FRISCO, Texas - The Illinois Wesleyan University women's golf team dropped two spots to No. 23, amassing 90 points in the most recent Women's Golf Coaches Association Mizuno Coaches Poll, released Friday, May 1.
Since the last WGCA ranking April, 10, the Titans posted a pair of third-place finishes. The first came at their home tournament, the Kathy Niepagen Spring Fling, Saturday-Sunday, April 11-12, and most recently, at the weather shortened UW-Whitewater Invite, Friday-Saturday, April 17-18.
After being named College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Golfer of the Week for her individual win at the Kathy Niepagen Spring Fling, sophomore Grace Fagan (Kirkwood, Mo.-Visitiation Academy) lowered her season stroke average to 77.4. Fagan trails classmate Gigi Zera (Glenview, Ill.-Loyola Academy) with a 76.8 average. Illinois Wesleyan has four Titans in the top-120 in the latest Clippd NCAA Division III player rankings. Zera checks in as the top rated at No. 72, while Fagan ranks 120th. The two sophomores are joined by junior
Nora Cerroni (Waukesha, Wis.-Waukesha North) sneaking in the top 100 at No. 99 and junior
Emily Gastrau (Wauwatosa, Wis. Wauwatosa East) at No. 110.
Emory University continued its stronghold on the top spot with 443 points and 14 first-place votes. Carnegie Mellon University accumulated 421 points and split the other four first-place nods with New York University. NPU tallied 408 points. A shake-up rounded out the top-five as Williams College (376) moved up a spot into fourth and Amherst College (353) jumped over two institutes for fifth.
The Titans are in the midst of a month break as they prepare for the NCAA Division III Championships in Palm Desert, Calif. The Green and White will break ground at Desert Willow Tuesday, May 19.
DIVISION III MIZUNO WGCA COACHES POLL
1 Emory University (14) 443
2 Carnegie Mellon University (2) 421
3 New York University (2) 408
4 Williams College 376
5 Amherst College 353
6 Washington University in St. Louis 350
7 Pomona-Pitzer 340
8 Washington and Lee University 302
9 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges 301
10 Middlebury College 285
11 Randolph-Macon College 284
12 University of Redlands 252
13 Hamilton College 221
14 Wellesley College 189
15 Bowdoin College 176
16 University of Mary Hardin-Baylor 173
17 Carleton College 169
18 Wesleyan University 147
19 Denison University 133
20 Trinity University (Texas) 119
21 Grinnell College 95
22 University of the South 92
23 Illinois Wesleyan University 90
24 Babson College 31
25 George Fox University 31
Other Receiving Votes: University of Wisconsin-Stout (29); Huntingdon College
(15); University of California – Santa Cruz (12); Piedmont University (4); DePauw
University (3); Macalester College (3); Aurora University (1)
