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Table of Contents Quick Facts Fall Review/Spring Preview ...........................................2-4 Location .................................................Atlanta, Ga. Coaching Staff ............................................................. 5-7 Founded ...........................................................1913 Head Coach Cathy Mant ..............................................5-6 Enrollment .....................................................30,000 Assistant Coach Jackie Szymoniak ................................ 7 Nickname ................................................... Panthers Support Staff ..................................................................... 7 Colors ..................................................Blue & White President Dr. Mark P. Becker ............................................ 8 Affi liation .........................................NCAA Division I Director of Athletics Cheryl L. Levick ................................ 9 Conference ..................Colonial Athletic Association Student-Athlete Biographies ..................................10-19 Home Field ............ Panthersville Athletics Complex Nicole Loesch .......................................................... 10-11 President ....................................Dr. Mark P. Becker Cathrine Madsen ......................................................12-13 Athletics Director ............................ Cheryl L. Levick Sandra Maier ...........................................................14-15 Senior Woman Administrator ............Gail Barksdale Cherishton Brett ............................................................16 Iliska Verwey .................................................................17 Program Information Charlotte Lorentzen ...................................................... 18 Head Coach ............................................ Cathy Mant Ellie Robinson ...............................................................19 (10th season, Arizona State) Fall 2009 Results ............................................................20 Phone ...................................................404.413.4066 2008-09 Results ............................................................. 21 Fax .......................................................404.413.4001 2008-09 In Review..................................................... 22-23 E-mail [email protected] John Kirk/Panther Intercollegiate .......................... 24-26 Assistant Coach ............................Jackie Szymoniak 2009 Results .................................................................24 Phone ...................................................404.413.4066 Tournament History .......................................................25 E-mail ............................... [email protected] Individual Records ........................................................ 26 Home Course ............. Eagle’s Landing Country Club All-Time Letterwinners ....................................................26 Stockbridge, Ga. Honors and Awards ........................................................ 27 Holes/Par/Yardage ..................................27/72/6,100 Records ..................................................................... 28-31 Individual NCAA Championship Appearances .........1 All-Time Results ........................................................ 32-33 (2006) Traveling with the Panthers .......................................34-35 Team NCAA Regional Appearances ........................5 CAA 25th Anniversary Team ......................................36-37 (2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009) Georgia State Facilities ............................................. 38-39 Team Conference Championships ...........................4 Georgia State University............................................ 40-41 (2003, 2005, 2006, 2009) Georgia State Campus ..............................................42-43 Individual Conference Championships .....................5 Campus Housing .......................................................44-45 (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008) City of Atlanta ............................................................ 46-47 2008-09 Record ..........................................127-19-0 Academics ...................................................................... 48 2008-09 Conference Finish ..................................1st Starters Returning/Lost .........................................4/1 Cavan Fosnes Letterwinners Returning/Lost ................................5/2 Women’s Golf SID Newcomers ..............................................................1 Cavan Fosnes is in his second year as an employee of the sports communications Sports Information Offi ce offi ce and graduate student at Georgia State. He serves as the primary contact for women’s Associate A.D. of Comm. .................. Allison George soccer and men’s and women’s golf. George’s Phone ..................................404.413.4032 Fosnes has previously worked for the George’s E-Mail [email protected] sports information departments of Vanderbilt and Emory Women’s Soccer Contact ................. Cavan Fosnes University. In addition, Fosnes has written for the Robertson Fosnes’s E-Mail [email protected] County Times and the Emory Wheel. Fosnes attended Oxford Fosnes’s Phone ..................................404.413.4034 College of Emory University, where he lettered in basketball, Fax ......................................................404.413.4035 before continuing to Emory. A native of Springfi eld, Tenn., Web Site ...........................GeorgiaStateSports.com Fosnes graduated in 2007 from Emory University with a BA in Address .................... 125 Decatur Street, Suite 130 Creative Writing/English and is in his second year of graduate studies in sports administration. ...................................................Atlanta, Ga. 30303 1 Georgia State women’s golf entered 2009-10 looking to estab- fi ner points of her game. I look for Nicole to step in and be lish a presence on the national stage with their fi rst trip, as a an impact player this year.” team, to the NCAA Championship. Juniors Iliska Verwey, Cherishton Brett, and sophomore “Our goal is to win the CAA championship again and make the Charlotte Lorentzen also returned for the 2009-10 season. NCAA Regionals,” said head coach Cathy Mant. “Our season- Brett redshirted during the 2008-09 season. long goal, again this year, is to qualify for the national champi- onship and make an impact, fi nishing within the top-15.” Verwey has piled together an amazing resume in two years with the Panthers. Verwey is a two-time 1st team All-CAA The Panthers returned four starters from a year ago and added honoree, has won four career tournaments, was named con- freshman Ellie Robinson from England. ference player of the year and rookie of the year during her freshman season, and earned a National Player of the Week “We have two people to replace with one, after graduating in 2008. Claire and Anna. Both were real contributors to our team that we’ll miss dearly,” said Mant. “With that said, we brought in an Lorentzen joined the Panthers in January last season and English girl, Ellie Robinson, who was on the practice squad for made her presence felt immediately. In her fi rst fi ve career the national team, which means she’s one of the top-seven play- events, Lorentzen did not fi nish outside the top-25. The So- ers that they have listed in their country. She’s going to make an roe, Denmark native fi nished a career-best second at the Sun- impact. She qualifi ed for the fi rst two events and got the chance Trust Lady Gator Invitational last year and led the Panthers to test the waters right away.” with a 20th place fi nish at the NCAA Central Regional. Seniors Cathrine Madsen, Sandra Maier, and Nicole Loesch Georgia State started the year with an opportunity to take stepped into expanded roles as team leaders. on the nation’s best at a pair of new stops for the Panthers. The season kicked off with a fi rst-time visit to the Hooters “Cathrine has elevated her game in the last two years, and Women’s Collegiate Match Play Championship in Daytona I think we’ll rely on her quite heavily this year,” said Mant. Beach, Fla. before traveling to Las Vegas for the Golfweek “Sandy is Ms. Consistent. She’s the best putter on the team, by Conference Challenge. far. She goes about her business quietly and keeps posting great scores.” In Daytona Beach, the Panthers played 36 holes of stroke play to qualify as the 13-seed for the match play bracket. “Nicole is probably the most talented athlete that we have on Sophomore Charlotte Lorentzen led Georgia State with a our team. She bombs the ball. She’s been recorded as hitting the 29th place fi nish overall. ball 294 yards in competition. We’re working on some of the Name Ht. Cl. Hometown/High School Cherishton Brett 5-4 Jr. Stockbridge, Ga./New Creation Center Nicole Loesch 5-8 Sr. Villiersdorp, South Africa/De Villiers Graaff Charlotte Lorentzen 5-6 So. Soroe, Denmark/Soroe Akademi Cathrine Madsen 5-6 Sr. Herning, Denmark/Ikast Gymnasium Sandra Maier 5-4 Sr. Grossbottwar, Germany/Mathilde-Plack-Gym. Fall Review/Spring Preview Ellie Robinson 5-11 Fr. Middlesbrough, England/Nunthorpe Senior School Iliska Verwey 5-2 Jr. Cradock, South Africa/Cradock High School Head Coach: Cathy Mant (10th year, Arizona State) PPronunciationsronunciations Assistant Coach: Jackie