Championship Central
INDIANAPOLIS – For the sixth-straight event, the GLVC Sports Network (GLVCSN) will stream coverage of the 2021 Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) Women's Golf Championship, which begins Friday at The Hawthorns Golf and Country Club in Fishers, Indiana.
GLVCSN will offer live and free coverage of the 22nd annual event, which will be contested April 23-25 on a course that is hosting the championship for the first time.
The event will be a 54-hole format on the par-72, 6,028-yard course. A total of 18 holes are played on each day of competition.
The GLVCSN’s coverage will begin at approximately 7:50 a.m. Eastern Time on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and will feature the No. 1 and 10 tees as well as the No. 18 green. A new voice joins the GLVCSN championship coverage crew, as Colin Suhre will be bringing you the action this weekend for the first time. Suhre has been the voice for the McKendree Bearcats, calling a variety of sports on campus the last few years. In addition to keeping our viewers updated on the golfers' progress throughout the event, he will also be interviewing a number of the league’s 15 head coaches.
In 2019, UIndy earned its eighth consecutive and 13th overall GLVC Women's Golf Championship. The Greyhounds (324-294-296—914) led wire-to-wire and finished with a GLVC-record 53-stroke victory over runner-up University of Missouri-St. Louis (339-309-319—967). The margin of victory shattered the previous league mark of 37 strokes set by UIndy in 2018. The University of Illinois Springfield (340-312-321—973), McKendree University (340-328-310—978), and Lewis University (339-327-314—980) finished third through fifth, respectively.
Three of the top-seven teams in the NCAA Division II East Region will be paired with one another this weekend, including No. 1 University of Indianapolis, No. 3 University of Missouri-St. Louis, and No. 7 Lindenwood University. Those three teams will take the top-three seeds at the GLVC Championships, while the University of Illinois Springfield (eighth), Missouri S&T (11th), and Drury University (12th) will be seeded Nos. 4-6, respectively, and tee off together Friday morning. McKendree University (13th) claimed the seventh seed and will be grouped with No. 8 seed Maryville University (16th) and No. 9 seed Lewis University (17th). The University of Southern Indiana (19th) rounds out the top-10 teams as the 10th seed, while 11-seed Truman State University (27th) and Rockhurst University (33rd) will both play with USI to start the event. The final threesomes teeing off Friday will be seed Nos. 13-15, including Quincy University (35th), William Jewell College (30th), and Southwest Baptist University, respectively.
Indianapolis (13), 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.
After a pair of UIndy standouts captured co-medalist honors in 2016, a new Greyhound took home the trophy in 2017, as junior Paxton DeHaven won her first of two in a row thanks to a repeat performance in 2018. The 2019 and defending medalist was Pilar Echeverria, who shot a 223 (76-74-73) to win by seven strokes. Echeverria will be back this season, as she has opted to use her COVID year to compete one final time.
Greyhound teammates Cailyn Henderson (82-73-75—230) and Katharina Keilich (81-74-76—231) finished second and third, respectively, while Nathasha Ainsley-Thomas of McKendree (81-77-76—234) finished fourth and Missouri-St. Louis' Emma Thorngren (81-75-78—234) rounded out the top-five finishers and All-Conference honorees.
Admission to the 2021 GLVC Women's Golf Championship is free to the public.
Live coverage can be seen by logging on to the GLVCSN’s official website,
GLVCSN.com, or on the GLVCSN iOS/Android mobile apps, as well as on the Roku, Apple TV, Amazon fireTV and Android TV OTT platforms. Live scoring will occur every three holes and is available through Golfstat.com or on the GLVC Women's Golf Championship page at
GLVCsports.com/2021wgolf. Updates will also be included on the GLVC's official Twitter accounts (@GLVCsports and @GLVCSN) with the hashtags, #GLVCwgolf and #GLVCchamps.