INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Women’s Golf Committee announced 25 teams and six individuals that will participate in the 2021 NCAA Division III Women’s Golf Championships.
Twenty-one conferences have been granted automatic qualification and the remaining four teams were selected on an at-large basis from conferences and the independent institutions. Six individuals, not from selected teams, also were selected for the championships.
The championships will consist of both team and individual competition conducted concurrently. Following 54 holes of competition, the field will be cut to the top 15 teams and top six individuals not on one of those teams to compete the final day. In the team competition, the low four scores from each team for each day will count in the team’s total score.
The championships will be conducted May 11-14 at Forest Akers Golf Courses (West Course) in Lansing, Michigan. Olivet College and the Greater Lansing Sports Authority will serve as hosts.
The selected teams and individuals are listed below:
TEAMS
- University of Redlands
- Methodist University
- Centre College
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Williams College
- George Fox University
- St. Catherine University
- Emory University
- University of Texas at Dallas
- York College (Pennsylvania)
- Washington and Lee University
- Illinois Wesleyan University
- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
- Saint Mary’s College (Indiana)
- Denison University
- Ohio Northern University
- University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
- Grinnell College
- University of Dubuque
- Ithaca College
- Westminster College (Pennsylvania)
- The College of St. Scholastica
- Marymount University (Virginia)
- Catholic University
- Lakeland University
INDIVIDUALS
- Nicole Miller, Bethel University (Minnesota)
- Kaila Higgins, Chapman University
- Shreya Ganta, Christopher Newport University
- Sarah Hsu, Oglethorpe University
- Sydney McConnell, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
- Danielle Bambola, State University of New York at Cortland
In 2019, New York University won its first-ever NCAA Division III Women's Golf Championship in program history at Bay Oaks Country Club with a combined score of 1,217. Runner-up honors went to Williams College (1,222). Methodist University was third with a 1,232 team total. Williams’ Cordelia Chan claimed the individual title after shooting even par in the final round to finish with a tournament total 296.
For more information about the 2021 NCAA Division III Women’s Golf Championships, log on to www.ncaa.com.
