Friday, April 30, 2010

If you need a case study on how to develop a sport from an overall Atlantic Sun Conference perspective, you could look at baseball or the resurgent group of softball teams. However, the most telling may be one of the least recognized intercollegiate sports out there: Golf. This week, three A-Sun women’s golf teams earned berths into the NCAA Championship for the first time in conference history. Next week, the league expects to have at least two men’s golf teams receive bids into the postseason field. While the men’s side has had multiple teams in regional play often over the last decade, rarely have two teams had as high expectations at UNF and ETSU will this year. The women break a string of four straight seasons of one-bid status.

How did A-Sun golf grow its prestige and vault onto the regional stage?