ST. PAUL, Minn. - With the fall golf season in the rear-view, the University of Northwestern Women's Golf team finds itself ranked among the nation's best teams. Scoreboard (powered by Clippd), the home of college golf scores, results and rankings, has collaborated with the NCAA, the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA), the Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA), and Professor Mark Broadie, the inventor of the "strokes gained" statistic, to create the National Collegiate Golf Ranking System. The system weighs several factors, including course difficulty, type of event, strength of field and strokes gained, to create rankings for each division of college golf. Click here to see a full explanation of the ranking system.

Northwestern finds itself ranked 39th in the Division III Women's Golf rankings, at the conclusion of its fall season. UNW, who is the ninth-ranked team in the Central Region, sports 10.48 average weighted points, ahead of notable region teams such as Bethel, Saint Benedict, UW-Whitewater and Carleton. The Eagles won five of the seven full-team events they competed in this fall, including the UMAC Championship, which automatically qualifies them for May's NCAA Division III National Championship. Northwestern also won the St. Kate's Invite, defeating No. 26 St. Catherine, No. 43 Bethel, and No. 69 Carleton. UNW produced five All-Conference performers, including UMAC Player of the Year Bri Brandt (Blaine, Minn./Legacy Christian Academy), and Morgan Philyaw (Jordan, Minn./Jordan) earned NCCAA All-America honors for the fourth-consecutive season. Head Coach Billy Aune also won his eighth UMAC Women's Golf Coach of the Year award.

Click here to see the full Scoreboard NCAA Division III Women's Golf rankings.