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TUNICA, Miss. - On Sunday, the Ohio Valley Conference announced the winners of the All-OVC and OVC All-Newcomer awards for the 2023-24 women's golf season.
In addition Little Rock's
Eleonore Aernouts was named the OVC Freshman of the Year.
The awards were announced at a banquet following the first round of play at the 2024 OVC Championship which is being held at Tunica National in Tunica, Mississippi. Play continues Monday.
The OVC Player and Coach of the Year awards will be announced following Tuesday's final round.
Aernouts was the top ranked OVC freshman in the Clippd National Rankings (659) entering the Championship. She was twice named OVC Player of the Week, doing so after going a perfect 3-0 at the Great River Cup match play event and in March after finished 13th in the weather-shortened Georgia State Invitational. Aernouts also took third place at the Jackrabbit Invitational in March, helping her team to a second-place finish. She closed out the regular season with an even-par seventh place finish at ULM. Her 74.3 stroke average ranks fourth in the OVC. She is the first Little Rock player to earn this award (the Trojans joined the OVC prior to the 2022-23 season).
The All-OVC Team included a graduate student, four seniors, two juniors, two sophomores and two freshmen. Overall the team included 11 players due a tie. The team included two individuals who were All-OVC selections each of the past three years in Morehead State’s
Olivia Hensley and
MacKenzie Neal, while Little Rock's
Anna Dawson and
Agatha Alesson and Tennessee Tech's
Ainsley Simms were repeat selections.
The All-OVC team also included Aernouts, Morehead State's
MacKenzie Moore and
Amelia Rae Greenlee, Tennessee Tech's
Chloe Griffith and
Gittle Sciolis and Tennessee State's
Erin Marcelino.
Aernouts, Moore, Griffith and Greenlee were four of the six selections to the All-Newcomer Team. They were joined by Little Rock's
Fehild Graesel and Morehead State's
Isabella Wiley.
2023-24 OVC Women’s Golf Awards
2023-24 OVC Freshman of the Year: Eleonore Aernouts, Little Rock
2023-24 Player & Coach of the Year: To Be Announced After Tuesday's Final Round
2023-24 All-OVC Women’s Golf Team
MacKenzie Moore, Morehead State
Anna Dawson, Little Rock
Agatha Alesson, Little Rock
Olivia Hensley, Morehead State
MacKenzie Neal, Morehead State
Eleonore Aernouts, Little Rock
Chloe Griffith, Tennessee Tech
Ainsley Simms, Tennessee Tech
Amelia Rae Greenlee, Morehead State
Gittle Sciolis, Tennessee Tech
Erin Marcelino, Tennessee State
2023-24 OVC All-Newcomer Team
MacKenzie Moore, Morehead State
Eleonore Aernouts, Little Rock
Chloe Griffith, Tennessee Tech
Amelia Rae Greenlee, Morehead State
Fehild Graesel, Little Rock
Isabella Wiley, Morehead State
All-OVC and All-Newcomer each included an extra individual due to ties in voting.