Little Rock Opens 2021-22 Season at USA Intercollegiate

2021 USA Intercollegiate
Dates	Saturday, Sept. 4 - Monday, Sept. 6
Format	18 holes each day
Times	8 a.m. tee times each day from holes one and 10
Location	Mobile, Ala.
Course	Magnolia Grove Crossings Course
Teams (17)	Little Rock, Arkansas State, Georgia State, Houston Baptist, Lamar, Memphis, Middle Tennessee, Sam Houston, South Alabama (host), South Florida, Southern Miss, Troy, UAB, ULM, UT Arlington, UTEP, Western Kentucky
Scoring	GolfStat.com

Opening Tee
Little Rock opens the 2021-22 season in Mobile, Alabama, competing in the 2021 USA Intercollegiate Sunday through Monday, hosted by South Alabama.
 
Tournament Information
The 2021 USA Intercollegiate will be held Saturday, Sept. 4 through Monday, Sept. 6 at Magnolia Grove Crossings Course – a par-72, 6,002-yard course in Mobile, Alabama. The 54-hole tournament will be played out over the course of three days with 18 holes a day, starting with tee times off holes one at 10  beginning at 8 a.m. each day. Live scoring is available through GolfStat.com.
 
Tournament Field
Little Rock is one of 17 teams that will compete in the USA Intercollegiate as the Trojans are one of seven Sun Belt schools among the field, joined by Arkansas State, Georgia State, host South Alabama, Troy, ULM and UT Arlington. Seven teams finished the 2020-21 season among the GolfStat Top-100, including Sam Houston (No. 50), South Florida (No. 73), South Alabama (No. 82), Western Kentucky (No. 85), Memphis, (No. 98), Middle Tennessee (No. 99) and Arkansas State (No. 100).
 
Trojan Lineup
Head coach Jenna Wylie begins her third season in Little Rock and will take an experienced squad to South Alabama with four of the five Little Rock players combining for 198 career rounds played, led by 78 from seniors Kellie Gachaga and 76 from Tilde Bocker. Sophomores Agatha Alesson and Viki Krnacova have combined for 44 career rounds played with freshman Katja Mueller also among the Little Rock scorecard. Senior Sydney Scraba will compete as an individual for the Trojans as well.
 
Trojans at the USA Intercollegiate
This weekend's tournament marks the fourth-straight season Little Rock will compete in the USA Intercollegiate, placing sixth in 2020 with a 47-over 911, led by Malena Austerslaatt tying for 16th at 5-over 221. Little Rock tied for 14th in 2019 with a 905, including an opening round 299, while the Trojans' first trip to Mobile in 2018 saw the Trojans place 10th, shooting a season-low 887.
 
The 2021-22 Trojans
Little Rock's 2021-22 roster will once again feature a completely international lineup as head coach Jenna Wylie will have eight players on the roster from eight different countries. This year's installment will represent the countries of Venezuela (Agatha Alesson), Norway (Malena Austerslaatt), Sweden (Tilde), Ireland (Anna Dawson), Kenya (Kellie Gachaga), Slovakia (Viktoria Krnacova), Germany (Katja Mueller) and Canada (Sydney Scraba). That total expands to nine when including England where coach Wylie is from.
 
Among the Nation's Best
Little Rock's efforts in the classroom have paid off once again as the Trojans have been named to the 2020-21 Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) All-Scholar Team, consisting of the top-25 teams with the highest cumulative team GPA. Little Rock's team GPA of 3.917 ranks fifth nationally as the Trojans are one of two Sun Belt teams among the nation's top-five.The honor marks the third time in the last four years the Trojans have ranked among the nation's top-10 for cumulative GPA. Little Rock is coming off another strong semester in the classroom, boasting a department-best 3.88 GPA for the spring semester.
 
Five Trojans Garner WGCA All-American Scholar Honors
Once again, Little Rock's women's golf program has been recognized as one of the top academic performing teams in the nation as five Trojan golfers have been named Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) All-American Scholars for 2020-21. It is the seventh time in the last eight seasons Little Rock has had at least five golfers recognized with the prestigious honor. Malena Austerslaatt, Tilde Bocker, Kellie Gachaga and Sydney Scraba all finished the spring semester with a perfect 4.00 GPA as the quartet each earned the third WGCA All-America honors of their career. Austerslaatt and Gachaga have maintained a cumulative 4.00 GPA for their entire Little Rock careers while Bocker boasts a 3.96 and Scraba a 3.75. Viktoria Krnacova registered a 3.93 during the spring and finished her first season in Little Rock with a cumulative GPA of 3.96
 
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