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Surendran Earns OVC Golfer Of The Week Honor
3/4/2021 12:29:00 PM | Women's Golf
Murray State's Raeysha Surendran is the Ohio Valley Conference Female Golfer of the Week as announced by the league office.
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A Senior from Selangor, Malaysia, Surendran took home second place honors in a field of 210 competitors at the Kiawah Island Classic (Feb. 28-March 2). She fired rounds of 69-68-78 to finish at 215 (-1), to finish two shots behind the medalist. Surendran had a three-shot lead entering the final round. Her performance helped the Racers finish sixth out of 41 teams, including four other OVC schools.
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This honor marks the third time Surendran has been named OVC Golfer of the Week after she won the award twice in the 2019-20 season. Her award is the first for a Racer golfer on either the women's or the men's team in the 2020-21 season.
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The Racers' next challenge will be competing in the North Florida Collegiate (March 8-9) at Jacksonville Golf & Country Club in Jacksonville, Fla.
2020-21 OVC Golfers of the Week
January 28 - Maximo Portais, Jacksonville State
February 12 - Zac Viminitz, Morehead State; MacKenzie Neal, Morehead State
February 19 - Billy Basham, Eastern Kentucky & Maximo Portais, Jacksonville State; Ragnhildur Kristinsdottir, Eastern Kentucky
February 26 - Evan Davis, Belmont; Ana Perez Altuna, Jacksonville State
March 4 - Tate Chumley, UT Martin; Raeysha Surendran, Murray State
About Murray State Women's Golf
The Racers' program is in its 28th season overall, with the founder of the program, Coach Velvet Milkman guiding the way as the only coach the Racers have ever had. She started the Murray State program in the 1993-94 school year and has coached championship-level student-athletes that have produced 12 OVC championships, the most of any coach at Murray State. Also serving for many years as the Murray State Senior Woman Administrator, Milkman did MSU Athletics a great service by serving as Interim Athletics Director from July 2018 through February 2019. Milkman is involved at the NCAA level shaping women's golf on a national scale. She served a four-year term (2009-12) on the NCAA Women's Golf Committee including two years as chair.
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A Senior from Selangor, Malaysia, Surendran took home second place honors in a field of 210 competitors at the Kiawah Island Classic (Feb. 28-March 2). She fired rounds of 69-68-78 to finish at 215 (-1), to finish two shots behind the medalist. Surendran had a three-shot lead entering the final round. Her performance helped the Racers finish sixth out of 41 teams, including four other OVC schools.
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This honor marks the third time Surendran has been named OVC Golfer of the Week after she won the award twice in the 2019-20 season. Her award is the first for a Racer golfer on either the women's or the men's team in the 2020-21 season.
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The Racers' next challenge will be competing in the North Florida Collegiate (March 8-9) at Jacksonville Golf & Country Club in Jacksonville, Fla.
2020-21 OVC Golfers of the Week
January 28 - Maximo Portais, Jacksonville State
February 12 - Zac Viminitz, Morehead State; MacKenzie Neal, Morehead State
February 19 - Billy Basham, Eastern Kentucky & Maximo Portais, Jacksonville State; Ragnhildur Kristinsdottir, Eastern Kentucky
February 26 - Evan Davis, Belmont; Ana Perez Altuna, Jacksonville State
March 4 - Tate Chumley, UT Martin; Raeysha Surendran, Murray State
About Murray State Women's Golf
The Racers' program is in its 28th season overall, with the founder of the program, Coach Velvet Milkman guiding the way as the only coach the Racers have ever had. She started the Murray State program in the 1993-94 school year and has coached championship-level student-athletes that have produced 12 OVC championships, the most of any coach at Murray State. Also serving for many years as the Murray State Senior Woman Administrator, Milkman did MSU Athletics a great service by serving as Interim Athletics Director from July 2018 through February 2019. Milkman is involved at the NCAA level shaping women's golf on a national scale. She served a four-year term (2009-12) on the NCAA Women's Golf Committee including two years as chair.
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