Far Hills, N.J. – Marcia Luigs of Carmel, Ind., has been named captain of the USA team for the 2008 Women’s World Amateur Team Championship in October in Australia. The announcement was made by the Executive Committee of the United States Golf Association.

The championship is scheduled from Oct. 8-11 at the Grange Golf Club’s East and West Courses in Adelaide.

Luigs is a past chairman of the USGA Women’s Committee (2005 and 2006). She was a member of the Women’s Committee from 1990-2006 and was vice chairman in 2003 and 2004.

In addition, she has been a member of the Bob Jones Award Committee since 2005. Luigs is a past member of the Green Section Committee (2002-2007) and several other USGA committees, including the Joe Dey Award Committee (2003-04), Women’s Intercollegiate Relations Committee (1991-93) and the Girls’ Junior committee from 1994-1998. Luigs was a USGA representative on the International Golf Federation (IGF) Administrative Committee in 2005 and 2006.

She has been a member of the Women’s Western Golf Association (WWGA) since 1989. She was the WWGA Rules chairman in 2000-2001. She also served as president of the Women’s Golf Association of Metro Indianapolis for two years.

Luigs and her husband Joe have two grown children, Amy Luigs and Lisa Luigs Morrissett, and one granddaughter, Amy Jayne Morrissett. Luigs attended Hanover College in Indiana.

In 2003, she and her husband were both inducted into the Indiana Golf Hall of Fame.

The World Amateur Team Championships began in 1958. The IGF was founded that same year to encourage the international development of golf. Today, the IGF consists of more than 100 national governing bodies of golf and is recognized by the International Olympic Committee.

The World Team Championships were last played in 2006 in South Africa. Netherlands took the men’s title and South Africa won the women’s championship