The ISU women’s golf team spent Spring Break in the wild and crazy town of Las Vegas.

Wild and crazy are the exact words to describe the up-and-down nature of the tournament.

“It’s kind of frustrating because I feel like I shoot several good holes in a row and then fall right back into a bad couple of holes,” said senior Lisa Meshke.

Meshke shot rounds of 83-82-76 for a three-round total of 241 that placed her third on the team.

“I’m not playing as well as I would like to right now, but I really feel like these first two tournaments have helped myself and others get a feel for what we can do better,” Meshke said. “I also think that having coach [Christie] Hermes around is really going to bring things together for us all in the tournaments to come.”

Hermes joined the team for the trip to Las Vegas as her first-ever trip with the team as head coach. The Cyclones had previously been under the leadership of assistant and interim head coach Fiona Watson.

Overall, the golfers shot a three-round team score of 946, good for 10th place in the 18-team field. This was only four strokes behind ninth-place Nevada, and first place overall went to Southern California with a team score of 895.

Notable was the play of sophomore Christie Athas. The underclassmen led the team in the opening round with a score of 79, en route to a total score of 237, good for second on the team and tied for 30th place overall.

Senior Louise Kenney was at the forefront for the Cyclone women with a three-round score of 227, which was good enough for 11th place overall in the tournament.

— Mike Wallace