Former SMU coach to be enshrined

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From the SMU athletic department:

Kyle O'Brien Stevens to be inducted into NGCA Hall of Fame
January 3, 2003

Chicago, Ill. -- Former SMU women's golfer Kyle O’Brien Stevens joins Tracy Hanson and long time coach Julie Manning who will be inducted into the NGCA Hall of Fame during the NGCA Hall of Fame Banquet on Wednesday evening, January 22 at the Sheraton World Resort in Orlando, Florida. Hanson and O’Brien Stevens will become the 41st and 42nd players respectively entered into the Hall of Fame and Manning will become the 37th coach inducted.

From the golf course, to the classroom to home, Kyle O’Brien Stevens is recognized as an inspiration to all who have come to know her. O’Brien Stevens’s accomplishments as a collegiate player speak for themselves. During her junior year in 1979, she was medalist and led her Lady Mustangs to an AIAW National Championship. In that same year, O’Brien Stevens was named Golf Magazine Collegiate Player of the Year and received the Honda Broderick Award as the nation’s outstanding female collegiate player. O’Brien Stevens also became SMU’s first two time All American and graduated cum laude. Her accomplishments post-college are equally as impressive. O’Brien Stevens was named LPGA Rookie of the Year in 1981 and later returned to her alma mater to coach the Lady Mustangs from 1986 – 1992. When not on the golf course, O’Brien Stevens is a leader in her community through her volunteer efforts in local schools, church and continuing to participate as an active alumna of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.c