Huntingdon men’s golf team headed to NCAA Championships for 8th straight year
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Huntingdon men's golf team is heading back to the NCAA Division III Championships.
The NCAA Division III Men's Golf Committee announced the tournament's field on Monday. The championships will be played May 15-18 at the Mission Inn Resort in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla.
This is eighth straight year the Hawks have reached the NCAA Championships. Counting Huntingdon's final three seasons in NAIA, this is the 11th straight year the golf program has reached a championship tournament.
"I'm proud of our guys for the way they've battled this season," Huntingdon golf coach Matt Mahanic said. "We've played well at times this season and we've struggled at times, but our guys know the history of our program and they understand we have a tradition to uphold.
"We're looking forward to the tournament and we hope to put together our best rounds of golf this season."
The Hawks received a Pool C bid, as an at-large team, to this year's tournament. A total of 210 golfers (41 teams and five individuals) will compete in this year's championship.
The complete tournament field is listed below.
Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Qualification (31)
Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference |
Penn State-Behrend |
American Southwest Conference |
Texas-Tyler |
Centennial Conference |
Franklin & Marshall |
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin |
Illinois Wesleyan |
Colonial States Athletic Conference |
Neumann |
Commonwealth Conference |
Alvernia |
Empire 8 |
St. John Fisher |
Freedom Conference |
Manhattanville |
Great Northeast Athletic Conference |
Rhode Island College |
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference |
Transylvania |
Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Central (Iowa) |
Liberty League |
Skidmore |
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association |
Hope |
Midwest Conference |
Carroll (Wisconsin) |
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
St. Thomas (Minnesota) |
New England Collegiate Conference |
Babson |
New England Small College Athletic Conference |
Middlebury |
North Atlantic Conference |
Husson |
North Coast Athletic Conference |
Wittenberg |
North Eastern Athletic Conference |
Penn State-Harrisburg |
Northern Athletics Conference |
Edgewood |
Northwest Conference |
Linfield |
Ohio Athletic Conference |
Otterbein |
Old Dominion Athletic Conference |
Guilford |
Presidents' Athletic Conference |
Washington and Jefferson |
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Webster |
Skyline Conference |
Farmingdale State |
So. California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
La Verne |
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference |
Oglethorpe |
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference |
North Central (Minnesota) |
USA South Athletic Conference |
Greensboro |
Pool B Berths (3)
Emory
LaGrange
Nebraska Wesleyan
Pool C Berths (7)
Cal Lutheran
Christopher Newport
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Gustavus Adolphus
Huntingdon
Methodist
Redlands
Individuals
Grant Hinton, Centre
Doug Kennedy, Whittier
Rick O'Connell, Hampden-Sydney
Nicholas Palladino, Rochester (N.Y.)
Nick Zolotas, Salem State