The Washington University women’s golf team is headed to the national championship in just its second year as a varsity sport.

The fifth ranked women’s golf team suffered a first round 346 at the Northern Kentucky University Spring Invitational this past weekend and wound up in 15th place overall, but Washington University left Perry Park, Ky. feeling far more optimistic than they did coming in on the strength of a Day Two 328.

Golf teams across the Midwest are finally starting to notice the Washington University women’s golf squad. The unranked and unheralded Bears followed up on last week’s tournament title by capturing the Illinois Wesleyan University Fall Classic. “There’s no expectations on us,” senior Margaret Manning said. “We’ve done it for ourselves, for our team.” In the [...]