KISSIMMEE, Fla. – Kennedy Windlan opened the final round of the Atlantic Sun Women's Golf Championship on a torrid pace – birdieing four of the first five holes – to claim Northern Kentucky's best finish ever, tied-fifth, in the conference tournament.
 
Opening on the back nine, Windlan sandwiched birdies on the 10^th, 11^th, 13^th and 14^th around a bogey on the 12^th. She closed the back nine going out in 34. Windlan followed a bogey on hole No. 7 with a birdie on No. 8 to close her front nine at even par and post a final-round 70 (-2).
 
The two-under round was enough to catapult Windlan seven spots up the leaderboard into a two-way tie for fifth. The 70 eclipsed NKU's previous low in the A-Sun Championship by five strokes, which was recorded by both Windlan and Sarah Kellam last season, and marked Northern Kentucky's lowest-recorded round this year.
 
Taylor Wogenstahl did some climbing of her own on the leaderboard, using a final round 76 to earn a share of 24^th. The seven spots jumped by both Wogenstahl and Windlan were the biggest upward moves of the day.
 
Kellam shot an 86 in the final round and finished tied for 32^nd.
 
Kristen Smith and Ryleigh Waltz shared 36^th after carding final rounds of 79 and 82, respectively.
 
NKU carded a 941 as a team and finished seventh for the championship, marking the third-straight year in which the Norse improved both their score and result after finishing 10^th in 2013 (990) and 8^th in 2014 (955). The 941 is the second-best 54-hole total in program history, trailing only this season's record-setting 921 at the Jackrabbit invitational.