DWU Golfers Named to CoSIDA Academic All-American Team for First Time
MITCHELL, S.D. – For the first time for both the men's and women's golf teams at Dakota Wesleyan University, an athlete from each team has been named to the CoSIDA Academic All-American Team.
MITCHELL, S.D. – For the first time for both the men's and women's golf teams at Dakota Wesleyan University, an athlete from each team has been named to the CoSIDA Academic All-American Team.
Senior Lauren Fitts (Brookings, S.D.) was named to the women's at-large team Second Team, while senior Anthony Husher (Winner, S.D.) earned the same honor on the men's side. The award is voted on by a College Sports Information Directors of America committee from a list of All-District winners from across the country, Husher and Fitts are the first DWU golfers to win the award, bringing the total number of CoSIDA Academic All-Americans this year at DWU to five.
The Academic At-Large All-American Team is made up of college division athletes in several sports, including golf, tennis, rowing, swimming and diving, lacrosse, wrestling and men's volleyball.
Fitts completed a clean sweep of the Great Plains Athletic Conference, winning her fourth straight GPAC Golfer of the Year award, taking the conference tournament by 15 strokes. Fitts joined former Tiger golf great Dani Bellet as the only GPAC athletes in any sport to win the Player of the Year award four times.
Fitts' leadership in 2015-16 help a small DWU team hang on to the GPAC team championship, the eighth straight for the Tigers and 13th overall. She won six events this season and was recently named the GPAC Golfer of the Week for the 11th time in her career. The Tigers went on to compete at the national meet last month, taking 26th.
Fitts is a nursing major, who recently received the KMIT Award at the annual DWU Senior Banquet. She was also named an NAIA Scholar Athlete last month
Husher recently completed his four-year career for the Tigers, helping the team to a fifth-place finish in the GPAC. Husher and the rest of the Tigers recently set a new DWU record for an 18-hole team score with a 277 at the Wild West Invite where he tied teammate Thomas Hogg for first place with a season-low 66. Husher finished in the top 20 of the GPAC and was recently named the conference's Golfer of the Week.
Husher closed the season with a 75.13 stroke average, winning one event and finishing in the top 10 six times. He is just as impressive in the classroom, carrying a near perfect GPA and earning his second NAIA Scholar Athlete award last month.