days later.
Vaughn becomes the fifth Sun Devil to earn Pac-12 Golfer of the Year honors, first since 2012 (Giulia Molinaro), following Wendy Ward (1993), Louise Stahle (2005), and Anna Nordqvist (2007).
The All-Pac-12 teams were also re-released, after being awarded following April's Pac-12 championships, with Olivia Mehaffey, Linnea Strom, and Vaughn named to the First Team. Sophia Zeeb represented ASU on the Second Team.