ST. LOUIS -- Indiana State senior Sierra Hargens and sophomore Lauren Green highlight the 2020 Missouri Valley Conference Women's Golf Scholar-Athlete Team as announced today (April 9) by the league office. The MVC Scholar-Athlete Team is determined by a vote of league's women's golf communications directors.

Both Hargens and Green were named to the First Team among 16 honorees league-wide including the first team and honorable mention squads. Hargens is a native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa and captured the honor for the second consecutive year while Green is a native of Merseyside, England and is a first time honoree. Hargens carries a 3.86 GPA in Mechanical Engineering Technology while Green maintains a 3.79 GPA in Recreation and Sports Management.

Hargens finished second on the team with a 78.1 strokes per round average over 16 rounds of play with her low round of 74 was during the second round of the Butler Fall Invitational. Her score of 230 was tied for 12th place at Butler. In the season opener at the Redbird Invitational, Hargens recorded a score of 230 and finished in a tie for 45th place. She tied for fourth place at the Mastodon Fall Invitational with a final score of 232 including rounds of 76, 77 and 79  and a tallied a tournament score of 234 at the Kiawah Island Spring Classic -- the Sycamores' only tournament to be held this spring.

Green recorded four consecutive Top 5 individual finishes to close out the fall portion of the schedule. The run began at the MVC Fall Preview with a final three-round score of 233 which was good enough for a fifth place finish. She tied for fourth place at the Butler Fall Invitational with a final score of 225, including a final round tally of 73. Her tournament total of 229 at the Mastodon Fall Invite, including a final round of one-over-par 72, was good enough for a third place finish. Green's round of 77 at the Charles Braun Intercollegiate finished in fifth place. She paced the Sycamores with a score of 231 at the Kiawah Island Spring Classic and led the team with a 76.9 strokes per round average.

The Sycamores saw their spring season cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Indiana State had four tournaments canceled, including the ISU Spring Classic at The Country Club of Terre Haute and the Missouri Valley Conference Championship which was to be held April 19-21 in Burlington, Iowa.