GG RANKINGS: Penn, Yorktown, Carmel begin season 1-2-3

By E. Shawn Aylsworth
Managing Editor

With the Indiana high school girls golf season teeing off the 2012-13 sports year July 31, the Indiana High School Golf Coaches Association has released its preseason poll for the ’12 season. And your No. 1 to begin the year is Penn.

A four-time state champion – the last crown coming in 2005 as part of a four-year run that netted three state titles – the Kingsmen pace a first five of 1976 state champ Yorktown, 1980 champ Carmel, two-time champion Noblesville (back-to-backs in 1986 and ’87), and Chesterton.

The Top 10 is rounded out by Zionsville, two-time defending state champion Hamilton Southeastern (a four-time winner overall), Center Grove, Valparaiso, and record-holding 11-time champ Martinsville.

Your first set of 2012 rankings, courtesy of Dave Patz:

1. Penn
2. Yorktown
3. Carmel
4. Noblesville
5. Chesterton
6. Zionsville
7. Hamilton Southeastern
8. Center Grove
9. Valparaiso
10. Martinsville
11. Castle
12. Warsaw
13. Lafayette Jefferson
14. Evansville North
15. Indianapolis Cathedral
16. Roncalli
17. Western
18. Homestead
19. Jasper
20. East Noble

Honorable mention: Indianapolis Chatard, Vincennes Rivet