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INDIANAPOLIS – The GLVC Sports Network (GLVCSN) will stream coverage of the 2017 Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) Women's Golf Championship, which begins Friday at Annbriar Golf Course in Waterloo, Illinois.
This is the third-straight season the Conference Championship has been streamed.
GLVCSN will offer live and free coverage of the 19th annual event, which will be contested April 28-30 on a course that is hosting the three-day championship for the eighth year in a row.
For the third time in tournament history, the event will follow a 54-hole format on the par-72, 5,882-yard course. A total of 18 holes are played on each day of competition.
The GLVCSN’s coverage will begin at 7:45 a.m. CT on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, barring an schedule changes due to the significant rain forecast for the area. The coverage will feature the No. 1 tee and No. 13 green – along with other select shots – and include live interviews from the league’s 14 head coaches. John Edwards, who was on hand for coverage of the GLVC Men’s Golf Championship at Rivercut Golf Course, will be on the call throughout the event.
Last season, the University of Indianapolis finished the 54-hole event in record fashion, earning its fifth-straight title with a league-low round of 294 on the final day for a GLVC-record 899 in the meet after round one at 302 and a round-two score of 303. The team win was also the 10th overall for the Greyhounds in the 18-year history of the event. Additionally, the 899 was 21 strokes better than runner-up Missouri-St. Louis (311-304-305–920) and 33 ahead of third-place Southern Indiana (316-308-308–932).
Six teams coming into this year’s event also carry East Region rankings, all of which are seeded Nos. 1-6. UIndy, first in the region, returns to the GLVC Championships as the No. 1 seed after also finishing runner-up at the NCAA Division II National Championship last year. The defending champs are followed by second-seed and third-ranked UMSL, No. 10 and third-seed Southern Indiana, No. 4 and eighth-ranked Illinois Springfield, No. 5 and ninth-ranked Lewis and sixth-seed and 13th-ranked William Jewell. Drury will be the No. 7 seed ahead of eighth-seed Truman State and ninth-seed Quincy. Bellarmine University enters the event as the No. 10 seed, while Maryville is 11th and McKendree is No. 12. Rockhurst and Saint Joseph’s round out the 14-team contingent as the No. 13 and No. 14 seeds, respectively.
Indianapolis (10), 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 championship are named All-GLVC and the top-placing individual after 54-hole medal play earns medalist honors. The remaining All-Conference honorees, as well as GLVC Player, Freshman, and Coach of the Year, are named prior to NCAA Regional competition.
UIndy’s Katharina Keilich – last season’s GLVC Player and Freshman of the Year – and Kylie Raines return as the defending GLVC co-Champions, opting not to face one another in a playoff that would have crowned a lone medalist. Last year as a freshman, Keilich turned in a 73-74-74–221, while then-sophomore Raines fired a final-round par 72 to match her teammates 221 after a first-round 74 and a 75 in round two. Not only was there a tie for first, but four strokes higher was a three-way finish for third. UIndy’s Paxton DeHaven (75-76-74), Lewis’ Rachel Sweeney (79-75-71) and William Jewell’s Alex Trask (76-74-75) all shot 225, while Sweeney’s 71 final round was tied for a tournament low with UMSL’s Stefanya Ivanova, who also shot that score in the third round.
Other GLVC standouts to watch will be Greyhounds newcomer Pilar Echeverria, who has won a league-best four Player of the Week awards this season. Other multiple weekly award winners from the 2016-17 season include UMSL freshman Emma Thorngren and sophomore Maxi Roth, who both won twice. All-GLVC golfers from a year ago also returning in 2017 include Tritons’ Ivanova and Alexa Capesius as well as Truman State’s Nicolle Barmettler.
Admission to the 2017 GLVC Women's Golf Championship is free to the public. Live streaming can be found at
GLVCSN.com, while live scoring through Golfstat, which will occur every three holes, is available on the GLVC Women's Golf Championship page at
GLVCsports.com/GLVCwgolf17. Updates will also be included on the GLVC's official Twitter accounts (@
GLVCsports and @
GLVCSN) with the hashtags #
GLVCwgolf and #
GLVCchamps.