St. John Fisher College has named #Alex Battle# of the women’s golf team as the College’s Female Athlete of the Week for the week ending April 26, 2009.
Battle collected her first collegiate tournament win on Sunday with a tournament-record 79 at the Sally Wallace Invitational at Cortland Country Club. Behind her strong showing, the Cardinals finished in fourth place in the team standings, Fisher’s seventh top-ten placement of the season.
In her first season, Battle has already earned two top-ten showings in individual competition. At the McDaniel Fall Invitational, Battle fired a two-day 185 (+41) to finish eighth among a field of 21. The rain-shortened Spring Invitational saw Battle turn in a 128 – good for fourth in the individual standings.
In its first season of competition, the women’s golf team showed steady improvement over each of its nine tournaments in 2008-09. Playing up and down the eastern seaboard, Fisher finished eighth or better in three out of its final four tournaments.
