The event will be held on April 28-30, and will feature the conference's 11 teams.

Competing at the Big Ten Championships is Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue and Wisconsin.

The playing format for the Big Ten Championships will be play six players and count the four lowest scores.

Fans and media are permitted to park in the main parking lot of the IU golf course. The course and lot are located of off the 45/46 Bypass.

Having started the third round nine shots up on the field, considering the deteriorating weather conditions the Buckeyes' third-round score of +19 was even more impressive. With a six-over par total, senior Kristen White became the sixth Buckeye to earn the championship medalist honor. Following White were teammates Lindsay Knowlton in second place and Jennifer Selfinger in third.

The Buckeyes improved upon their 19-stroke lead by shooting a 307, the best score of the day by 12 shots. After being tied for fifth after the championship's first round, the host Michigan Wolverines have recorded the second best score for the last two rounds to overtake Michigan State for the championship's second-place position. Their 319 put them one stroke over the Spartans who finished play at +69 for the championship. Purdue, who was tied with U-M for third heading into the day, dropped a spot into fourth after a 325 shot performance. The Northwestern Wildcats held onto their fifth place spot, sitting at +80 through three rounds.

All-Big Ten First Team:
Kristen White, OSU
Lindsay Knowlton, OSU
Myrte Eikenaar, PU
Brianna Broderick, MI
O. Sattayabanphot, PU
Laura Olin, MI

All-Big Ten Second Team:
Alice Kim, NU
Dana Je, OSU
Whitney Frykman, PU
Ina Kim, NU
Jennifer Selfinger, OSU
Ali Stinson, MI

2005 Freshman of the Year:
Whitney Frykman - Purdue University

2005 Player of the Year:
Kristen White - Ohio State University

2005 Coach of the Year:
Therese Hession - Ohio State University

Final Team Standings

Final Individual Standings

The Conference office also announced honorees from each team for the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award. The student-athletes chosen are individuals who have distinguished themselves through sportsmanship and ethical behavior. In addition, the student-athletes must be in good academic standing and have demonstrated good citizenship outside of the sports-competition setting. These student-athletes are now candidates for the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award, as the Conference office will honor one male and one female student-athlete from each institution at the end of the school year.

Sportsmanship Honorees:
Illinois- Lindsey Milligan
Indiana- Molly Redfearn
Iowa- Liz Bennett
Michigan- Laura Olin
Michigan State- Kristen Polanski
Minnesota- Emily Brand
Northwestern- Heather Scholten
Ohio State- Erin Borowiec
Penn State- Amber Weinerth
Purdue- Myrte Eikenaar
Wisconsin- Jill Ries

Live updates and full-field bios and quotes will also be available during the 2006 Big Ten Championships.

While results of the 2006 Big Ten Championships can be found on IUHOOSIERS.com and golfstat.com, conference school's media relations offices may receive the results via e-mail as well. In order to be put on the distribution list, each school's golf contact will need to e-mail Aaron Jordan at asjordan@indiana.edu or call him at (812)-856-0553 no later than April 25.

Receiving Info on IU Golf

Members of the media may receive IU women's golf press releases in a number of different efficient manners. The IU Media Relations Department provides press releases via e-mail or via fax. If members of the media choose to receive press releases via e-mail they may receive them as a PDF file or as a link to a media web site.

Members of the media can contact Aaron Jordan to be added to the email distribution list.

Credential Requests
Please direct all credential requests to Aaron Jordan. Requests may be made by telephone, fax or e-mail. Credentials are mailed when possible. If time does not permit, credentials will be held at the golf course clubhouse.

Post-Event Interviews
Post event interviews for the golfers and coaches will take place at the conclusion of each day's play.

Quotes from each team and individuals, along with any updated information, will be posted on IUHOOSIERS.com.

All post event player and coach interviews should be requested through the Media Relations Department.

Photo Policy
Indiana media relations will have staff photographer Paul Riley on site to capture images of this year's tournament.

Riley will also take pictures of both the team and individual ceremonies at the end of the round.

If your school, or one of your school's individuals, happens to win the event, photos will be sent to school's media relations department no later than the following day.

Media Parking
Media are permitted to park in the main parking lot of the IU golf course. The course and lot are located of off the 45/46 Bypass.

Located just a few minutes from campus, the Indiana University Golf Course offers many amenities for golfers of all kinds. The facility includes an 18-hole championship course, a nine-hole executive course, a large, lighted driving range and a three-year-old state-of-the-art practice facility for team members.

Construction began in 1954 on IU's championship layout, and three years later, the 6,900 yard par-71 facility was finished. Dense forest occupies the property resulting in an 18-hole, tree-lined layout that demands accuracy off the tee. When golfers reach the greens at the championship course they are often faced with difficult putts on the large, severely sloped putting surfaces. The combination of slopes and size give players plenty of room to work on their short games.

Former Indiana men's golf coach Jim Soutar designed the championship course with help from former coordinator of Indiana University's athletic facilities, Paul "Pooch" Harrell.

Describing the golf course to then IU President Herman B. Wells, Harrell claimed, "This is a golf course designed for all kinds of golfers-professionals, top-flight amateurs, average amateurs, duffers and hackers-providing they can hit the ball straight."

As if the tight fairways don't make the course tough enough, the IU layout is made even more difficult by the abundance of doglegs over the hilly Monroe County terrain.

The university owned most of the layout since the early 1900s. Harrell estimated that the total cost of the golf course, excluding the clubhouse, was about $175,000. The amount was actually a fraction of what it cost to build a championship-caliber golf course back in the 1950s. One reason for the low cost is that little had to be done to make the golf course, as far as building hills, planting trees and moving dirt is concerned. Not one cent of tax money was used to build the course. All expenses to build the golf course were financed solely through student fees.

Each day during construction, Harrell, a former quarterback and third baseman at Indiana, climbed aboard a bulldozer complete with root rakes, which yanked up the stumps of the trees after they had been leveled with chainsaws.

Knowing that the heat and humidity of Indiana summers would be common, fairway and green watering systems were installed during construction. The source for the irrigation system was a newly installed municipal reservoir, which is now known as Lake Griffey. Laced into the clay and sand surface was blue grass and fescue for the fairways, while the greens were seeded with C-1 bent grass.

Former Indiana golf coach Owen "Chili" Cochrane and Soutar would often stroll back into the woods of the old Fee farm daily, while Soutar began to lay out the course in his mind and on paper. Soutar would then relay his ideas to IU's draftsmen, who were in charge of providing the actual prints of the layout. It was during one of these long hikes back into the woods one day that the pair became lost in the dense forest and could not retrace their steps for hours.

Some of Indiana's natural wildlife is often found roaming the fairways near dawn and dusk. The most popular visitor to the course is deer but wild turkeys, coyotes, fox and hawks have also been spotted on the 250-acre layout.

The front-nine holes demand very accurate tee shots and precise iron shots. The par-36 frontside is evened out with two very good-sized par-5s and two lengthy par-3s.

The first hole, which was originally the 18th hole, is a beautiful dogleg left par-5 to an elevated green. The second and third holes are relatively the same, as both are tree-lined on both sides, and the golfer's second shot is downhill to large greens.

The fourth hole is a very testy par-3 that, although the golfer tees from an elevated box, the hole can measure up to 225 yards.

By far, the toughest stretch on the golf course is holes 9-12. Hole nine is a par-5 that doglegs to the left and demands a fairly straight drive off the tee. Once at the turn, the golfer is rewarded with one the most beautiful sights on the course, which is the view of the ninth green. Surrounded by large pine trees, the second shot into nine can be as rewarding as it is breathtaking.

The 10th hole is a tight tee shot into a valley, which leaves you with a very uphill second shot. The large green, which slopes severely back-to-front, can contribute to a bad start on the back-nine, if the ball is not left below the hole.

On the 11th, the golfer faces another scenic shot as the dogleg right par-4 extends along the tree line, leaving the golfer with a decisive tee shot. Trees along the right side of the hole will prohibit anyone from entering the green from that angle.

The final hole in this tough stretch is No. 12. This hole tees from out of the woods to an uphill fairway. Marked off as a 430-yard par-4 for the men, the women actually play to a 381-yard par-5. For their second shots, both men and women face another uphill shot, which leads into one of the smaller greens on the golf course.

Upon concluding the tough stretch of holes 9-12, golfers will find a little more room for error as they turn for the clubhouse. The 18th hole on the championship course is a straight away par-4 with a view of the clubhouse in the background. Once the golfer has reached the green, one will find a very tricky green with numerous slopes and breaks to judge. The ball must stay below the hole in order to prevent the golfer from ending with a big number on the scorecard.

In the fall of 2002, director of golf and men's golf coach Mike Mayer and superintendent Brent Emerick began an extensive facelift project on the course. All 20 existing bunkers were resized and configured and filled with Best Signature white sand in length.

The IU championship course plays host to Indiana Section PGA events as well as numerous collegiate tournaments. The course has also hosted a total of nine Big Ten Championships, including seven for the men (1961, 1968, 1969, 1975, 1984, 1993, 2003), and two for the women (1985, 1996).

The Hoosiers' first conference title came in 1986 at the University of Michigan with an amazing 58-stroke victory, the largest margin ever in the Big Ten Tournament. The team of Sarah DeKraay, Tracy Chapman, Michele Redman, Mary Fechtig, Lisa Chirichetti and Lynn Dennison gave Indiana its first conference crown. DeKraay also became the first Indiana player to earn medalist honors at the conference championship. A Hoosier has won the honor a total of 10 times, two more than any other school.

The last Hoosier team title came in 1998 when Indiana posted an incredible score of 1,196, the third-lowest score in league history. Indiana owns three of the top seven finishing scores in conference tournament play.

Following the 1986 season, the Hoosiers came right back in 1987 to pull off the sweep as they claimed the team title and Michele Redman won the individual crown with a score of 297, the fourth lowest in league history.

Indiana opened the '90s by winning the conference crown in 1990 at the University of Minnesota with the then-seventh-lowest score in Big Ten history, 1,232. Shannon Hardesty won individual medalist honors with a score of 298, which still ranks in the Big Ten's top 10 all-time.

Indiana placed second in 1994, but Erika Wicoff won the individual title. The individual crown was the first of three straight for Wicoff, something no other Big Ten women's golfer has accomplished.

Her second crown came at theBig Ten Championship held at the University of Michigan, where she led the 1994-95 team to its fifth conference title. Wicoff shot a 292, which stood as the conference's best mark, until Michigan State's Emily Bastel fired a 288 to win the 2000 crown.

Wicoff ended her career fittingly in 1996 by winning her third straight Big Ten individual title on her home course and helped lead the Hoosiers to back-to-back titles. The championship was cut short due to rain as Indiana shot a 946 for 54 holes to win its sixth Big Ten Championship.

Indiana has also had success when it comes to individual Big Ten honors. Former head coach Sam Carmichael won his first Big Ten Coach of the Year award in 1985 after the Hoosiers finished second at the conference meet. He earned his second award in 1986 as IU won its first-ever Big Ten championship and won his third straight honor in 1987. He also won coach of the year accolades in 1995, 1996 and in 1998.

The conference has named a player of the year since 1988 and seven times an Indiana player has won the award. Tracy Chapman was the first winner in 1988, followed by Debbie Lee in 1990. Wicoff then won the award an unprecedented three times from 1994-96. Erin Carney then won it twice in a row from 1998-99. She is one of only three players to have won the award twice.

The Hoosiers' most recent display of conference domination came in 2004 when All-Big Ten performer Danah Ford embarked on a personal journey of success that she had previously never encountered. Prior to the 2003-04 season, Ford had never claimed an individual collegiate title and would not alter that fact until the end of her final campaign as a Hoosier. After capturing the Lady Boilermaker title a week before, Ford ratcheted up her play another notch to garner Indiana's 10th individual conference crown.

Indiana's Big Ten dominance is obvious when reviewing the list of All-Big Ten selections. On 51 occasions, a Hoosier has earned All-Big Ten honors. Among all-conference performers, Carmichael coached a trio of four-time All-Big Ten selections - Redman (1984-87), Lynn Dennison (1983-86), and Jenny Gray (1995-98) - while also coaching seven three-time selections, including Wicoff, Stacy Quilling and Carney.

In addition, two Indiana players have earned Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors. Wicoff did it in 1993 and Gray won the award in 1995.

The Hoosiers also have excelled at the national level. In 1995, they finished fifth in the nation, the highest finish in school history. They have placed in the top 20 at the NCAA meet eight times, including an eighth-place finish in 1993. In 1993, Angela Buzminski set a then-school record with a four-round score of 289 at the NCAAs, placing her second, which is the highest finish ever by an Indiana golfer. Wicoff almost duplicated that feat in 1995 as she placed fourth at the NCAA tournament.

The success of Indiana's golfers doesn't stop on the links. Over the years, the Hoosiers have excelled in the classroom as well. A total of 103 Academic All-Big Ten honors have been earned by the Hoosiers, the most in conference history. Additionally, recent IU graduate Karen Dennison garnered back-to-back College Sports Information Directors of America Academic All-America honors as well as three consecutive conference nods for her work in the classroom. The latest additions to this tradition of academic success are 2003-04 Academic All-Big Ten honorees Ambry Bishop, Dennison, Mary Lidester and Molly Redfearn.

However, the 1999-2000 and 2002-03 squads claimed the largest academic conference hauls of any Hoosier team with eight citations each. In 1999-2000, Tiffany Fisher, Amy Gerhardt, Adrienne Graessle, Meg Liffick, Samantha Montgomery, Jessica Mote, Inga Snyder and Natalie Tucker earned recognition for their scholastic efforts while Bishop, Katie Carlson, Shannon Carney, Dennison, Graessle, Lidester, Megan Mulahupt and Cara Stuckey took home the laurels in 2002-03.

Most remarkably, three IU golfers (Erin Carney, 1995-99; Adrienne Graessle, 1999-03; Mary Vajgrt, 1993-97) have claimed Academic All-Big Ten certification four times in their careers.

In one of the nation's finest conferences, the success of Indiana's golfers is unmatched - on the course and in the classroom.