Lynn’s Ellen Chambers Named SSC Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year; Woman of the Year Nominee
WINTER PARK, Fla. (Women’s Golf) – After leading the No. 1 Lynn Fighting Knights to their second-straight NCAA Division II Women’s Golf National Championship and their first-ever Sunshine State Conference Championship, senior Ellen Chambers has been named the 2013-14 SSC Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year and the conference’s nominee for the NCAA Woman of the Year award.
Chambers is the first SSC student-athlete to receive both the conference’s female scholar-athlete of the year award and the nomination for the NCAA Woman of the Year award. She is the second Fighting Knight to earn the Woman of the Year nod and the second to earn the female scholar-athlete accolade.
The senior was chosen for both awards in a vote conducted among the conference’s athletic directors, senior woman administrators, athletic communication directors and faculty athletic representatives from each of the nine member institutions.
Chambers was a member of the No. 1 Lynn women’s golf team, which won back-to-back national championships in 2013 and 2014. She also helped lead the Fighting Knights to their first-ever SSC Women’s Golf Championship in 2014.
The international relations major held a perfect 4.0 grade-point average and was name the 2014 NCAA Elite 89 Award recipient at the women’s golf championship in May. She was runner-up for the same award in 2013. Chambers was named to the Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-America At-Large First Team. Most recently, the senior was named the 2014 Lynn University Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
The senior will be named to the SSC Spring Commissioner’s Honor Roll for a fourth-straight year.
Chambers earned the 2014 NCAA Division II South/Southeast Super Regional individual medalist after winning with a three-round score of 218 (+2). She was named 2014 WGCA All-America Honorable Mention and to the WGCA All-South Region team.
Lynn finished the season undefeated against all NCAA Division II opponents and won a Division II record 11 tournaments. The Fighting Knights tied a SSC record with seven consecutive tournament victories during 2014.
Chambers was an active participant in the Lynn Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) all four years of her collegiate career. She also served as the Vice President of Lynn’s International Affairs Society from 2012-14.
Chambers was inducted into the Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Science Honor Society (2014), Lynn University’s President’s Honor Society (2013) and Lynn’s University Honor Society (2012).
As the SSC’s nominee, Chambers will compete against hundreds of other nominees from all three NCAA divisions for the prestigious NCAA Woman of the Year award. Last year’s SSC nominee, Lauren Boudreau from Nova Southeastern, was an NCAA Woman of the Year Top 30 honoree.