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A Monumental Moment: Dasa Urbankova Wins Individual Title, Flames Share Team Title at Nevel Meade Intercollegiate

Flames place first in full-team tournament for first time in program history while Urbankova wins third individual title of the season

3/19/2024 4:58:00 PM

PROSPECT, Ky. (March 19, 2024) – It was a program-defining day on the golf course for the UIC Flames. For the first time in program history, UIC finished on top of the leaderboard in both the team and individual standings, as graduate student Dasa Urbankova (Brno, Czech Republic/Menlo College) won her program-record third individual title of the season, while the Flames finished as co-champions in the team standings at the Nevel Meade Intercollegiate, held at the Nevel Meade Golf Club in Prospect, Ky.

Competing in cold conditions Monday and Tuesday, the Flames cut seven strokes off co-champion Oakland's Day One lead to clinch a share of the team trophy. The co-team title is UIC's first team championship at a full-field tournament in program history. UIC won the three-team Chitown Classic crown in Aug. 2015.
 
 
In the individual competition, Urbankova dominated on both days of the 36-hole tournament, and held on to her Day One lead to cruise to a five-stroke victory in the more than 60-person field.
 
COMMENT FROM HEAD COACH ANGELA RAYHILL

"I'm so proud of our program on how they performed this week. The weather was a big factor and the team fought right through it. It's a testament to their hard work they have been putting in both at practice and in competition. Watching all of our student-athletes prepare and execute this week was amazing. I'm speechless regarding Dasa's performance; to win her third individual title of the season shows how talented she is. She sets the pace for the team and I am so proud of her. We are going to enjoy this moment of winning our first co-championship in program history but we are ready to get back to work as we train for our next tournament."

COMMENT FROM GRADUATE STUDENT DASA URBANKOVA

"I'm extremely proud of our team and the way we competed. It was such a grind out on the course, playing in 25-degree temperature with 35 mph wind and snow and we battled the relentless conditions both days. I can't express how happy I am to finish this invitational with a individual title. We've been so close as a team to winning a team title all season, and we knew it was just a matter of time until we accomplished this feat. I believe this team title is the first of many to come for our program."

NEVEL MEADE COLLEGIATE RECAP
  • The Flames got off to a hot start at the two-day tournament Monday, shooting +25 (313) as a program to finish Day One in third place in the team standings. Urbankova shot even (72) during Round One and entered the second day of competition with a one-stroke lead.
  • The graduate student continued her stellar play through Tuesday's second round, shooting +2 (74) in challenging conditions to clinch the individual title.
  • Following her Day Two round of +7 (79), senior Megan Tang (Memphis, Tenn./St. Mary's) climbed 14 spots in the team standings to finish tied-14th. Tang concluded the competition at +17 (161).
  • Seniors Brooke Beyer (Mesa, Ariz./Desert Ridge) and Grace Szklarek (Granger, Ind./Penn) both finished tied-17th in the individual standings, shooting +19 (163).
  • Junior Lia Thomas (Michigan City, Ind./Michigan City) jumped 16 spots in the individual standings to tie for 38th at +23 (167), while sophomore Ellie McDonald (Indianapolis, Ind./Heritage Christian) finished in 62nd, shooting +51 (101).
  • The Flames as a team shot a Day Two low of +25 (313) during Tuesday's second round to finish with a final team score of +50 (626) to tie with the Golden Grizzlies for the team title.  


NEWS AND NOTES
  • Urbankova is the first Flames golfer in program history to have won more than one individual title in a single season. She placed first at the Brittany Kelly Classic (Sept. 18-19) and the Butler Fall Invitational (Oct. 2-3) earlier this season.
  • Her two-day score of 146 is tied for the fourth-lowest 36-hole score in program history.
  • The graduate student's first round score of 72 is her eighth round under 72 during the 2023-24 season. She was the only competitor to shoot under 74 on both days of the 36-hole tournament.
  • Tang's Day Two score of 79 is her 13th round under 80 in 17 outings this season.
  • Szklarek's 17th-place finish was her highest finish this season and her third top 20 finish. Her Monday score of 76 was tied for the fourth-lowest of the invitational.
  • Thomas' 38th-place finish is tied for her second-best finish this season. Her 16-spot jump was the third-largest jump of all competitors during Tuesday's second round.  
  • UIC's finished in the top-three in the team standings in seven of its eight competitions this season.
  • The seven top-three finishes in the team standings is the most in a season in program history.
  • UIC's had more top-three finishes (seven) than in the past four years combined.
  • The Flames' two team rounds of 313 were the second-lowest team scores at the two-day invitational.
  • UIC was one of three Missouri Valley Conference programs competing at the event and finished the highest among all MVC schools in the team standings.
  • The Flames finished the Nevel Meade Intercollegiate with 13 birdies. Urbankova led the way with five, while Szklarek finished with three birdies.


UP NEXT
  • The Flames off until early April, when the program heads to Pawleys Island, S.C. for the Golfweek Program Challenge.
  • The three-day event runs from April 1-3 at the Caledonia Golf and Fish Club.
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