Bennington is tied for 3rd place after three rounds. She shot a 76 on day one, 75 on day two and a 79 on day three.  Bennington has a three-day total of 230 (+14) and is tied with three other golfers. She is five shots off the lead heading into tomorrow's final round.  Nathalie Silva (California Baptist University) leads the field with a 225 (+9).

Friday tee times have yet to be posted on the NAIA web site.

The 129-player championships field is comprised from 14 automatic qualifying teams from NAIA affiliated conferences/unaffiliated groupings and 10 at-large team selections, which are determined using the final Top 25 rating released on May 7. South Dakota School of Mines & Technology qualifies as the host institution.

Among the 14 teams bound for Rapid City, four have previously won a national team title. Oklahoma City has five championships to their credit, all in the last five years. British Columbia took home top honors in 2001 and 2004. Southern Nazarene (Okla.) has won the event twice, winning in 1999 and 2002. In 2003, Northwood (Fla.) won its first women's golf crown.

Three individuals, Caitlin Duval of Davenport (Mich.), Lewis-Clark State's (Idaho) Courtney Shrout, Maegan Rice of Mobile (Ala.) earned a spot in the event through automatic qualification. Charlotte Guilleux of Wayland Baptist (Texas) earned an automatic qualification as a returning All-Tournament Team member from 2009. Cumberlands' (Ky.) McKinzie Price and Bennington each earned an at-large berth.

This is the second appearance for Bennington at the NAIA National Championships.  She qualified with the WWU women's team last year and finished 33rd individually.  Bennington shot rounds of 84, 82, 80, and 77 (+35) last year on the same course.

Bennington was the 2009 American Midwest Conference Freshman of the Year.  She was the 2010 AMC Player of the Year and All-AMC recipient.

You can follow the scoring live at the NAIA Women's Golf web page. The site will also list tee times, individual and team results and a daily recap of each round.