MOREHEAD, Ky. – After leading the Morehead State Athletic Department in team GPA for the fourth consecutive academic year, Morehead State women's golf (3.72 team GPA) earned five Women's Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholars during the 2020-21 academic year, the WGCA announced Tuesday.

Seniors Bridget Connolly (Psychology) and Gypsie Hutchinson (Sport Management), sophomores MacKenzie Neal (Biomedical Sciences) and Hailey Rietz (Biology), and freshman Olivia Hensley (Strategic Communications) garnered All-American Scholar recognition for their academic achievements during the season. Overall, 20 Eagles have earned the honor a combined 45 times since the program's return to the course prior to the 2009-10 season.

A total of 1,432 women's collegiate golfers, including 15 from the Ohio Valley Conference, were bestowed the prestigious honor of being named a WGCA All-American Scholar. The distinction carries some of the most stringent selection criteria in all of college athletics, with athletes needing to carry a minimum grade point average of 3.50.

"Our team works incredibly hard in the classroom as well as on the golf course," said head coach Stephanie Barker. "I am thrilled they have earned this well-deserved recognition. They are true examples as to what it means to be student-athletes who are able to excel in their sport while also earning incredibly high grades."

Connolly and Hutchinson's selections in 2020-21 marks the pairs third overall All-American Scholar selections while Neal and Rietz's selections mark the pairs second overall. Morehead State's five overall selections represent the most of an OVC women's golf program while tying the 2019-20, 2015-16, and 2012-13 seasons for the most in program history.

ALL-TIME WGCA SCHOLAR SELECTIONS
Gabriela Villalba Arias (2016)
Sarah Black (2019, 2020)
Sarah Boden (2017)
Bridget Connolly (2019, 2020, 2021)
Sarah Debnekoff (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
Emma Eksell (2010, 2011, 2012)
Olivia Hensley (2021)
Gypsie Hutchinson (2019, 2020, 2021)
Emma Jonsson (2010, 2011, 2012)
Marisa Kamelgarn (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Anna Appert Lund (2013)
MacKenzie Neal (2020, 2021)
Jeanette Petersen (2015)
Sofia Pettersson (2011, 2012, 2013)
Katie Rice (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
Hailey Rietz (2020, 2021)
Linnea Scholin (2013, 2014, 2016)
Karolina Tunstig (2010)
Isabella Washka (2019)
Brittany Whatley (2016, 2017)