INDIANAPOLIS--The Westminster College women's golf program are scheduled to compete at the NCAA Division III Championships Tuesday-Friday, May 21-24 at the Keene Trace Golf Club in Nicholasville, Ky. Transylvania University will serve as host.
The Division III Women's Golf Committee announced the 29 teams and six individuals that will participate in the 2024 Championships Monday evening. Twenty-five conferences were awarded 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, were selected for the championships.
The championships will consist of both team and individual competition conducted concurrently. Following 36 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.
Westminster secured its sixth-straight Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) team title on Apr. 20. It was the eighth PAC championship in program history. The final two rounds of this year's 72-hole championship event, hosted by the Mill Creek Golf Course, were played on Mill Creek's North Course. The fall's 36-hole event was hosted by the Avalon Golf & Country Club in Warren, Ohio. The women played a pair of rounds at Avalon at Squaw Creek in Vienna. Westminster followed up its third round 319 with a 329 during the fourth and final round to conclude its 72-hole championship run with a team score of 1329. The Titans trailed Washington & Jefferson College by eight strokes entering this spring's two championship rounds.
Senior Sierra Richard (Beaver Falls, Pa., Blackhawk) earned PAC Player of the Year honors after posting a four-round score of 313. She was last year's runner-up. Freshman Katie Rose Rankin (Sewickley, Pa., North Allegheny) was named the PAC's Newcomer of the Year after finishing in third place with a four-round score of 329.
This will be Westminster's fifth appearance in the Division III Championship in the last six years. The 2020 Championship was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
