For the second consecutive season, Stanford women's golf has swept the end-of-season conference awards, the Pac-12 Conference announced on Tuesday afternoon. Margot and Mitch Milias Director of Women's Golf Anne Walker was named the Pac-12 Coach of the Year, while Rose Zhang was named the Golfer and Freshman of the Year.
Walker, in her 10th season, guided Stanford to its second national championship in program history. Zhang became Stanford's second consecutive individual national champion, joining Rachel Heck who did so as a freshman in 2021. The Cardinal won six times in 11 stroke-play events and claimed victory over No. 8 Georgia, No. 5 Auburn and No. 2 Oregon en route to the team championship. Zhang was named a first-team All-American by the WGCA, while Aline Krauter and Brooke Seay garnered second-team honors. Walker has had at least one first-team All-American all 10 seasons on The Farm, with multiple golfers earning All-America recognition in each of the last nine seasons. Stanford is the only program to make it to match play in all seven years of the format, and the only program with two titles since the format was instituted. It is Walker's third Pac-12 Coach of the Year Award (2021, 2015).
Zhang, a freshman from Irvine, Calif., has swept every major award, becoming the second straight Stanford freshman to do so (Heck in 2021). She won four times, including the NCAA individual title, with four more runner-ups, a T4th and a T10th in 10 events this season. The No. 1-ranked amateur in the world, Zhang earned the ANNIKA Award, WGCA Player and Freshman of the Year and won the Golfstat Cup with her NCAA-record breaking 69.68 scoring average in 31 rounds. She is Stanford's third Pac-12 Golfer of the Year (Heck, Albane Valenzuela in 2019) and third Pac-12 Freshman of the Year (Heck, Andrea Lee in 2017).
