Craig, Dao, Don Named All-American Scholars
June 30, 2020 | Women's Golf
First trio of UGA classmates honored in same year
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ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia's Caroline Craig, Célesté Dao and Caterina Don have been named All-American Scholars by the Women's Golf Coaches Association.
Craig, Dao and Don all were significant contributors to the Bulldogs as freshmen during the 2019-20 season.
Craig, who is from Sautee Nacoochee, Ga., participated in six of seven tournaments in the pandemic-shortened season. She compiled a 74.44 stroke averaged, with three par-or-better rounds a pair of top-10 individual finishes. Craig was named SEC Freshman of the Week after she tied for 10th individually at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate, an event that featured 20 of the nation's top-50 ranked golfers.
Dao, a native of Notre-Dame-de-l'ile-Perrot, Quebec, competed in seven tourneys and finished the season with a 75.15 average and four par-or-better single-round scores. Dao earned medalist honors at The Gold Rush in February, where she shot 7-under 209 to edge Don by a stroke on the individual leaderboard. That score tied the sixth-best 54-hole effort in school history.
Don, who is from Pinerolo, Italy, was named second-team All-America by Golfweek following a stellar first season with the Bulldogs. She led the team in virtually every statistic, including average (72.51), counting percentage (100.0 percent), par-or-better rounds (11), birdies (59), low-18 (6-under 66) and top-10 finishes (4). Don won the individual title at the Minnesota Invitational last September, becoming just the second Georgia golfer to win her collegiate debut and the first to do so in more than two decades.
The criteria for selection to accolade are some of the most stringent in college athletics. The minimum cumulative GPA is 3.50, while the golfer must compete in 50 percent of her team's rounds from the season.
All told, 23 Georgia golfers have been named WGCA All-American Scholars 37 times since the award's inception in 1986. This marks just the third time that Georgia has produced three All-American Scholars in the same year, following 1988 and 1996, and the first time three classmates have received the accolade the same year.
ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia's Caroline Craig, Célesté Dao and Caterina Don have been named All-American Scholars by the Women's Golf Coaches Association.
Craig, Dao and Don all were significant contributors to the Bulldogs as freshmen during the 2019-20 season.
Craig, who is from Sautee Nacoochee, Ga., participated in six of seven tournaments in the pandemic-shortened season. She compiled a 74.44 stroke averaged, with three par-or-better rounds a pair of top-10 individual finishes. Craig was named SEC Freshman of the Week after she tied for 10th individually at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate, an event that featured 20 of the nation's top-50 ranked golfers.
Dao, a native of Notre-Dame-de-l'ile-Perrot, Quebec, competed in seven tourneys and finished the season with a 75.15 average and four par-or-better single-round scores. Dao earned medalist honors at The Gold Rush in February, where she shot 7-under 209 to edge Don by a stroke on the individual leaderboard. That score tied the sixth-best 54-hole effort in school history.
Don, who is from Pinerolo, Italy, was named second-team All-America by Golfweek following a stellar first season with the Bulldogs. She led the team in virtually every statistic, including average (72.51), counting percentage (100.0 percent), par-or-better rounds (11), birdies (59), low-18 (6-under 66) and top-10 finishes (4). Don won the individual title at the Minnesota Invitational last September, becoming just the second Georgia golfer to win her collegiate debut and the first to do so in more than two decades.
The criteria for selection to accolade are some of the most stringent in college athletics. The minimum cumulative GPA is 3.50, while the golfer must compete in 50 percent of her team's rounds from the season.
All told, 23 Georgia golfers have been named WGCA All-American Scholars 37 times since the award's inception in 1986. This marks just the third time that Georgia has produced three All-American Scholars in the same year, following 1988 and 1996, and the first time three classmates have received the accolade the same year.
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