Thomas More University women’s golfers Natalie Hamilton and Rachel Hummel have demonstrated their prowess both on and off the golf courses during their playing careers with the Saints. As good as they are on the links, they are even better in the classroom.
Hamilton and Hummel were named to the Women’s Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar Team last week. They are no strangers to the honor. Hamilton, a fifth-year senior, was honored for the third time. Hummel, a graduate student, was named a fourth time.
Criteria is at least a 3.5 cumulative grade-point average, inclusion on a college team’s roster through the end of the season and 50 percent of a team’s regularly scheduled competitive rounds played.
Hamilton accrued a 3.87 cumulative GPA as a middle school education major. Hummel, a sports and entertainment marketing major, put together a 3.63 GPA.
Hamilton and Hummel were two of the best on the Saints last season. Hamilton averaged a round score of 84.58 and tied for first at the Eagle Invitational in fall of 2022. Her season-low round was 79. Hummel averaged a round score of 83.08, had three top-20 finishes and shot a season-best round of 77.
Hamilton, from Lakota East High School, and Hummel, from Mercy McAuley, also helped the Thomas More women’s golf program tie a school record with three athletes named 2023 women’s golf NAIA scholar-athletes. Joining Hamilton and Hummel was Kentuckian Maddie Johnson of Raceland High School. It was the third time both Hamilton and Hummel earned the honor. It was a first for Johnson, who carried a 3.85 GPA while earning a business administration MBA.
Criteria for selection include 3.5 GPA or higher, at least one full calendar year at the current institution and a sport eligibility certificate.
Hamilton, Hummel and Johnson were named 2023 women’s golf Academic All Mid-South Conference honorees along with teammate Reagan Toothaker from Franklin County High School. Johnson also was named to the MSC Champions of Character Team for the second time.
Elsewhere around the links:
AREA REPRESENTS AT KGA EVENTS: Northern Kentucky University golfer Gracie Baun placed seventh at the Kentucky Golf Association’s Women’s Stroke Play Championship at Oxmoor Country Club. She finished with a two-day score of 156. Baun is a former Ohio Capital Conference Buckeye Division Player of the Year at Olentangy Liberty High School in Powell, Ohio.
COVCATH’S RESING JUST MISSES TOP 10: Recent Covington Catholic High School graduate Nathan Resing tied for 11th with a score of 2-over-par 74 at the KGA Amateur Series Event 4 for boys at Boones Trace National Golf Club. Resing, 10th at the 2022 Kentucky High School Athletic Association Region 7 Tournament, is on roster for the men’s golf team at Thomas More University.
LITTLE NORA PLAYING BIG: Nora Anthony from Hebron was second in the Greater Cincinnati Golf Association 1905 Junior Tour girls 9-under stroke-play event at the Junior Players Challenge at TPC River’s Bend. The eight-year-old had a nine-hole score of 63. Anthony was second in the 1905 Junior Tour girls 9-under player of the year points standings with 490 after the event. She had two wins in her first three events.
BOHMAN THIRD ON BLUEGRASS TOUR: Caroline Bohman from Independance placed third in the Bluegrass Golf Tour Junior Series event at Wild Turkey Trace Golf Course. Bohman carded an 18-hole score of 104 in the girls 14-under division. She shot 48 on the front nine and was seven shots behind leader and eventual winner McCall Moore at the turn.