Bristow Tabbed Pac-10 Women's Golf Honorable Mention
The Huapai, New Zealand native Bristow recently wrapped up her Pac-10 Championships debut, Mon.-Wed., April 24-26 at the University of Arizona at Oro Valley Country Club. She enjoyed her best round of the event, a 3-over 75 final round, to tie for 40th place (239, 81-83-75).
Heading into the league finale, Bristow stood 101st nationally with a 74.39 rating in the Sagarin individual national rankings, and had climbed 41 spots the previous two weeks.
Individually two weekends before in the Illini Spring Classic, April 14-15, Bristow won her second tourney of the season by one stroke on the
Overall during the 2005-06 fall and spring seasons, Bristow has played 25 rounds for UO, and has led the Ducks a team-high nine times. She carded a 2-under 70 in her first collegiate round last fall at the OSU stop, and has shot par three times (and all in her last nine rounds this spring).
Bristow joins several other current Ducks who have been honored on All-Pac-10 squads in recent years, including junior Kim McCready (2005, honorable mention), senior Erin Andrews (2004, honorable mention) and recent graduate Johnna Nealy (2005, second team). A list of UO’s all-time Pac-10 honorees is included at the bottom of this release.
In other Pac-10 award voting by conference women’s golf coaches, additional honorees included USC'S Irene Cho (Pac-10 Golfer of the Year), UCLA's Tiffany Joh (Pac-10 Newcomer of the Year) and
In the recent Pac-10 Championships team results, No. 2 UCLA survived a 301 final round to win by one stroke (879, 291-287-301) over No. 3 Arizona State who posted the top final round of the field (880, 287-299-294).
In the individual race,
A link to complete hole-by-hole player scores from the Pac-10 Championships is available at the www.GolfStat.com website, and day-end results were also posted to the www.ArizonaAthletics.com and www.Pac-10.org websites.
Looking ahead, the Ducks will await word on the afternoon of Monday, May 1 to see if they will earn an invitation to one of three NCAA Regional Championships. The three-day, three-round contests will be hosted by Texas A&M University, the University of Washington and Wake Forest University on Thu.-Sat., May 11-13. UO has qualified as a team three times for regional play in head coach Shannon Rouillard’s previous five seasons as the Duck mentor, and the squad took ninth in 2001, tied for eighth in ’04 and placed 10th last season.
The top eight team finishers from each 21-team regional then advance to the NCAA Championships, Tue.-Fri., May 23-26 on the Ohio State University’s Scarlett Golf Course in Columbus, Ohio. The top two individuals from each regional apart from qualifying teams are also invited to the collegiate finale.
More NCAA tournament information will be available at the www.NCAA.org and www.ohiostatebuckeyes.cstv.com websites.
2006 ALL-PAC-10 FIRST TEAM
Name, School, Yr., Hometown
Irene Cho, USC, Sr.,
Paige Mackenzie Washington, Sr.,
Tiffany Joh, UCLA, Fr.,
Jennifer Osborn
Jane Park, UCLA, Fr.,
2006 ALL-PAC-10 SECOND TEAM
Name, School, Yr., Hometown
Amie Cochran, UCLA, So.,
Ana Kostina,
Sophia Sheridan,
Tiffany Tavee,
2006 HONORABLE MENTION
Cathryn Bristow, Fr., Oregon; Amy Eneroth, Fr.,
2006 PAC-10 GOLFER OF THE YEAR: Irene Cho, USC
2006 PAC-10 NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR: Tiffany Joh, UCLA
2006 PAC-10 COACH OF THE YEAR: Melissa Luellen,
2006 - Cathryn Bristow (HM)
2005 - Johnna Nealy (2nd), Kim McCready (HM)
2004 - Erin Andrews (HM)
2001 - Jerilyn White (2nd)
2000 - Pam Sowden (HM), Jerilyn White (HM)
1999 - Karen Bristow (HM)
1998 - Paula Patterson (2nd), Ankia Heuser (HM), Kylie Wilson (HM)
1997 - Paula Patterson (1st), Anika Heuser (HM), Kylie Wilson (HM)
1996 - Paula Patterson (HM)
1995 - Shannon Hare (Rouillard) (HM)
1994 - Cappy Mack (HM)
1993 - Leigh Casey (HM), Shannon Maier (HM)
