WOMEN’S GOLF SEASON PREVIEW: Yellow Jackets teed up for next challenge

DEFIANCE, Ohio – Defiance College women's golf is ready to hit the links for NAIA competition and looks to continue posting solid scores from top to bottom. After a record-setting year in 2023-24, DC returns a strong core with a mixture of new talent under established leadership.

Season Outlook
Women's golf coaches Brad Doidge and Brent Beck enter their fourth season leading the program, which makes this a special group that they have recruited and mentored throughout their college careers. That consistency has produced great results as the team had its best 54-hole tournament and finished sixth among HCAC programs in the spring championship. Over the last year, every individual and team record has been reset and the last two seasons has produced 45 marks that currently stand in the individual or team record books.

This year, Coach Doidge and Coach Beck expect the team to compete and improve in both the physical and mental aspects of the game. They also hope to see the team push each other as they establish themselves in the new conference.

About the Team
Defiance is returning 3 of 4 who competed in tournaments last season. Winter Boroff is coming off a record-setting season in which she carried an 85-stroke average per 18 holes. Boroff also owns the program's individual 36-hole and 18-hole lows that included a 74 at the HCAC Championship to earn ninth place overall. Isabelle Vance returns for her senior season after breaking a 90 average last season, which was fifth-lowest for a season in the program's history, and also earned Academic All-American honors for the third straight year. Emily Momany is the third returner for her sophomore season and seeks to employ a hard-working offseason with that year of experience to the team's third slot. New to the program are freshmen Hailey Becker of Defiance and Braylin Shaner out of Piqua.

The biggest departure is Cassady Van Dyke, whose 85.6 average was just behind Boroff's season record last year. Van Dyke carried an 88.6 average over two years at DC and earned four top-10 finishes as a sophomore. 

Conference Outlook
The WHAC has been dominated by UNOH for the last six seasons by taking each of the last six WHAC Championships. Indiana Tech has been another traditional force in the conference.

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