Hall Graduate Riordan Wins Ohio Valley Golf Title
First Women's Golfer in EIU History to Take Individual Honors
by Mike Struna
April 30, 2009
Riordan takes home OVC title
Thursday, April 30, 2009
By Jim Cogdal
sports@newstrib.com
Everyone knows 2005 Hall graduate Carrie Riordan is a champion.
She played for the boys golf team in high school and went on to
qualify for three IHSA State Girls Golf Tournaments. She won three
Illinois Valley Women’s Golf Tournaments. Now, she added another
feat to her golf game.
Riordan, a senior women’s golfer for Eastern Illinois University,
won the Ohio Valley Conference championship by three strokes as an
individual this past weekend in Kentucky. She shot a 14-over-par
280 for a three-day total. The former Red Devil is the first
women’s golfer in the school’s history to win the individual
conference title since EIU joined the league in 1996.
“It was one of my goals from the start to win the conference
championship,” Riordan said. “I am glad that I could represent EIU
and bring this home to the campus, so that they have this in their
books. I know the athletic director is ecstatic about it.”
