Oklahoma State University Athletics
Cowgirls Golf Dominates Big 12 Conference Awards
June 21, 1999 | Cowgirl Golf
April 20, 1999
DALLAS -- Oklahoma State's Maria Boden and Ann Pitts and Texas' Randi Meadows earned Big 12 Conference women's golf 1998-99 season awards in a vote of the league's head coaches announced by the conference office Tuesday.
Boden was named Big 12 Conference Player of the Year, Pitts was honored as Big 12 Conference Coach of the Year, and Meadows was selected as Big 12 Conference Newcomer of the Year.
Prior to the conference championships, Boden led the Big 12 in stroke average with a 75.1 average over 26 rounds. The sophomore from Harnosand, Sweden, has five top 10 finishes this season, including a win at the UCLA Pioneer Electronic Bruin Classic. She placed in the top 20 in eight of nine outings. Last year Boden was honored as Big 12 Newcomer of the Year and was a member of the all-conference first team.
Pitts, in her 22nd year as head coach of the Cowgirls, earned her second consecutive Big 12 Coach of the Year honor. She has led OSU to four regular season tournament titles this year and a current No. 7 national ranking. Pitts' squads won 14 Big Eight Conference Tournament titles.
Meadows, a freshman from San Antonio, Texas, is currently second in the Big 12 with a 75.3 stroke average. She has five Top 10 finishes and placed in the top 20 in seven of eight tournaments. Meadows was also named to the All-Big 12 Conference first team.
Joining Boden and Meadows on the first team were: Missouri's Stefanie Mitchell, OSU's Jo Jo Robertson and Texas' Kristin Dufour. Mitchell has five top 10 finishes this year, including four in the top five, and is fourth in the Big 12 in stroke average with a 76.0. She was a second team All-Big 12 selection in 1998. Robertson has registered five top 10 places this season, including three in the top five. She is third in the conference with a 75.7 stroke average. Dufour is tied for fifth in the Big 12 with a 76.5 stroke average and won the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Classic this spring. She has five other top 20 finishes.
The All-Big 12 second team is comprised of Texas A&M's Anna Jonsson, Texas' Laura Blessey, Baylor's Ali Brewer, Oklahoma State's Eva-Lotta Stromlid, and Texas Tech's Brooke Lowrance. Lowrance earned all-conference honors for the second straight year.
1999 BIG 12 WOMEN'S GOLF ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM
First Team
Maria Boden, Oklahoma State, Sophomore, Harnosand, Sweden
Randi Meadows, Texas, Freshman, San Antonio, Texas
Stefanie Mitchell, Missouri, Senior, Cameron, Ill.
JoJo Robertson, Oklahoma State, Senior, Roswell, New Mexico
Kristin Dufour, Texas, Freshman, Austin, Texas
Second Team
Anna Jonsson, Texas A&M, Freshman, Lund, Sweden
Laura Blessey, Texas, Sophomore, Mandeville, La.
Ali Brewer, Baylor, Junior, Crockett, Texas
Eva-Lotta Stromlid, Oklahoma State, Senior, Katrineholm, Sweden
Brooke Lowrance, Texas Tech, Senior, Snyder, Texas
Player of the Year: Maria Boden, Oklahoma State
Newcomer of the Year: Randi Meadows, Texas
Coach of the Year: Ann Pitts, Oklahoma State
