DALLAS – Lady Topper Golf seniors Mary Joiner and Megan Clarke were named to the C-USA All-Conference Teams, the league announced Wednesday. Joiner was named to the First Team for the second time in her career while Clarke picked up Second Team accolades as a first-time all-conference honoree.
"Being all-conference is an exclamation point on a great year," said head coach Adam Gary on the honors. "The goal in life is to leave a place better than you found it and both Mary and Megan are leaving WKU in a better place. All of the players in our program in the future owe them a thank you for taking the program to new heights. They've earned these awards and I'm happy to see the rest of the conference feels the same."
Between the pair, there have now been four Lady Toppers named to all-conference teams at least once since WKU joined Conference USA in 2014-15. The duo is joined by Ellinor Haag, a two-time honoree, and Georgina Blackman, who was mentioned in all four years of her career.
This is Joiner's third all-conference honor of her career. The Franklin, Ky., native earned first team accolades in 2018 and followed it up with a third team mention in 2019. She led the team in stroke average at 73.5, finishing her five-year career as a Lady Topper with the best career stroke average in program history at 73.92.
Clarke's second-team all-conference honors are the first of her career. Most recently, the Heckmondwike, England, native was named to the All-Tournament team after a t-4th finish at the C-USA Championships. She currently holds the program's fourth best career stroke average at 75.23 and was just behind Joiner in this season's stroke average at 73.7.
WKU is just one of four teams in C-USA with multiple all-conference honorees. As a team, the Lady Toppers had the best season stroke average in program history at 295.27 shots and has improved every year that Joiner and Clarke have been a part of the program. In the 2020-21 season, eight of WKU's 10 54-hole scores made the program's top-25 scores list.
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