Four Tigers named to Women’s Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar Team for 2023-24 season

Four Tigers named to Women’s Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar Team for 2023-24 season

| 2023-24 WGCA All-American Scholar Team release |

SPRINGFIELD — Wittenberg senior Ellen Frame (Mason, Ohio/Mason), sophomores Hillary Humbaugh (Haubstadt, Ind./Gibson Southern) and Izzy Selby (Cincinnati, Ohio/Seton) and freshman Taylor Rausch (Mechanicsburg, Ohio/Mechanicsburg) were named to the Women's Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar Team for the 2023-24 season, the organization announced on Monday.

The 2023-24 WGCA All-American Scholar Team is comprised of 1,497 women's collegiate golfers from 412 programs across the country.

The criteria for selection to the All-American Scholar Team are some of the most stringent in all of college athletics and continue to demonstrate the high-level academic achievements of our players. To be selected, a student-athlete must have an overall cumulative grade point average of 3.50 or higher, be an amateur and on the team's roster through the conclusion of the team's season and have played in 50% of the college's regularly scheduled competitive rounds during the year through the team's conference championship.

Humbaugh and Selby add this honor to their list of accolades from the 2023-24 season, which also includes All-North Coast Athletic Conference, College Sports Communicators Academic All-District and NCAC Academic Honor Roll.

Humbaugh, a mathematics and computer science major, capped her 2023-24 season with a team-best sixth-place finish in the 24-woman field at the NCAC Championships. She led the Tigers with a 78.49-stroke average in 10 events this season while recording eight top-10 finishes, including runner-up showings at the Heidelberg Fall Invitational, Kuhn Memorial Invitational and Franklin Lady Grizzly Spring Invitational.

Selby, a marketing and finance major, tied for 13th place at the NCAC Championships. She ranked second on the team with an 80.68-stroke average in 10 events this season and recorded four top-10 finishes, including tying Humbaugh for second at the Kuhn Memorial Invitational.

Frame, a biology major, earned recognition on the NCAC Academic Honor Roll this season and posted three top-10 finishes highlighted by third-place showings at Weiskopf Memorial and John Carroll Fall Invitational. She ranked third on the team with an 81.33-stroke average in 10 events.

Rausch, an exercise science major, played in eight events in 2023-24 and posted a 94.48-stroke average.

Under head coach David Wetterich, the Tigers won two events and posted four additional top-three finishes during the 2023-24 season, capping the year with a fourth-place showing at the NCAC Championships.