Tourney to preview Big Tens

After a one-week break in tournament action, the Michigan women's golf team will head to Purdue this weekend to take part in the Lady Northern Intercollegiate. The event will serve as a fall preview of the Big Ten Championships to be held at the same site this spring.

"I'm really excited about the Lady Northern," coach Cathy Teichert said, "It will be used to seed the teams for the Big Ten, so I'm hopeful that we can play well."

Teichert's squad is coming off a tie for fifth place among the 12 teams that competed two weeks ago in the Mary Fossum/Spartan Invitational.

"I wasn't exactly displeased with the way that we played at the Spartan, but I wasn't happy either," Teichert said. "I just think that we need to put some things together. We've put new people in new spots and that will hopefully give us the combination we're looking for."

That shuffling has included the addition of two freshmen, Stephanie Bezilla and Misia Lemanski, to the line-up set to compete today. The two join freshmen Le Anna Wicks and Bess Bowers on the squad.

"I'm happy for some of our younger players who are now getting a chance to see some action," Teichert said of the young roster. "I hope we can continue to see consistency out of Bess Bowers and Le Anna Wicks."

If the early performance of Bowers and Wicks is any indication of what can be expected from fellow classmates Lemanski and Bezilla, Coach Teichert and her staff have little to worry about.

"Wicks and Bowers are already playing well," Teichert said. "I've seen a tremendous amount of improvement just over the summer and so far this fall."

With such attention being placed on the younger members of the squad, Teichert is thankful to have Park - the team's lone senior - in a position to provide leadership as well as competitive scoring. "I'm really expecting Sharon to be a leader this season," Teichert said.

Aside from taking a more defined leadership role off the course, Park, who finished seventh in the Big Ten Championship

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