DEKALB, Ill. – Four Northern Illinois University women's golfers earned a spot on the 2016 Women's Golf Coaches Association Division I All-American Scholar Team.
 
Senior Connie Ellett (Hampshire, Ill./Hampshire), junior Lena Gautier (La Celle Saint Cloud, France/Creteil), and freshmen Kelly Anderson (Wheaton, Ill./Wheaton-Warrenville South) and Brielle Ward (Frisco, Texas/Wakeland) joined 826 other golfers on the team.
 
Ellett, who made the WGCA All-American Scholar Team all four years of her collegiate career, participated in all 10 tournaments in 2015-16, averaging 78.0. Ellett, who also earned Academic All-MAC honors for the third-straight year, graduated this spring with a degree in marketing. She posted a school-record 68 in the second round of the Lady Thunderbird Invitational where she finished fourth with a 145, a school best for a 36-hole tournament.
 
Gautier finished the year with a team-low average of 75.5, tallying seven top-10 finishes, including a season-best fifth at the Diane Thomason Invitational and The Preview. She helped the Huskies to a second-place finish in the Redbird Invitational with a 228, while posting a career-best 220 during the Cardinal Classic, shooting par in both the first and third rounds. Gautier earned second team All-MAC accolades, becoming the first Huskie to earn All-MAC honors in back-to-back years.
 
Anderson averaged 78.2 competing in all 10 events for the Huskies as a freshman. She finished fifth at the Fighting Camel Invitational and scored a career-best 221 at the 2016 Mid-American Conference Championships. She shot a career-low 70 in the final round of both events.
 
Ward's first season of collegiate golf yielded a 77.2 average in 29 rounds of play. The Huskie freshman competed in all 10 tournaments with her best finish coming at the Cardinal where she tied for fourth with a season-low 218.
 
In order to be selected to the WGCA All-American Scholar Team, student-athletes must have a minimum 3.50 grade point average.
 
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