By Mike Lehman, TTU Sports Information

COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee Tech women's golf team kicks off spring action Sunday with the largest collegiate golf tournament in the country, the three-day Edwin Watts – Kiawah Island Classic. Tech will make the trip to Kiawah Island, S.C. for the fourth straight year, competing at a pair of courses at Kiawah Island Golf Resort.

EDWIN WATTS – KIAWAH ISLAND CLASSIC: Feb. 24-26, 2019 – 54 holes (18 Sunday, 18 Monday, 18 Tuesday), located at the par-72, 5,984-yard Osprey Point Course and par-72, 5,977-yard Oak Point Course at Kiawah Island Golf Resort in Kiawah Island, S.C. Teams will kick off with a shotgun starts at 7:45 a.m. CT and 12:30 p.m. CT on Sunday and Monday. Teams will alternate course on the first two days. Play will begin on Tuesday with a 7:45 a.m. CT shotgun start, with the top 24 teams playing at Osprey Point and the rest of the field competing at Oak Point.

GOLDEN EAGLE LINEUP: Competing for the Golden Eagles are junior Shelby Johnson, senior Lindsay Miller, sophomore Kate Mashburn, junior Arianna Clemmer and sophomore Isabel York.

THE COMPETITION: The 49-team field consists of host College of Charleston (fielding two teams), as well as Bethune-Cookman, Boston University, Bucknell, Butler, Charleston Southern, Coastal Carolina, Dayton, Delaware, Elon, Fairfield, Fairleigh Dickinson, Georgia Southern, Hampton, High Point, Hofstra, Indiana State, IUPUI, Jacksonville, Jacksonville State, Lehigh, Lipscomb, Longwood, Monmouth, Murray State, Navy, North Alabama, North Florida, UNC Asheville, UNCG, Omaha, Presbyterian, Quinnipiac, Richmond, Sacred Heart, SCAD Savannah, South Dakota, USF, Stetson, Tennessee Tech, UT Arlington, Towson, Tulsa, USC Upstate, Western Carolina, William & Mary, Wyoming and Youngstown State.

THOUGHTS FROM COACH BROWN: "We're very excited to get the season off to a start for the women. To go back down to Kiawah Island is a blessing. It's a very special place. This year there will be 49 teams, the biggest field in the country in Division I women's golf. It's always great to take part in that event. I know the women have been going at it pretty well over the break and they've had very good attitudes with dealing with the weather so far. I think it's an opportunity to get off to a really good start and go out there and play some good golf and see if we can keep this ball rolling from last fall."

Photo by Carla Hazelwood