It’s not often that a Northwestern sports team can call itself the only ever champion of a Big Ten Conference-wide event. The Wildcats’ women’s golf program can say just that, though, after finishing atop a field of 10 B1G squads at the Innisbrook Resort’s Island Course in Palm Harbor, Fla. earlier this week in the inaugural Women’s Big Ten Match Play Championship.
Kelly Sim led the way for the Wildcats, winning all three of her pairings against competitors from Penn State, Ohio State and Purdue, the three teams that NU faced off with in the tournament. Sim, who tied for third across the field in performance on Par 5 holes and tied for sixth-best on Par 4’s, wound up earning Big Ten Player of the Week honors for her efforts.