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Kayla Holden finishes fifth at Tar Heel Invitational

Lady Vols’ Kayla Holden finishes fifth at Tar Heel Invitational.

The Lady Vols’ golf team finished 12th at the Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitational, which concluded Tuesday at International Club in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Tennessee finished +12 (876). Lady Vols’ senior Kayla Holden finished fifth in the individual season, recording a career-low 210, -6-under par, and scored a 69 in the final round.

The course is a par-70.

Individual scores:

5. Kayla Holden, -6 (74+67+69=210)
T12. Manassanan Chotikabhukkana, E (72+74+70=216)
T29. Martina Lopez-Lanchares, +6 (80+69+73=222)*
T49. Vanessa Gilly, +11 (76+75+76=227)
T49. Bailey Davis, +11 (79+72+75=227)
T60. Angela Arora, +13 (75+75+79=229)

*competed as an individual

Team leaderboard:

1. Florida, -16 (280+282+286=848)
2. Auburn, -8 (291+284+281=856)
3. North Carolina, +6 (298+285+287=870)
4. Michigan State, +7 (294+284+293=871)
5. Kentucky, +10 (291+297+286=874)
6. Michigan, +11 (297+294+284=875)
7. Tennessee, +12 (297+288+291=876)
8. Virginia Tech, +17 (303+287+291=881)
9. Florida State, +19 (291+293+299=883)
10. North Carolina State, +28 (305+287+300=892)
11. Campbell, +32 (297+298+301=896)
12. Baylor, +35 (299+304+296=899)
13. Miami, +39 (303+295+305=903)
14. Rollins College, +45 (305+301+303=909)

Three Lady Vols earn academic honors from WGCA

Three Lady Vols earn academic honors from WGCA.

Three Tennessee women’s golfers, Angela Arora, Kayla Holden and Vanessa Gilly, were named All-American Scholars by the Women’s Golf Coaches Association.

Holden and Gilly earned academic honors for a third time, while Arora was recognized for the first time.

The 2022-23 season marks the eighth consecutive year in which three or more Tennessee student-athletes were named All-American Scholars by the WGCA. Tennessee had a record-setting five student-athletes earning academic honors in 2020-21.

A student athlete must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.50 or higher to be selected. A student-athlete must have competed in at least 50 percent of her team’s competition, and through the institution’s conference championship.

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UT News: November 15, 2019

It is finally Friday, and a slow one at that, as the Tennessee Volunteers football team head into a bye weekend before embarking to Columbia, Mo. to face the Missouri Tigers. In the meantime, the Lady Vols basketball team trounced Tennessee State last night, while the men gear up to take on the No. 20-ranked Washington Huskies on Saturday. But Tennessee athletics is more than just the major sports, and the others are the focus of today’s UT News.

Men’s golf team signs two

Tennessee men’s golf coach Brennan Webb announced the signing of two players to the team on Thursday.

Jackson Skeen, a Jonesboro, Tenn. native, is a top-150 ranked player in the 2020 class according to Junior Golf Scoreboard. He had a successful amateur career so far, including the 2018 TSSAA Class AAA Individual Championship as well as All-State honors in 2016 and 2018.

“Jackson (Skeen) has had a very successful career competing at the highest levels of junior golf and we are thrilled to add another Tennessee junior golfer to our roster,” Coach Webb said.

George Saunders comes from across the pond in Southampton, England, arriving in Knoxville after back-to-back top-20 finishes at the English Men’s Amateur. His addition to the program follows a long lineage of Vol golfers who hail from the UK.

“George will bring a wealth of experience to our roster, which will be important as we will lose eight upperclassmen in the next two years,” Coach Webb said. “He has had a tremendous amount of success in amateur golf around the world, as well as college golf the last two years at Midland.”

The two are promising additions to a storied program and will get their chance to contribute next season.

NEXT: Women’s golf also announces two signings

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