Women's Golf Coaches Association honors

By Tim Glon
www.ONUsports.com

Senior Grace Honigford (West Chester/Lakota East) has been named an All-American Scholar for 2023-24 by the Women's Golf Coaches Association.

The criteria for WGCA All-American Scholar honors is a 3.50 GPA, be an amateur and have played in 50 percent or more of the team's events during the season.

A total of 1,497 women's collegiate golfers from 412 programs across the country were honored on Monday.

In her four seasons on the women's golf team, Honigford has rewritten the record books and now holds every record within the program.

A mechanical engineering major, she was named Ohio Northern's Female winner of the prestigious Clyde Lamb Award, given annually to the top male and female student-athletes of each of the 10 Ohio Athletic Conference schools.

She also guided the Polar Bears to a pair of Ohio Athletic Conference Championships titles and NCAA Championships appearances.

Honigford is a three-time OAC Championships Medalist and is a four-time All-OAC honoree.

She won the OAC individual title as a freshman in 2021 and was Co-Medalist in 2022 and 2024. She was runner-up in 2023.

Honigford is also a three-time Academic All-OAC honoree.

This season, Honigford set the school's 18-, 36-, 54- and 72-hole school records with totals of 68, 143, 223 and 300, respectively.

She also had a school record 75.5 stroke average over a school record 27 rounds this season.

Her efforts also helped this season's Polar Bear squad set team records for 18, 36, 54 and 72 holes and a season-best average of 318.0 strokes per round.

To top things off, Honigford also recorded the program's first-ever hole in one this season.

The Polar Bears finished the 2023-24 season with a 72-35 overall record, won the OAC Championships title and finished 20th at the NCAA III Championships under 11th-year head coach Chad Bucci.