PGA professional David Hutsell of The Elkridge Club in Baltimore qualified for the 2010 PGA Championship after finishing in the top 20 on June 30 at the PGA Professional National Championship at French Lick (Ind.) Resort. Hutsell, 39, will be competing in his first PGA Championship, which runs Aug. 12-15 at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wis.
University of Maryland
Terrapins' Profit dominates field for heptathlon title
Maryland track and field All-American Kiani Profit won the heptathlon at the North America-Central-America-Caribbean Under-23 Championships on Sunday. Profit won six of the seven events and scored 5,576 points, her third-best point total of the year. She posted career-best marks in both the shot put (39-8.75) and 200-meter dash (24.32) and also won the 100 hurdles (14.21), the long jump (18-4.50) and the 800 (2:19.19). Profit also tied for first in the high jump (5-6.50).
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Mount swimmer named NEC's top scholar-athlete
Mount St. Mary's women's swimming team member Maggie O'Connell Dubois was named the Northeast ConferenceWomen's Scholar-Athlete of the Year among all sports. O'Connell Dubois, who graduated with a 3.99 grade-point average in May with a degree in elementary education,
recorded five top-nine finishes at the NEC Championships during her career and holds the highest finish in program history with a fifth-place result in the 100 fly at the 2008 league invitational. O'Connell Dubois is the first Mountaineers recipient in the four-year history of the award.
More swimming: Four Washington College women's swimming team members have earned 2010 College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Scholar All-American honors. Rising senior Rachel Glasser earned Scholar All-American status, while recent graduates Amy Smith and Kathy Gerhart and rising sophomore Sarah Sykes were named Scholar All-American Honorable Mentions.
Men's basketball:
Recent Johns Hopkins graduate Andrew Farber-Miller and rising senior Mike Henrici were named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches Honors Court, which recognizes college basketball players who excelled academically. Recent Washington College graduate Alan Kines (Towson) also received the honor.
Women's tennis:
Recent UMBC graduate Alice Chen
was named the America East Conference Scholar-Athlete for women's tennis.
—From Sun staff and news services