Ferris State's Kelsey McKinley Named To WGCA All-America Scholar Team

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Big Rapids, Mich. - For the second-straight year, Ferris State University women's golfer Kelsey McKinley (Muskegon/Mona Shores) has been named to the Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) All-America Scholar Team.

The announcement was recently made by the national coaches organization. The WGCA All-America Scholar Teams for Division I, II & III were announced with a total of 758 women's collegiate golfers recognized with this prestigious honor. 

The criteria for selection to the All-America Scholar Team are some of the most stringent in all of college athletics. The minimum cumulative GPA is 3.50 over their entire collegiate career and student-athletes must have completed in at least 66 percent of their team's regularly-scheduled competitive rounds during the respective season. They must also be of high moral character and in good academic standing.

A Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) All-Academic Team selection, McKinley previously earned the same distinction for the Bulldogs as a freshman following the 2013-14 season in which she helped FSU to its 13th-straight NCAA Tournament appearance while claiming All-GLIAC accolades in her initial campaign.

This past year, McKinley competed in nine of FSU's 10 tournaments during the 2014-15 season and capped off the year with her best performances in the final month of the season. After leading FSU and placing tied for 32nd at the Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne Spring Classic (April 5-6), she came back to finish tied for 26th with a 171 total at the Tiffin Invitational (April 12-13). 

Finally, McKinley wrapped up her year with a share of 19th place overall in the 2015 GLIAC Championships (April 24-26) in Findlay, Ohio. She carded rounds of 83, 83 and 76 at the league championships as FSU placed fourth overall in the team standings under head coach Mike Mignano. This summer, McKinley was also chosen and competed in the LPGA Collegiate Invitational in late June near Grand Rapids.

The Women's Golf Coaches Association, formerly known as the National Golf Coaches Association (NGCA), began in 1983 as an organization to promote participation in women's collegiate golf. The vision of the WGCA since its inception has been to encourage the playing of intercollegiate golf for women in correlation with a general objective of education and in accordance with the highest tradition of intercollegiate competition.

The WGCA instills within coaches of women's golf a deeper sense of responsibility for the promotion, development, maintenance and conduct of competitive golf for women. Today, the WGCA represents the finest coaches in women's golf with a membership of over 550 coaches of Division I, II & III, NAIA and NJCAA collegiate programs.