TOLEDO, Ohio – The Toledo women's golf team will compete in the 2019 Mid-American Conference Championships this weekend in Noblesville, Ind. The three-day tournament includes 10 schools and will be held Friday-Sunday, April 19-21, at the par-72, 5,991-yard Purgatory Golf Club. The event will consist of three rounds with 18 holes being played each day.

The Rockets had an opportunity to see the championship course last October when they placed second in the MAC Preview. Senior Natcha Daengpiem led UT by capturing her first collegiate tournament title with a career-best four-under par 212 (71-66-75). Toledo finished just two strokes behind champion Xavier with a 21-over par 885.

"Seeing the course in the fall was a great introduction to how it can play with any weather," Head Coach Jenny Coluccio said. "That experience will be beneficial knowledge for our team and helped direct our practice for this week as well."

Coluccio said it will be important for her squad to remain even-keeled throughout the tournament to achieve the best possible result.

"The keys to our success is to stay patient and focused on the plan," Coluccio said. "We can't allow emotion or situations to dictate our decision-making. The course could bring us any situation, and we are prepared to expect the unexpected this weekend."

THE FIELD
• Ten schools are participating in the MAC Championships.
• Kent State is the only school to win the MAC Championship in its 20-year history and is the favorite to win the tournament again this year. The Golden Flashes are ranked No. 10 in Golfstat's national rankings followed by Toledo (98), Northern Illinois (118), Bowling Green (183), Akron (186), Western Michigan (189), Ball State (190), Eastern Michigan (198), Ohio (207) and Central Michigan (232).

LIVE SCORING
• Live scoring for the MAC Championships can be found at golfstat.com.

ROCKETS AT THE MAC CHAMPIONSHIPS
• UT's lineup this week will include senior Pinyada Kuvanun at #1, junior Thunpijja Sukkasem at #2, senior Natcha Daengpiem at #3, junior Saranlak Tumfong at #4 and senior Pimchanok Kawil at #5.
• The Rockets have finished as the runner-up in four of the last six MAC Championships and have placed in the top three in seven of the last nine years.
• UT's showings in the event have included four second-place (2006, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018), seven third-place (1999, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015), four fourth-place (2000, 2001, 2004, 2007), three fifth-place (2005, 2009, 2017) and one sixth-place (2011) finish.

LOOKING BACK AT THE LADY BUCKEYE INVITATIONAL
• Toledo finished in 10th place at last weekend's Lady Buckeye Invitational.
• Senior Pinyada Kuvanun led the Rockets by tying for 19^th place at 10-over par 226 (75-76-75). Kuvanun finished with a one-under par 143 (73-70) and leads the Rockets with a 73.1 stroke average, a scoring mark that is slightly behind her school-record 72.8 figure.

ON THE HORIZON
• The winning team at the 2019 MAC Championships will qualify for NCAA Regionals action on May 6-8.