Brunswick, GA – Coastal Georgia alumna Christian Liggin ’14 (BS, Health Informatics) was the inaugural recipient of the Mary B. Dinos Endowed Scholarship for Women’s Golf. The Dinos family endowed the scholarships in April 2010 to assist the College in recruiting “the best and brightest athletes from across the Southeast.”
Jack Dinos was so impressed with Liggin’s performance as an athlete and a student, he established an endowed scholarship in her honor this summer: the Dinos-Liggin Endowed Women’s Golf Scholarship. The scholarship represents a first for the College, with the honoring of an individual student-athlete by a Foundation benefactor.
As a Mariner, Liggin helped her team to four wins her senior year, including the SSAC Championship. She won two of her six career wins as a senior as well as playing in the team’s first appearance at the NAIA Women’s Golf National Championship, where the Mariners finished tied for sixth overall. Liggin made the All-Tournament Team for the second consecutive year by tying for eighth individually at the national championship. She was also named an NAIA Second-Team All-American and selected for the SSAC All-Conference and All-Academic teams. As a junior, Liggin played in nine tournaments and set records by finishing with a 77.21 stroke average (the lowest single-season average in the Mariners’ program history), scoring 69 in the Coastal Georgia Winter Invitational (the lowest single-round score in the program’s history), and recording five top-5 finishes (tying the most in the program’s history).
Liggin was named the team’s MVP for both the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 seasons.
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