Little Rock Set For Final Sun Belt Championship

2022 SUN BELT CHAMPIONSHIP
Dates	Sunday, Apr. 17 - Tuesday, Apr. 19
Format	18 holes each day
Times	7 a.m. CT tee times from 1 and 10
Location	Daytona Beach, Fla.
Course	LPGA International
Teams (11)	Little Rock, App State, Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, South Alabama, Texas State, Troy, ULM, UT Arlington
Watch	ESPN+
Scoring	GolfStat.com
Tournament Central	Sun Belt Conference

2021-22 Little Rock Women's Golf Statistics (PDF)

Opening Tee
Little Rock heads to Daytona Beach for the 2022 Sun Belt Conference Championship, being held Sunday, April 17 through Tuesday, April 19 at LPGA International. It marks the final Sun Belt tournament for the Trojans, who will leave the league for the Ohio Valley Conference on July 1.
 
Tournament Information
The 2022 Sun Belt Conference Championship will be held at LPGA International for the third year in a row, a par-72, 6,193-yard course in Daytona Beach, Florida. The 54-hole event will be held over the course of three days with 18 holes day, getting underway with tee times off holes one and 10 at 7 a.m. CT each day. Little Rock enters the championship as the number six seed and will tee off from hole one Sunday, beginning at 7 a.m. CT and playing with fourth-seeded Georgia Southern and fifth-seeded Arkansas State. Live scoring is available at GolfStat.com with each round being streamed on ESPN+.
 
Tournament Field
All 11 Sun Belt teams head to Florida for this year's conference meet as the Trojans enter as the number six seed, sitting at number 135 in the latest GolfStat rankings. Coastal Carolina (No. 71) is the top-rated team in the league, followed by Texas State (No. 87), South Alabama (No. 105), Georgia Southern (No. 106) and Arkansas State (No. 112) sitting ahead of the Trojans.
 
Trojan Lineup
Head coach Jenna Wylie heads to Daytona Beach with the top-five scoring average leaders on this year's squad as senior Sydney Scraba will hold the number one position. Agatha Alesson, Katja Mueller, Viktoria Krnacova and Anna Dawson will round out the Trojan lineup as Mueller and Dawson will be playing in their first conference tournament event.
 
Trojans at the Sun Belt Championship
Little Rock is looking to improve on its seventh-place finish in 2021 at LPGA International, the Trojans' best finish since tying for sixth in 2017 at Muscle Shoals, Alabama.  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. Little Rock has captured the Sun Belt tournament title on a pair of occasions, capturing the league championship in both 1998 and 1999.
 
Last Time Out
Katja Mueller placed sixth among the 62-player field as Little Rock finished fifth at the Oral Roberts Spring Invitational at the Club at Indian Springs. The Trojans shot a 33-over 321 over the final round, closing out the event at 53-over 917. The Trojans were led by Mueller's 4-over 220 following a 5-over 77 in round three. Mueller tied for second among the field in par-four scoring, finishing at even-par, while shooting a 1-over on par-five holes.
 
Reaching 100
Senior Sydney Scraba reached an impressive career milestone at the ORU Spring Invitational, playing the 100th round of her Little Rock career. The most experienced golfer on the roster, Scraba has competed in 102 rounds with a 78.21 scoring average, four rounds of par-or-better and three top-20 individual finishes. The Calgary, Alberta native has been solid as a senior, boasting a career-best 76.14 scoring average, nearly four strokes better than her freshman campaign, with her first career top-10 finish at the Little Rock Golf Classic, tying for eighth.
 
Mueller Making Her Mark
Freshman Katja Mueller has made her mark on the Trojan golf program in her first season, leading the team in scoring average at 74.48 as she is the lone golfer to play in all nine events this season. Mueller's 74.48 average currently ranks fifth in program history as she has five par-or-better rounds with three top-10 individual finishes, including tying for the individual championship at the Tchefuncta Invitational in February
 
Eyeing the Record Book
Little Rock is looking to make its mark in the program's record book as the Trojans head to Florida boasting a 300.89 team scoring average, which would currently rank first in program history ahead of the 301.39 mark set by the 2014-15 team. Individually, Katja Mueller has a 74.48 scoring average, which would rank fifth in program history, while Viktoria Krnacova's 75.29 mark would be 11th all-time in program history.
 
Top-10 Showings
Little Rock looks to build on its strong showing during the 2021-22 season, finishing in the top-10 as a team in eight of nine events on the year, finishing in the top-six in each of the last five tournaments. Individually, Trojan golfers have finished in the top-10 five times this year, led by a three from Katja Mueller, coming off her sixth-place showing in Oklahoma earlier this week. Viktoria Krnacova, Agatha Alesson and Sydney Scraba have each logged a top-10 showing.
 
Racking Up The Miles
Little Rock's tournament in Florida will mark the ninth different state the Trojans will have competed in this season, joining Alabama, Missouri, Washington, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nevada, Georgia and Oklahoma.
 
Last Trip Around the Sun
This week's event marks Little Rock's final conference tournament as a member of the Sun Belt Conference, ending a 31-year run as a league member. The Trojans are tied for the second-longest tenured members of the league, joining the same time as Arkansas State and Louisiana, and have finished in the top-five of the conference meet 20 times, including a pair of conference titles and four runner-up finishes. Little Rock will join the Ohio Valley Conference on July 1, 2022.
 
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