The Sandspur

Issue date: 10/29/04 Section: Sports

Media Credit: RC SID IS A REPEAT IN THE CARDS?: Campbell (above) and Ljungman (below) will look to the defend the national title.

Media Credit: RC SID

Back and better then ever seems to be the motto for this year's women's golf team. With four of the top five players from the 2003 NCAA Division II Golf Championship team returning this year, Rollins women's golf team is stacked and ready for another winning season. The Tars are led by head coach Julie Garner who is currently in her third stint as the head women's golf coach at Rollins, having coached between 1984-87 and 1996-97 before returning to the Tars four years ago.

Coach Garner helped lead the Tars to their first NCAA Division II National Championship two years ago and earned a national Coach of the Year honor for again leading the Tars to a national championship last season. Returning players include last season's Sunshine State Conference Champion and two time NCAA Individual Champion Charlotte Campbell, along with senior and this year's 5th Annual Baytree Women's Intercollegiate top scorer Ulrika Ljungman from Sweden. The team has also brought in six extremely talented freshmen, who Coach Garner sees great potential in for the following four years, of which Venessa Vela was top scorer in early October's Nittany Lion Invitational in Pennsylvania.

The Tars have competed well against such collegiate notables as Georgetown, Yale and the University of Richmond and have defeated worthy opponents like Northern Kentucky. And though it may seem like only a few, rather then a team, one of the members of the women's golf team was quoted proudly boasting that the lineup "is composed of highly athletic and talented women, who all have the capability of taking a national championship individually. Even though we have two national championship rings it doesn't stop us from taking each shot seriously."

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