University at Albany Collects 2018 MAAC Women's Golf Championship
Women's Results
LAKE BUENA VISTA, FL – After three rounds of play the University at Albany collects its second MAAC Women’s Golf Championship in program history. Annie Songeun Lee paced the Great Danes as she earned her second career McLeod Trophy and was named the 2018 MAAC Women’s Golf Most Outstanding Performer.
Albany completed the third round at +19 (307) finishing the three rounds at +57 (921). The Great Danes had all five golfers within the top 20, four of which made the top 10. Annika Espino +26 (242) tied for 19
th, Caroline Juillat and Helga Einarsdottir tied for 10
th at +21 (237). Megan Henry finished fourth at +12 (228), and Annie Songeun Lee in first place with a score of +4 (220).
Following Albany was Quinnipiac University who finished +69 (933). The Bobcats’ Luciana Tobia-Palza finished second at +11 (227) and teammate Queenie Lai finished tied for seventh at +18 (234). In third was the University of Dayton +83 (947) and fourth the University of Hartford at +92 (956). Coming in fifth place was Siena College +103 (967), sixth Monmouth University at +113 (977). Niagara University finished seventh with a score of +123 (987), followed by La Salle University +176 (1040), and Fairfield University +197 (1061) to finish eighth and ninth respectively.
Lee takes home her second individual championship at the MAAC Women’s Golf Championship. She last finished first in 2015, the same year Albany won its first MAAC title. She beat her 2015 mark of +10 by six strokes finishing +4, seven strokes ahead of the second-place finisher.
Albany’s Colleen Cashman-McSween was named the 2018 MAAC Women’s Coach of the Year. Cashman-McSween earned her second MAAC Coach of the Year honor.
Hartford’s Maria Loza captured the 2018 MAAC Women’s Golf Rookie of the Year. Loza finished with a three-round mark of +13 (229) to tie for fourth place. The freshman recorded a second-round score of 73, her lowest single-round score of the championship.
The 2018 All-MAAC team is comprised of Albany’s Helga Einarsdottir, Megan Henry, Caroline Juillat, and Annie Songeun Lee, Dayton’s Abby Bitto and Ellie Cronin. Along with Hartford’s Maria Loza, Quinnipiac’s Queenie Lai, Estefania Morales, Luciana Tobia-Palza, and Siena’s Sara Riso.
The Great Danes will find out where they play next during the
2018 NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Selection Show, April 25 at 5:30 p.m. on the Golf Channel.
About the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference:
With 11 institutions strongly bound by the sound principles of quality and integrity in academics and excellence in athletics, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) is in its 37
th year of competition during the 2017-18 academic year. Current Conference members include: Canisius College, Fairfield University, Iona College, Manhattan College, Marist College, Monmouth University, Niagara University, Quinnipiac University, Rider University, Saint Peter's University, and Siena College.