FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                            CONTACT:

Wednesday, April 23, 2003                                                                  Jacqueline McWilliams

Assistant Director of   

   Championships

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2003 NCAA DIVISION III WOMEN’S GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS

 

 

            INDIANAPOLIS---The NCAA Division III Women’s Golf Committee announced 10 teams and 10 individuals that will participate in the NCAA Division III Women’s Golf Championships.

The committee selected ten teams, two teams from each of the five regions, for the championships.  In addition, ten individuals not from selected teams also qualified for the championships.  Regions 2 and 3 received three individual berths, Region 4 received two individual berths, and Regions 1 and 5 received one individual berth each.

The championships will consist of both team and individual competition conducted concurrently.  The tournament consists of 72 holes of play over four days of competition.  In the team competition, the low four scores from each team for each day will count in the team’s total score.

            The championships will be conducted May 13-16 at The Golf Courses of Lawsonia in Green Lake, Wisconsin.  The Midwest Conference will serve as the host.

 

The selected teams and individuals are listed below:

 

TEAMS SELECTED

 

Region 1                                            

                                                                                                           

Methodist

St. Lawrence

 

                         

Region 2                                                                    

 

DePauw

Saint Mary’s (Indiana)

 

Region 3                                                                    

 

Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Wisconsin- Oshkosh

 

Region 4                                                                    

 

Gustavus Adolphus

Simpson

 

Region 5                                                                      

 

Mary Hardin-Baylor

McMurry

 

INDIVIDUALS SELECTED

 

Region 1                                            

                                                                                                           

Audry Longo, Mt. Holyoke

                         

Region 2                                                                    

 

Emily Colenbrander, Hope

Jen Hudson, Rhodes

Charla Speer, Franklin

 

Region 3                                                                    

 

Diane Imburgia, Millikin

Lisa Irons, Wisconsin-Whitewater

Gail Nelson, Illinois Wesleyan

 

Region 4                                                                    

 

Katie Glorvigen, St. Thomas (Minnesota)

Kristy Schaaf, Macalester

 

 

Region 5        

 

Theresa Ashorn, Texas Lutheran

 

 

Last year, Methodist won its fifth consecutive NCAA Division III Women's Golf Championships with a combined score of 1,310 at The Orchards Golf Club on the campus of Mount Holyoke in South Hadley, Massachusetts.  The team from Fayetteville, North Carolina finished 31 strokes ahead of second place Mary Hardin-Baylor (1,341), 74 strokes in front of third place Amherst (1,384), and 77 strokes better than fourth place DePauw (1,387).

            For more information about the Division III Women’s Golf Championships, log on to http://www.ncaasports.com/.

 

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