Three Butler Athletes Earn Golf Academic Recognition
INDIANAPOLIS, IND. -- Butler golfers Clare Cornelius, Julia
Porter and Isabella Lambert have been named to the 2011-12 Division
I All-American Scholar Team by the National Golf Coaches
Association. The NGCA honored a total of 585 women’s
collegiate golfers in Division I, II & III for academic
excellence.
The three Butler golfers helped the Bulldogs to a second
consecutive Horizon League women’s golf title and a second
straight trip to the NCAA Women’s Golf Championship in
2011-12. The league championship was Butler’s sixth in
eight years.
Cornelius, a marketing major, earned a spot on the coaches’
academic honor squad for the fourth consecutive year. She
completed her final season as Butler’s fourth-leading scorer
with an 81.9 average, and she placed among the “Top 5”
individuals in two tournaments during the 2011-12 campaign.
She was named to the All-Tournament Team at the 2012 Horizon League
Women’s Golf Championship after placing third in the final
individual competition.
Porter, a speech language pathology major, was named to the NGCA
All-American Scholar Team for the second straight year. She
finished her junior season as Butler’s fifth-leading scorer
with a career-best 82.2 average, and she finished among the
“Top 5” individuals in three different tournaments
during the year.
Lambert, a biology major, completed a stellar initial season with
the Bulldogs. The first-year golfer finished as
Butler’s second leading scorer with a 79.2 average, and she
finished among the “Top 5” individuals in four
different tournaments. She was named Horizon League Newcomer
of the Year, was selected first team All-Horizon League and was
chosen to the Horizon League All-Tournament Team.
The criteria for selection to the All-American scholar Team are
among the most stringent in all of college athletics.
Athletes must maintain a minimum cumulative grade point average of
3.50 (on a 4.00 scale) and must have participated in 50% of the
team’s regularly-scheduled competitive rounds.
