Tiger women ready for national championships

Adam Anderson please

Lauren Fitts Adam Anderson please MITCHELL, S.D. – The Dakota Wesleyan University women’s golf team makes its 10th appearance at the NAIA Women’s Golf National Championships next week, and the Tigers are hoping their 10th appearance goes as well as the first. DWU, which has qualified for nationals each year since the 2003-04 season, finished [...]

Tiger women sweep major GPAC golf awards

MITCHELL, S.D. – For the fifth straight year, the Dakota Wesleyan University women’s golf team swept the major Great Plains Athletic Conference postseason awards and also landed four golfers on the All-GPAC First Team, it was announced Tuesday morning by the league. Freshman Lauren Fitts is the GPAC Women’s Golfer-of-the-Year and head coach Adam Anderson [...]

Burback named GPAC golfer-of-the-week

Chelsea Burback from DWU.

MITCHELL, S.D. – The Dakota Wesleyan University women’s golf team used five solid individual performances to dominate the Great Plains Athletic Conference team race this season. The Tigers won their fifth straight conference title by 71 strokes to earn a trip to the NAIA Women’s Golf National Championships. One of those five individuals was junior [...]

DWU women, Fitts win GPAC titles

The DWU women's golf team won its fifth straight GPAC title and freshman Lauren Fitts earned GPAC Women's Golfer-of-the-Year honors.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa – The Dakota Wesleyan University women’s golf team didn’t just win the 2012-13 Great Plains Athletic Conference title this year. It dominated the field en route to the title. The Tigers claimed their fifth straight conference title Friday, beating out second-place Northwestern College by 71 strokes. DWU has won the women’s golf [...]

Spring blizzard forces more changes for DWU athletics

MITCHELL, S.D. – The three-day blizzard in Mitchell and the state of South Dakota has set spring sports back at Dakota Wesleyan University and forced changes in most all sports schedules for the coming days and weeks. The baseball team’s Great Plains Athletic Conference double against Northwestern, scheduled for Friday, April 12 in Mitchell, is [...]

Third women’s GPAC golf qualifier postponed

HASTINGS, Neb. – The calendar says April, but Mother Nature appears to have other thoughts. The Dakota Wesleyan University women’s golf team was at the third Great Plains Athletic Conference women’s golf qualifier of the season Tuesday in Hastings, Neb., but it has been postponed due to cold temperatures and ice buildup on the greens. [...]

DWU sweeps weekly GPAC golf awards

Chelsea Burback from DWU.

MITCHELL, S.D. – The Dakota Wesleyan University golf programs swept the Great Plains Athletic Conference Player-of-the-Week awards, it was announced Wednesday morning by the league. For the Tiger men, junior Austin Hieb earned the honor and junior Chelsea Burback was the women’s weekly winner for the DWU women. This is the second weekly honor of [...]

Tiger golf to host fundraiser tournament

MITCHELL, S.D. – The Dakota Wesleyan University men’s and women’s golf programs will host the Tiger Golf Scramble Fundraiser Tournament this spring to help raise money for the golf programs. The scramble is Saturday, April 20, at Wild Oak Golf Club in Mitchell. The four-person scramble has a noon shotgun start. The cost is $60 [...]

Women win, men take third in Kansas

Chelsea Burback from DWU.

WINFIELD, Kan. – The Dakota Wesleyan University men’s and women’s golf teams started the spring portion of their 2012-13 schedules with a pair of solid performances at a tournament hosted by Southwestern University in Winfield, Kan., on Monday and Tuesday. The Tiger women took first by a single stroke and the DWU men finished third [...]

Abbink signs with DWU women’s golf

Scotland native Aisha Abbink will join the Tiger women’s golf program in the fall.

MITCHELL, S.D. – The Dakota Wesleyan University women’s golf team signed a second local standout for the 2013-14 season earlier this month, it was announced Thursday by head coach Adam Anderson. Aisha Abbink, a Scotland, S.D., native, will join the program starting in the fall of 2013 and will be a freshman for the Tiger [...]