CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. – Once again, Little Rock's women's golf program has been recognized as one of the top academic performing teams in the nation as five Trojan golfers have been named Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) All-American Scholars for 2020-21. It is the seventh time in the last eight seasons Little Rock has had at least five golfers recognized with the prestigious honor.
The criteria for selection to the All-American Scholar Team are some of the most stringent in all of college athletics as the minimum cumulative GPA is 3.50. A total of 1,432 student-athletes were recognized for their academic achievements in 2020-21.
Malena Austerslaatt,
Tilde Bocker,
Kellie Gachaga and
Sydney Scraba all finished the spring semester with a perfect 4.00 GPA as the quartet each earned the third WGCA All-America honors of their career. Austerslaatt and Gachaga have maintained a cumulative 4.00 GPA for their entire Little Rock careers while Bocker boasts a 3.96 and Scraba a 3.75.
Viktoria Krnacova registered a 3.93 during the spring and finished her first season in Little Rock with a cumulative GPA of 3.96.
Agatha Alesson also had a strong academic semester in the spring, but was ineligible for consideration due to having played just half a season.
The academic honors for Little Rock is another in a long line of accolades as the team boasted a department-best 3.88 GPA during the spring 2021 semester, coming off a 3.95 mark in the fall – the highest in program history. As a team, the Trojans' combined cumulative GPA is 3.91, making it one of the highest in the country.
The five selections is tied for the second-most in program history, one shy of the six All-America Scholar selections in 2019. The Trojans had five golfers named to the prestigious team in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2020.
Founded in 1983, the WGCA is a non-profit organization representing women's collegiate golf coaches. The WGCA represents over 600 coaches throughout the U.S. and is dedicated to educating, promoting and recognizing its members and the student-athletes they represent.
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