April 27, 2016
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The San Diego State women's golf team collected two additional conference honors on Wednesday after Emma Henrikson (Malmö, Sweden) and Sirene Blair (South Jordan, Utah) were both named to the all-Mountain West team as announced by the league office. Henrikson garnered first-team accolades, while Blair was a second-team pick in a vote of the conference's nine head coaches.
With their selections, the Aztecs have now received multiple all-league honors for the sixth year in a row. In addition, Henrikson becomes just the second SDSU player to earn all-MW distinction in four consecutive seasons, along with Christine Wong, while Blair picked up her third straight all-conference certificate. Previously, Henrikson and Blair were MW Freshman of the Year award winners in 2013 and 2014, respectively.
Henrikson, who was named the 2016 Mountain West Women's Golfer of the Year following the conference championship on April 20, is ranked 11th in the nation according to Golfstat and 18th in the latest Golfweek/Sagarin ratings. The Aztec senior leads the league with a team-best 71.63 scoring average and tops the squad with 11 rounds below par, including nine in the 60s.
Henrikson has recorded six top-10 individual placements this year, highlighted by two medal-winning performances at the Golfweek Conference Challenge on Sept. 23 and the Westbrook Spring Invitational on Feb. 22. She also logged two third-place finishes at the season-opening Branch Law Firm/Dick McGuire Invitational during the fall schedule and last month at the Bruin Wave Invitational. For her efforts, the native Swede earned MW Women's Golfer of the Month for September to go along with conference Player of the Week distinction on March. 2
Blair, meanwhile, posted her highest finish in three MW Championship appearances last week where she landed alone in the fifth spot at 5-over par 221, highlighted by a final-round 69 to help SDSU to a runner-up standing. The Aztec junior also tied for fourth at the Golfweek Conference Challenge and was the team's top competitor at the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown in late October where she established a program record for lowest 54-hole score with an 11-under 205 en route to another fifth-place effort.
For the season, Blair ranks seventh in the league with a 73.88 stroke average and is second on the squad with seven rounds below par. At the aforementioned Las Vegas Showdown, she matched her career-best with a 5-under 67 in the opening round.
Henrikson and Blair will return to the fairways next week when SDSU competes in the NCAA Stanford Regional, May 5-7, in Stanford, Calif. The Aztecs, who are seeking their first-ever national championship appearance as a team, are currently ranked 21st nationally by Golfstat and are 18th in the latest Golfweek/Sagarin ratings.
2015-16 Mountain West Women's Golf Honors
First-Team All-MW
Emma Henrikson, SDSU
Kaylee Benton, UNLV
Mackenzie Raim, UNLV
Ingrid Gutierrez, New Mexico
My Leander, San José State
Second-Team All-MW
Sirene Blair, SDSU
Alexandra Kaui, UNLV
Katrina Prendergast, Colorado State
Regan De Guzman, San José State
Kristin Simonsen, Fresno State
Golfer of the Year
Emma Henrikson, SDSU
Freshman of the Year
Kaylee Benton, UNLV
Coach of the Year
Amy Bush-Herzer, UNLV