Senior Grace Honigford named Printing Concepts OAC Scholar Athlete of the Month

By Tim Glon

ADA — Senior Grace Honigford (West Chester/Lakota East) has been named the Printing Concepts Ohio Athletic Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Month for June of 2024.

In her four seasons on the women's golf team, Honigford has rewritten the record books and now holds every record within the program.

A mechanical engineering major, she was named Ohio Northern's Female winner of the prestigious Clyde Lamb Award, given annually to the top male and female student-athletes of each of the 10 OAC schools.

She also guided the Polar Bears to a pair of Ohio Athletic Conference Championships titles and NCAA Championships appearances.

Honigford is a three-time OAC Championships Medalist and is a four-time All-OAC honoree.

She won the OAC individual title as a freshman in 2021 and was Co-Medalist in 2022 and 2024. She was runner-up in 2023.

Honigford is also a three-time Academic All-OAC honoree.

This season, Honigford set the school's 18-, 36-, 54- and 72-hole school records with totals of 68, 143, 223 and 300, respectively.

She also had a school record 75.5 stroke average over a school record 27 rounds this season.

Her efforts also helped this season's Polar Bear squad set team records for 18, 36, 54 and 72 holes and a season-best average of 318.0 strokes per round.

To top things off, Honigford also recorded the program's first-ever hole in one this season.

Sponsored by Printing Concepts, the OAC Scholar-Athlete of the Month award honors an exceptional student-athlete on a monthly basis. Student-athletes eligible to receive the award include juniors and seniors competing in a sport that is in-season and who display sportsmanlike conduct and have a grade point average of at least 3.0.