MWC Champion Frogs Prominent On All-Conference Team
4/17/2011 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
April 17, 2011
LITCHFIELD PARK, Ariz. -- Three Horned Frogs were named All-Mountain West Conference, while TCU's Angie Ravaioli-Larkin was tabbed the league's Coach of the Year for the second straight season.
Brooke Beeler, Melissa Loh and Sanna Nuutinen represented the MWC champion Horned Frogs on the All-MWC team. It's the third straight year TCU has led the league with the most All-MWC selections. Nuutinen was announced Thursday as the MWC Freshman of the Year.
It's the fourth time in the last five years and fifth time in seven campaigns that TCU has had three all-conference golfers in the same season.
Ravaioli-Larkin has now produced 30 all-conference selections in her 17-year tenure as head coach. She received her fourth conference coach of the year honor from three different leagues. In addition to last season, she was previously the 1996 Southwest Conference Coach of the Year and the 1998 Western Athletic Conference Coach of the Year.
The Horned Frogs have captured four conference championships under Ravaioli-Larkin.
By winning the Alamo Invitational and Mountain West Conference Championship, TCU has two tournament titles in the same season for the first time since 1997-98. The Horned Frogs will be making their 16th-consecutive postseason appearance when NCAA Regional play begins May 5.
Beeler, the nation's 57th-ranked player, is All-MWC for the second straight season. The junior from Butler, Ill., tops TCU while placing second in the MWC with a 73.7 stroke average.
Beeler won the Alamo Invitational while taking runner-up honors at the Windy City Collegiate Classic and Central District Invitational. She's recorded six top-20 results in 10 tournaments, including four top-10 efforts. She's been TCU's top finisher in five of this season's 10 tournaments.
Loh, a senior from Singapore, received her first All-MWC selection. She has lowered her stroke average for the third straight year. Her career-best 75.6 mark ranks seventh in the MWC.
A Phi Beta Kappa student who's also a National Strength and Conditioning Association All-American, Loh tied for seventh at the MWC Championships with a 2-over-par 218.
Nuutinen is the second TCU freshman in the last three seasons to be named All-MWC. The Helsinki, Finland, native is ninth in the league with a 75.7 stroke average.
Nuutinen carded a final round 1-under-par 71 at the MWC Championships. She tied for 15th to record her third top-20 finish of the season.
