Gates selected to compete at DIII National Tourney

Office of Marketing and Public Relations

For Immediate Release: May 1, 2007

For Information, Contact

Kelly Robinson, Executive Director of Marketing & Public Relations

404.364.8329 or krobinson@oglethorpe.edu or

Hoyt Young, Assistant Athletics Director for Media Relations

Oglethorpe’s Gates Receives Individual Invitation to NCAA Women’s Golf Championships

ATLANTA – Oglethorpe University junior Julia Gates of Kennesaw received one of only eleven individual invitations to the 2007 NCAA Division III Women’s Golf Championships. Gates, and ten other individuals from around the country, will join twenty selected teams to compete in the championships that will be conducted May 8-11 at the Mission Inn Golf and Tennis Resort in Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida.

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Located in Atlanta and founded in 1835, Oglethorpe enrolls approximately 1,050 students representing 35 states and 26 countries. The university plays in the NCAA Division III Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference. The Princeton Review’s The Best 361 Colleges 2006 edition ranks Oglethorpe in its prestigious list and also names it a Best Southeastern College. Oglethorpe University is Georgia’s only coeducational member of the Annapolis Group, an organization of America’s most selective liberal arts institutions.