ETSU Ladies Disc Golf Team Attends SECO

The 2011-2012 collegiate disc golf season is hitting full stride. During each of the last two weekends, qualifier tournaments have seen teams win a spot into the 2012 National Collegiate Disc Golf Championships (NCDGC) which will be held at the Hippodrome in North Augusta, South Carolina on April 12-15, 2012.

This weekend the marquis collegiate tournament of the Fall semester, the SouthEast Collegiate Open (SECO), is taking place at the International Disc Golf Center in Appling, GA. Fresh off the heels of the PDGA Championships, the IDGC is hosting yet another large event with 21 teams from 17 different colleges and universities from across the Southeast US. Three qualifying spots to the NCDGC are up for grabs, so teams have been anxiously awaiting this event.



This is the second year of the SouthEast Collegiate Open and once again it will be the largest collegiate disc golf tournament prior to the National Championships.  Additionally, this year's SECO will host the largest women’s field to attend a collegiate disc golf event, including the first ever all women’s team.

The ladies from East Tennessee State University formed a team over the last few months and are making a trek across the East Coast playing in as many collegiate tournaments as they can get to. They made their debut two weeks ago at the Northeastern Collegiate Disc Golf Championships held at French Creek State Park in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania.  The team got started when a friend of the girls from the team saw some people throwing discs on the ETSU campus. She had played disc golf a few times before and was ecstatic to see others at her school playing. She introduced the current members of the team to the sport and had them hooked in no time. They quickly sought out the disc golf club at the school, joined, and created the first full women’s team. Now they just have to wait for the rest of the schools to catch up and recruit their own women’s squad.

The weather looks to be just about perfect for this weekend with cool temperatures and sunny skies and the teams are ready to take on the three demanding championship courses surrounding the Inyernational Disc Golf Center. Saturday will feature two rounds of singles and Sunday will be the doubles competition on the IDGC's difficult W.R. Jackson Memorial disc golf course. 21 teams are here, only one will be crowned champion.