With just over a month left before students return for the fall, the William and Mary women's golf team has two players representing the Green and Gold this week at the 3rd Annual Pure Silk Women's Collegiate Team Championship.  Presented by the National Golf Coaches Association, the Championship features two-player teams from more than 50 Division I, II, III, and NAIA programs in 54 holes of stroke-play golf.

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Representing W&M this week will be the duo of rising sophomore Kellie Edelblut (New Hope, Pa.) and redshirt-junior Katy Hutcherson (Greeneville, Tenn.).  Edelblut ranked third on the team in her rookie season with a 79.59 average, and collected 352 victories in tournament play.  Her season-average is the fifth-best ever by a W&M freshman, and she had three rounds of 1-over or better, most on the team.  One of her best performances came at the Lady Pirate Intercollegiate in October, when Edelblut totaled 222 (+6) to finish in a tie for 15th.  It was the third-best 54-hole score in school history.  Hutcherson also had a breakout year in 2011-12, with top-25 finishes at both the Towson Invitational and at the Tribe's own C&F Bank Intercollegiate.  She finished the year with 235 tournament victories, and a career-best 82.31 stroke average.

Billed as the most unique summertime national women's amateur event, the Team Championship begins tomorrow, July 31, with an Alternate Shot round, followed by Best Ball on Aug. 1 and two-player Aggregate Score on Aug. 2nd.  The event is being hosted by the Wedgewood Golf & Country Club in Powell, Ohio, on a Robert Trent Jones, Jr., designed course.  Today, there is also a charity College-Am round, with proceeds benefitting "A Kid Again," an Ohio-based charity that provides group activities for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families.

The Tribe's first pairing is with the Virginia duo of Elizabeth Brightwell and Portland Rosen.  The foursome will tee off of No. 10 at 9:48 a.m.