As you've likely heard, we don't have any live-action contests to cover at LetsGoPeay.com right now. What we do have is free time; oodles and oodles of free time. Enough free time to swap oodles of emails with various people who would know to create a snapshot of the best athletes in Austin Peay women's golf history. The penultimate entry was the great who got the ball rolling at the turn of the century when the program was reborn. 

Amanda Phillips was the first. A lot of the firsts.

First women's golfer in recorded history to break 70 in a round? That was Phillips, with a 69 in the 2001 Ohio Valley Conference Women's Golf Championship—and put a pin in that, we'll get back to it in a minute.

First Governor to garner First-Team All-OVC selection? Phillips again, in 2000, just two years after the program returned from a decade-long hiatus.  

First Gov to earn OVC Player of the Year honors after winning the OVC Women's Golf Championship in 2001? You guessed it, Amanda Phillips—which also made her, along with Jody Swier, the first Govs to earn All-Tournament honors as well.

And in earning three-straight All-OVC honors from 2000-02, she became the first Gov with a trio of all-league nods, a distinction she's still just one of three Austin Peay loopers to earn.

So all that's come since—from Chelsea Harris to Taylor Dedmen—has its roots in what Amanda Phillips did at the turn of the century. A legend indeed.