Athens, Ga. – Western Carolina women's golf carded its best 18-hole score of the season on Monday as competition concluded at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic, held on the par-72, 6,217-yard University of Georgia Golf Course. The Catamounts finished 14th among the loaded tournament field, firing a final-round of 295 for a three-day total of 924, paced by sophomore Elsa Maren Steinarsdôttir in a tie for 34th with a 10-over par, 226.
 
Steinarsdôttir led the Catamounts for a third-straight round, tied with seven others in the field. On Monday, she overcame four bogeys with a pair of birdies to match her second round with a 2-over par 74. She closed the event with six-consecutive pars, giving her a team-best 34 over the event. Steinarsdôttir carded a team-best six birdies total over the tournament's three days.
 
Senior Sadler Miller was WCU's biggest gainer over the final 18 holes, rallying 15 spots with WCU's lowest round of the event with an even-par 72 on Monday. The Clayton, N.C., product finished in a four-way tie for 50th overall, countering four bogeys with four birdies, including three on par-3 holes. Miller matched her season-low round over the final 18 holes, shooting 229 (+13).
 
Graduate transfer EC Niebauer climbed eight spots in the final round, posting her best score at 1-over par 73, in a very quiet round. The High Point, N.C., native was steady on Monday, opening the round with eight-straight pars before her fourth birdie of the event on the par-3 16th – a hole she had bogeyed and double-bogeyed earlier in the tournament – moved her to 1-under par. Niebauer closed the tournament with a pair of bogeys and seven pars over the final nine holes, finishing in a tie for 60th at 232.
 
Rounding out WCU's scoring five were sophomore Annalee Caveney in 70th overall at 237, and classmate Emily Rosenschein in 86th with a score of 251. Caveney advanced three spots in the final standings, carding four birdies on Monday in her best round at 4-over par 76, while Rosenschein moved up one spot with a final-round 84.
 
Tournament host Georgia (875) held off runner-up Rutgers (878) and hard-charging No. 42 Indiana (884) to win the team championship. The Bulldogs fired a final-round score of 298, with the Scarlet Knights shooting 289 and the Hoosiers combining for a tournament-low round of 281 on Monday. First-round leader High Point rallied to a fourth-place finish with a three-day score of 886, with Florida Gulf Coast (888) rounding out the top five.
 
Georgia's Trinity Beth claimed individual medalist honors to lead the Bulldogs to the team title, finishing the 54-hole event with a 10-under par 206, three strokes clear of Barbara Car of Old Dominion at 209. South Carolina individual Molly McLean rounded out the podium with a third-place finish, four strokes off the pace at 6-under par 210.
 
Western Carolina now turns its attention to the 2026 Southern Conference Women's Golf Championship, scheduled for April 20-22 at the Columbia Country Club in Blythewood, S.C., just northeast of Columbia, S.C., on Lake Columbia. The Catamounts finished tied for sixth at last year's event, with Sadler Miller posting a 14th-place individual finish. The team champion and individual medalist, if not on the championship team, earn the SoCon's automatic bids to the NCAA Women's Golf Championship field.
 
14 – Western Carolina – 321 – 308 – 295 = 924 (+60)
T34 – Elsa Maren Steinarsdôttir – 78-74-74 = 226 (+10)
T50 – Sadler Miller – 79-78-72 = 229 (+13)
T60 – EC Niebauer – 80-79-73 = 232 (+16)
70 – Annalee Caveney – 84-77-76 = 237 (+21)
86 – Emily Rosenschein – 88-83-84 = 255 (+39)