The 2016 Great Lakes Valley Conference Women's Golf Championship will be held at Annbriar Golf Course in Waterloo, Ill. on April 22-24, 2016. This year's event marks the 18th annual GLVC Women's Golf Championship, and the seventh year in a row that the tournament will be held in Waterloo. Annbriar is the seventh different course to have hosted the GLVC Women's Golf Championship and just the third course to have hosted in multiple years.
For the second time in tournament history, the event expands to a 54-hole format on the par-72, 5,882-yard course. A total of 18 holes are played on each day of competition.
Indianapolis (9), 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 finished the 54-hole event at 912 (308-300-304), 14 strokes better than runner-up Missouri-St. Louis (301-317-308—926) and 15 ahead of third-place finisher Southern Indiana (304-301-322—927). The team win was UIndy's conference-record fourth consecutive and ninth title overall, which gives the Greyhounds more event wins than any of the other titleholders combined in the 17-year history of the tournament.
The individual medalist race was captured by Southern Indiana's Allison Koester, who earned a three-stroke victory with a 54-hole total of 222 (71-73-78), which beat out UMSL's Stefaniya Ivanova who carded a 72-80-73 (225). Highlighted by a 1-under-par 71 on Friday, the lone sub-par round of the tournament, the Screaming Eagles' sophomore became the second USI linkster in a row to win the Conference crown and the fourth medalist in school history.
Admission to the 2016 GLVC Women's Golf Championship is free to the public.