YPSILANTI, Mich. - The University of Dayton women's golf team is set to take part in the Shirley Spork Invitational hosted by Eastern Michigan Sept. 30 to Oct 1. The two-day competition is being held at Eagle Crest Golf Club and the course will be play at par 72 and 6,170 yards. Play will get underway Monday and Tuesday with a 9 a.m. shotgun start. Follow all the action via GolfStat.com.
 
Any changes or updates to the schedule due to weather will be communicated via the team's Twitter account @DaytonWGolf and DaytonFlyers.com.
 

PARTICIPATING TEAMS
Ball State, Bowling Green, Bradley, Cleveland State, Dayton, Eastern Michigan, IUPUI,
Prairie View A&M, Taylor, Western Illinois, Western Michigan. Indiana will have individuals participating
 

DAYTON PARTICIPANTS
Alissa Danielson (I)
Abby Bitto
Brittney Blaschak
Alexandra Bozich
Ellie Cronin
Sarah Frazier


Who Is Shirley Spork:
The first female inducted into the E-Club Hall of Fame in 1981, Shirley Spork began her golf career early in life. She started playing with one club, a putter, at age 10 when she lived near Bonnie Brook Golf Course in Detroit, Mich. Throughout high school, Spork would participate in the annual City Championship at Palmer Park Municipal, which was only a nine-hole event. While attending then-MSNC, Spork won the Women's District Match Play Championship three times in four years. In 1947, she was the winner of the first-ever National Collegiate Championship held for women's athletics, plus she was the victor of the 1949 Michigan Amateur.
After graduation, Spork became a teacher in the Detroit public schools, but realized she would much rather be playing golf. She turned professional in 1950 and played the tour but along the way, realized she still was a teacher and in 1959 along with Marilynn Smith, Betty Hicks and Barbara Rotvig, she founded the LPGA's Teaching and Club Professional Division.
Spork was the first LPGA professional to conduct golf clinics in foreign countries and was a two-time LPGA Teacher of the Year (1959, 1984). She was the chairperson of the LPGA T&CP Division from 1960-66, and received the Meritorious Service Award in 1989 and the Byron Nelson Award in 1994.