Audrey Clarke of Churchville was named an Elmira College Athlete of the Week in honor of her outstanding performance with the EC women's golf team at the season-opening William Smith Invitational.

2017 Sep 18

Audrey Clarke of Churchville was named an Elmira College Athlete of the Week in honor of her outstanding performance with the EC women's golf team at the season-opening William Smith Invitational.

Clarke's weekend was a historic one, to say the least. The Elmira women's golf team opened the 2017-18 season at the William Smith Invitational at the Clifton Springs Country Club over the weekend and the fourth-year standout captured co-medalist honors. The Churchville, New York, native finished the 36-hole tournament deadlocked with SUNY Cortland's Danielle Bambola with a two-day score of 162 (+18).

Through the first round of action on Saturday, Clarke carded an 8-over-par 80, the fifth-best round of her collegiate career and a mere three strokes off the pace of her all-time low round. On Saturday, she trimmed four strokes off of her score on the back nine to card a two-over 38. In the second round, however, she was two strokes better on the front, including a birdie on the par-4 third en route to an 82 (+10) on day two.

By earning co-medalist honors at the William Smith Invite, Clarke, a three-time Empire 8 All-Conference award winner, moved into a two-way tie with Briana MacDonald '14 for the EC all-time program record for most tournament wins with six.

With four more tournaments left on the docket for the Purple and Gold, Clarke could very well take sole possession of that record this fall. Her next chance to do so will be this weekend at the Utica College Invitational, which will be held on Saturday, September 23, and Sunday, September 24, at the Yahnundasis Golf Club in New Hartford, New York.