Arkansas Women’s Golf graduate Maria Fassi was named the 2019 Roy F. Kramer SEC Female Athlete of the Year, the league office announced. Florida track & field athlete Grant Holloway won the SEC Male Athlete of the Year award.
Fassi becomes just the second-ever female athlete from Arkansas to win the SEC’s highest honor, joining Amy Yoder Begley, who won the award back in 2001. Arkansas has had five other winners outside of Yoder Begley, but they were all male winners. She is also one of just three golfers to ever win the award, joining Vicki Goetze (Georgia, 1992) and Brooke Pancake (Alabama, 2012). Fassi was spectacular in her final collegiate season, winning both the SEC and NCAA individual titles