METAMORA, Ill. – Metamora Fields Golf Club will be the site of the College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) Women’s Golf Championship for the second consecutive October when the league’s 29th annual event tees off Thursday at 8 a.m.
Tee times and live results will be posted via scoreboard.clippd.com and cciw.org.
Ballots submitted last month by league coaches in a pre-championship poll picked Illinois Wesleyan to win its eighth title since 2015. The Titans, who were ranked eighth nationally in a WGCA poll released on Sept. 6, collected eight first-place votes for the maximum possible 64 points in the poll. IWU won last season’s crown in Metamora with a tournament-record team total of 886.
| 2024 CCIW Women's Golf Pre-Championship Poll |
| Team (First-place votes) |
Points |
| 1. Illinois Wesleyan (8) |
64 |
| 2. Elmhurst (1) |
48 |
| 3. Augustana |
47 |
| 4. Carthage |
43 |
| 5. North Central |
37 |
| 6. Millikin |
29 |
| 7. Carroll |
22 |
| T8. North Park |
17 |
| T8. Wheaton |
17 |
Elmhurst was selected second in the coaches’ poll, receiving one first-place vote and 48 points. The Bluejays tied for second place as a team last season. Also placing second last October was Augustana, which was voted third in the 2024 poll with 47 points.
Carthage (43 points) – which won its last CCIW title in 2021 – was slotted fourth on Wednesday, followed by North Central (37 points) and Millikin (29 points). Carroll (22 points) secured the seventh position, while North Park and Wheaton tied for eighth spot with 17 points apiece.
The top returning player from last season’s event is Illinois Wesleyan’s Jadyn Spinks, who finished two shots off the lead in second place on the individual leaderboard last October. Spinks will tee off at 8:18 a.m. Thursday in the IWU lineup. Elmhurst’s Regan Bobich and IWU’s Macy Ludwig tied for fifth last season, both returning Thursday to play in the same grouping at 8:45 a.m.
Other All-CCIW players returning from last season are North Central’s Aleksa Gizewicz (9:30 a.m. Thursday), Augustana’s Sarah Bond (8:27 a.m. Thursday) and IWU’s Jacque O’Neill (8:36 a.m. Thursday).
The team champion of this weekend's event will earn the CCIW's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA Division III Women's Golf Championship at Bay Oaks Country Club in Houston on May 13-16.
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The College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) was founded in 1946 and currently services nine member institutions including Augustana College (Rock Island, Ill.), Carroll University (Waukesha, Wis.), Carthage College (Kenosha, Wis.), Elmhurst University (Elmhurst, Ill.), Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, Ill.), Millikin University (Decatur, Ill.), North Central College (Naperville, Ill.), North Park University (Chicago, Ill.) and Wheaton College (Wheaton, Ill.).