Alabama’s Benedetta Moresco Named SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year

College of Alabama girls’s golfer Benedetta Moresco was named the 2022 Southeastern Convention Scholar-Athlete of the Yr by the league workplace on Friday, however she did not get to take pleasure in it for very lengthy. 

The Crimson Tide was in the midst of the 2022 SEC Ladies’s Golf Championship in Birmingham. It recorded an even-par at Greystone Golf and Nation Membership Legacy Course (par 72, 6,331 yards) in Birmingham to conclude the stroke-play section of the championship with a 16-over-par 880 event whole.

Though tied with Florida for fifth at +16 after the third spherical, the Crimson Tide earned the sixth seed for the match-play quarterfinals, which started Friday night. Alabama is dealing with South Carolina. Coming in, the groups had the most effective rankings within the discipline, at No. 9 and three, respectively. 

Play was suspended due to dusk and can resume Saturday, pending climate.

Moresco was offered her award on the event. She has a 4.0 grade-point common as a meals and diet main, whereas having been chosen to the President’s Checklist and the SEC Educational Honor Roll each semester in class.

The sophomore can also be is coming off a fourth-place end on the 2022 Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Beginner in early April, the place she was considered one of simply three gamers within the discipline to show in at the least two rounds underneath par.

The 2021 Golfweek All-America Honorable Point out is at the moment ranked No. 13 within the Golfstat NCAA Ladies’s Division I Rankings and No. 19 within the Ladies’s World Beginner Golf Rankings. 

Since 2010, Alabama has produced three SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Yr recipients for a mixed six honors, together with Moresco.

Polly Mack led the Crimson Tide in the course of the stroke-play portion of the SEC championships, the place Alabama moved up from eleventh place after the primary spherical. 

The senior recorded a 7-over-par 79 within the first spherical for a share of 58th place, adopted by a 2-under-par 70 within the second spherical and a 3-under-par 69 within the remaining spherical.

Her shift allowed her to enhance 46 spots up the leaderboard for a share of twelfth place on a 2-over-par 218 event whole.

Moresco started the event with an uncommon spherical for the sophomore, recording a 5-over-par 77. Nevertheless, she adopted that up with a 1-under-par 71 Thursday and an even-par 72 Friday to tie for 18th place on a 4-over-par 220 remaining output.

“I’m happy with the best way the women battled by the ultimate of stroke play to safe the sixth seed in match play,” Crimson Tide coach Mic Potter mentioned in a launch. “We’re in the midst of a really shut match with South Carolina so we have to get some relaxation and be able to go once more within the morning. 

“Congratulations to Benedetta Moresco on being named the SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Yr! What a well-deserved honor!”

2022 Ladies’s Golf SEC Championships