KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. -  With two rounds of play complete, the FGCU women's golf team stands among the top 25 teams at the 2015 Edwin Watts Kiawah Island Spring Classic. The Eagles shot a combined score of 312 Monday on the Osprey Point Golf Club to improve two positions and currently hold a total score of 637 (325-312).
 
FGCU saw strong improvements in the second day of the nation's largest women's collegiate event and moved ahead of William and Mary and Towson. Four of the team's five competitors recorded better scores in the second round to shave 13 strokes off the team's first-round score.  The host College of Charleston shot a tournament best 288 Monday to move in to the tournament leader position with Troy, North Florida, Stetson and Elon rounding out the top five, all with scores at 603 or better.
 
FGCU saw consistent scores as all five players recorded scores within six stokes of each other. However, no Eagle broke 80 as the team ranked in the bottom half in the unprecedentedly large field.  The Eagles sit 20 strokes out of the top-10.
 
"We played better today and were able to move up a couple spots which I am proud of," said head coach Sarah Trew. "We really had it going on the front nine and lost some shots coming in on the back. Maddie [Easterbrook] and Sara [Detlefsen] we on the verge of having really good rounds today and I really feel like they are on the verge of breaking through. We put ourselves in a hole after the first round and are determined to dig ourselves out tomorrow.  At the end of the day, this tournament will make us stronger because we are pushing ourselves outside of our comforts zone by learning to adapt to different courses and weather conditions."
 
Madison Easterbrook (Burlington, Ontario/Aldershot High School) leads the Green and Blue with a total score of 157 through two rounds. The freshman carded an 80 in the first round and improved with a 77 in round two to rank 59th in the field of over 200 golfers.
 
Mei Khuan Yong (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia/S.M.K. Cochrane High School) took three strokes off her first-round score and cared a 78 in Monday's round. Yong now stands at 159 with a tie at 78th place.
 
Sara Detlefsen (Eagan, Minn./Minnesota Virtual Academy) matched Easterbrook for the team's best performance with a 77 Monday for a seven-stroke advance from Sunday's round. Detlefsen now stands with a total score of 161.
 
Senior Georgia Price (Bude, England/Fort Myers High School) and Rebecca VanEtten (Trinity, Fla./J.W. Mitchell High School) rounded out FGCU's lineup with scores of 83 and 80, respectively. Price holds a total score of 163 with one round remaining, while VanEtten stands at 166.
 
The team will play the final round of the Edwin Watts Kiawah Island Spring Classic Tuesday, Mar. 3 at Kiawah Island on the Oak Point course. FGCU will tee off at 9 a.m. on holes four and five with no. 24 and 26 teams, Boston College and William and Mary. Complete results will be available at FGCUathletics.com following the round's completion.
 
COMPLETE RESULTS

1	College of Charleston	300	288	588
2	Troy	298	300	598
3	North Florida	297	304	601
4	Stetson	303	298	602
5	Elon	306	297	603
6	Chattanooga	301	305	606
7	Samford	305	302	607
8	Western Carolina	300	309	609
9	SCAD - Savannah	311	305	616
10	Delaware	318	299	617
11	Jacksonville	310	311	621
	Jacksonville St.	311	310	621
	Illinois State	312	309	621
14	Marshall	318	304	622
15	So.Carolina Beaufort	314	311	625
16	Seton Hall	328	300	628
17	Western Kentucky	321	308	629
	Boston University	324	308	629
	Bethune-Cookman	324	305	629
20	Georgetown	314	315	630
21	UNCG	319	312	631
22	Charleston Southern	319	313	632
23	Rutgers	319	316	635
24	Boston College	318	318	636
25	FGCU	325	312	637
26	William & Mary	314	324	638
	Towson	323	315	638
28	Richmond	330	310	640
29	South Alabama	322	321	643
30	Radford	330	316	646
31	USC Upstate	331	320	651
32	Ball State	326	327	653
33	Longwood	328	328	656
34	Loyola	339	320	659
35	St. John's	340	332	672
36	Navy	351	327	678
37	The Citadel	341	342	683
38	Bucknell	363	339	702
39	Presbyterian College	361	354	715
40	High Point	325	D	573

 
INDIVIDUAL RESULTS

59	Madison Easterbrook	80	77	157
78	Mei Khuan Yong	81	78	159
114	Sara Detlefsen	84	77	161
130	Georgia Price	80	83	163
152	Rebecca VanEtten	86	80	166

 
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Head coach Sarah Trew is in her fourth season at the helm of the FGCU women's golf team. Trew took over in 2011 and has since guided the Eagles to the program's best-ever finish in the Atlantic Sun Tournament and to 20+ top-10 finished. A year ago, Trew led the team to several records on and off the course. The 2013-14 squad set a new single-season scoring record with a team average of 307.88, while also setting a new benchmark academically. The team earned a team grade point average of 3.8 in the fall semester and set the FGCU team record with a 3.92 during the spring of 2014.