The 2021 Great Lakes Valley Conference Women's Golf Championship will be held at The Hawthorsn Golf and Country Club in Fishers, Indiana, on April 23-25. This year's event marks the 22nd annual event, and the first time that the tournament has been played at this course.
The event will be a 54-hole format with a total of 18 holes played on each day of competition.
The GLVC Women's Golf Championship will once again be streamed live and free on all GLVC Sports Network platforms, including GLVCSN.com, iOS/Android mobile apps, and Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Android TV OTT apps. A complete schedule will be announced during championship week.
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 event are named All-GLVC with the top finishing individual earning medalist honors. The remaining golf awards are determined by season results and a coaches vote.
Last season's championship was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the 2019 event was won by UIndy, which earned its eighth consecutive title with a 324-294-296—914. The Hounds set a GLVC record with a 53-stroke victory over runner-up Missouri-St. Louis (339-309-319—967), which shattered the previous league-best margin of victory of 37 strokes set by UIndy in 2018. Illinois Springfield (340-312-321—973), McKendree (340-328-310—978) and Lewis (339-327-314—980) finished third through fifth, respectively.
UIndy junior Pilar Echeverria – the 2017, 2018, and 2019 GLVC Player of the Year – earned her first GLVC Championship with a 54-hole total of 223 (76-74-73), which marks the fourth-straight Conference crown captured by a Greyhound and the eighth overall. Paxton DeHaven won back-to-back titles in 2017 and 2018, while Kylie Raines and Katharina Keilich finished as co-medalists in 2016.
Echeverria’s teammates, freshman Cailyn Henderson (82-73-75—230) and senior Katharina Keilich (81-74-76—231), finished second and third, respectively, marking the first time in league history a trio of teammates have secured the top-three places at the GLVC Championships. McKendree’s Nathasha Ainsley-Thomas (81-77-76—234) finished fourth overall, while UMSL’s Emma Thorngren (81-75-78—234) placed fifth.
Admission to the 2021 GLVC Women's Golf Championship is free to the public.