April 19, 2007
Junior Niki Garden, who shot her best two rounds of the season at the Wiscon Corporation Invitational hosted by Loyola, has been named Horizon League Women's Golf Athlete of the Week.
Garden captured medalist honors at the Wiscon Corporation Inviational with back-to-back rounds of one-over-par 73. Her 36-hole total of 146 was 10 strokes better than runnner-up Abbie Many of Northern Illinois. The two rounds of 73 represented the fourth lowest score recorded by an individual in Horizon League women's golf this year.
Garden led the tournament in par three scoring (3.13) and par four scoring (4.10), and she finished second in par five socring (4.88). She shot par or better on 29 of her 36 holes.
The third-year player from St. Albans, Mo., leads the Bulldogs and the Horizon League in scoring with a 78.8 average.