July 2, 2008

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. -

NGCA Release

Ohio University golfers Lindsay Bergman (Blacklick, Ohio), Erin Cahill (Hilliard, Ohio) and Colleen Lienesch (Centerville, Ohio) have been named 2007-08 All-American Scholars by the National Golf Coaches Association, the organization announced on Tuesday.

The three honors bring the Bobcats' all-time total of NCGA All-American Scholar selections to 22, and increase the program's haul of accolades to five in the last two seasons.

A junior last season, Bergman is a communications major with a 3.59 grade-point average. She registered a career-best 83.58 scoring average over the course of a dozen rounds in 2007-08, including a personal-best 77 in the final round of the Mid-American Conference Championship.

An accounting major with a team-best 3.99 GPA, Cahill turned in a team-leading 80.32 scoring average as a freshman last season. She fired a career-best 76 in the first round of her collegiate career, the first 18 holes of the Brickyard Fall Invitational, and earned fourth-place ties at both the EKU Spring Invitational and the Falcon Invitational before putting up a top-20 finish at the MAC Championship.

Lienesch, also a communications major with a 3.59 GPA, completed her sophomore season in 2007-08 with an 82.68 stroke average. One of three Bobcats to see action in all 22 rounds on the year, she posted the first top-10 finish of her career at the Falcon Invitational with 29-over-par tally of 245, which was good for 10th place. Lienesch also rode a career-best 78 in the final round of the MAC Championship to earn a share of 23rd place.

The criteria for selection to the NGCA All-American Scholar Team are some of the most stringent in college athletics, requiring a minimum GPA of 3.50 and participation in at least 50 percent of the school's regularly-scheduled competitive rounds during the season.