GVSU Women's Golf Team Reaches First-Ever #1 Ranking in Final Season Poll

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The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) placed three teams in the top-25 of the latest Golf World/National Golf Coaches Association poll for women's golf. Ferris State University men's golf team also represents the GLIAC in the final season poll.

The Grand Valley State University women's golf team received its first-ever #1 national ranking, as was released in the latest Golf World/National Golf Coaches Association poll in the Nov. 30 issue of Golf World magazine. In the previous poll, GVSU was ranked #3, but moved up after a strong fall season in which the Lakers won four of the six tournaments in which they competed.

Polls were conducted by the NGCA and voting closed on Nov. 19. Grand Valley State received two of the 10 first-place votes and totaled 230 points, barely outdistancing second place Nova Southeastern, which had four first-place votes and 229 points. Florida Southern (223 points), Rollins (three first-place votes, 212 points), and Indianapolis (201 points) rounded out the top-five. GLIAC competitor Ashland University received the other first-place vote and were ranked eighth with 161 points.

Ferris State University women's golf team earned 46 points in the top-25 poll to finish three points ahead of 24th-place Central Oklahoma. Grand Canyon (Ariz.) was eight points ahead of the Bulldogs with a 22nd-place 54-points total.

The 2009-10 Ferris State University men's golf team has cracked the top 25 as the Bulldogs are ranked 22nd nationally in the final 2009 Golf World/Nike Golf Division II Coaches' Poll as released on Nov. 30. The Bulldogs, who were not ranked in the second installment of the national poll, received 91 points to finish one point ahead of 23rd-place Newberry (N.C.). Rollins (Fla.)