LORENA VOTED FEMALE
ATHLETE OF YEAR BY
US SPORTS EDITORS

Lorena Ochoa, the 24-year-old Mexican who was the LPGA Tour's "Player of the Year" in 2006, has been voted by America's sports editors the Associated Press "Female Athlete of the Year."
She won by a convincing margin from French tennis player Amelie Mauresmo, winner of the Wimbledon women's singles title and also the Australian Open, with another tennis player Maria Sharapova (Russia) sharing third place with an American basketball player Lisa Leslie.
Ochoa, pictured right, won six times on the LPGA Tour this year, amassing earnings of £2,592,872, the second highest on record (Annika Sorenstam still holds the one-season record). She ended Annika's five-year run as LPGA "Player of the Year."
The AP "Male Athlete of the Year" was also a golfer - Tiger Woods.