STILLWATER – Oklahoma State All-American Maja Stark was named considered one of 4 finalists for the 2021 Honda Sport Award for Golf from the Collegiate Ladies Sports activities Awards.
A sophomore from Abbekas, Sweden, Stark was a 2021 ANNIKA Award finalist and a 2021 WGCA first-team All-American. She led Oklahoma State to a nationwide runner-up end on the 2021 NCAA Championship and set a program file with a stroke common of 70.48 (-1.42 to par). She completed the 12 months ranked No. 4 nationally by GolfStat and went 49-2 in head-to-head competitors once more top-100 gamers within the nation.
The 2-time occasion winner recorded extra birdies (139) and rounds of par or higher (22) than any participant at school historical past, and her par-3 (2.99) and par-4 (3.99) scoring averages set new faculty data as nicely.
Stark is joined on the 2021 Honda Sport Award poll by Stanford teammates Rachel Heck and Angelina Ye, in addition to Emma Spitz of UCLA.
The Honda Sport Award has been offered yearly by the CWSA for the previous 45 years to the highest ladies athletes in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports activities and signifies the most effective of the most effective in collegiate athletics. The winner of the game award turns into a finalist for the Collegiate Girl Athlete of the 12 months and the distinguished 2021 Honda Cup which will probably be offered on a telecast on CBS Sports activities Community, on June twenty eighth, at 8 pm CT.
The golf finalists had been chosen by a panel of specialists representing the WGCA. The Honda Sport award winner for ladies’s golf will probably be introduced subsequent week after voting by directors from over 1,000 NCAA member faculties. Every NCAA member establishment has a vote.
The CWSA, celebrating its forty fifth anniversary 12 months, has honored the nation’s prime NCAA ladies athletes for his or her superior athletic abilities, management, tutorial excellence and eagerness to take part in group service. Since commencing its partnership in 1986, Honda has supplied greater than $3.4 million in institutional grants to the colleges of the award winners and nominees to assist ladies’s athletics packages.
