BATON ROUGE — LSU and Tulane dominated the 2010 all-Louisiana men’s and women’s collegiate golf teams as announced by the Louisiana Sports Writers Association.
The Tigers landed two players on the men’s first team and one on the second while having Andrew Loupe named player of the year and Chuck Winstead coach of the year.
Tulane led the women’s team with three first team selections and had Janine Fellows named player of the year, Maribel Lopez Porras freshman of the year and John Thomas Horton coach of the year.
The LSU Tigers had their most successful campaign in more than a decade, placing fifth in the NCAA regional’s and landing a spot in the NCAA championship for the first time since 1997. They won three tournament titles during the year and placed fifth in the SEC tournament.
Tulane won three women’s titles during the year including the C-USA crown and made a trip to the NCAA championship finals. Horton was named the C-USA coach of the year and has now been named the LSWA coach of the year twice.
Loupe was one of the nation’s top collegiate scorers with a 71.9 stroke average. He finished fourth at the SEC tournament, won the Louisiana Classics and earned first team all-conference honors.
Joining Loupe on the first team are teammate John Peterson, Philipp Fendt of Louisiana-Lafayette, Philip Westermann of Southeastern Louisiana and Oscar Zetterwall of UNO.
Members of the second team are Alvaro Azrizabaleta and Cedric Scotto of Southeastern Louisiana, Ken Looper of UNO, Andrew Noto of Louisiana-Lafayette and Sang Yi of LSU.
Arizabaleta was named freshman of the year after posting a 72.67 average, being named the Southland Conference golfer of the year and winning the league title. Horacio Leon of Southeastern Louisiana was tabbed newcomer of the year. He had a 74.33 scoring average.
Peterson had also been a first team pick last season while Fendt and Loupe were second team selections.
Winstead was named coach of the year for the second time.
Fellows posted a 74.31 stroke average for the Tulane women and was named the C-USA co-player of the year. Several times she broke 70 during the season and posted a tournament record four under 67 during the C-USA championship where she was the runnerup.
Joining her on the women’s six member team are teammates Linn Gustafsson (last year’s player of the year) and Samantha Troyanovich, Angela Drane of Louisiana-Monroe and Megan McChrystal and Tessa Teachman of LSU.
McChrystal ran a close second on the player of the year honors after posting a 73.16 stroke average, tying for fifth at the NCAA tournament after shooting a tournament low of 64 and finishing 10th at the SEC event and sixth at the NCAA regional’s.
Porras, the women’s rookie of the year, had a 76 stroke average and finished eighth at the C-USA tournament.
There were no nominees for newcomer of the year.
MEN
First team
+Philipp Fendt, Louisiana Lafayette, Soph, Vienna, Austria
+Andrew Loupe, LSU, Jr., Baton Rouge, LA
*John Peterson, LSU, Jr., Ft. Worth, TX
Philip Westermann, SE Louisiana, Fr., Pinneberg, Germany
Oscar Zetterwall, UNO, Jr., Stockholm, Sweden
Second team
Alvaro Azrizabaleta, SE Louisiana, Fr., Cali, Columbia
*Ken Looper, UNO, Jr. , Mandeville, LA
Andrew Noto, Louisiana Lafayette, Soph, Luling, LA
*Cedric Scotto, SE Louisiana, Jr., Albi, France
*Sang Yi, LSU, Soph, Carrollton,TX
* – first team last year
+ – second team last year
Player of the year: Andrew Loupe, LSU
Freshman of the year: Alvaro Arizabaleta, SE Louisiana
Newcomer of the year: Horacio Leon, SE
Louisiana Coach of the year: Chuck Winstead, LSU
WOMEN
Angela Drane, Louisiana Monroe, Sr., Charlottetown, Ontario, Canada
+Janine Fellows, Tulane, Jr., Houston, TX
*Linn Gustafsson, Tulane, Jr., Stockholm, Sweden
*Megan McChrystal, LSU, Jr., Stuart, FL
+Tessa Teachman, LSU, Soph, Baton Rouge, LA
+Samantha Troyanovich, Tulane, Soph, Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich
* – first team last year
+ – second team last year
Player of the year: Janine Fellows, Tulane
Freshman of the year: Maribel Lopez Porras, Tulane
Coach of the year: John Thomas Horton, Tulane