Green earns All-American honors for the second straight year.
Tampa, Fla., May 24, 2024 –University of South Florida senior Melanie Green, the AAC Women’s Golf Player of the Year, was named to the Women’s Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) 2023-24 Division I All-American second team. Green earned All-American honorable mention honors in 2022-23.
One of only 50 student-athletes in the country selected for this prestigious recognition, Green is only the second USF Women’s Golf team member to be named to an All-American team twice. She joins Susan Veasey (1991, ’92 and ’93). Last year Green became the sixth USF player to be named All-American and the first since 1999. Along with Veasey, she joined Deborah Thomas (1984), Laurel Kean (1986), Anna Acker (1991), and Kelly Lagedrost (1999) in earning All-American honors.
In addition to earning AAC Player of the Year honors, Green was named to the All-Conference Team for the fourth time in her four years at USF. She is the first USF player named American Player of the Year and is the first Bull to earn All-Conference honors in golf four times.
Green, ranked 23rd nationally, posted two individual wins and led the Bulls to three wins on the season. She swept the league’s Fall awards, as she was named the AAC Women’s Player of the Month in September and October. She was named the conference player of the week three times in the Spring. Green has been selected to represent Team USA the 2024 Arnold Palmer Cup and competed in the 2024 Augusta National Women’s Amateur.
In the 2023-24 season Green finished in the top 10 in nine of the 11 tournaments and in the top four in eight events. She shot par or better in 32 of 33 rounds.
With her win at the Mountain View Collegiate, Green became the sixth player in program history with two or more wins in a season and the first since Natalia Villavicencio in 2018-19. Christina Miller in 2011-12 won three times, the program record.
With Green leading the way, South Florida finished in the top four, with three wins, in nine of 11 events in the 2023-24 season, including a third-place finish in the American Athletic Conference Championship, which ties for the highest finish in the tournament in program history.
At the Westbrook Invitational, Green tied her career-best and program-record 54-hole score of 205 (-11). Her stellar play helped pace the Bulls to a new program record for low round, shooting a 271 (-17) and a low 54-hole total 836 (-28), while matching the program record for a 36-hole score (565). USF’s previous 54-hole record was 852 set last season.
The senior tallied her second collegiate win to open the Spring as she helped lead South Florida to its second team win of the season at the FAU Paradise Invitational in early February to earn AAC Player of the Week recognition.
Green picked up where she left off after a record-breaking season in 2022-23 in which she was named a WGCA All-American Honorable Mention. Green owns multiple program records, including season scoring average (69.73), set in 2023-24, low round relative to par (-8), and career scoring average (72.13).
Individually in October, she posted two top-five finishes. She finished third in the Dale McNamara Invitational and second in the Hurricane Invitational. In the two tournaments, she was a combined 18 under par.
In September, she posted two top-five finishes in USF’s first two tournaments of the season. Green finished tied for second in the Glass City Invitational and tied for fourth in the Badger Invitational.
About USF Women’s Golf
The 2023-24 campaign saw the Bulls win three times and earn their second straight NCAA Regional appearance. The Bulls finished third in the American Conference Championship, which equals the best finish in the tournament in conference history. Senior standout Melanie Green has been an all-conference performer in each of her four seasons, qualified for the 2022 NCAA Regional as an individual and was named a 2023 All-American Honorable Mention. Green and the Bulls reached the NCAA Regional as a team in 2023, marking the program’s first postseason appearance in 11 years.
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