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Fri, 2016-07-08 05:00
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Cove alum Mikayla Miller named WGCA All-American Scholar
By TJ MAXWELL
Cove Leader-Press
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. – The Women’s Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) All-American Scholars were announced Tuesday with a total of 828 women’s collegiate golfers recognized with this prestigious honor, including
Copperas Cove standout and Southwestern University freshman Mikayla Miller.
Miller, a first-year student from Copperas Cove, also earned a spot on the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Academic Honor Roll and the Director of Athletics Academic Excellence Award this spring.
The criteria for selection to the All-American Scholar Team are some of the most stringent in all of college athletics with a minimum cumulative GPA is 3.50.
Miller graduated Copperas Cove High School ranked third in her 2015 graduating class of 541 students. She finished with a 4.759 grade point average.
As a freshman member of the Lady Pirates golf team, she helped the team to a third-place finish at the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference with her 19th-place overall finish. Her best result of the year came in a tie for 13th out of 43 golfers and second on her team at the Schreiner’s Women’s Shootout on Feb. 29 through March 1.
Miller also had top 20 finishes at the Lady Bulldog Fall Classic and the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Lady Cru Fall Invitational.
The 2015-2016 WGCA All-American Scholar Team in its entirety can be found at wgcagolf.com.