Women's Golf

MIAC announces 2024-25 Women’s Golf awards

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – The Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) announced its award recipients for the 2024-25 women's golf season on Monday.

St. Catherine University swept the individual awards. St. Kate's senior Kyra Venne was selected as the Women's Golf Player of the Year, first-year Caylin Cantwell was named Women's Golf Rookie of the Year, and head coach Mary Giorgi was recognized as Coach of the Year.

Venne (Woodbury, Minn. | East Ridge) was voted Women's Golf Player of the Year after leading all conference players with a scoring average of 73.6 shots per round in 2024-25. Venne competed in ten events for the Wildcats and finished among the top ten competitors at nine of them, among the top five in eight, and earned medalist honors at five tournaments. Venne - who also won MIAC Women's Golf Player of the Year honors in 2023 - is now the sixth woman in recorded MIAC history to win the award twice and only the second to do so non-consecutively, joining 2017 and 2020 recipient Alyssa Akiyama.

Cantwell (Blaine, Minn. | Totino-Grace) received MIAC Women's Golf Rookie of the Year honors after leading all first-year players with a scoring average of 78.6 in 2024-25. Cantwell finished among the top ten competitors at three tournaments during her debut season, with two of them coming in the last month of the regular season. She is the fourth Wildcat in the last five seasons to be named MIAC Rookie of the Year in women's golf.

Giorgi (tenth season) was celebrated by her peers with MIAC Women's Golf Coach of the Year honors for the fourth time in her career and the second consecutive season. Giorgi's Wildcats won the conference championship for the fourth time in five seasons, punching a ticket to the 2025 NCAA Division III Women's Golf Championships. St. Catherine led the MIAC in rounds played (24), scoring average (301.2), and All-Conference honorees (6) under Giorgi's guidance in 2024-25. Giorgi is one of three MIAC women's golf coaches to be honored with the Coach of the Year distinction at least four times since the turn of the century.

The MIAC Women's Golf All-Conference team was selected using a combination of MIAC championship results and end-of-season voting. The top 10 finishers (including ties) at the MIAC Championship last fall automatically earned All-MIAC honors, and coaches nominated and voted on five additional players to the All-MIAC squad based on their body of work throughout the season. The conference also recognized honorable mention selections, bestowing the accolade upon any individual who did not place among the top five vote-getters but still received votes from at least three coaches.

Bethel's Greta McArthur and St. Catherine's Kyra Venne became All-MIAC honorees for the fourth time, a feat achieved by just 24 women's golfers in conference history. Four golfers - Carleton's Cynthia Lu and Carter Sichol, Macalester's Bailey Lengfelder, and St. Catherine's Morgan Anderson - earned their third All-Conference nod.

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