TOURNAMENT INFO
- Conference USA Championships (April 14-16)
- World Golf Village – Slammer & Squire Course (St. Augustine, Fla.) Par 72, 6,128 Yards
- Monday, April 14 (18 holes): Tee times are from 6:30 a.m.-8:36 a.m. CT
- Tuesday, April 15 (18 holes): Tee times are from 6:30 a.m.-8:36 a.m. CT
- Wednesday, April 16 (18 holes): Tee times are from 6:30 a.m.-8:36 a.m. CT
- Live Scoring: https://scoreboard.clippd.com/tournaments/235230/scoring/team
ABOUT THE LADY TOPS
- WKU's lineup will be Catie Craig, Sydney Hackett, Kaylee Dwyer, Julia Zigrossi and Averi Cline. Nina McMurtrey will be the alternate.
- The Lady Tops are ranked No. 62 and have three tournament wins so far this season. It is the first time in program history that WKU has won three times in a single season. Earlier this season, WKU climbed as high as No. 57 in the rankings, their highest mark in program history.
- WKU is coming off an impressive win at the Tennessee Spring Challenge, where the defeated No. 18 Vanderbilt by 11 shots and No. 31 Tennessee by 22 strokes.
- The Lady Tops also won the Reynolds Lake Oconee Invitational – defeating No. 26 Florida by six shots – and the UNF Collegiate by nine shots over Xavier.
- Head coach Adam Gary owns 14 career victories, the most by a women's golf coach in program history.
- Catie Craig enters CUSA Championships with five career wins, one shy of the school record. She won the Cardinal Cup in the fall and has three Top-2 finishes this season. She owns a 73.00 scoring average in 23 rounds this season and a 73.66 for her career across 111 rounds. With a 4.0 GPA, Craig earned first-team CUSA All-Academic honors for the third straight year. One of the top amateurs in the world, Craig played at the Augusta National Women's Amateur (April 2-5) and won the North & South Amateur last summer. She qualified for LPGA Final Qualifying in the fall, but opted to return to WKU for the remainder of her senior season. She will begin her professional career on the EPSON TOUR this summer, upon the conclusion of WKU's season.
- Sydney Hackett has been named CUSA Golfer of the Week twice this season, thanks to five Top-4 finishes in 10 events this season. In 29 rounds of play, Hackett holds a 73.07 scoring average, with a 74.35 career average through 91 rounds. In five events this spring, Hackett has finished in the Top 10 in every event, with a second, two thirds and a fourth-place finish. She also opened the fall schedule with a fourth-place finish at Purdue. She was named to the second team CUSA All-Academic Team, thanks to an impressive 3.92 GPA.
- Kaylee Dwyer is coming off her first collegiate victory at the Tennessee Spring Challenge, winning with a 4-under 140. The freshman has been impressive, twice being named CUSA Golfer of the Week this year. She has three finishes inside the Top 11, including a fourth at the Reynolds Lake Oconee Invitational to begin the spring. She was the Illinois Class 2A state champion in 2023.
- Julia Zigrossi, a sophomore transfer from James Madison, has been impressive the last three times out, posting her first three Top 20s at WKU. Zigrossi finished tied for 14th at the UNF Collegiate, tied for 16th at the Coach Mo Classic and tied for 11th at the Tennessee Spring Challenge.
- Averi Cline has played in all 10 tournaments for WKU, posting a season-best tie for second at the Lady Paladin Invitational in the fall, thanks to a final-round 64. Cline has five Top 25 finishes this season, including two Top 10s. She was named to the CUSA All-Academic Team with a 3.94 GPA.
- Nina McMurtrey has played in eight events for WKU and is coming off a tie for 23rd at the Tennessee Spring Challenge last week. She will be WKU's alternate at this week's CUSA Championships.
THE FIELD (8 TEAMS)
- No. 62 WKU will be joined in the field by FIU, Jax State, Kennesaw State, No. 95 MTSU, New Mexico State, Sam Houston and UTEP.
