BATON ROUGE — On the heels of its second place finish Sunday in the Southeastern Conference Women’s Golf Championships, LSU’s Katy Harris and Meredith Duncan were named to the first-team All-SEC women’s golf team announced by the league office.
Harris is a senior from South Bend, Ind., and Duncan is a junior from Shreveport.
Harris is coming off back-to-back runnerup finishes and three in the final season as she presently has posted the lowest single season stroke average in LSU women’s golf history of 72.92. She finished second at the LSU/Cleveland Golf Classic, covering the 54 holes at the University Club in 3-under par 213.
At the SEC Championships, she set course, school and conference records with a single-round score of 7-under par 65, a bogey-free round, which included a chip-in birdie at the third and a 30-foot cross green birdie putt at the fifth. She finished with rounds of 74-65-71 for a school record three-day total of 6-under par 210. She is ranked eighth in the country in the latest GolfWeek/Sagarin Performance Index. It is Harris’ second time to earn All-SEC honors.
Duncan posted her second consecutive top 10 finish in the SEC championships, finishing in a tie for sixth with a 2-over 218 (71-72-75). For the season, Duncan is averaging 74.04 strokes per round.
For Duncan, it is her second consecutive first-team All-SEC honor as she earned Honorable Mention All-American honors last season and she is certainly in line to repeat again this season when those honors are announced late in May.
The Tigers will next take part in the NCAA Regional Qualifying Tournaments, May 10-12. The location of the tournament that LSU will take part in and the rest of the qualifying teams are expected to be announced next week.