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GCU reaps conference honors for golf, cross-country
Local Valley grads have picked up some impressive honors at Grand Canyon University, one on his way out and the other on her way up. Terence Daniels, who was the state champion in 2005 at Desert Mountain High School in Scottsdale, was named PacWest Conference Golfer of the Year for his senior year at GCU. Joy Hulsey, [...] -
GCU women’s No.12 golf team sets sights higher in 2011
The Grand Canyon University women’s golf team narrowly missed cracking the Top 10 last season. The Antelopes finished 12th in the nation and sent its first player ever to the NCAA championships. But the coming season may find them moving up the ladder, as a strong recruiting class arrives at the west Phoenix campus. Tiffany Hewetson will [...] -
Ward leads field of ASU golfers at U.S. Women’s Open
Wendy Ward is setting the pace for a group of former ASU golfers, as the first day of competition concluded at the U.S. Women’s Open at the fabled Oakmont Country Club. Ward, a two-time Pac-10 champion and three-time All-American during her career at ASU, shot a 1-over round of 72 to put her in early contention. [...] -
Freshman of the Year says she’s done with ASU golf
One of Arizona State’s rising young golf stars has decided she has accomplished enough in one year to be able to move on to the next level. Jennifer Johnson’s star shot across the desert sky, lighting up the Sun Devils’ women’s golf program by earning Freshman of the Year honors and finishing runner-up in the 2010 [...] -
GCU basketball player scores rare double honor
You could see it coming. Samantha Murphy began showing signs of the basketball success that was to come way back in her freshman year at Xavier Prep in Phoenix. The 5′8″ guard, who just wrapped up her junior year at Grand Canyon University on the west side of Phoenix, has been honored in a way most [...] -
Three bogeys derail ASU golfer’s shot at national title
It was pretty heady stuff for a freshman in college as a gallery of onlookers followed Jennifer Johnson around the Country Club of Landfall course in North Carolina. They wanted to see if the young golfer could hold on for the last 18 of 72 holes to win the NCAA Div. I Women’s Golf Championship. For [...] -
AZ golfers play through Carolina weather at NCAA tourney
A couple of youngsters played their way through heavy rain, strong winds, and lightning to keep their Arizona colleges in the hunt for the women’s NCAA golf championship. Jennifer Johnson, a freshman at Arizona State, sits atop the leader board at 7-under 137 after two rounds at the national event in Wilmington, N.C. And her team [...] -
High winds, low scores carry Scotts Christian to golf title
Strong winds offered just one more obstacle to unseating defending champion Scottsdale Christian Academy in the 1A/2A state golf championships. Desert Christian HS (Tucson), in second place after Monday’s round, had to deal with an eight-stroke lead by SCA going into yesterday’s final round. Desert Christian cut four strokes off the lead, but it wasn’t quite [...] -
Local high school athletes finding their way back home
Grand Canyon University is stocking up again on local athletes, but most of them are finding their way back to the Phoenix school after starting their college careers elsewhere. GCU is looking for athletes to help start a new track and field program at the school. The program’s first coach, Tom Flood, feels he found a [...] -
Pac-10 women’s golf titles stay in AZ – at different schools
The rain and chilly weather in Washington wasn’t enough to keep Arizona State’s women golfers from successfully defending their team conference title. But a little virus bug was. The Sun Devils led the Pac-10 tournament after the first day of play, but fell behind when two on the team, Jennifer Johnson and Giulia Molinaro, picked up a [...]