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2 0 0 7 - 0 8 M i c h i g a n S t a t e W o m e n ’ s G o l f Roster 8 NCAA C hampionships App earances • 9 NCAA Regional App earances 2007 Roster Pronunciation Guide Name Class Hometown/High School Michelle Bowles Fr./Fr. Oro, Mexico/John F. Kennedy Natalie Brehm So./Fr. Mt. Pleasant, Mich./Mt. Pleasant Sara Brown Sr./Sr. Tucson, Ariz./Salpointe Catholic Michelle Caporusso Fr./Fr. Mount Prospect, Ill./Prospect Ashley Dewling Jr./So. Brighton, Mich./Brighton Jen Domagalski Jr./So. Okemos, Mich./Okemos Laura Kueny So./So. Whitehall, Mich./Whitehall Ashley Lance Fr./Fr. Franklin, Tenn./Franklin Road Academy Vanessa Leon Fr./Fr. Brampton, Ontaro/Notre Dame S.S. Aimee Neff Fr./Fr. Carmel, Ind./Brebeuf Jesuit Holly Niederkohr Jr./Jr. Marysville, Ohio/Marysville Sarah Nirenberg So./Fr. West Bloomfield, Mich./Cranbrook Kingswood Jordyn Wells Sr./Sr. Bethel Park, Pa./Bethel Park Head Coach: Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll (Michigan State ’94, 11th season) Assistant Coach: Lorne Don (Michigan State ’04, 5th season) The Tradition Continues... Success On The Course Two For The Price Of One Michigan State became just the third school to have both the men’s and women’s golf teams win the Big Ten Championship in the same year when both programs won the championship in 2007. Only Ohio State, which did it six times, and Indiana, in 1996, have accomplished the feat. While the women’s team won the Big Ten title by 13 strokes, the men’s squad tied for the title with Minnesota. Below is a look at the school’s that have won both the men’s and women’s golf championships in the same season. 1983 – Ohio State 1984 – Ohio State 1985 – Ohio State 1988 – Ohio State 1996 – Indiana 1997 – Ohio State 2004 – Ohio State 2007 – Michigan State Among The Nation’s Best Michigan State has been among the nation’s elite programs since the turn of the millennium under the guidance of head coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll. The Spartans have finished in the top 25 in the Golfweek/Sagarin rankings in six of eight years since 2000. The team has reached as high as 14th in the final 2002 Golfweek rankings. The team has also stayed inside Golfstat.com’s team rankings in each of the last four years. Below is a look at Michigan State in the final rankings since 2000: Year Golfweek NGCA Golfstat Mastercard 2000 19 - - 21 2001 19 - - 16 2002 14 - - - 2003 36 - - - 2004 19 - 21 - 2005 37 - 29 - 2006 24 24 25 - 2007 19 21 22 - Kristen Polanski earned the 2007 MSU President’s Award - given to the top graduating male and female - for her 3.97 GPA as a finance major. Sara Brown earned the MSU George Alderton Female Athlete of the Year award in 2007. Michelle Bowles.......................................................... Bowls Jen Domagalski.....................................dom-uh-GAL-Ski Laura Kueny............................................................CUE-nee Holly Niederkohr.....................................KNEE-der-CORE Sarah Nirenberg....................................NEAR-ehn-BURG Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll..................SLOW-bod-NICK-stoll Spartans By Class Freshmen................................................................................5 (Bowles, Caporusso, Lance, Leon, Neff) Redshirt Freshmen..............................................................2 (Brehm, Nirenberg) Sophomores..........................................................................1 (Kueny) Redshirt Sophomores.........................................................2 (Dewling, Domagalski) Juniors......................................................................................1 (Niederkohr) Seniors.....................................................................................2 (Brown, Wells) Success In Class Nearly Perfect Kristen Polanski received the Presidents Award - which is given to the top graduating female athlete at Michigan State - at the Student-Athlete Support Services 10th Annual Awards Banquet on April 9. A finance major, Polanski posted a 3.97015 grade point average as a finance major. She also capped off the year by earning her second Big Ten Sportsmanship award after posting a 79.89 scoring average in nine rounds. Polanski played 32 rounds in her collegiate career, finishing a careerhigh sixth at the Mary Fossum Invitational in 2004. Polanski was one of five Spartans to earn Academic All-Big Ten honors, along with senior Heather Rose, juniors Sara Brown and Jordyn Wells and sophomore Holly Niederkohr. Only seven Spartans were eligible for the award. In the past two seasons, the Spartans have earned 13 Academic All-Big Ten awards. Rose Gets Third NGCA Scholar-Athlete Award Senior Heather Rose became the fourth player in school history to earn three NGCA Scholar- Athlete awards, as she finished her career having played a school-record 148 rounds and with a degree in marketing. Rose joined the trio of Ann Marie Kerstan (2002- 04), Ellen Bishop (1997-99) and Meggan Schumaker (1997-99), as the only women’s golfers to earn the national award in each of her eligible years at Michigan State. To be eligible for the NGCA award, an athlete must have an overall grade point average of 3.50 or higher (on a 4.00 scale) for the entirety of their collegiate career, be of high moral character and have played in 60% of the college’s regularly scheduled competitive rounds during the year nominated. During head coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll’s 10 years at the helm of the Spartans, Michigan State has earned 17 Scholar-Athlete Awards from the NGCA and she has coached all four players who have earned the award three times. M i c h i g a n S t a t e S p a r t a n s • w w w . m s u s p a r t a n s . c o m
2 0 0 7 - 0 8 M i c h i g a n S t a t e W o m e n ’ s G o l f Head Coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll STACY slobodnik-stoll Michigan State ’94 • 11th Year 2001, 2007 Big ten coach of the year 1999 Midwest district coach of the year 2002 team usa coach (usa vs. japan match) As she enters her 11th season at the helm, Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll continues to carry the Spartan women’s golf program into the regional and national spotlight year after year. The driven former Spartan player was named head coach on June 20, 1997, and immediately began assembling the talent necessary to contend for Big Ten Championships and compete at the national level on a yearly basis. In 10 seasons, she has led the Spartans to nine straight NCAA regional appearances, (1999-2007), six treks to the NCAA Championships, (2000, ‘01, ‘02, ‘03, ‘05. ‘07) and two Big Ten titles (2001, 2007). In addition, MSU has won 19 tournaments during this span, including four during the 2000-01 season and three in 1998-99, 2001-02 and 2003-04. “I believe that each year it is my responsibility to improve as a recruiter, a teacher, a sports psychologist, a motivator and a leader,” said Slobodnik-Stoll. “We must keep up and be on the cutting edge for our student-athletes and our program. Once you have tasted victory, it’s hard to forget. It only drives me to work harder to make sure that each year we will have an opportunity to win the Big Ten Championship and finish as one of the top programs in the country. “Those rushes that you have as a coach and as a player — holding the trophy, seeing the Academic All-American awards given out — those moments are unforgettable. It drives you and the players to become better and better.” Over the last nine years, Slobodnik-Stoll’s players have earned All-Big Ten honors 19 times, including three Spartans in 2004 (Allison Fouch - first team and Ann Marie Kersten and Sarah Martin - second team) and 2007 (Sara Brown - first team and Mandi McConnell and Rachel Meikle - second team). In 2002, Emily Bastel became the first Spartan golfer to receive Big Ten Women’s Golf Athlete of the Year honors. In addition, a Spartan player took home Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors in 1998 (Kasey Gant), 1999 (Bastel) and 2003 (Dayna Burleigh). In 2001, Gant became the first Spartan golfer to earn All-Big Ten honors in fourconsecutive years, while Bastel became the second to achieve the feat. Individual accolades for Slobodnik-Stoll’s players keep growing year by year. Bastel became just the second MSU golfer to be named to the Curtis Cup team in 2002, while Allison Fouch qualified for the 2003 U.S. Women’s Open Championship as an amateur. Bastel and Fouch also earned All-America honors under Slobodnik-Stoll, as Bastel received second-team distinction in 2002 and Fouch earned honorable mention status in 2004. Slobodnik-Stoll’s players have also gone beyond the college ranks. Stacy Snider competed on the LPGA Tour from 2004-06 and Bastel completed her rookie year on the LPGA Tour in 2005 and is currently on the FUTURES Tour. Fouch is a member of the FUTURES Tour and has conditional status on the LPGA Tour. The 2007 Spartans were ranked among the nation’s top 25 throughout the season, achieving a final ranking of 19th after a 16th-place finish at the NCAA Championships. The team posted wins on their home course, Forest Akers West Golf Course, in the Lady Northern and the Big Ten Championships, and finished in second place four times. Two individuals won medallist honors, with Sara Brown winning the Landfall Tradition and Rachel Meikle winning the Big Ten Championship - the second time an MSU golfer has won the tournament under Slobodnik-Stoll. In the process, Slobodnik-Stoll earned her second Big Ten Conference Coach of the Year award. The 2006 edition of Michigan State women’s golf was also one of the most exciting teams in school history. The Spartans opened the season by not only winning the Mary Fossum Invitational (Sept. 17-18) but setting a tournament record with a three-day team total of 889 (299-295-295). Later in the season at the Northwestern Invitational (April 3-4), MSU had their best scoring weekend in school history. The Spartans had a school-record three-day team total of 864 (286-286-292) and Rachel Meikle set a school individual record for a 54-hole tournament with a score of 6-under-par 210 (70-70-70). A youthful squad in 2004-05, State did not have a single senior as a member of the traveling party, yet advanced to the NCAA Championships for the fifth time in six years en route to a 17th-place finish that season. In addition to the NCAA Slobodnik-Stoll Year-By-Year Big Ten NCAA NCAA Year Tourn. Wins Top 5 Top 10 Champ. Regs. Champ. 1997-98 12 0 5 10 9th - - 1998-99 12 3 11 11 3rd 11th - 1999-2000 13 2 9 11 2nd 6th T-20th 2000-01 13 4 10 11 1st 3rd 12th 2001-02 13 3 9 12 4th 8th 18th 2002-03 11 0 1 9 5th 17th - 2003-04 12 3 9 11 3rd 3rd 24th 2004-05 12 1 4 8 3rd 7th 17th 2005-06 11 1 5 10 3rd 9th - 2006-07 13 2 9 10 1st 8th 16th Totals 122 19 72 103 8 Big Ten C hampionships • 34 All-Big Ten S elections M i c h i g a n S t a t e S p a r t a n s • w w w . m s u s p a r t a n s . c o m
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