PEORIA, Ill. -- The Bradley women's golf team will hit the halfway point of its spring schedule this week, spending Spring Break in Florida. The trip to the Sunshine State will be the second during the 2012-13 for the Braves, who played last week at the Rio Verde Invitational in Rio Verde, Ariz.
Bradley kicks off the weeklong trip to Florida in the Jacksonville area at the World Golf Village. The Braves will face Jacksonville University in a duel on Tuesday with the teams counting the five best of six scores. Three pairings will play the Slammer & Squire Course in the morning with the other three pairings taking on the King & Bear Course in the afternoon.
The Braves will also play in the Cincinnati Spring Invitational at the par-72 Plantation Inn Golf Resort March 22-24 in Crystal River, Fla. The three-day, 54-hole event starts Friday with 7:30 a.m. (CDT) tee times and Saturday's round also features tee times starting at 7:30 a.m. (CDT). Sunday's final round will feature an 8:30 a.m. (CDT) shotgun start.
The tournament field for the Cincinnati Spring Invite features Big East Conference members Cincinnati, Rutgers and Seton Hall in addition to Xavier, Fairleigh Dickinson, North Dakota State, Oakland, UAB and Texas-Pan American. The 17-team field also features Florida Atlantic and Florida Gulf Coast along with five-time NJCAA national champion Daytona State, Embry-Riddle, four-time NCAA Division II national champ Florida Southern, University of Tampa and Seminole State.
Freshman Allison Walsh (Mt. Prospect, Ill./Mt. Prospect) led Bradley at last week's Rio Verde Invitational, tying for 17th for her first career top-20 finish. She has carded five of her last six rounds in the 70's and owns a 78.0 stroke average in her last three tournaments.
Fellow freshman Danielle Lemek (Doniphan, Neb./Doniphan-Trumbull) continues to lead the team in stroke average and ranks second in the Missouri Valley Conference with a 74.9 season average. Her 17 rounds in the 70's this season is tied for the 14th highest season total in school history.
Sophomore Thea Hedemann (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan/Walter Murray) boasts a 76.0 career stroke average in three career tournaments in the state of Florida. Her two lowest career rounds have come in trips to Florida, including her school-record round of 68 last spring in Lakeland, Fla. Not to be outdone, sophomore Christie Lin (Calgary, Alberta/Sir John G Diefenbaker) owns a 77.3 career stroke average in Florida tournaments and carded a career-best 69 at the Pat Bradley Invitational in the fall.
Following the Cincinnati Spring Invitational, the Braves will host the Bradley Invitational April 6 & 7 at WeaverRidge Golf Club.
