The Iowa State Women’s golf team had a record-setting couple of days at the Heather Farr Invitational in Louisville, Colorado.

The team didn’t break so much as shatter the all-time school 54-hole record with a score of 906.

The previous record stood at 919.

The squad also broke the all-time 18-hole record with a total of 300 on Tuesday, an average of 75 per golfer.

However, the records did not stop there.

Noel Jacobusse tied the all-time single-round record with a 70 on Tuesday and sophomore Megan O’Dea tied the all-time individual low 54 hole score with a 224.

The Cyclones started out strong despite the frigid Colorado temperatures.

The team was fourth after their first 36 holes with a score of 606. Individually, the scores were, for the most part, impressive as well.

Megan O’Dea started out particularly strong with rounds of 75 and 73. Heather Elenbaas, celebrating her 20th birthday, and Cathy Ennis both fired rounds of 78 and 77, while Jacobusse had a total of 156 after two rounds.

Despite this fine showing, the girls felt that they could better the performance the next day.

“I don’t think any of us were really ready, besides Megan,” Ennis said, “but we all shot pretty well for the most part, and it motivated us to do even better the next day.”

Another factor that helped the Cyclones was their fourth-place ranking after the first day.

“I don’t think the girls really felt the pressure that they might have if they were in the top three after the first day,” Cyclone coach Julie Manning said. “They knew they could just go out and concentrate on shooting their best.”

And shooting their best is exactly what they did, despite an inauspicious opening to the day.

“None of us got our wakeup call on Wednesday,” Elenbaas said, “so everyone was running around and trying to get their things together while we should have been taking it easy and concentrating on what we needed to do.”

It was then that Manning felt the need to sit the team down and give them a little pep talk.

“I just told them that they had a lot of excuses that were legitimate and that they could either just think about how their day got started wrong and accept a bad round, or they could bow their necks and go out and get after it.”

The team then went out and shot the best round collectively in Cyclone history.

Elenbaas set her personal record in competition with a 73. Ennis, who was battling severe illness all day, equaled Elenbaas with a 73.

Jacobusse bounced back from the 80 that she had shot in the last round to tie the Cyclone record with a 70.

O’Dea was again solid with a 76, a score that helped her tie the all-time 54-hole record of a 224.

Ennis believed that the Cyclones were surging as she made her way through the course.

“I just knew everyone was playing well,” she said. “When coach came by, I could see that she was just watching and not really coaching. I just had this feeling that we were playing great.”

Her feelings turned out to be correct.

O’Dea also couldn’t have been more pleased as she learned of the scores.

“I was so happy when I found out how everyone did,” O’Dea said, “I was jumping up and down. Everyone was so pumped.”

The Cyclones know, however, that their job is not yet done.

“We feel that everyone played up to their potential,” O’Dea continued. “We went out there as a team, and we know we have to build on this.”

“We want to peak at the Big 12 preview in a couple of weeks,” Ennis said. “We are looking forward to really being able to compete with the rest of the field.”

Manning was clearly among the happiest with the performance of the Cyclones.

“I am thrilled to death with the way the girls have performed. They have worked so hard to get to this point. They are really a group that never gives up and a group that can switch it into a higher gear when they get into competition.”

The team did indeed shift it into a higher gear on Wednesday.

With performances like that, the team may be shifting all the way to a Big 12 championship.