Charleston, UNCW Collect Major Award Honors for 2022-23 CAA Women’s Golf Season
Miles McQuiggan
RICHMOND, Va. (May 2, 2023) – CAA Champion Charleston captured two of three major awards and four all-conference selections as part of 2022-23 CAA Women’s Golf annual awards voted on by the league’s nine head coaches and announced Tuesday.
Charleston sophomore
Emma Schimpf was voted by the league’s coaches as CAA Golfer of the Year, while UNCW sophomore
Victoria Levy collected Rookie of the Year honors in her first season of collegiate competition. Charleston’s
Jamie Futrell repeated as CAA Coach of the Year after leading the Cougars to back-to-back CAA titles.
Schimpf is Charleston’s sixth CAA Golfer of the Year since CofC joined the league in 2013-14. The sophomore from South Carolina followed a runner-up performance at last year’s CAA Championship with a 3-under showing to win medalist honors by five shots this April at St. James. The individual title was one of three on the year for Schimpf, who won the Evie Odom Invitational and Edisto Island Invitational in October to contribute to seven top-10 finishes entering NCAA Regionals.
Schimpf is the sixth CAA Rookie of the Year recipient to earn Golfer of the Year honors in their career, joining teammate
Viktoria Hund (2022), Charleston’s Laura Fuenfstueck (2014-15, 17), Georgia State’s Charlotte Lorentzen (2010-12) and Iliska Verwey (2008), and UNCW’s Carmen Perez-Narbon (2007, 2009).
Levy notched four top-10 finishes in her first season of collegiate competition after transferring into Wilmington in the offseason. The Swiss sophomore carded 10 rounds of par or better for UNCW and followed a season-best third-place result at the Dr. Donnis Thompson Invitational with a fourth-place finish at the River Landing Classic. Levy, who tied for 10
th at the CAA Championship, is UNCW’s sixth Rookie of the Year and first since teammate
Phu Khine in 2019.
Futrell is CAA Coach of the Year for the fifth time and second consecutive after helping lead Charleston to its fifth title in the last nine tournaments. The Cougars have been consistently ranked in the top 50 in the GolfStat rankings and climbed to as high as No. 15 in the GolfWeek media poll. Charleston will compete in the NCAA Athens Regional next week.
Charleston earned three of six spots on the All-CAA First Team with Schimpf and Hund joined by freshman
Adrian Anderson. UNCW’s
Mallory Fobes, who qualified as an NCAA Regional individual competitor in Raleigh next week, also made the list along with Delaware’s
Anna Kittelson and Elon’s
Annabelle Ackroyd.
UNCW collected two of five second-team spots with Khine and Levy making the list along with Charleston’s
Othilie Lied, Delaware’s
Christina Carroll, and William & Mary’s
Sarah Houle.
First Team
| Name |
School |
Yr. |
Hometown |
| Annabelle Ackroyd |
Elon |
Sr. |
Calgary, Alberta |
| Adrian Anderson |
Charleston |
Fr. |
Murrells Inlet, S.C. |
| Mallory Fobes |
UNCW |
Sr. |
East Bend, N.C. |
| Anna Kittelson |
Delaware |
Gr. |
Boise, Idaho |
| Viktoria Hund |
Charleston |
Jr. |
Bremen, Germany |
| Emma Schimpf |
Charleston |
So. |
Daniel Island, S.C. |
Second Team
| Name |
School |
Yr. |
Hometown |
| Christina Carroll |
Delaware |
Jr. |
Bear, Del. |
| Sarah Houle |
William & Mary |
Gr. |
Sandy Hook, Conn. |
| Phu Khine |
UNCW |
Gr. |
Yangon, Myanmar |
| Victoria Levy |
UNCW |
So. |
Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Othilie Lied |
Charleston |
Jr. |
Bergen, Norway |
2023 CAA Golfer of the Year: Emma Schimpf, Charleston
2023 CAA Rookie of the Year: Victoria Levy, UNCW
2023 CAA Coach of the Year: Jamie Futrell, Charleston
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