As their fall season came to a close, both the men and women's golf teams had players receive individual recognition from the North Coast Athletic Conference.
First-years Alexandria Ramirez and Stuart Alvey both earned the NCAC's Player of the Week award for the end of October.
Ramirez closed out her fall season with a strong performance, finishing in a tie for fourth at the Berry College Chick-fil-A Collegiate in Rome, Ga.
In the first round, she fired a six over par 79 and followed it with an impressive one over par 73 the next day. The two-day total of 153 was Ramirez's best performance of the season. The fourth-ranked Tigers went on to finish second in the event hosted at the Coosa Country Club.
"It's really exciting," Ramirez said. "I put a lot of hard work and effort into really playing well this season so it was really nice to see the scores pay off all that hard work."
Ramirez was not the first golfer to win the award this season. Earlier in the year, senior Paige Gooch was given the NCAC Player of the Week honor twice following two impressive victories.
"I think that it's really significant that we had two players from DePauw earn player of the week honors," Ramirez said. "I think it also shows the depth we have has a team and our ability to go out there and really dominate in the spring season."
However, this was not the only award that DePauw golf earned last week. Alvey also took home the NCAC Player of the Week honor.
Alvey played a key role for the Tigers in the collegiate event on the Deerfield course at Colonial Country Club in Madison, Miss. He helped the Tigers come home with a third place finish, one spot in front of the host, Millsaps College.
Alvey followed up a first round score of eleven over par 83, with an impressive one under par 71 on Tuesday. The 71 was good enough to tie Alvey for the low round of the day. His two-day total of 154 earned Alvey a tie for ninth place in the tournament and the player of the week honors.
"It's pretty special to me because coming in as a freshman, I didn't expect to be playing much," Alvey said. "Being conference player of the week kind of took me by shock, but it's nice to earn the honor."
Alvey feels that this strong end to the season is only a sign of things to come when the Tigers continue their season next spring.
"Wittenberg will be a big challenge for us in our conference, but we have the confidence to get through them as long as we play up to our potential," Alvey said looking forward. "We have some tournaments on some really familiar courses and that really gives us the confidence to go out there and accomplish our goals."
Both golf teams will take the winter off before returning for the second half of their seasons in the spring.
"We're expecting to go back to the NCAA tournament in the spring and make a run for the national title," said Ramirez.
The men will make their return to action in March, while the women continue their season beginning in April.