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This Is Florida State Women’s Golf he Seminole women’s golf program has a long tra- to win the event. The dition of success. Since the spring of 1990, the Semi- Seminoles stumbled on ENDOWED Tnoles have won 11 team championships — an aver- the front nine during SCHOLARSHIPS age of nearly one a year. Equally as impressive is the nearly the final day and fell be- Evelyn Clark Badcock 80 top-five individual finishes the squad has compiled in hind by a mere two Jorge Azor just over 100 tournaments. strokes. The turn, how- James C. McRoberts The Seminoles were very successful during the 2006- ever, proved to be George Trapper 07 season as they claimed two team championships — at Florida State’s turn of Maggie Allesee the Cougar Classic during the fall season and at the Florida fortune as four of the Anne and Galen Kilburn, Sr. State hosted Chrysler Challenge during the spring season. five Seminole golfers Don Veller Only a junior, Caroline Westrup has already won three indi- birdied the 17th hole vidual collegiate titles. and Florida State was on Many Seminole golfers have made their mark on the its way to its first national championship. Seminole record book during their careers. Led by two- The Seminoles’ national championship team featured time All- ACC selection Karen Stupples, who won two indi- three of the top all-time golfers in Florida State history. vidual tournament championships during her career, a to- Lisa Young, Florida State’s finisher during the 1981 national tal of seven Florida State golfers have earned individual championship, earned All-America honors that season medalist honors at nine different tournaments. Stupples along with Michele Guibault. Barb Bunkowsky, who earned earned All-America second-team honors in 1995. All- America honors in 1982, finished 14th in the national Since the beginning of the 1990 season, 35 Seminole championship field as she birdied the final five holes of golfers have posted top five individual finishes. In the past the event to help lead the Seminoles to the title. two seasons alone, Westrup has won the individual titles at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic during the spring of SEMINOLE GOLF HALL OF FAME 2006, the Tar Heel Invitational during the fall of 2006 and In order to qualify as a member of the Seminole Golf the Chrysler Challenge during the spring of 2007. Hall of Fame, Seminole golfers must have either won a PGA Florida State has played in the NCAA Regionals in each or LPGA event, won an NCAA individual championship or of the last four seasons and made eight NCAA appearances won a USGA amateur championship. ■ from 1991- 99 including seven straight from 1991- 97. Florida State played in the NCAA Tournament and made eight re- gional appearances during the decade of the 1990’s. Team & Individual Titles Since 1990 TEAM TITLES FIU-Pat Bradley Invitational ..................................... Fall 1990 Metro Conference Championship .................... Spring 1991 Lady Seminole Invitational ....................................... Fall 1991 Ryder/Florida Championship ............................ Spring 1992 Lady Seminole Invitational ....................................... Fall 1993 Spalding/Peggy Kirk Bell .................................... Spring 1994 Beacon Woods Invitational ...................................... Fall 1994 Lady Gator Invitational........................................ Spring 1995 Ryder/Florida Championship ......................................... 1999 Ryder/Florida Championship ......................................... 2002 Ryder/Florida Championship ......................................... 2003 Ann Rhoads/University of Alabama Intercollegiate .... 2004 Cougar Fall Classic ............................................................ 2006 Chrysler Challenge ........................................................... 2007 INDIVIDUAL TITLES Tiffany Faucette won the Jane Geddes played on Kathy Grant, Metro Conference Championship (Spring 1990) 1997 McDonald’s Open FSU’s 1981 A.I.A.W. National Emma Rundle, Metro Conference Championship (Spring while on the LPGA Tour. Championship team and 1991) has been one of the top Mary Lee Cobick, Beacon Woods Invitational (Fall 1991) pros on the LPGA Tour. Erica Finehaber, Lady Seminole Invitational (Fall 1991) Karen Stupples, Spalding/Peggy Kirk Bell (Spring 1994) Karen Stupples, Lady Gator Invitational (Spring 1995) FLORIDA STATE INDIVIDUALS IN THE Amy Bond, Ryder/Florida Championship (Spring 1998) 1981 A.I.A.W NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Kristin Tamulis, Lady Gator Invitational (Spring 2003) PLAYER 1-2-3-4 TOTAL Kristin Tamulis, Ryder/Florida Championship (Spring 2003) Lisa Young 71-80-71-75 297 Caroline Westrup, Liz Murphy Collegiate Classic (Spring 2006) Barb Bunkowsky 75-78-79-74 306 Caroline Westrup, Lady Tar Heel Invitational (Fall 2006) Jane Geddes 83-75-75-79 311 Caroline Westrup, Chrysler Challenge (Spring 2006) Michele Guibault 83-74-78-80 315 Maria Anderson 78-84-75-83 320 1981 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM The Florida State women’s golf team won the 1981 CURRENT FLORIDA STATE ATHLETIC A.I.A.W. National Championship with a three-stroke victory HALL OF FAME MEMBERS over the University of Georgia. The Seminoles finished the 1949 .................................................... Mary Lena Faulk tournament with a 1,220 four-round score to best the Lady 1978 ...................................................... Colleen Walker Bulldogs who finished the event with a 1,223 score. 1982 ................................................... Barb Bunkowsky Florida State entered the final round of the champi- 1982 .......................................................... Jane Geddes onship with a one-stroke lead over Georgia but had to rally 1982 ............................................... Lisa Young-Walters 37 Florida State Pros & All-Americans COLLEEN LISA YOUNG SEMINOLE PROS WALKER WALTERS The Seminoles’ Most Earned All-America hon- TIFFANY Valuable Player in 1977- ors in 1981...Florida FAUCETTE 78...Walker earned the State’s top golfer during Captain of the Seminole 1988 Vare Trophy for the 1981 A.I.A.W. national Women’s Golf Team lowest scoring average championship season... (1994-97)...runner-up at with a 71.26...in 1988 she finished third in the na- the Canadian Women’s also led the Tour in top- tional championship to Amateur Championship 10 finishes with 18, birdies (325), lead the Seminoles to the three-stroke (1995)...two-time winner rounds under par (55) and rounds in victory over Georgia. of the International the 60s (29)...during the 2001 season Four Ball Championship (1996, 1997) Walker won the Hy-Vee Classic, one of KAREN ...winner of the 1996 LPGA McDonald’s three Women’s Senior Golf Tour events STUPPLES Open Championship. in 2001...the second Seminole golfer to Earned All-America ho- win an LPGA Major Championship with nors in 1995...helped JANE Florida State to regional GEDDES a victory in the 1997 du Maurier Clas- sic. appearances in 1994 and Was a member of the 1996 and into the NCAA Seminoles’ 1981 A.I.A.W LISA YOUNG Championship in 1996... National Champion Wo- WALTERS one of only two players men’s Golf Team...won Third place finisher in in school history to earn All-ACC hon- 11 LPGA events includ- the Seminoles AIAW Na- ors multiple times during her career ing the 1986 U.S. Wo- tional Championship, ...earned All-ACC honors in 1994 and men’s Open and the she finished only one 1995. 1987 Mazda LPGA Championship stroke behind the win- ...three-time assistant captain for the ner...joined the LPGA in KRISTIN U.S. Women’s Solheim Cup Team. 1983. TAMULIS Earned All-America Hon- LEIGH ANN orable Mention honors MILLS SEMINOLE in 2003...led Florida State Earned 15 top-10 indi- to three regional ap- vidual finishes as a ALL-AMERICANS pearances (2001, 2002 member of the Semi- and 2003) and one NCAA nole women’s golf team MICHELLE Championship (2003) ...winner of the 1990 GUIBAULT ...the only Seminole to earn All-ACC Angso Open Champion- Earned A.I.A.W. All- honors three times during her ship in Sweden, the 1990 America honors in lead- career...currently playing on the LPGA Indonesian Open in Asia and the 1991 ing the Seminoles to the Tour. Women’s International Open Champi- national championship onship. in 1981...member of CAROLINE Florida State’s A.I.A.W. WESTRUP KAREN national championship All-America First-Team STUPPLES team and won six individual tourna- and All-ACC in both 2006 Represented Great Brit- ment titles during her career as a Semi- and 2007...the first golf- ain in the 1996 and 1998 nole. er in school history to Curtis Cup competitions earn All-America First- ...also represented En- BARB Team honors twice dur- gland Juniors from 1989- BUNKOWSKY ing her career and the 91 and England Seniors Earned All-America hon- first golfer in school history to earn All- from 1995-98...won the ors in 1982...finished ACC honors during the first two years Weetabix Women’s British Open in 2004 14th in the A.I.A.W. na- of her career...has earned All-ACC hon- where she became only the second tional championship in ors during both her freshman and player in history to record a double- 1981 as the Seminoles sophomore seasons — the first time a eagle at an LPGA major championship won the national cham- Seminole women’s golfer has earned ...became a Rolex First-Time Winner at pionship. all-conference honors during her first the Welch’s/Fry’s Championship two seasons as a collegian...won the where she recorded a career low 63 NADIA individual title at the Women’s World during both the first and last rounds STE-MARIE Earned All-America first- Amateur Championship in South Africa to set an LPGA record for lowest four- in 2006...helped Sweden to a second day raw score total at 258 (-22). team honors in 1989... won five individual tour- place finish in the team standings at the 2006 World Amateur Champion- KRISTIN nament titles and TAMULIS earned 14 top 10 finishes ships. The first three time All- during her collegiate ACC selection in school career...considered to history...advanced to be the most successful women’s the semifinals of the golfer in Seminole history. North/South Amateur Championship in 2003 ... played well on the Fu- tures Tour in 2004 and earned non-ex- empt status on the LPGA Tour in 1995.