Bools Receives Scholar Athlete-of-the-Year Award
July 16, 2010 | Women's Golf
July 16, 2010
IRVING, Texas - Senior Abby Bools was selected as the Conference USA Scholar Athlete-of-the-Year award winner for women's golf, Commissioner Britton Banowsky announced Thursday afternoon. The league's Faculty Athletics Representatives determine the top student-athletes in each conference-sponsored sport based on academic achievement (grade-point average), athletic achievement and service.
Bools, who graduated with a 3.75 GPA as a history major and communication minor, was named to the National Golf Coaches Association NCAA Division I All-American Scholar Team for the fourth time in her career earlier this month. She has also been an eight-time ECU Director of Athletics Honor Roll member, four-time C-USA Honor Roll selection, three-time C-USA All-Academic Team honoree and the 2008 ECU Academic Excellence Award recipient.
A Hickory, N.C., native, Bools recently completed her career as a three-time First Team All-Conference USA honoree and 2010 East All-Region Team member. As a senior, she posted a 73.83 stroke average, the lowest single-season mark in school history. At the end of the campaign, Bools was selected as the Conference USA Co-Golfer-of-the-Year, repeating the award she won as a sophomore. She joined former C-USA standouts Pam Buff (Tulane/1998-2000) and Brooke Tull (TCU/2002-04) as the only multiple player-of-the-year winners in the league's 15-year history.
At the 2010 NCAA East Regional, hosted by East Carolina at Ironwood Golf Club, Bools missed making the NCAA Championships as an individual by three strokes, finishing tied for seventh at one-under par (215). Her final round was a three-under par 69, tying her season-low mark.
For her career, Bools participated in 45 events with a 75.31 stroke average, which ranks second all time at ECU. During her four years with the Pirates, she also claimed two tournament wins: the 2007-08 Myrtle Beach Classic and Qdoba Invitational.
2009-10 Conference USA Scholar-Athlete Award Winners
Baseball - Rob Segedin, Tulane
Men's Basketball - Lucas Kuipers, Rice
Women's Basketball - Amanda Peterson, UAB
Men's Cross Country - John Beattie, Tulsa
Women's Cross Country - Stephanie Gammon, UAB
Football - Andre Anderson, Tulane
Men's Golf - Michael Buttacavoli, Rice
Women's Golf - Abby Bools, East Carolina
Women's Rowing - Susan Stangl, Tulsa
Men's Soccer - Kilian Poeschk, Tulsa
Women's Soccer - Danielle Blair, UAB
Softball - *Stacie Townsend, UTEP
Women's Swimming & Diving - Angela Wo, Rice
Men's Tennis - Michael Gaerthoeffner, Memphis
Women's Tennis - Rebecca Row, Tulsa
Men's Track and Field - *Philip Adam, Rice
Women's Track and Field - Nora Mehl, UAB
Volleyball - Tracey Lam, Rice
* Repeat selection
