INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA Division III Men's Golf Committee has announced the teams and individuals selected to participate in the 2016 NCAA Division III Men’s Golf Championships.
The championships, which will be held May 10-13 at Midvale Country Club and Mendon Golf Club, in Rochester, New York, will be hosted by St. John Fisher College and the Monroe County Sports Commission.
A total of 210 participants will compete at the 2016 championships. Thirty-three conferences were awarded an automatic qualification for the championships. Two teams were selected from Pool B, which consists of independent institutions and institutions that are members of conferences that do not meet the requirements for automatic qualification. The final six berths were reserved for Pool C, which are institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion and any remaining Pool B teams. The top five individuals are selected from the remaining players who have not qualified with a team. Listed below are the teams and individuals selected for the 2016 championships:
| Conferences and teams receiving automatic qualifications | |
|---|---|
|
Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference |
Penn State-Behrend |
|
American Southwest Conference |
Concordia University Texas |
|
Capital Athletic Conference |
Christopher Newport |
|
Centennial Conference |
Franklin & Marshall |
|
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin |
Illinois Wesleyan |
|
Colonial States Athletic Conference |
Marywood |
|
Commonwealth Coast Conference |
Western New England |
|
Empire 8 |
St. John Fisher |
|
Great Northeast Athletic Conference |
Rhode Island College |
|
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference |
Transylvania |
|
Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Luther |
|
Liberty League |
Skidmore |
|
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association |
Hope |
|
Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth |
Stevenson |
|
Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom |
Manhattanville |
|
Midwest Conference |
Carroll (Wisconsin) |
|
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Augsburg |
|
New England Collegiate Conference |
Babson |
|
New England Small College Athletic Conference |
Middlebury |
|
North Atlantic Conference |
Husson |
|
North Coast Athletic Conference |
Wittenberg |
|
North Eastern Athletic Conference |
Rutgers-Camden |
|
Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference |
Wisconsin Lutheran |
|
Northwest Conference |
Whitworth |
|
Ohio Athletic Conference |
Otterbein |
|
Old Dominion Athletic Conference |
Washington and Lee |
|
Presidents’ Athletic Conference |
Grove City |
|
Skyline Conference |
St. Joseph's (Long Island) |
|
Southern Athletic Association |
Oglethorpe |
|
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps |
|
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Spalding |
|
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference |
Crown (Minnesota) |
|
USA South Athletic Conference |
Methodist |
Pool B Berths (2):
1) Emory
2) Southwestern (Texas)
Pool C Berths (6):
1) St. Thomas (Minnesota)
2) Berry
3) Huntingdon
4) Texas-Tyler
5) Rhodes
6) LaGrange
Individuals:
1) Mats Heien, Mary Hardin-Baylor
2) Phillip Stewart, Schreiner
3) James Lasher, Allegheny
4) Evan Cox, Virginia Wesleyan
5) Brady Hanson, Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Methodist University claimed its eleventh national title in school history at the 2015 NCAA Division III Men’s Golf Championships, finishing three shots ahead of runner-up LaGrange College. Kelby Scharmann, of the University of La Verne, took home individual medalist honors after finishing nine under par for the four-day event. The 2015 championships were played at Grandover Resort, in Greensboro, North Carolina, and were hosted by Guilford College and Greensboro Sports Commission.
For more information about the NCAA Division III Golf Championships, log on to NCAA.com.
