Statesmen End Fall at #14
William Penn University Athletics
by Wade Steinlage
Oskaloosa–The William Penn women’s golf team will use a slight snub by the national voters as extra motivation for the cold winter months as it dropped a handful of spots in the NAIA’s second top-25 poll which was released Friday.
WPU fell from a program-best ninth down to #14 with 293 points. The squad won four tournaments this fall and was in the top 10 at last month’s NAIA Preview.
The Statesmen are joined in the rating by fellow Heart of America Athletic Conference foe Mount Mercy at #33.
Keiser (Fla.) will enter the midseason at #1 with 529 points and 18 first-place votes, while SCAD Savannah (Ga.) is second. William Carey (Miss.), with the final first-place nod, is third, while Dalton State (Ga.) and Cumberlands (Ky.) round out the top five.
NAIA Women’s Golf Rating #2 — November 9, 2018
(Number in parentheses is first-place votes)
1. Keiser (Fla.) (18)
2. SCAD Savannah (Ga.)
3. William Carey (Miss.) (1)
4. Dalton State (Ga.)
5. Cumberlands (Ky.)
6. British Columbia
7. South Carolina Beaufort
8. Texas Wesleyan
9. Rocky Mountain (Mont.)
10. Loyola (La.)
11. Embry-Riddle (Ariz.)
12. Oregon Tech
13. Victoria (B.C.)
14. William Penn
15. Taylor (Ind.)
16. Oklahoma City
17. Southeastern (Fla.)
18. Indiana Tech
19. Morningside
20. Cumberland (Tenn.)
21. Northwestern Ohio
22. Coastal Georgia
23. Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)
24. Lewis-Clark State (Idaho)
25. Indiana Wesleyan
Others Receiving Votes: SCAD Atlanta (Ga.) 113, Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.) 101, Saint Francis (Ind.) 54, Faulkner (Ala.) 51, Tennessee Wesleyan 42, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) 6, Campbellsville (Ky.) 5, Mount Mercy 3.
