Roxanne Chadwell was one of four Park players named 2009 Daktronics-NAIA Women's Golf Scholar Athletes.

2008-09 Women’s Golf Scholar Athletes

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Park University women’s golf team placed four of its five team members on the 2008-09 Daktronics-NAIA Women’s Golf Scholar Athlete list, which included 87 student-athletes from around the country who maintained at least a 3.5 grade point average on a 4.0 scale.

Nicole Ainsworth, Roxanne Chadwell, Allison Vaughn and Nicole Wiehe were the four Pirate golfers eligible for the award, which also states that student-athletes must be a junior in academic status at the NAIA member institution to qualify.

For all four players, the honor was a career-first, and all four were also members of the 2008 Park team that advanced to last year’s NAIA national tournament in San Diego, Calif.

Ainsworth, who is from Lake Quivira, Kan., played in six of Park’s seven events in 2008-09, earning a 12th-place finish at the RRAC/MCAC championship in Oklahoma City, and she began the year by finishing tied for 25th in the William Jewell Fall Invitational, which marked the only team victory for the Pirates on the year.

Vaughn, a native of Independence who played in all seven events during the year, also helped the Pirates to the same team championship by finishing sixth at Jewell, and at the conference championship, Vaughn finished tied for 13th along with Chadwell, who hails from Meriden, Kan., and also played in all seven events for the Pirates in 2008-09.

Wiehe, a native of Kansas City, Kan., was the fourth player to compete in all seven events for Park, finishing sixth at the RRAC/MCAC event while tying for 15th at both William Jewell and Maryville-St. Louis. She also helped the team to a sixth-place finish at the South Central Kansas Invitational by finishing tied for 12th place in Winfield, Kan.

The Pirates concluded the 2008-09 season in late April, and the 2009-10 season will get underway in the fall, which is scheduled to begin in late September. When available, the schedule will be announced at www.parkathletics.com.