CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. – Gardner-Webb's Sarah Bertram, Taylor Dodson and Mary Katherine Donovan each earned a spot on the 2014 WGCA All-America Scholar Team, which was announced Wednesday.

The criteria for selection to the team are some of rate most stringent in collegiate athletics, with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.50 required for consideration. A total of 664 women's collegiate golfers in NCAA Division I, II and III were selected.

Bertram (Concord, N.C. / Concord HS) completed her first season with the Runnin' Bulldogs in 2013-2014 and was just as successful in the classroom as she was on the links – posting a 3.72 cumulative GPA in her communications studies major (public relations concentration.

The freshman had three of of top-30 finishes during the spring season, including a sixth-place effort at the 2014 Country Club of Spartanburg Spring Invitational in February. Bertram fired a final round score of 75 at the 2014 Big South Conference Women's Golf Championships in April – helping GWU to a fourth-place team finish. Bertram moved up to 22nd position individually with one of the event's top final round scores.

Dodson (Aiken, S.C. / Aiken HS) earned a spot on the All-America Scholar Team after posting a perfect, 4.0 cumulative GPA during her freshman year while majoring in chemistry.

A member of the Big South Conference's 2014 All-Freshman Team, Dodson finished in the top-10 seven times in 10 tournaments in her first season with the Runnin' Bulldogs. Her two best rounds came at the 2013 UNC Greensboro Starmount Fall Classic in September, when she fired a 70 in the second round and wrapped up a top-5 finish with a final round score of 72.

Donovan (Hampstead, N.C. / Topsail HS) carries a 3.68 cumulative GPA with a major in biology and also earned a spot on the Big South's All-Academic team in 2013-2014.

Donovan posted a ninth-place finish at the 2013 Myrtle Beach National Intercollegiate and fired a season-low round of 72 at the UNC Greensboro Starmount Fall Classic in September. She posted a pair of top-20 finishes during the spring season in 2014 and has three career top-10 finishes in two seasons with the Runnin' Bulldogs.