Macy Ludwig of IWU Earns CSC Academic All-America Status

GREENWOOD, Ind. — Senior Macy Ludwig ran the Illinois Wesleyan University women’s golf team’s streak to four straight years with a College Sports Communicators Academic All-America Tuesday, July 8, as the senior was voted to the first team. Ludwig joins Lexi Onsrud and Emma Thorman as the program’s all-time honorees.

Furthermore, IWU’s all-time Academic All-America list now sits at 167, which is top-25 across NCAA Division I, II, and III, as well as top-10 in Division III. To date, seven Titans have reeled in CSC Academic All-America honors during the 2024-25 academic year as Ludwig joins Jen Kuhn (softball), Ava Khoury (softball), Nick Roper (men’s basketball), Mallory Powers (women’s basketball), Lauren Huber (women’s basketball), and Kannyn Boyd (women’s volleyball). To view the list of Illinois Wesleyan’s all-time awardwinners, click here.

Ludwig enjoyed a stellar senior season, in which she was voted the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Women’s Golfer of the Year and a Women’s Golf Coaches Association All-Region selection. A three-time CCIW Women’s Golfer of the Week honoree, Ludwig posted a team-best 74.5 strokes per round average of 12 events. She won the league championship and placed inside the top-10 in six tournaments. The Effingham, Ill. native posted a record-setting 54-hole total of even-par 216 at the NCAA Division I Redbird Invitational, where she took fifth-place. Ludwig later tied that mark at the CCIW Championship en route to medalist honors and the fourth win of her career. She carded seven rounds of par-or-better and was also named the CCIW Elite 26 Award recipient, a CCIW Jack Swartz Award honoree, and Academic All-CCIW.

Ludwig graduated from Illinois Wesleyan this past spring with a degree in marketing while maintaining a 3.90 GPA. She holds the second-best career scoring average in program history at 77.21 strokes per round and was a key member of IWU’s top-four single-season team scoring averages.