Women's Golf Earns No. 2 Spot in West Region First Rankings

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — In the inaugural Spikemark powered by Clippd golf rankings, the St. Mary's Women's Golf team earned a #2 ranking in the West region.
 
The Rattlers, who earned a ranking of 34.91, trail only DBU (39.17), which competed in one more event during the fall. 
 
Freshman Savannah Dupre (San Antonio) is also ranked No. 3 after her first fall season and leads a trio of Rattlers in the top 20. Dupre has an average of 34.41 points with one win and one top-3 finish in four events. 
 
Junior Libby Kilbride (Sheffield, England) enters the rankings at No. 8 with an average of 31.15, while senior Rebecca Reed (Midland, Texas) is No. 15 at 26.45 points.
 
Senior Estelle Beck (Lakeway, Texas) ranks 36th in the region at 15.13, while junior Orla O'Leary (Galashiels, Scotland) rounds out the five in 43rd place and 12.10 points.
 
The new ranking system takes into account the strength of the field of competition and the difficulty of the course, along with several other contributing factors. To learn more about how the rankings are figured, click here.
 
The West Region contains teams from the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA), Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC), Lone Star Conference (LSC), Pacific West Conference (PWC) and the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC).
 
The Rattlers kick off the spring competition on Feb. 5-6 at the Jack Brown Memorial Invitational in Laredo, Texas. They ended the fall with a victory at the MSU Women's Fall Invitational, finishing first among the field of 11 teams.