Golfer Megan Schofill wins Auburn's Leah Rawls Atkins Award

by Jeff Shearer
Golfer Megan Schofill wins Auburn's Leah Rawls Atkins AwardGolfer Megan Schofill wins Auburn's Leah Rawls Atkins Award
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Megan Schofill (second from left)

AUBURN, Ala.  Accustomed to accolades and no stranger to the spotlight, former Auburn women’s golf standout Megan Schofill was recognized twice at Jordan-Hare Stadium Nov. 2 when the Tigers played Vanderbilt.

Schofill and her teammates were honored on Pat Dye Field for winning the 2024 NCAA Auburn Regional and reaching match play at the NCAA Championship for the fourth time since 2019.

Minutes earlier, Schofill received the Leah Rawls Atkins Award, presented annually for excellence in academics and athletics to a student-athlete who models leadership, integrity and courage.

“Very honored to have won the Leah Rawls Atkins Award,” Schofill said. “It’s the highest honor a woman’s athlete can receive. I’m really blessed and privileged to have won it."

Members of Atkins’ family, after the passing of their matriarch, presented the award to Schofill.

“She did so much for the Auburn community and the Auburn family,” Schofill said the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame’s first woman inductee and the state’s first waterskiing world champion. “It’s really an honor to have won an award named after her.”

Engaged to women’s golf assistant coach C.J. Easley, a former member of Auburn’s men’s golf team, the young couple intends to remain on the Plains after their November 2025 wedding.

“Auburn means so much to me,” she said. “We’re staying here. It’s home, so to have won this award means the world.”

Schofill starred for the Tigers from 2019-24, winning three collegiate events and earning national acclaim for winning the 2023 U.S. Women’s Amateur. A three-time All-American, Schofill earned All-SEC honors in each of her five seasons at Auburn.

“Everyone I talk to knows much Auburn means to me,” she said. “To have played golf here means the world to me. I love Auburn with all my heart. To get to participate five years on the women’s golf team, it’s the best thing I could have done. It’s everything to me.”

Now playing professionally, Schofill has status on the 2025 Epson Tour, the official qualifying tour of the LPGA Tour.

“I’ll start playing on that hopefully in March,” she said.

A deserving recipient of the Leah Rawls Atkins Award, Megan Schofill continues to represent Auburn at a championship level, on and off the golf course.

Jeff Shearer is a Senior Writer at AuburnTigers.com. Follow him on X: @jeff_shearer