The University of Alabama at Birmingham Athletics
UAB's Mangan Named To Conference USA All-Decade Team
4/13/2005 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
April 13, 2005
IRVING, Texas - UAB senior golfer Brooke Mangan's career isn't yet finished, but the Blazer standout has already been recognized as one off the top-10 women's golfers to ever play in Conference USA. Mangan was named to the league's All-Decade Team, which was announced Wednesday.
"This is a tremendous honor for Brooke and for UAB," head coach Kim Wilcox said. "Brooke is not only the most accomplished golfer in the history of our program, but she has played an instrumental part in helping us build our whole program. She sets an example for her teammates to follow on the course, but even more impressively does so in the classroom as well. She is the consummate student-athlete, a very, very good golfer and very much deserving of this honor."
Conference USA is celebrating its 10th anniversary during the 2004-05 season. In conjunction, the league is naming a Team of the Decade for each of the conference's 19 sports.
Mangan has established herself as the most accomplished women's golfer in UAB history in her four years with the Blazers. She has earned all-conference honors in all three of her previous seasons, earning all-freshman team honors in 2002 and back-to-back all-conference selections in her sophomore and junior seasons. She was a member of the league's all-tournament team in 2003 after a tie for fourth place in the conference championships and has placed in the top-10 in the league tournament in each of her three previous tries.
The Mornington, Australia, native owns a school record three individual tournament titles, has the UAB record for lowest round (68) and owns four of the seven lowest career rounds in school history.
An outstanding student as well, Mangan has been a three-time Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll recipient and a two-time Commissioner's Academic Medal winner. She graduated in December with a bachelor's degree in accounting from UAB and is enrolled in graduate school in that same area of study.
Mangan was joined on the 10-person team by Brooke Tull of TCU, Meaghan Francella and Kim Hunt of Memphis, Tulane's Pam Buff, Christy Carter and Carolin Landmann, USF's Angie Connell and Kelly Lagedrost and Adrienne Millican of East Carolina. Tull was selected the women's golf athlete of the decade and USF's Susan Holt was named the decade's top coach. The team was compiled through a vote of the league's women's golf coaches.
Mangan has at least one more tournament left to play. She and the Blazers compete in the Conference USA Women's Golf Championships Monday through Wednesday, April 18-20, at the Germantown Country Club in Germantown, Tenn.
