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INDIANAPOLIS – The GLVC Sports Network will stream nearly eight hours of coverage over three days of the 2015 Great Lakes Valley Conference Women’s Golf Championships, which run April 24-26 at Annbriar Golf Course in Waterloo, Illinois.
This is the first time in the history of the conference championships that the event will be streamed.
The GLVCSN will stream live and free coverage of the 17th annual event, which is the sixth 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 first 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.
The GLVCSN will offer seven-and-a-half hours of coverage, spanning 10 a.m.-12 p.m. CT on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with a 30-minute recap show following each round. The coverage will feature the No. 1 tee and No. 13 green, and include live interviews from the league’s 14 head coaches.
John Edwards, who was on hand for coverage of the GLVC Volleyball, Swimming and Diving, Indoor Track and Field and Basketball Championships, will be on the call throughout the event.
Last season, UIndy finished the 36-hole event at 618 (304-314), nine strokes better than runner-up Southern Indiana (317-310—627) and third-place finisher Drury (313-325—638). The team win was another milestone for UIndy as the Greyhounds' eight titles tied the combined total of the league's five other winners over the 16-year history of the event.
UIndy returns to the GLVC Championships as the No. 1 seed in the event and is followed by Missouri-St. Louis, Lewis, Southern Indiana and Drury in the top five. Illinois Springfield, Bellarmine, Truman State, Maryville and Rockhurst take up seeds Nos. 6-10, while Quincy, Saint Joseph’s, McKendree and William Jewell round out the 14-team field.
Indianapolis (8), 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 Championships are named All-GLVC and the top placing individual after 54-hole medal play earns medalist honors. The two individuals with the highest Golfstat ranking with results outside the top five at the conference meet will also be named All-Conference. The remaining golf awards, including All-Conference positions Nos. 8-10, as well as GLVC Player, Freshman, and Coach of the Year, are named prior to NCAA Regional competition.
Southern Indiana's Anastasia Carter returns as the defending GLVC Champion. Last year as a sophomore, Carter earned a five-stroke victory with a 36-hole total of 145, marking the largest margin of victory in the conference meet since 2009. Highlighted by a 2-under-par 70 on Saturday, the lone sub-par round of the tournament, the Screaming Eagle became the first USI linkster to win the conference crown since 2010 and the third medalist in school history.
Other GLVC standouts to watch will be Paxton DeHaven and Brooke Beegle of Indianapolis, Drury’s Meg Alumno, UMSL’s Joana Yanez, and Lewis’ Rachel Sweeney – all of whom rank near the top of the individual conference standings as reported by Golfstat.
Admission to the 2015 GLVC Women's Golf Championship is free to the public. Live streaming can be found on the GLVCSN’s page,
GLVCsports.com/watch, while live scoring through Golfstat, which will occur every three holes, is available on the GLVC Women’s Golf Championship page at
GLVCsports.com/GLVCwgolf15. Updates will also be included on the GLVC’s official Twitter account (@GLVCsports) with the trending hashtags, #GLVCwgolf and #GLVCSN.