Stanford golfer Wang chosen Rhodes Scholar
Stanford women’s golfer Ziyi Wang earned an honor far bigger than posting a good score on the course.
Wang, a fifthyear senior from Beijing, was named a Rhodes Scholar this past weekend. The scholarship covers two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England.
Wang plans to begin studying at Oxford in October 2021, pending the status of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Stanford news release Monday.
“Being a Rhodes Scholar is an incredible honor and privilege, as well as tremendously humbling,” Wang said in the release. “I am beyond grateful for the people around me ( who) supported me through not only the past few months, but also my entire Stanford career.”
Wang graduated in June with a bachelor’s degree in history and is currently pursuing a master’s in international policy. She plans to study politics at Oxford, according to Monday’s news release.
Wang earned firstteam Pac12 All-Academic honors in 2019 and secondteam recognition in 2018. She made four starts for Stanford during its pandemic-shortened 201920 season and posted one top10 finish, a tie for seventh at an event outside Los Angeles in February. Women’s basketball: UConn temporarily suspended team activities after a member of the program tested positive for COVID19, the school announced.
All team activities will be on hold for at least 14 days, the school said, meaning that the Huskies will not compete in their first four previously scheduled games. Those games included two matchups in the Hall of Fame Women’s Challenge this weekend at Mohegan Sun Arena, a Dec. 4 contest in Uncasville against No. 5 Louisville and their conference opener Dec. 6 at Seton Hall.
The program said any schedule adjustments will be announced at a later date. Obituary: Billy Evans, a member of the 1956 gold medalwinning U. S. Olympic team and Kentucky Hall of Famer who helped the Wildcats go 250 in 195354, has died. He was 88.
The school announced Evans’ death on Sunday upon confirmation from his family. He had 716 points and 549 rebounds in 83 career games over three seasons from 195255 playing under legendary coach Adolph Rupp.
Evans was selected by the Rochester Royals in the fifth round of the 1955 NBA draft, a year before he won gold with the U. S. at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, with Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame teammates Bill Russell and K. C. Jones. College football: The SEC shuffled its schedule, pushing back the Arkansas-Missouri and Tennessee-Vanderbilt games that had been set for Saturday.
The league announced that it has postponed the Arkansas-Missouri game because of a combination of positive tests, contact tracing and the resulting quarantines within the Arkansas program.
Vanderbilt and Missouri will now meet Saturday to make up a game that was postponed on Oct. 17.