Women's Golf Adds Four

5/7/2002

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Marshall University Director of Golf Joe Feaganes announced today that the women’s golf program has added four student-athletes. These recruits join West Virginia native Sheena Caron as the first five women’s golfers in the Thundering Herd’s resurrected women’s golf program that is set to begin competition next season.

Carling Dickey of New Castle, Ind., Shannon McGeady of Regina, Saskatchewan, Andrea Prola of Joliet, Ill., and Amanda Weber of Geneseo, Ill., will constitute the foundation of Marshall’s first women’s golf team since the mid-1980’s.
“We are very pleased to have attracted an outstanding group of young women to our golf program,” Feaganes said. “Meredith (Knight) and I are still recruiting, and hope to add another player of two before school begins in August.”

Carling Dickey used a 77.3 stroke average to finish in the top 10 of all seven high school regular season events she participated in this past Fall. She was runner-up at the 2001 Indiana girls age group competition and a two time state finals qualifier.

Dickey earned medalist honors at the Wedgefield GC event and finished as runner up at the Melrose GC in 2001. She led her Chrysler High squad to the 2001 sectional championship, the Kokomo Invitational., the Richmond Invitational, and the Avon Invitational en route to being named first-team North Central Conference All-Conference for the second consecutive year. In addition to her athletic accomplishments, she is an honor roll student.

Shannon McGeady is an all-around athlete from Canada that excelled in golf, basketball, and volleyball at the high school level. She was named the Outstanding Female Athlete of the Year at Dr. Martin Leboldus High School in 2000. She won nine of the 12 tournaments she entered in 2000 and was the first female junior club captain at Wascansa Golf and Country Club.

McGeady finished second in the 2001 Regina City Amateur and eighth in the Provincial Women’s Amateur. She is the Western Canadian Danka Open Champion and was runner-up in the Optimist Junior Golf Qualifier for the 2000 World Junior.
Andrea Prola comes to Marshall after a standout career at Joliet Central High School in Joliet, Illinois. Prola earned medalist honors in eight high school events and recorded four top five finishes during the summer. Prola, her high school’s valedictorian, won the Adams award for the highest rank in her class and is a U.S. Leadership award winner. Her parents, Don and Peg Prola, are Marshall graduates.

Amanda Weber was a four-year letterwinner at J.D. Darnall High School in Geneseo, Ill. She helped Darnall to a second place regional finish and was an Illinois Youth Insurance Classic qualifier. Weber won two summer invitationals and was selected as the state vice president for the Illinois student council.