FRISCO – East Texas A&M University women's golfer Marie Baertz continues to add to her long list of accolades for the 2024-25 season after being announced as the Southland Conference Women's Golf Student-Athlete of the Year on Thursday morning, while teammate Julianna Crow was named to the second team.
 
Baertz (Luxembourg) finished as the runner-up at the SLC Championships, earning all-tournament team honors, while also being named to first team all-Southland and was honored as the SLC Women's Golfer of the Month twice during the season. As a result of being named to first team all-conference, Baertz is an automatic selection to first team SLC all-academic.
 
In the classroom, she is a construction engineering major and has been named to the president's list as well as the SLC Commissioner's Honor Roll. She is the second Lion across all sports to earn the Student-Athlete of the Year award since East Texas A&M joined the Southland.
 
Crow (Trinity School of Midland) is named to the second team after a 13^th place finish at the SLC Championships. She is also a construction engineering major and has been a president's list and SLC Commissioner's Honor Roll recipient throughout her Lion career.
 
Baertz and Crow helped the Lions finish in the top two at the conference championships for the second straight season this spring.
 
Southland Conference All-Academic Teams are voted upon by the head coach, sports information director and an academic/compliance staff member from each school. Student-Athletes of the Year are voted upon by an awards committee which consists of one administrator from each member school. Voting for one's own athletes is not permitted.
 
To be eligible for all-academic distinction, an athlete must hold a minimum 3.25 cumulative grade point average through the semester prior to the sport's championship, completed at least one full academic semester at the nominating school prior to nomination, and participated in at least 50 percent of the team's competitions during the most recently completed season. Student-Athlete of the Year nominees must have held at least a 3.50 GPA and have completed at least two years of athletic competition at the nominating school, including the current season.
 
First Team All-Conference athletes who meet all-academic nomination criteria are automatically named all-academic.

SOUTHLAND WOMEN'S GOLF STUDENT-ATHLETE OF THE YEAR: Marie Baertz, East Texas A&M

SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE WOMEN'S GOLF ALL-ACADEMIC-FIRST TEAM

Name	School	Yr.	Hometown	Major
Zoe Pinillos	Augusta	So.	Trujillo, Peru	Business Administration
Marine Legentil	Augusta	Sr.	Moriaix, France	Business Administration
Marie Baertz	East Texas A&M	Sr.	Luxembourg	Constuction Engineering
Ploy Makmanee	HCU	Fr.	Nonthaburi, Thailand	Finance
Natalia Rodriguez	UTRGV	So.	Cantabria, Spain	Early Care & Early Childhood Studies

SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE WOMEN'S GOLF ALL-ACADEMIC-SECOND TEAM

Name	School	Yr.	Hometown	Major
Sara Adams	Augusta	So.	Whispering Pines, N.C.	Communications
Julianna Crow	East Texas A&M	Sr.	Odessa, Texas	Construction Engineering
Isabella Saenz	UIW	R-Fr.	Houston, Texas	Communications
Lucia Ramirez	Texas A&M-Corpus Christi	Jr.	Barquisimeto, Venezuela	Kinesiology, Pre-Allied Health
Tristan Gabbard	Texas A&M-Corpus Christi	Gr.	Houston, Texas	Masters in Business Administration