INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - Trinity University, the 2013 SCAC men's tennis champions, will represent the league in the 2013 NCAA Division III Men's Tennis Championship. Printable Bracket
Trinity earned the league's automatic bid to the NCAA championship field via the program's 18th SCAC title. The conference championship was the Tigers' fourth straight SCAC crown.
The 2013 NCAA Division III Men's Tennis Championship begin May 10 but Trinity (18-9) will not play until May 11 as the Tigers received a first round bye. Trinity will square off against the winner of the Ohio Northern (18-4) vs. Concordia (Wis.) (16-9) first round matchup.
Also competing in Trinity's bracket is host institution Wisconsin-Whitewater (19-11). The Warhawks will play Gustavus Adolphus (22-9) on May 11. That winner will play either Trinity, Ohio Northern or Concordia (Wis.) for a spot in the NCAA Quarterfinals on May 12. Additionally, Trinity's Aaron Skinner was selected to compete as an individual.
The teams will play a single-elimination tournament with the first, second and third rounds played at regional sites on May 10-12. Kalamazoo will host the team championships finals, which will be held May 20-22 at Stowe Stadium in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Student-athletes selected to the individual championships will be announced Wednesday, May 8.
The championships provide for a 44-team tournament. Automatic qualification (AQ) is granted to 30 conference champions, which form “Pool A.” Seven teams are selected from true independents and schools from conferences that do not have an automatic bid for their champions (“Pool B”). The remaining seven teams are selected from those teams in conferences with automatic bids that did not win their conference’s AQ and the remaining “Pool B” institutions (“Pool C”). The teams are geographically paired, whenever possible.
INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Women’s Golf Committee announced 19 teams and six individuals that will participate in the 2012 Division III Women’s Golf Championships.
Eleven conferences were given automatic qualification and the remaining eight teams were selected on an at-large basis from conferences and the remaining independent schools. Six individuals, not from selected teams, also were selected for the championships.
The championships consist of both team and individual competition conducted concurrently. The tournament will be contested across 72 holes of play during four days of competition. In the team competition, the low four scores from each team for each day will count in the team’s total score.
The selections include:
| School | School |
|---|---|
| Allegheny | Mary Hardin-Baylor |
| Baldwin-Wallace | Methodist |
| Carroll (Wis.) | St. Olaf |
| Centre | St. Mary’s (Ind.) |
| Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | Washington-St. Louis |
| DePauw | Whitman |
| Franklin | Wisconsin-Eau Claire |
| George Fox | Williams |
| Gustavus Adolphus | Wartburg |
| Illinois Wesleyan | |
| Individual, School | Individual, School |
| Flora Weeks, Middlebury | Mary Welch, Wisconsin-Stevens Point |
| Mary Snode, Mount Union | Danica Weddle, Texas-Tyler |
| Emily Guthrie, Whitworth | Sarah Paulson, Central (Iowa) |
The championships will be conducted May 8-11 at Zollner Golf
Course in Angola, Ind., with Trine serving as host.
In 2011, Methodist won its 14th consecutive and 24th overall Division III Women’s Golf Championships with a combined score of 966 at the Mission Inn Resort in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla. The Monarchs have won the championship in 24 of the tournament’s 26 years. Runner-up honors went to Gustavus Adolphus (978), and Illinois Wesleyan finished third with a score of 991.
Paige Caldwell of Methodist earned medalist honors by edging Centre’s Emily Bachert by three shots
