No. 16 Ducks Set for Bruin Wave Invitational

EUGENE, Ore. - The No. 16 ranked Oregon women's golf team will kick off its second tournament of the 2020 spring season on Monday at the Bruin Wave Invitational in San Luis Obispo, Calif. The Ducks will play 36 holes on Monday before wrapping up the 12-team tournament with a final 18-hole round on Tuesday.

Tournament Details
Monday, Feb. 24 - Tuesday, Feb. 25 | San Luis Opisbo, Calif.
San Luis Obispo Country Club | 54 Holes | Par 72, 6,103 Yards
The Field: Pepperdine, UCLA, Cal Poly, CSUN, Northwestern, Oregon, Oregon State, San Diego State, San Francisco, USC, Washington, Washington State

How to Follow
Click here for live results for the Bruin Wave Invitational. Frequent updates throughout the event can be found on Twitter via @OregonWGolf.

Teeing Off For the Ducks

Pos.	Name	Yr.	Scoring Avg.	Best Finish
1.	Sofie Kibsgaard Nielsen	Fr,	72.20	T-12th
2.	Tze-Han (Heather) Lin	So.	73.00	T-5th
3.	Briana Chacon	Fr.	73.25	T-5th
4.	Amy Matsuoka	Sr.	74.00	12th
5.	Alexis Phadungmartvorakul	Jr.	72.83	T-8th

About The Field
At No. 16 in the latest GolfStat national rankings, the Ducks are one of three top-25 teams in the field at the Bruin Wave Invitational. Oregon will be joined by a pair of ranked Pac-12 foes in No. 2 USC and No. 14 UCLA.

Last Time Out
Oregon opened its spring season with a 10th-place finish in a national championship-level field at the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge in Los Angeles, playing against 12 other ranked teams including each of the top seven in the GolfStat rankings. The Ducks were led by freshman Sofie Kibsgaard Nielsen, who flew up to No. 27 in the GolfStat individual national rankings after tying for 12th overall with an even-par showing. Oregon rebounded from a tough second round with a 5-over 289 in the final round, its best showing of the week.

Last Year In San Luis Obispo
The Ducks led the way after the first two rounds at last year's Bruin Wave Invitational before finishing as runners-up, placing ahead of four ranked teams, including No. 4 UCLA. Oregon got top-10 finishes by the now-graduated Petra Salko and Kathleen Scavo, and current sophomore Tze-Han (Heather) Lin was also in the top 20 in a tie for 18th.

Young Ducks Impress in Fall
The Ducks boast a young squad in the second season under head coach Derek Radley and assistant Monica Vaugh, with a roster made up of three freshmen, two sophomores, one junior and one senior. But Oregon's talent came to the forefront during the fall season as the Ducks finished in the top five in all four tournaments, including runner-up showings at both the WSU Cougar Invitational and the Molly Collegiate Invite. Freshman Sofie Kibsgaard Nielsen led the way with a 72.50 scoring average and four top-five finishes, getting her career off to a solid start after coming to Oregon as the 174th ranked amateur in the world out of Denmark.

Championship Experience
Oregon's roster doesn't have a ton of NCAA experience, but the Ducks' young talent is being groomed by a pair of proven champions. Head coach Derek Radley helped lead Arizona to the 2018 NCAA Championship as an assistant, and assistant coach Monica Vaughn won both the individual and team national titles as a senior with Arizona State in 2017.

Radley Lands Top Recruit
Derek Radley made a huge splash over the offseason, signing elite 2020 recruit Hsin-Yu (Cynthia) Lu to bolster next year's squad. Lu signed as the 154th ranked amateur in the world and the No. 1 rated recruit coming out of Asia in the 2020 collegiate signing class.

Up Next
The Ducks will compete at the Wildcat Invitational in Tucson, Ariz., on March 9-10.