Conference Carolinas

Mount Olive Ranked First in Women’s Golf Coaches Preseason Poll

2/18/2014 12:00:00 AM

High Point, NC – Conference Carolinas Women’s Golf Coaches have voted the University of Mount Olive as the top women’s golf team coming into the 2014 season.

University of Mount Olive enters the spring season ranked No. 47 in the Golfstat Division II Women’s Golf National Rankings and No. 33 in the Golf World/NGCA Division II Women's Golf Poll. The Trojans competed in four tournaments during the fall and earned a pair of top four finishes, including a second place finish at the King University Invitational.

Sophomore Julie Loennechen finished fifth out of 92 golfers at the Myrtle Beach Intercollegiate and tied for 22nd out of 96 golfers at the Saint Leo University Invitational, which included eight national top 25 teams, including four ranked in the top 10. Loennechen was named to the 2013 All-Conference Carolinas Women’s Golf Second Team as a freshman.

Joining Loennechen on the Trojans’ roster are seniors Sarah Baniszewski and Emy Ohling, a 2011 All-Conference Carolinas selection. Junior Stefany King and freshmen Anne Barboteau and Lovisa Tillstrom round out the roster.

Head coach Chip Spiron has been named Conference Carolinas Women’s Golf Coach of the Year in each of the last three years.

After an impressive fall campaign, the Limestone women’s golf team has been selected to finish second in the Conference Carolinas preseason coaches’ poll. The young Saints, currently ranked No. 21 in Division II, are led by a pair of “veteran” returnees in sophomores Hannah Luckett and Taylor McInnis.

Luckett, McInnis and senior Shelby Wolff give newly named head coach Zack Siefert a strong trio at the top to go along with standout freshmen such as Noelia Cortes, Sydney Landreth and Brittany LaPadula.

The King University women's golf team has been picked to finish third in the Conference Carolinas standings during the spring 2014 season. Sophomore Elizabeth Swallow will lead the Tornado. Swallow finished the fall season with two individual wins in four tournaments and averaged 75 strokes per round.

Other key contributors include juniors Cortnee Young, whose fall included a top-ten performance at the Tusculum Fall Classic, and Anna Walker, who averaged 84 strokes per round during the fall. The team finished fourth at the King University Invitational in September and turned in a pair of sixth place performances in the fall season as well.

Converse finished fourth in the poll with North Greenville fifth followed by, Erskine, Pfeiffer, Barton, and Belmont Abbey College respectively rounding-out the poll standings.

Conference Carolinas Women’s Golf Pre-Season Poll       

(# of First Place Votes in Parenthesis)