No. 24 women’s golf enjoys another outstanding season
The Milligan College women’s golf team put together another successful season, despite the spring season being cut short. The Buffs finished the season ranked No. 24 nationally in the NAIA Women’s Golf Coaches Top 25 Poll. This marked the sixth time in the 10-year history of the women’s golf program that they have been ranked in the final top 25 poll.
The Milligan College women's golf team put together another successful season, despite the spring season being cut short. The Buffs finished the season ranked No. 24 nationally in the NAIA Women's Golf Coaches Top 25 Poll. This marked the sixth time in the 10-year history of the women's golf program that they have been ranked in the final top 25 poll.
The ladies were also ranked No. 1 in the Appalachian Athletic Conference by Golfstat and ranked No. 20 nationally in team scoring average. Milligan had a top five or better finish in every tournament played this year, including a first-place finish at the East Tennessee Collegiate and runner-up finishes at the Mars Hill Invitational and AAC Fall Preview Championship at Chateau Elan.
Individually, two of the Buffs finished in the top 100 nationally in scoring average. Michaela Lindahl, a freshman from Hollviken, Sweden, was ranked No. 17 nationally with a 76.5 scoring average and Alayna Perryman, a sophomore from Newport, Tennessee, was No. 78 averaging 78.5. Milligan had seven ladies ranked in the top 20 in scoring average in the AAC. Michaela Lindahl was ranked No. 2; Alayna Perryman No. 5; Jenny Simonsen, a sophomore from Johnson City, Tennessee, was No. 7; Emma Brown, a sophomore from Knoxville, Tennessee, was No. 10; Nellie Berglund, a senior from Sollentuna, Sweden, was No. 11; Meryl Castle, a sophomore from Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, was No. 16; and Danielle Mirovich, a junior from Mt. Pleasant, North Carolina, came in at No. 19.
Other top team members that qualified to compete and made solid contributions to the Buffs success were Ashley Cauthen, a senior from Flat Rock, North Carolina, Madison Blanton, a junior from Big Stone Gap, Virginia, Gracie Johns, a freshman from Morristown, Tennessee, and Hannah Goodwin, a freshman from Unionville, Tennessee.
Milligan opens the 2020-21 fall season in Pinehurst, North Carolina, at the Pinehurst Women's Intercollegiate Invitational on Pinehurst #6 August 30-September 1, 2020.