The awards keep piling up for Marie Coors, who graduated from Saint Leo University.
Most recently, Coors was named the 2016-17 Sunshine State Conference (SSC) Woman of the Year.
She is the first athlete in SSC history to claim all three of the conference’s major awards for women: Woman of the Year, Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year and Female Athlete of the Year.
Coors, who is a native of Gross-Zimmern, Germany, is just the second Saint Leo student-athlete to receive the SSC Woman of the Year award, joining former women’s soccer standout Virginia Davenport, who earned the accolade in 2007-08.
The conference’s athletics directors, senior woman administrators, athletics communications directors, and faculty athletics representatives took part in the voting. Candidates were scored based on the NCAA Woman of the Year award criteria.
Coors, the 2017 Women’s Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) Division II Golfer of the Year and a First Team All-American, captured the individual championship at the 2017 NCAA Division II Women’s Golf Championship in May after carding a seven-over 295 over 72 holes. She finished the season with a 72.16 stroke average over 32 rounds — the lowest stroke average of any Division II women’s golfer and 22nd-lowest among all collegiate women’s golfers regardless of division.
