Alison Walshe
22
5/14/85
Westford, Mass.

Walshe, a senior at the University of Arizona, started 2008 with a victory at the Harder Hall Invitational. She also won the 2007 North and South Women’s Amateur Championship. Walshe, who began her collegiate career at Boston College before transferring to Tulane University, has earned first-team honors in three different conferences: the Big East in 2003-04, Conference USA in 2004-05 and the Pac-10 in 2006-07. She won the 2004 Big East Conference title and was that conference’s player of the year for 2003-04. She matched that feat upon transferring to Tulane, winning the 2005 Conference USA Championship and earning the conference’s player of the year honor. She was a co-medalist at the 2007 Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational and counts among her collegiate victories the 2007 BYU Dixie Classic and the 2006 Stanford Invitational. She earned first-team collegiate All-America honors in 2006-07 and was a second-team selection in 2005-06.