Taiwan’s 22-year-old golfing sensation, Yani Tseng, has been nominated for the US Sports Academy’s June Female Athlete of the Month award after she became the youngest professional golfer to win four LPGA Tour majors.
Online voting is open to the public and ends on July 14.
Tseng, currently ranked No. 1, won the LPGA Championship at Locust Hill Country Club with a record-equaling low score at a major championship on June 28. When Pak Se-ri and Tiger Woods won their fourth major titles, they were both 24 years old.
The other female nominees are Dallas Escobedo, a freshman softball ace for Arizona State University in the US; Janet Evans of the US, a five-time Olympic medalist simmer attempting a comeback at age 39; Paula Findlay of Canada, who won her fifth women’s triathlon in six career starts in Kitzbuhel, Austria; Carmelita Jeter of the US, who won her third straight 100m title with a time of 10.74 seconds at the US Outdoor Track and Field Championships last month; and China’s Li Na, who became the first Chinese tennis player to win a Grand Slam singles title when she won the French Open.
To view the ballot and vote for Tseng, visit the academy’s Web site at http://ussa.edu/ballots/athlete-of-the-month.
The men’s nominees are golfer Rory Mcllroy of Northern Ireland, long-distance runner Moses Mosop of Kenya, tennis player Rafael Nadal of Spain, Dallas Mavericks player Dirk Nowitzki from Germany and Boston Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas and newly picked Los Angeles Dodgers player Scott Wingo, both from the US.
Every month, the academy names a male and female Athlete of the Month. The online votes, along with the academy’s selection committee, choose the winners, who will then be considered as candidates for the academy’s 27th Athlete of the Year award.
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