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Women's Golf Cracks National Top 50 For First Time in Program History
October 04, 2005 | Women's Golf
Oct. 4, 2005
Princeton, N.J. - The Princeton women's golf team received a 41st-place ranking in the latest Golfweek women's team rankings, marking the team's first appearance in the Top 50. Junior Sharla Cloutier leads a pair of Princeton players ranked in the Top 100 individually at 35th.
The Golfweek rankings are computed using tournament scores, common opponents, and stroke averages to rank all the Division I teams. In the individual rankings, players are ranked based on the strengths of their opponents and how they played against them. Duke is ranked first in the poll, with Pepperdine, Purdue, Georgia and Arkansas in the top five. Princeton is the 16th-ranked team from the eastern district and the northernmost eastern school in the Top 50. Princeton is next in action in two weekends at the Nittany Lion Invitational, hosted by Penn State, which is ranked 43rd.
Cloutier's rating of 71.86 ranks her in the mid-30s. She is 1-1 against top 50 opponents, 5-5-2 in the top 100 and 162-7-2 overall. Marlowe Boukis is the second Tiger ranked in the top 100 and she is 96th. Her rating is 73.33 and she is 154-13-4 overall. Susannah Aboff lies 123rd with a 73.74 rating, which leaves her three-tenths out of the Top 100.
The next best Ivy individual player is Yale's Ellie Brophy in 215th. Yale is ranked 72nd in the team rankings.