Golf Team Swings for Second Patriot League Championship

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Terriers hope to use strong spring season to get back on top
Adela Cejnarova (CAS’17), the undisputed leader and only senior on the six-woman BU golf team, will be out to defend her back-to-back individual Patriot League titles at this weekend’s league tournament.
When the BU golf team travels to Pennsylvania this weekend for the Patriot League Women’s Golf Championship, it’s with the hope of repeating the 2015 season finale: a conference title, the team’s first.
Hosted by Lehigh, the tournament will be played over two days at the Saucon Valley Country Club in Bethlehem, with the schools golfing 36 holes tomorrow, Saturday, April 22, and another 18 holes Sunday.
The Terriers mean to use their strong spring season to launch themselves back onto the top of the podium after a runner-up finish last season.
“I’m very confident in this team,” says Adela Cejnarova (CAS’17), who as the only senior has led the Terriers all season. “We have worked hard, and we’re at a good place to play really well.”
Cejnarova will soon close out what has been a remarkable Terrier career. As a freshman in 2014, the Czech Republic native took home the Patriot League Rookie of the Year award. In both sophomore and junior seasons, she earned league individual titles and Golfer of the Year honors.
She’s playing the best golf of her career this season, she says. “I’m consistently playing really well this year. I just enjoy playing with the team and seeing the results.”
The Terriers spent the winter training to improve on a slow fall season that saw them finish no better than sixth in any tournament. The results paid off. The team set back-to-back 54-hole program records this spring, shooting a combined 898 in a second-place finish at Stetson University’s Babs Steffens Invitational in late March, then breaking that record the ...

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