SPARTANBURG---Chattanooga Mocs senior Megan Woods is one of 10 student-athletes awarded Southern Conference Graduate Scholarships in 2018 the league announced Thursday afternoon. She earned the Milliken & Co., Scholarship.
 
Woods absolutely epitomizes the ideal student-athlete. A 4.0 student in accounting, she is the 2016 Southern Conference Champion and an all-conference performer. She has two top 10s this year. They came in back-to-back events to become the first Mocs women's golfer since Emily McLennan in 2015 to post consecutive top 10s in team tourneys.
 
She earned her first SoCon Golfer of the Week nod to start the month of March after tying for sixth at the UNF Collegiate with a career-best 54-hole total of 217. That also netted her second SoCon Student-Athlete of the Week award during her career at UTC.
 
"It's a wonderful achievement," Coach Colette Murray shared. "It's great for Megan, and I know she'll be very proud of this. We're very proud of her for all of her accomplishments and everything she's done over her four years. I'm just very excited for her.
 
"Megan has such an exciting future ahead of her. I know she'll be wonderful at whatever road she takes; wherever her future leads…she'll be a huge success.
 
"And she'll always be a Moc."
 
The recipients are nominated by their schools and selected by the Southern Conference Graduate Scholar Committee. The scholarships, worth $2,000 each, are awarded to student-athletes about to receive their undergraduate degrees who intend to pursue advanced degrees in graduate or professional school. The student-athletes are evaluated on academics, athletics and community service.
 
Joining Woods are Madyson Riegel (The Citadel), Ellie Gerlach (Samford), Macy Carrier (ETSU), Brandon Barbery (VMI), Hunter Wike (ETSU), Meghan Rud (Mercer), Katherine Beuerlein (Wofford), Kassandra Flores (Western Carolina) and Brittany Houston (Furman). It marks the third straight year the Mocs have been represented among the graduate scholars. Alicia Payne (women's basketball) and Jared Johnson (wrestling) were the prior honorees in 2016 and 2017, respectively.
 
The Mocs are back on the course this weekend at the Brickyard Collegiate. The tournament, played at Brickyard Golf Club in Macon, Ga., is a three-day, 54-hole event starting Sunday, April 8, and ending Tuesday, April 10.
 
The Southern Conference Championships are the following week from Moss Creek Golf Club in Hilton Head, S.C., April 15-17. UTC won five in a row on the club's North Course from 2010-14. This year's field tangles with the South Course.
 
SoCon Release: Megan Woods, Chattanooga – Milliken & Co. Scholarship
Chattanooga women's golfer Megan Woods is the recipient of the inaugural Milliken & Co. Scholarship. The 2016 SoCon individual medalist after winning a five-hole playoff, Woods posted top 10 finishes at the SoCon Championship in each of the last two seasons and was an all-conference performer in 2016 after earning SoCon All-Freshman honors in 2015. An accounting and finance double major with a 4.0 GPA, Woods earned Women's Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar recognition three times so far and was the recipient of the 2017-18 HHM Scholarship, UTC's most competitive accounting scholarship. She was also named a UTC College of Business (COB) Stophel Distinguished Student Scholar Award winner for 2018 and earned the Dayle May Award for the highest GPA among Chattanooga's female student-athletes. Woods is a member of Beta Alpha Psi, the international honor organization for financial information students and professionals, and has tutored COB students and worked with the IRS' Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program through her involvement with the organization. Also a tutor within the Chattanooga athletic department, Woods is a four-year member of the school's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and has helped at multiple food, toy and clothes drives for the Chattanooga community in that role. A COB Dean's Advisory Board Scholar, Woods will pursue a Master's in Accounting Degree at Chattanooga beginning in the fall.
 
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ABOUT CHATTANOOGA GOLF
The Chattanooga Mocs golf program has won five Southern Conference Championships (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) since restarting the program in 2007-08.
- 1 NCAA Championships Appearances: 2009.
- 8 NCAA Regional Appearances: 2008 (Emma de Groot), 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 (Emily McLennan).
- 1 Olympian (Christine Wolf-2016 Austria).
- 21 WGCA All-American Scholar honors.
- 1 COSIDA Academic All-District (Maria Juliana Loza, 2012).
- 5 SoCon Champions: Emma de Groot (2011), Jordan Britt (2012), Agathe Sauzon (2013), Emily McLennan (2014) and Megan Woods (2016).
- 3 SoCon Golfers of the Year: de Groot (2011), Britt (2014) and McLennan (2016).
- 3 SoCon Freshman of the Years: de Groot (2008), Maria Salinas (2009) and McLennan (2013).
- 2 Ladies European Tour Pros: Wolf (2014, 2015, 2016) and Agathe Sauzon (2016).
- 1 SoCon Graduate Scholarship Winner: Megan Woods (2018).