ST. LOUIS – Illinois State senior Becca Black has been named to the Missouri Valley Conference's Scholar-Athlete Team, announced by the conference office on Thursday afternoon.
Black, a native of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, is third in the MVC according to the GolfStat individual rankings by averaging 75.74 strokes per round. In 19 rounds during the season, she has had three rounds at or under par.
A total of 16 student-athletes received recognition by earning either first-team or honorable-mention honors, as voted on by the league's golf sports information directors.
She tied for third at the Dayton Invitational, finishing six strokes over par for the two rounds of the tournament. She finished inside of the top-25 in each of her seven tournaments, and her top round came in the second round of the Rainbow Wahine Invitational, where she shot a 71.
The criteria for the MVC scholar-athlete team parallels the CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America) standards for its academic All-America program. Nominees must have at least a 3.30 cumulative grade point average (4.0 scale), while the student-athletes must have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at their institutions and must have participated in at least 50 percent of her team's rounds.
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