OKATIE, S.C — For the second time in the last two seasons, the UIndy women's golf team earned a first place team finish and a first place individual finish. Caroline Whallon captured her second career individual title after shooting a +1 (73) in Tuesday's final round. 

"I'm super proud of our team, it is great to get our first team win of the season as we get closer to postseason play," head coach Andy Serketich said. "We played pretty solid for the 9 holes on Monday. This morning we didn't play great after the restart but really regrouped in the final round."

The Greyhounds blew the field away by 13 shots, its largest team win since 2024 when the team won the Flyers Fall Intercollegiate by 14 strokes over McKendree.

Hosted by USC Beaufort, the annual event was held at the par-72 Oldifeld Golf Club in Okatie, S.C. UIndy won this event in just its second trip to Oldfield Golf Club, and bested its T3 team finish from last season. This year's event was shortened to 36-holes after rain forced yesterday's round to be postponed after just nine holes. 
 
INS & OUTS
The Hounds cleared the field by 13 strokes in this shortened event, carding team scores of 309 and 294, which led to them leading the tournament from wire-to-wire. The first round featured a 75 (+3) from Paige Giovenco along with a 76 (+4) from Whallon, while round two was headed by Macey Brown who shot the lone under par round of Tuesday at 71 (-1), and Whallon making her charge up the leaderboard with a 73 (+1). 

Whallon made her charge on Tuesday to vault into the lead after four birdies in her first nine holes of the second round. With three holes to play Whallon finished with two pars to stay even with Columbus State's Sydney Himes, and SCAD Savannah's Yunyi Luo to share first place after 36 holes.

"Huge congrats to Caroline for the co-medalist honors," Serketich said. "She really got it going in the final round and I am super happy she got her 2nd collegiate win." 

Along with Whallon at the top of the leaderboard, Brown and Giovenco also shared eighth place at +7. Today's T8 finish marks the fourth top-10 for each girl on the season, and is the 11th top-10 finish of Brown's four year stint at UIndy.

"Macey played awesome, with 71 being the best score of the entire tournament," Serketich said. "And Paige got another top 10 finish to continue her solid spring season." 

Ava Ray and Abby Stone were the other two Greyhounds competing in the Greyhounds five man squad this week, coming away with T23 (+11) and T30 (+13), respectively. In Stone's second appearance since returning from injury, posted her best finish since a T22 at last year's UMSL Spring Invitational.

"Ava (Ray) had a solid round two," Serketich said. "She is a warrior as she continues battling a tough injury and so it's great to see her fight through it and play so well."

The freshman duo of Valentina Cortez and Lucile Ceolin both competed individually this week, and posted T20 (+10) and T40 (+16) finishes, respectively. 

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UIndy will return back to Indiana on Mar. 30 for the Findianapolis Intercollegiate, which the Hounds will be hosting in Laconia, Ind. at the Chariot Run Golf Course.