BOSTON – Aine Dillon of the Suffolk women's golf team was named to the Empire8 All-Sportswoman team, the league office announced. 

The conference's all-sportsmanship team emphasizes that "Competing with Honor and Integrity" is an essential component of a student athlete's experience in conjunction with an institution's education mission. Each institution's representative has distinguished themselves and consistently exhibit the critical traits as outstanding sportswomen. 

Dillon, a native of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, helped Suffolk take second at the Empire8 Championships, the two-year old program's first championship. The sophomore shot a 193 to tie for 20th individually. 

A week later, Dillon helped the Rams hoist its first championship title at the New England Intercollegiate Golf Association's (NEIGA) Championship in Brewster, Massachusetts at Captains Golf Course. The blue-and-gold maintained their day one eight-stroke edge and built on it to coast to a combined 740, 22 strokes ahead of second-place finisher Johnson & Wales (762) to claim the NEIGA DIII Women's title. Dillon tied with teammate Iselle Ventura for ninth overall with each Suffolk golfer carding a 188. 

2017 Empire8 All-Sportswoman Team

Elmire – Sarah Hiltbrand
Husson – Katie Goulet
Johnson & Wales – Hannah Hall
Keuka – Megan Geariety
Nazareth – Olivia Dowdle
Rhode Island College – Nicole Langella
St. John Fisher – Meghan LiVoti
SUNY Canton – Tess Adams
SUNY Cortland – Tiffany Schapira
Suffolk – Aine Dillon
Utica – Olivia Hirschy
Westfield – Bailey Loughlin