INDIANAPOLIS – The season continues for Maeve Cummins (Waringstown, Northern Ireland) as the freshman has received a fifth-seed individual bid into the 2019 NCAA Division II Women's Golf Championships South Region, as announced by the Women's Golf Committee on Monday.
The South Atlantic Conference's Freshman of the Year and Tournament MVP is one of six individuals in the region. For each regional, the top-12 teams will play along with six individuals who are not on the teams included. From there, the top four teams and individuals not with a team in each regional tournament will garner a spot in the national championship.
Her placement gives Carson-Newman a sixth individual in NCAA Championship action and the third in as many years with Elizabeth England playing in the tournament the past two season. She is the fifth Eagle to head to the regional since 2009.
Cummins holds a 75.83 scoring average heading into the regional with two tournament victories including the SAC Championship earlier in April and the King Invitational back in September. She started for the Eagles in every event but that King Invitational win. She has recorded six top-10 finishes with three in the top-three.
Her win at the conference helped Cummins become the third player in SAC history to win the individual title in the same year as becoming the conference's Freshman of the Year. The last one to do it was Wingate's Ashley Denton in 2008.
In terms of program history, she was the third Eagle to win the tournament crown. The last was Elizabeth England in 2017 before heading into the regional.
While she is in just her debut season with the group, Cummins sits at the top of the best career scoring average list (75.75) and career won-lost percentage list (.839). She is currently 108th in the nation according to Golfstat.
The South Regional tournament is scheduled for May 6-8 from the Cleveland Country Club in Cleveland, Tenn., hosted by Lee University out of the Gulf South Conference.
