Bethany Yates Named Pepsi Athlete of the Week

3/30/2008 5:00:00 AM | Women's Golf

Murray State women's golfer Bethany Yates is the Pepsi-MSU Athlete of the Week after her performance for the Racer Women's Golf squad last weekend in South Carolina.

Yates, a junior from Bardstown, Ky. finished fifth at the Shamrock Intercollegiate hosted by Winthrop in Tega Cay, S.C. She fired rounds of 76-81-75=232 and finished fifth in a field of 85 players. Her effort helped the Racers come home with the Shamrock championship.

Yates now has a 78.7 scoring average during the spring and has scored in the 70's in five of nine rounds.

She was also named Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Week.