For Immediate Release
Monday, April 19, 2021
NSIC Media Relations

BURNSVILLE, Minn. - The 2020-21 NSIC Women's Golf Championships will take place this Friday-Sunday, April 23-25 at Dacotah Ridge Golf Club in Morton, Minnesota.  The three round, 54-hole tournament will use stroke play will determine the NSIC Champion and automatic qualifier to the NCAA Regional Tournament.  The five golfers with the lowest stroke total for the conference tournament will be named to the NSIC All-Tournament Team. For more information visit the championship website.

NSIC Women's Golfer of the Week
Lexi Hanson (Sr., Chanhassen, Minn. / Chanhassen HS) - Sioux Falls
- Finished at four-over par 148 (73-75) to earn medalist honors at the Augustana Spring Invite at Elmwood GC in Sioux Falls
- Recorded her best mark of the season with the four-over par 148 and won her third career title
- Leads the NSIC in scoring average at 76.8 over 12 rounds
- Named NSIC Golfer of the Week for the fourth time this season and the ninth time in her career

Other Top Performances
Molly Stevens (AUGIE) led the Vikings with a second-place finish at the Augustana Spring Invite. Stevens golfed rounds of 76 and 73 for a total score of 149 and made it back-to-back tournaments in which she has claimed second-place. Overall, she has three top-ten finishes on the season.

MacKayla Olsen (UIU) shot a pair of 78s as she led UIU and finished tied for seventh overall with a two-round total of 156. Tied for the third-best mark in par-four scoring with a 4.30 (+6) average. Her three birdies were tied for eighth-best in the tournament and she finished tied for sixth with 20 pars to her name.

Toni Baldwin (WSU) led the Winona State women’s golf team to a 8th place finish at the Augustana Invitational over the weekend. Baldwin shot a 165 overall, the top Warrior score. She carded an 82 on Saturday and an 83 on Sunday as Winona State wrapped up the regular season.
 

NSIC Women's Golfers of the Week
3/10/21
Lexi Hanson - Sioux Falls
3/17/21
Lexi Hanson - Sioux Falls (2)
3/24/21
Molly Stevens - Augustana
3/31/21
Lexi Hanson - Sioux Falls (3)
4/8/21
Alex Stone - Augustana
4/14/21
Maggie Veenendall - Sioux Falls
4/19/21
Lexi Hanson - Sioux Falls (4)

About the NSIC
The NSIC is a 16-team, 18-sport, NCAA Division II conference with institutions located in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The NSIC is a model Division II conference that uses high-level athletics competition to develop champions in the classroom and community while empowering student-athletes to be impactful and positive leaders. Formed in 1992 by the merger of the Northern Intercollegiate Conference (men’s league) and the Northern Sun Conference (women’s league), the NSIC has flourished over the past quarter century, maturing into a 16-team union of Upper Midwest colleges and universities. The NSIC has won 23 team national championships and crowned 77 individual national champions. For additional information, visit NorthernSun.org.

About NCAA Division II
The NCAA, the national governing body for college athletics, is a volunteer association of more than 1,000 colleges and universities that classify their athletics programs in one of three membership divisions. The 300+ institutions in NCAA Division II support a balanced approach in which student-athletes have the opportunity to earn scholarships based on their athletic ability, pursue their desired academic degree, and participate in all the campus and surrounding community have to offer. Division II student-athletes annually graduate at rates higher than their student body peers, and they have access to the best championships-participant ratio among the NCAA’s three divisions. Division II gives student-athletes the unique opportunity to compete in the classroom, on the field, in their career, for their causes, and on their terms. For additional information, visit NCAA.org.