BATON ROUGE – LSU graduate golfer Ingrid Lindblad, winner of a league record 14 collegiate tournaments, added to her list of records Wednesday when she was named the Southeastern Conference Co-Player of the Year for a third time in her five years at LSU.
Lindblad, who shared the honor with Julia Lopez Ramirez of Mississippi State, became the first SEC golfer, male or female, in the last 40+ years to win the award three times in their career. Lindblad previously was the SEC’s top golfer in the vote of the coaches in 2020 and 2022.
The SEC record book lists winners back to 1982 for men and 1985 for women.
LSU graduate Latanna Stone earned league honors for the fourth time, earning second team honors in 2024. The Riverview, Florida native was second team in 2020 and first team in 2021 and 2023.
Lindblad won three more tournaments in the 2023-24 season to get to 14 career collegiate victories, topping the mark of 13 by Arkansas’ Stacy Lewis (2005-08).
The native of Sweden won the season opener in the fall at the Cougar Classic posting a 16-under par total on the par 71 course for a 54-hole total of 197. Her second medalist honor came at Medinah in the Illini Women’s Invitational when she posted a 9-under 207 and she concluded the regular season with a dominating win at the Clemson Invitational in Sunset, South Carolina when she posted a 54-hole total of 18-under on the par 72 Reserve course for a 54-hole total of 198.
Lindblad broke her own season scoring record of 70.33 set as a freshman in 2020, with an average to date of 68.54 for 24 rounds played. Lindblad has posted par or lower in all 24 rounds played this season and has top five finishes in all eight college events she has played in for the Tigers. She has been a part of 12 LSU team wins in her career, including two this season.
Lindblad, who is No. 1 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings and the NCAA Scoreboard by Clippd collegiate rankings, finished third in the Augusta Women’s National Amateur, shooting a 3-under 69 in the final round at Augusta National. She is the first player in the five-year history of the event to post three top three finishes.
Lindblad has played in 141 rounds for LSU in her career (48 events) with 32 top five finishes and a career average of 70.19.
Other Player of the Year award winners from LSU include: Jenny Lidback (1986), Kristi Coats (1991) and fellow Swedish All-American Madelene Sagstrom in 2015.
Stone to date has her lowest stroke average in her LSU career of 71.67 this year. She recorded her third collegiate win when she tied with Lindblad for medalist honors at the Illini Women’s Invitational at Medinah with a 9-under 207 (69-70-68). She also tied for eighth at the Moon Golf Invitational with a 1-under total of 215.
Stone has also made three appearances in the Augusta National Women’s Am with finishes in her career of T2 in 2022 and eighth in 2023.
Stone, who will represent the U.S. in July in Ireland in her fourth Palmer Cup appearance, has played 143 career rounds (49 events) and has 19 top 10 finishes and a career stroke average of 72.29 which is second lowest in LSU history. She has been a part of a record 13 team wins for the Tigers this season.
Sophomore Taylor Riley was named to the Community Service Team for Women’s Golf in the SEC having been involved in several civic and community endeavors during her time at LSU.
Those activities have included the Junior Tigers Program with the National L Club and several LSU Tiger Life programs such as the popular Halloween BOOZAR, the TAF Thank-A-Thon, The Thankful Tiger Drive and the MLK Day of Service.
The Tigers will be back in action starting on Monday for the NCAA Bryan Regional at The Traditions in Bryan, Texas. LSU is the No. 1 seed and needs to post a top five finish in the 54-hole, three-day event to advance to the NCAA Championships in Carlsbad, California later in May.
FIRST TEAM ALL-SEC
Julia Lopez Ramirez, Mississippi State
Ingrid Lindblad, LSU
Adela Cernousek, Texas A&M
Louise Rydqvist, South Carolina
Hannah Darling, South Carolina
Maisie Filler, Florida
Maria José Marin, Arkansas
Laney Frye, Kentucky
SECOND TEAM ALL-SEC
Caitlyn Macnab, Ole Miss
Casey Weidenfeld, Auburn
Anna Davis, Auburn
Megan Schofill, Auburn
Latanna Stone, LSU
Tillie Claggett, Vanderbilt
Vairana Heck, South Carolina
Cayetana Fernández García-Poggio, Texas A&M
Mia Sandtorv Lussand, South Carolina
COACH OF THE YEAR
Kalen Anderson, South Carolina
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Julia Lopez Ramirez, Mississippi State
Ingrid Lindblad, LSU
SCHOLAR-ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
Louise Rydqvist, South Carolina
FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR
Maria José Marin, Arkansas
ALL-FRESHMAN TEAM
Avery Weed, Mississippi State
Maria José Marin, Arkansas
Cayetana Fernández García-Poggio, Texas A&M
Anna Davis, Auburn
Inès Archer, Florida
Vairana Heck, South Carolina
Savannah DeBock, Georgia
Ava Merrill, Vanderbilt
COMMUNITY SERVICE TEAM
Harriet Lockley, Alabama
Reagan Zibilski, Arkansas
Ashley-Sinclair Curtis, Auburn
Karoline Tuttle, Florida
Caterina Don, Georgia
Marissa Wenzler, Kentucky
Taylor Riley, LSU
Andrea Lignell, Ole Miss
Ana Pina Ortega, Mississippi State
Addie Dobson, Missouri
Louise Rydqvist, South Carolina
Kayla Holden, Tennessee
Sky Sudberry, Texas A&M
Celina Sattelkau, Vanderbilt