Princeton University Athletics
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Ivy League Championship
Women's Golf Earns Third Ivy Title in Five Years
April 17, 2005 | Women's Golf
April 17, 2005
Complete Results
East Hampton, N.Y. - The Princeton women's golf team repeated as Ivy League champions earlier today after a three-round total of 970 in the Ivy League Championships at the Maidstone Golf Club in East Hampton, N.Y. Princeton shot a final round of 318 and finished 35 strokes ahead of its nearest competitor, Yale.
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Princeton with the Ivy Championship trophy. |
The Tigers 318 final round was the lowest of their three. They shot a 328 in Round 1, 324 in Round 2 to finish at 970. Yale finished at 1005 in second, while Penn, Brown and Columbia completed the top five.
Meg Nakamura was the highest-finishing Tiger in second-place, just a strokee off of first-place Cindy Shin of Yale. Shin finished the tournament at 230 (79-75-76). Nakamura shot a 231 (79-77-75).
Princeton's Sharla Cloutier placed third with a 237 (84-79-74). Her 74 was the lowest round of the tournament. Avery Kiser came next in fourth at 245 (81-83-81), comng up just short in her bid to win four-straigh Ivy League titles.
Taryn Haladay as the fourth Tiger in the top 10. She plaed eighth with a 257 (84-85-88). Priceton's final competitor was Annika Welander and she shot a 271 (91-85-95) to place 23rd in her first Ivy League Championship tournament.
Nakamura, Cloutier and Kiser all were named to the All-Ivy team, along with Yale's Cindy Shin and January Romero, Columbia's Alana Johnson and Penn's Melissa Aylor. Kiser became only the second golfer in league history to earn All-Ivy status four times in a career. Cloutier and Nakamura both received their second All-Ivy honors.