NIU women’s golf’s fall part of the season had its share of ups and downs, but it is looking for more positive outcomes in the upcoming spring season.

One of the highs of the first half was the Huskies’ second-place finish at the UW-Green Bay Phoenix Invitational where two huskies finished in the top ten. Their low of the fall came in their last tournament at the 2012 Preview at Longaberger, during which the Huskies finished in 10th place, their worst showing of the season.

Coach Kim Kester said even though the team won some hardware early in the season, there are some aspects of the game the players need to work on.

“They did well, but, obviously, there are some things we need to work on,” Kester said. “Overall, I think it was a good start. I know them being nervous with a new coach, they are going to have that. Overall, we opened up in Green Bay with a second place showing and got some hardware.”

Freshman Connie Ellett believes she didn’t play as well as she could have in one tournament this season, but hopes to lower her average in the spring season. Ellett’s average for the season is at a 80.3 but she knows she can shoot lower.

“I’ve had one bad tournament so far in my freshmen year,” said Ellett. “I want to average in the 70s, but that is still possible in the spring season. My highlight of the first half was my play at Ball State and what I shot there, considering the conditions.”

As a personal goal, Ellett said she wants to continue lowering her overall score and knows the team can do the same as a whole for the rest of the season.

“My individual goal is to get my average lower, and for a team we all can improve on our scores,” Ellett said. “We will see where that takes us and if we improve on our scores like we should … Hopefully our team score as a whole will be better.”

Kester believes that everyone on the team can lower their score going in to the spring season.

“Our scoring average as a team is around 320, we want that down to around 310,” Kester said. “It seems like a lot to everybody, but that is two shots per person. We are really going to work hard in the weight room to build up the strength and hit it farther to make the game easier on us. We are going to have more structure in the offseason with paying attention to detail in putting. They will be coming out firing in spring time.”