Little and Bristow Land on All-Pac-10 Teams
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. ? After their top-12 finishes Sunday in the Pacific-10 Women’s Golf Championships, sophomore Kendra Little and senior Cathryn Bristow were also rewarded with All-Pac-10 recognition at the Stanford-hosted event.
Little was tabbed as a repeat All-Pac-10 Second Team selection, while Bristow was accorded honorable mention status for the second time (with the other coming in the 2005-06 season) after she was picked to the All-Pac-10 Second Team last season.
Bristow joined former great Duck Paula Patterson (1st-’97; 2nd’98; HM-’96) as the only Oregon players to garner three All-Pac-10 honors, while the current duo joined Patterson as the only UO players to receive multiple first- or second-team acclaim. Altogether, UO players have combined for 24 All-Pac-10 honors since 1993.
Little placed 12th in the Pac-10 Championships Sunday (76-73-70-219), and notched her fifth top-15 finish of the season that included a win in the 2008 fall opener, the Giustina Memorial Classic (69-73-73-215), and third-place finish in the Oregon Duck Invitational (73-75-73-221). The Eugene, Ore., native has led UO in five of her nine collegiate events this season, and ranked second in two others. She carded UO’s lowest score in the Pac-10 final round ? a one-under 71 ? the 13th time that she’s paced UO this season in 27 rounds (and 26th time overall in her career) ? and that same score stood as one of four that rank among UO’s nine best scores this season.
With her 10th-place Pac-10 finish Sunday (75-72-70-217), Bristow enjoyed her best Pac-10 placing among her four trips and led UO in the final standings for the fourth time in eight events this season. Her Pac-10 finish also stood as her third top-10 finish of the season after she placed eighth in the Giustina Memorial Classic (76-744-78-228) and fifth in the UNLV Spring Rebel Invitational (75-75-68-218). The Huapai, New Zealand native has now led UO in nine of her 24 rounds this year (including all three in the 2009 league finale) and has overall led the Ducks 43 of her 111 career rounds. She also played as an individual in the 2008 World Amateur Team Championships last fall (33rd, 10-over 300, 74-76-74-76) and led her three-person New Zealand squad.
Overall in the Pac-10 Championships this past weekend, the No. 36-ranked Ducks’ seventh-place finish (295-294-901) matched their best placing since 2000 (they also took seventh in ’08. On the individual front, Bristow’s 10th-place finish was UO’s highest since Jerilyn White took ninth in 2001.
Looking ahead, the Ducks await to hear the NCAA regional field announcement Monday afternoon, with the events hosted Thursday-Saturday, May 7-9, by Arizona State, Florida and Ohio State. The NCAA Championships follow Tuesday-Friday, May 19-22 at Caves Valley Country Club in Owings Mills, Md.
2009 ALL-PAC-10 WOMEN'S GOLF TEAMS (* based on vote by head coaches)
First Team
Carlotta Ciganda, Arizona State
Pia Halbig, California
Stephanie Kono, UCLA
Azahara Munoz, Arizona State
Juliana Murcia, Arizona State
Lizette Salas, USC
Jennifer Song, USC
Glory Yang, UCLA
Second Team
Sydney Burilson, Stanford
Mari Chun, Stanford
Tiffany Joh, UCLA
Alejandra llanez, Arizona
Kendra Little, Oregon
Sydnee Michaels, UCLA
Belen Mozo, USC
Maria Jose Uribe, UCLA
Honorable Mention
Anya Alvarez, Washington
Cathryn Bristow, Oregon
Amy Eneroth, Washington State
Allison Goodman, California
Jennifer Osborn, Arizona State
Ryan O'Toole, UCLA
Jaclyn Sweeney, Arizona State
Amanda Wilson, Arizona
Shannon Yocum, California
All-Time Oregon Honorees ? All-Pacific-10 Women's Golf Team
2009 Kendra Little (2nd); Cathryn Bristow (HM)
2008 Cathryn Bristow (2nd); Kendra Little (2nd)
2007 Kim McCready (HM)
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); Anika Heuser (HM); Kylie Wilson (HM)
1997 Paula Patterson (1st); Anika Heuser (HM); Kylie Wilson (HM)
1996 Paula Patterson (HM)
1995 Shannon Hare (HM)
1994 Cappy Mack (HM)
1993 Leigh Casey (HM); Shannon Maier (HM)
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