Sarah Burnham Voted to Academic All-District Team
5/17/2018 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
EAST LANSING - Michigan State women's golf senior Sarah Burnham has been voted to the Google Cloud Academic All-District Women's At-Large Team, selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), it was announced by the organization on Thursday, May 17. Burnham is the first Spartan voted to the Academic All-District Team since Caroline Powers in 2013.
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Burnham owns a 3.3 cumulative GPA and is a hospitality business major.
Burnham ended her career as one of the best players in the history of the program. She is the first back-to-back and two-time Big Ten Golfer of the Year in MSU history and is the program's all-time leader in career average at 72.92. The native of Maple Grove, Minnesota, owns the three lowest season averages in school history and her 70.68 this season is the best in program history.
Burnham had six top-five finishes this season and finished in the top 10 in nine of the Spartans' 11 tournaments. She earned her second straight runner-up finish at the Big Ten Championships got her third-career tournament win this past fall in the Mary Fossum Invitational with at 6-under-par 210.
Burnham became the first Spartan to win the Big Ten's Mary Fossum Award, which goes to the player in the conference with the lowest stroke average to par. Burnham won the award with a -1.21 stroke average to par - the lowest number of any winner in the 12-year history of the accolade. She led the Spartans this season with 19 rounds under par.
As a First-team Academic All-District® honoree, Burnham advances to the Google Cloud Academic All-America® ballot, with Google Cloud Academic All-America® teams announced in June.
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