Sept. 23, 2010

Sun Devil women's golfer and LPGA professional Kellee Booth will be inducted into the Arizona State Sports Hall of Fame at halftime of the ASU football game against Oregon on Saturday.

A first-team All-American from 1995-1996 and again in 1998, Booth was also the 1997 Dinah Shore Award winner and 1998 Honda Award Winner for Golf, and led her teams to NCAA team titles in 1995, 1997, and 1998. The Coto de Caza, Calif., native was also an Academic All-American at Arizona State University from 1996-1998.

Most notably, Booth will be joining her mother, Jane Bastanchurry-Booth, as the first mother-daughter combo in the ASU Sports Hall of Fame.

Bastanchurry-Booth was the Trans-Mississippi champion in 1967. As a member of the United States team than won the World Cup title in 1968, she also finished in the World Cup individuals play. She was a United States Amateur quarterfinalist in 1967 and 1968, and a United States Collegiate semifinalist in 1968. Bastanchurry-Booth ranked third nationally in 1967.

Exactly 30 years after her mother was honored, Booth will return to Arizona State to be celebrated in her own right as an esteemed Sun Devil. And of course, Bastanchurry-Booth will be there to celebrate her daughter too.

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