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Titans Prepare For Run At Postseason Glory At #HLGolf Championships

Women's Golf

Titans Prepare For Run At Postseason Glory At #HLGolf Championships

Sophomore Emma McKinley and the Titans will look for their best scores at the HL Championships.
DETROIT (4/22/2026) -- The University of Detroit Mercy women's golf team will look to make its mark in the postseason as the Titans travel to Florida for the Horizon League Championships.

The three-day event begins on Saturday with the first round, continues on Sunday, and the final 18 on Monday at the par 72, 6,868-yard El Campeon course at the Mission Inn Resort in Howey-In-The-Hills, Florida. The men's championship will also be contested on the same course.

Fans can follow all the action with live results on Clippd. The women will tee off at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday and 7:30 a.m. on Sunday and Monday. 

Last season, the squad was seventh with a 1,002 (332-339-331) on the El Campeon Course. Taylor Kondel was in the top 10 virtually the entire tournament and ended up tied for 11th with a 239 (80-79-80). 

The Titans are averaging a 321.2 on the season and are coming off a season-low 634 (308-326) for fourth at Bowling Green.

Graduate senior and two-time All-Horizon League selection Ariel Chang leads the team with a 77.2 average, recording two top-20 finishes in her four events. She tied for 20th at Central Michigan's A-Ga-Ming Invitational with a 226 (74-72-80) and ended the year with her ninth career top-five effort in tying for fourth at Bowling Green with a 153 (76-77). She is currently first in the Titan record books with a 76.04 average and tied for fifth with 15 top-10 finishes. 

Junior Gabriella Tapp is second on the team with an 80.5, and Kondel is just behind her with an 80.6. Tapp has played in six events, starting five, and has posted career scores for a round (74), 36 holes (155), and 54 holes (230), ending the season sharing 11th at BGSU with the 155 (76-79). Kondel has started all six tournaments and tied for ninth at Youngstown State's Roseann Schwartz Invitational with a 153 (78-75) and 12th at Toledo's Rocket Classic with a 157 (75-82). She also enters the tournament 10th in school history with an 81.78 average. 

Sophomore Emma McKinley is averaging an 81.8. She tied for 13th at Toledo with a career-best 159 (80-79) and just shot a career-low 75 in the opening round at Bowling Green. 

Feshman Sadie Kondel has seen action in all six tournaments, starting four, and was top 20 at Toledo, while sophomore Morgan Jones has seen action in four events, with a pair of starts. 

Detroit Mercy has won the conference championship three times (2010, 2013, 2014) and finished second on another three occasions (2007, 2011, 2012). At one point, UDM held the conference record for the lowest 54-hole total (920 in 2013) and the lowest 18-hole score (300 in the first round of 2010) in tournament history. 

Two Titans have won the individual title, as Alainna Stefan '11 claimed the top spot in 2010 and Lindsey Lammers '14 in 2012 and 2014. 




 
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Players Mentioned

Alainna Stefan

Alainna Stefan

Senior
Lindsey  Lammers

Lindsey Lammers

Senior
Ariel Chang

Ariel Chang

Graduate Student
Morgan Jones

Morgan Jones

Sophomore
Taylor Kondel

Taylor Kondel

Senior
Emma McKinley

Emma McKinley

Sophomore
Gabriella Tapp

Gabriella Tapp

Junior
Sadie Kondel

Sadie Kondel

Freshman

Players Mentioned

Alainna Stefan

Alainna Stefan

Senior
Lindsey  Lammers

Lindsey Lammers

Senior
Ariel Chang

Ariel Chang

Graduate Student
Morgan Jones

Morgan Jones

Sophomore
Taylor Kondel

Taylor Kondel

Senior
Emma McKinley

Emma McKinley

Sophomore
Gabriella Tapp

Gabriella Tapp

Junior
Sadie Kondel

Sadie Kondel

Freshman