They Really Are Student-Athletes At USC Women's Golf
/While the top-ranked USC women lost the Pac-12's by a single shot to No. 4 Stanford Sunday, the dominant team in women's college golf over the last couple of years was profiled in the LA Times for their academic prowess. 
The Trojans not only won the 2013 NCAA title with a record-setting score of 19 under par, 21 strokes ahead of second-place Duke, they also posted a 3.61 cumulative grade-point average — the highest of any team in Andrea Gaston's 18 years as coach.
Four of the team's 10 players were Academic All-Americans.
Annie Park, the Trojans' top player, has a relatively modest 2.9 GPA — which becomes more impressive when it's noted that she graduated a semester early from her Levittown, N.Y., high school in order to enroll at, and immediately compete for, USC.
"She came in as a 17-year-old," Gaston said. "For her to jump in academically said a lot about her."
Park took a big leap on the course, as well, winning the NCAA individual championship along with leading USC to the team title.
I'm not sure how this is going to turn out, but Golf Channel will be hosting the first ever selection show for the men's and women's championships starting Monday with the women's show. As part of the 6 p.m. ET Golf Central, the fields for the NCAA Women's regionals will be unveiled. A week from now Morning Drive will unveil the men's fields.
