Princeton University Athletics
Kiser Shoots for Fourth Straight Ivy League Women's Golf Crown
April 14, 2005 | Women's Golf
April 14, 2005
Princeton, N.J. - Avery Kiser will lead the Princeton women's golf team into this weekend's Ivy League Championships looking to become the first golfer, male or female, in Ivy League history to win four consecutive league titles. More important, if you ask her, is Princeton's opportunity to repeat as league champions, when the tournament tees off on Saturday at Maidstone Golf Club in East Hampton, N.Y.
The tournament will feature three rounds of action, two on Saturday and a one on Sunday. Competition begins at 7:30 a.m., on Saturday and 8 a.m., on Sunday. Live scoring will be available on Golfstat.com and a link can be found off the women's golf schedule page.
Last year, Kiser posted a 13-shot victory over the field to become the first Ivy Leaguer to earn medalist honors three consecutive years. Yale's Cindy Shin was second to Kiser last year. Also competing could be four other members of last season's All-Ivy team - Princeton's Taryn Haladay, Sharla Cloutier and Alexis Etow, and Yale's January Romero.
Princeton and Yale have accounted for all eight Ivy League titles since the women's championship began in 1997. Yale has won five team titles to Princeton's three, while the Tigers have taken six individual titles, to two by Yale. No team has finished first or second in the history of the Ivy League women's golf championship other than Princeton or Yale.
Princeton enters the weekend off a strong outing in last weekend's James Madison Invitational. The team rallied on the second day of the 54-hole event to edge the host-Dukes for first-place. Kiser also used a final-round surge to climb into first-place as well. Haladay in third and Cloutier in 10th gave Princeton three finishers in the top 10. Columbia was the only other Ivy League school in the event and the Lions placed 14th. A week earlier, the Tigers placed second to Yale in the rain-shortened Hoya Invitational. Princeton finished ahead of Penn and Columbia in the event.
Princeton is currently ranked 65th in the latest Golfweek/Sagarin rankings. Yale is the next Ivy team in 85th, and Harvard is third at 154th. Kiser is the highest-ranked Ivy Leaguer in the field at 174th. Only four Ivy golfers are in the nation's top 400. They are Kiser, Romero (258), Cloutier (315) and Yale's Jessica Shapiro 327th.
Kiser was the subject of a recent article on Golfweek Magazine's website. The article can be accessed by clicking here.