CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. – Martina Edberg was one of five NCAA Division I women's golf student-athletes named to the 2016-17 PING Women's Golf Coaches Association Player of the Year watch list on Tuesday.
The award will be announced after medal play at the upcoming NCAA Championship.
The PING WGCA Player of the Year Award is awarded annually to the best player in Division I women's golf. The top 60 players from the Golfstat and Golfweek/Sagarin Rankings are considered. Each player must complete a minimum of 15 rounds during the competitive year including NCAA Regional Championships.
Edberg will begin play at the 2017 Division I Women's Golf Championships in Sugar Grove, Ill., at 12:55 p.m. CT (10:55 am. PT) Friday at Rich Harvest Farms as the event will be hosted by Northern Illinois University.
The championship format consists of all 24 teams and 12 individuals completing 54 holes of stroke play Friday-Sunday (May 19-21), and then the top 15 teams along with the top nine individuals not on an advancing team will advance for one additional day of stroke play to determine the top eight teams for match play competition and the 72-hole stroke play individual champion on Monday (May 22). The top eight teams then compete in match play for the championship on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 24.
The Golf Channel will provide live coverage for the final three days of the championships May 22, 23 and 24.
Along with Edberg, Duke's Leona Maguire, Stanford's Andrea Lee, Wake Forest's Jennifer Kupcho and Alabama's Cheyenne Knight were also named to the watch list.
The 2017 Big West Conference individual champion and 2017 Big West Player of the Year, Edberg has a 71.34 scoring average, a new Cal State Fullerton single-season record.
She finished tied for second as the top individual finisher at the Albuquerque Regional, advancing to her first NCAA Championship after making her third straight trip to the NCAA Regionals appearing in the South Bend Regional hosted by the University of Notre Dame in 2015 and in the Stanford Regional hosted by Stanford in 2016.
Edberg claimed her sixth individual title of the season after winning her second Big West Women's Golf Championship individual medalist honor on April 25. She fired 1-under 71 in the final round of the championship for a 54-hole score of 6-under 210.
Over the course of the season, she posted top-three finishes in 10 of 11 tournaments and won a conference-record five consecutive Big West Golf of the Month awards, bumping her career total to seven, which placed her second on the all-time Big West career list.
She is currently ranked 15th according to GolfStat rankings and 27th according to Golfweek.
Edberg's medalist finishes this season came at the WSU Cougar Cup in Pullman, Wash. (Sep. 19-20), the Rose City Collegiate in Aurora, Ore. (Sep. 26-27), the Memphis Women's Intercollegiate in Germantowm, Tenn. (Oct. 17-18), the Fresno State Classic in Fresno, Calif. (Mar. 13-14), the Hawkeye El Tigre Invitational in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (Apr. 2-4) and the Big West Women's Golf Championship in Riverside, Calif. (Apr. 23-25).
Edberg has been named to the Big West Conference First Team for four consecutive years (2014-17).
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