{"id":7265,"date":"2019-06-12T09:59:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T13:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/?p=7265"},"modified":"2019-06-12T09:59:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T13:59:29","slug":"sidelines-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/2019\/06\/12\/sidelines-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Women’s Rifle<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

EAGLES WIN SOCON AIR RIFLE CHAMPIONSHIP<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Eagles pulled ahead late to capture the 2019 Southern Conference (SoCon) Air Rifle Championship for the second time in three years. Overall, the team finished fourth in the two-day event that was won by No. 20 UAB. Courtney Weekley posted a 581 in the first air rifle relay. In the second relay, Caroline Brakeville put up a 571 and junior Lydia Odlin posted a 575.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That set the stage for senior Rosemary Kramer who posted a 598 for a school and SoCon record. The four shooters total gave the Eagles a 2,325 team score, topping UAB by four points for the trophy. Post-event, Kramer was named SoCon Air Rifle Athlete of the Year for the second season in a row. With her win, she became the first SoCon individual champion in the school’s rifle history. Weekley and Kramer were both named first-team all-conference in both smallbore and air rifle, and head coach Sandra Worman was named co-coach of the year in the league.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senior markswoman Rosemary Kramer was the first Georgia\nSouthern student-athlete to appear at the NCAA Rifle Championships, which were held in Morgantown, West Virginia, in March. She represented the Eagles in air\nrifle and hit the mark with her performance. She set an NCAA Championship\nrecord in the preliminaries with a 599 (out of 600) and then placed third in\nthe finals to earn a spot on the podium. This was quite an accomplishment for\nKramer and the rifle\nprogram that was started just six years\nago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With\nan average of over 594\non the season, Kramer earned first-team All-America honors, also a first\nfor the program. In addition to the NCAA championship, the markswoman has the\nopportunity this year to qualify for a spot on the U.S. Olympic Air Rifle team to compete in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kramer\u2019s performance has earned her a spot on Team USA for the World University Games in Naples, Italy, in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Soccer<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

POSTSEASON ALL- CONFERENCE HONORS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Senior forward Javier Carbonell was named the 2018 Sun Belt Conference Men’s Soccer Player of the Year, as well as the Offensive Player of the Year. The Madrid, Spain, native is only the fourth Georgia Southern men’s soccer player to earn a league Player of the Year award, which he shared with Appalachian State goalkeeper Jake Chasteen. Carbonell scored 13 goals with three assists for 29 points in 2018, which tied for the conference lead in both goals and points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Women\u2019s Tennis<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

TEAM REACHES SUN BELT CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Georgia Southern women\u2019s tennis squad made it to the finals of the 2019 Sun Belt Conference championships but lost to South Alabama 4-1. This was the team\u2019s first conference tournament final since 1986, and only its second conference tournament final in program history. The eighth-seeded Eagles (14-13) upset top-seeded Appalachian State and fourth-seeded UT Arlington to earn a berth in the final held in Peachtree City, Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Women\u2019s\u00a0 Basketball<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

HEAD COACH ANNOUNCED<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Anita Howard (\u201803) has been named head coach of the women\u2019s basketball team. She served as head coach at Columbus State University for the last three seasons where she led the Cougars to two NCAA Division II Championships appearances and an NCAA Elite Eight appearance in 2016-17.\u00a0 Howard is the eighth head coach in Georgia Southern women’s basketball history and the team\u2019s first African American female head coach. Howard was a standout high school player at A.E. Beach High School in Savannah under the legendary Ronald Booker. She graduated from Armstrong in 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Women\u2019s Golf<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

TEAM FINISHES\nTHIRD AT SUN BELT CHAMPIONSHIP<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Eagles finished in third place at the Sun Belt Championship at the LPGA International Hills Course in Daytona Beach, Florida. Junior Ella Ofstedahl shot a 3-under-par 69 to win medalist honors. She is the first Sun Belt Conference champion in the history of the University\u2019s women’s golf program, which completed its fourth season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Volleyball<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

NEW VOLLEYBALL\nCOACH<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Chad Willis has been named the new volleyball coach at Georgia Southern. He spent the last six seasons as the associate head coach at Appalachian State. \u201cWe are thrilled to be a part of Eagle Nation and will work tirelessly to represent the passion and pride of Georgia Southern University and the Statesboro community,” Willis said when Director of Athletics Tom Kleinlein announced his hiring. Willis is a 2005 graduate of James Madison University. Georgia Southern is set to return 15 letterwinners and five starters to the 2019 team. Willis named Taylor Sherwin and Efrain Negron as assistant coaches. Sherwin spent the last three seasons as an assistant at Appalachian State where she trained the setters and assisted in coordinating the offense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Negron served as the defensive coordinator at Clemson for the last two seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Swimming & Diving<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

SWIMMING & DIVING EARNS CSCAA SCHOLAR ALL-AMERICA TEAM HONORS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The women’s swimming and diving team earned College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Scholar All-America Team honors for the fall 2018 semester. Georgia Southern tied for 23rd among the NCCAA Division I institutions that qualified for the honor. The Eagles\u2019 3.57 GPA was a program best for the fall semester. Georgia Southern has now earned CSCAA Scholar All-America Team honors for five straight semesters, and 12 out of the last 13 semesters dating to 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Men\u2019s Golf<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

STEVEN FISK FINISHES SECOND AT NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Georgia Southern golfer Steven\nFisk capped off his record-breaking career as runner-up in the NCAA Men\u2019s Golf Championships at The Blessings Golf Club in Fayetteville, Arkansas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fisk finished 5-under for the tournament and was second\nto Oklahoma State sophomore Matthew Wolff, who shot 10-under for the\ntournament. Arizona State’s Chun An Yu was third at 3-under. It’s the best\nfinish for an Eagle in program history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s been such a great week to be able to prove to\nmyself that I could do it,” said Fisk. “It’s been a wonderful four\nyears, and I couldn’t have had a better time anywhere else.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The win marked the 13th top-five finish and the 25th top-10 finish for Fisk in his career with\nGeorgia Southern, including nine wins, which surpassed a 38-year school record\nformerly held by Eagle great Jodie Mudd. In addition, Fisk was named Sun Belt\nGolfer of the Year, PING First-Team All-American, and was one of 10\nfinalists for the Fred Haskins Award for the “Most Outstanding\nCollegiate Golfer of the Year” and\nwas a semifinalist for the Jack Nicklaus\nPlayer of the Year Award.\nGeorgia Southern Golf Coach Carter Collins was also named Sun Belt Coach\nof the Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia Southern\u2019s appearance at the NCAA Championships was the first time the men\u2019s golf team has qualified since 2010. The Eagles\ntook fourth place at the NCAA Stanford Golf Regional with a -6 three-day\ntotal to advance with four other teams. Senior Steven Fisk\nand junior Jake Maples\nled the way on the final day, both carding 2 under 68s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the regional, no Eagle golfer shot over 72, the\nonly team in the regional to make that claim. The 834 team total is the lowest\nfor the program in its 15 regional appearances. Overall, this was Georgia\nSouthern’s 15th appearance in the NCAA finals. The NCAA went to a regional\nformat in 1989 and this is the fifth time in program history the Eagles have\nadvanced out of regionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Women’s Rifle EAGLES WIN SOCON AIR RIFLE CHAMPIONSHIP The Eagles pulled ahead late to capture the 2019 Southern Conference (SoCon) Air Rifle Championship for the second time in three years. Overall, the team finished fourth in the two-day event that was won by No. 20 UAB. Courtney Weekley posted a 581 in the first air […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":3148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-7265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-spring-2019"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}