As you've likely heard, we don't have any live-action contests to cover at LetsGoPeay.com right now. What we do have is free time; oodles and oodles of free time. Enough free time to swap oodles of emails with various people who would know to create a snapshot of the best athletes in Austin Peay women's golf history. We start with the ladies of the links, and one in particular whose top-five case began as the program's only OVC Freshman of the Year honoree.

It's possible then-head coach Sara Robson knew what she was getting when Staci Lynch showed up at Austin Peay. The Clarksville native, who hailed from Rossview High School, was a known commodity as she had gone unbeaten in the regular season as a senior and finished 12^th in the state, but it's hard to envision knowing she would be that good, that quickly.

Lynch's Austin Peay career began with a flourish. She won the second tournament she appeared in as a Governor in 2006—setting program 18- (69) and 36-hole (140) records that stood for more than a decade and followed that up with a win in her first career F&M Bank APSU Intercollegiate less than a month later. Lynch built a body of work that first season that included All-Ohio Valley Conference honors and a share of the league's Freshman of the Year award. 

In her career, the standout would go on to 16 top-10 finishes, including two in Ohio Valley Conference Women's Golf Championship outings; she never finished lower than 22^nd in four attempts at the league title. She also had three top-10 finishes in Austin Peay's annual fall tournament at home and became the veteran rock that laid the foundation for all the greats that came after her.