Little Rock Set To Compete in 2021 Sun Belt Conference Championship

2021 Sun Belt Conference Championship
Dates	Sunday, Apr. 18 - Tuesday, Apr. 20
Format	18 holes each day
Times	7 a.m. CT tee times each day
Location	Daytona Beach, Fla.
Course	LPGA International
Teams (11)	Little Rock, Appalachian State, Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, South Alabama, Texas State, Troy, ULM, UT Arlington
Scoring	GolfStat.com
Tournament Central	SunBeltSports.org

2021 Little Rock Women's Golf Statistics (PDF)

Opening Tee
Little Rock makes the trek to Florida for the 2021 Sun Belt Conference Championship, being held April 18-20 in Daytona Beach, Florida.
 
Tournament Information
The 2021 Sun Belt Conference Championship will be held Sunday, April 18 through Tuesday, April 20 at LPGA International, a par-72, 6,050-yard course in Daytona Beach. The 54-hole event will be played over the course of three days with tee times getting underway at 7 a.m. CT each day. Live scoring is available at GolfStat.com with streaming coverage on ESPN+.
 
Tournament Field
All 11 Sun Belt schools will be competing in Daytona Beach with seedings based according to the latest GolfStat rankings. Little Rock's number 133 rankings makes the Trojans the number eight seed, playing with number seven Georgia Southern and number nine Georgia State in the opening round.
 
Trojan Lineup
Head coach Jenna Wylie will use the same lineup that helped the Trojans clinch the ORU Spring Invitational title earlier this week as Little Rock heads to Daytona Beach.
 

Golfer	Rds.	Strokes	Avg.	Low	Par-	10/20
Agatha Alesson	14	1,062	75.86	69	4	1/2
Malena Austerslaatt	23	1,742	75.74	69	3	1/4
Sydney Scraba	26	2,025	77.88	71	1	0/0
Kellie Gachaga	26	1,982	76.23	71	1	1/3
Viktoria Krnacova	26	2,022	77.77	70	2	3/1

Trojans at Sun Belt Conference
Little Rock is looking to improve on its 11th-place finish in 2019 and 10th-place showing in 2018. The Trojans had finished in the top five in the conference tournament 10 times during an 11-year stretch from 2006 through 2016, finishing as the league's runner-up in both 2008 and 2009.
 
Last Time Out
Little Rock captured its first team tournament title since 2016, winning the 2021 Oral Roberts Spring Break Invitational at the Club at Indian Spring on April 13. The Trojans led wire-to-wire, withstanding a late charge from Missouri State to capture the event with a 46-over 898. The win in Oklahoma marks the 14th team tournament championship in program history and the first since capturing the 2016 Kansas City Shootout. It is the first team title of head coach Jenna Wylie's coaching career and the first championship for the entire Trojan roster.
 
Coming on Strong
The spring season has been one to remember for Little Rock as the Trojans enter the Sun Belt Conference playing its best golf. Little Rock has finished in the top-eight in each of the five spring tournaments, including tying for fourth-place finishes at the Bama Beach Bash and Georgia State Invitational and the team title at the ORU Invitational. The last time the Trojans finished fourth or better in three consecutive tournaments was back in the 2014-15 season, placing second, third and first in three-straight events.
 
Freshman Leadership
The freshman duo of Agatha Alesson and Viktoria Krnacova has led the Trojans in the spring season with Krnacova shooting 75.14 over the five spring tournaments and Alesson adding a 75.86 average. The duo has combined for four top-10 finishes and seven top-20 showings, posting six rounds of par-or-better.  
 
Veteran Experience
Little Rock's junior trio of Malena Austerslaatt, Kellie Gachaga and Sydney Scraba have been constants in the Trojan lineup for the last three seasons, combining for 228 rounds played over 78 events. Austerslaatt has a career scoring average of 77.14, which currently ranks 10th in program history while her six rounds of par-or-better is tied for 12th all-time.
 
Firsts For Wylie
Head coach Jenna Wylie has reached a number of impressive firsts during her second season as a collegiate head coach in 2020-21. She captured her first tournament win as a coach in last week's victory at the ORU Spring Invitational, as her Trojans shot a season-low 290 in round two, tied for the ninth-lowest team round in program history. Wylie notched her first win over a Power Five opponent, beating Rutgers in the Texas State Invitational, as each player on the roster has claimed a new personal 18, 36 and 54-hole best during her tenure.
 
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