The 2018 Great Lakes Valley Conference Women's Golf Championship will be held at Fox Run Golf Club in Eureka, Missouri on April 27-29. This year's event marks the 20th annual GLVC Women's Golf Championship, and the first time in nine years that the tournament has been played away from Annbriar Golf Course in Waterloo, Illinois.
The event will be a 54-hole format on the par-72, 5,938-yard course. A total of 18 holes are played on each day of competition.
Indianapolis (11), Drury (2), Lewis (1), and Southern Indiana (1), along with former GLVC members Northern Kentucky (3) and SIU Edwardsville (1), have each won the GLVC Women's Golf Championship.
The top-five finishers at the GLVC Women's Golf Championship are named All-GLVC and the top finishing individual earned medalist honors. The remaining golf awards are determined by season results and a coaches vote.
Last season, UIndy posted consecutive league-record 18-hole scores of 292 to post a 36-hole record-winning 584 to win its sixth consecutive and 11th overall crown. The event was shortened to 36 holes due to severe weather that plagued the area for the majority of the weekend. Missouri-St. Louis finished second at 593 (297-296), followed by Illinois Springfield (628), Lewis (639) and Southern Indiana (642) in the top five.
After a pair of UIndy standouts captured co-medalist honors last year, a new Greyhound took home the trophy in 2017 as junior Paxton DeHaven won with consecutive 72s for an even-par 144. It was the second-straight and fifth occasion overall where a Greyhound captured the GLVC title. Teammates Kylie Raines and Katharina Keilich finished as co-medalists in 2016.
UIndy freshman Pilar Echeverria (71-74-145) and UMSL's Alexa Capesius (72-73-145) tied for second, while Raines (74-74-148) was fourth and Keilich (75-74-149), Annika Haynes (77-72-149) and UMSL's Stefaniya Ivanova (73-76-149) tied for fifth.
Admission to the 2018 GLVC Women's Golf Championship is free to the public.