Four Rounds Set for Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. --- Hollins University junior Elizabeth Cheng will represent HU and the ODAC in the 2013 NCAA Division III Women’s Golf Tournament, which is set for May 14-17 at the Baytowne Golf Course at Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort in Destin, Fla.  Cheng is the second Hollins golfer to qualify for the national tournament in the last five years, joining Vicky Kasza in 2008.

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This season’s national field features 21 teams and six individual qualifiers selected at-large.  Eleven teams punched their tickets courtesy of automatic qualification, while the remaining 10 were chosen at-large from throughout the NCAA Division III contingent.

Cheng set the bar high in the first season of women’s golf under the ODAC banner, earning the first ODAC Women’s Golfer of the Year honor in addition to the ODAC/Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete Award.  She is a two-time NGCA All-American Scholar as well as a Hollins University honor student.  She won both the American Chemical Society Award and the Judith Gregory Smith Award in 2012, and is in line for her first All-ODAC Academic Team honor.  On the course, Cheng capped the ODAC season by tying for second at the conference Championships and owns the league's best individual average at 79.4 strokes per round.  In nine events, she placed in the top-10 eight times with seven top-five finishes.  She won three events on the season, posting her victories at the McDaniel Fall Invitational, the Generals Invitational, and the Jekyll Island Women's Intercollegiate.

In national statistical rankings by Golfstat, Cheng is ranked 20th in the country with a 79.41 average.  Kelsey Morrison from George Fox University holds down the top spot at 75.05.

For more on the NCAA Division III Women’s Golf Tournament, go to www.ncaa.com.  For more on ODAC women’s golf, visit the websites of any of the participating schools, or go to the ODAC’s home on the Internet at www.odaconline.com.