June 13, 2008

EAST LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State women's golf head coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll continued her play as one of the top women's golfers in the state of Michigan, winning her fourth-consecutive Golf Association of Michigan (GAM) Women's Mid-Amateur Championship. Slobodnik-Stoll won the two-round tournament by seven strokes with a six-over par 150(73-77) at Midland Country Club in Midland, Mich.

Slobodnik-Stoll is the reigning GAM Women's Player of the Year, having also taking home the honor in 1996 and 1998. Aside from being a four-time GAM Mid-Amateur champion, she has been the state amateur champion on two occasions (1996, 1998) and has qualified for the U.S. Women's Amateur Championship four times (1994, 1996, 1998, 2001).

The 1994 Michigan State graduate and two-time team captain just completed her 11th season as heaad coach of her alma mater. Slobodnik-Stoll has led the Spartans to nine-straight NCAA Regionals, and has twice been named the Big Ten Women's Golf Coach of the Year, after leading MSU to the conference tournament title in 2001 and 2007.