No. 36 Ducks Tabbed to NCAA West Regional
EUGENE ? The No. 36 University of Oregon women’s golf team received its 14th postseason bid in school history with Monday’s invitation to the NCAA West Regional, set for Thursday-Friday, May 7-9 at the Karsten Golf Course in Tempe, Ariz.
The three, 54-hole NCAA regionals hosted by Arizona State, Florida and Ohio State will each feature 21 teams and three additional individuals that will play single 18-hole rounds each day.
The low eight team finishers and low two individuals not on those teams from each regional will advance to the NCAA Championships at the Caves Valley Country Club, hosted by Georgetown, Tuesday-Friday, May 19-22.
Other teams in the West Regional field (and their Golf Week / GolfStat rankings) include: Arizona State (1/2), USC (3/4), LSU (10/8), Pepperdine (13/13), Arkansas (16/16), Arizona (20/22), California (25/20), UC Irvine (35/25), San Francisco (32/27), UNLV (31/34), Oregon (36/43), TCU (37/37), Texas A&M (39/41), Long Beach State (48/47), Colorado (47/45), Texas (40/39), Baylor (58/55), Texas A&M Corpus Christi (-/104), Northern Arizona (-/108), and Oral Roberts (66/63 ).
Action will start each round at 7:00 a.m. on the par 72, 6,230-yard course, and live results will be available at the www.GolfStat.com website, and more tourney info will be posted at the www.TheSunDevils.com website.
In last year’s West Regional at Sacramento, the then-No. 44 Ducks placed 13th (303-297-301-901) and were only nine strokes out of eighth place ? the final slot that advanced to the NCAA Championships. All five of UO’s entries from that event return this season - sophomore Kendra Little (17th, 71-75-74-220), senior Cathryn Bristow (35th, 77-73-73-223), junior Felicia Eastick (56t, 76-74-78-228), sophomore Erica Omlid (80t, 79-77-76-232) and junior Kate Hildahl (86t, 79-75-80-234).
UO will set its sights on its first NCAA team appearance since 2000 and seventh in school history, and its all-time NCAA finishes follow (1993 ? 17th; 1994 ? 14th; 1995 ? 13th; 1997 ? 7th; 1998 ? 14th; 2000 ? 11th).
More NCAA tournament information is available at the www.NCAAsports.com website, and national rankings are available at the www.GolfStat.com and www.GolfWeek.com websites.
Last weekend, the Ducks placed seventh in the 23rd annual Pacific-10 Conference Championships for its best finish since 1996 (sixth), while it also took seventh in ’00 and ’08. Individually, Bristow and Little placed 10th (75-72-70-217) and 12th overall (76-73-70-219), while freshman Ashley Edwards also placed top 25 overall (24th-t, 79-72-74-225).UO’s other entrants at the Stanford Golf Course-hosted event included sophomore Monika Graf (43rd, 82-78-80-240) and Omlid (49th, 82-81-83-246).
Bristow was UO’s highest individual placer since Jerilyn White took ninth in 2001. The Huapia, New Zealand native Bristow was accorded All-Pac-10 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. She joined former great Duck Paula Patterson (1st-’97; 2nd’98; HM-’96) as the only Oregon players to ever garner three All-Pac-10 honors
Little was tabbed as a repeat All-Pac-10 Second Team selection, while the current duo joined Patterson as the only UO players to receive multiple first- or second-team acclaim.
The Ducks’ eight-person roster is arguably one of its most balanced ever as three different players have led the squad in its nine tourneys so far in 2008-09 - Bristow (four times), Little (five times), and Graf (once). Freshman Ashley Edwards has ranked top three on the squad in all six of her tourneys this season, and three others have also ranked top-three on the squad in various events (Felicia Eastick, Kate Hildahl and Erica Omlid).
Past Duck NCAA Women’s Golf Regional Championships Results
Year Top UO Individual Place Score Team Score
1993 C Mack/S. Maier T29th 221 9th 885
1994 Karly Mills T22nd 224 10th 912
1995 Shannon Hare T29th 301 4th 898
1996 Christel Tomori T54th 242 16th 974
1997 Paula Patterson T5th 213 6th 885
1998 Kylie Wilson T23rd 226 T10th 912
1999 J. White/A. Rizzo T39th 231 T12th 932
2000 J. White/A. Heuser T21st 223 7th 895
2001 J. White T16th 224 9th 923
2002 K. Cho T63rd 237 --- ---
2004 Johnna Nealy T25th 224 T8th 913
2005 Johnna Nealy T6th 220 10th 913
2008 Kendra Little T17th 220 13th 901
COMPLETE 2009 NCAA REGIONAL FIELDS
*Conference automatic qualifiers are indicated in parenthesis next to the institution.
East Regional
Mark Bostick Golf Course, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, May 7-9
Teams:
1. Virginia
2. Auburn (Southeastern Conference)
3. Alabama
4. North Carolina
5. Duke
6. Denver (Sun Belt Conference)
7. Tennessee
8. Vanderbilt
9. Georgia
10. Tulane (Conference USA)
11. Florida
12. East Carolina
13. Mississippi
14. South Carolina
15. Furman (Southern Conference)
16. Charleston
17. Florida State
18. Central Florida
19. Coastal Carolina (Big South Conference)
20. Stetson (Atlantic Sun Conference)
21. Jackson State (Southwestern Athletic Conference)
Individuals:
1. Susannah Aboff, Princeton
2. Julia Potter, Missouri
3. Jessica Hollandsworth, Maryland
Central Regional
Scarlet Golf Course, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, May 7-9
Teams:
1. UCLA
2. Oklahoma State (Big 12 Conference)
3. Purdue (Big Ten Conference)
4. Wake Forest (Atlantic Coast Conference)
5. Louisville (Big East Conference)
6. Kent State (Mid-American Conference)
7. Michigan State
8. Ohio State
9. Stanford
10. New Mexico (Mountain West Conference)
11. Georgia State (Colonial Athletic Association)
12. Notre Dame
13. North Carolina State
14. Washington
15. Kentucky
16. Chattanooga
17. Michigan
18. Murray State (Ohio Valley Conference)
19. Illinois State (Missouri Valley Conference)
20. Harvard (Ivy Group)
21. Fairleigh Dickinson (Northeast Conference)
Individuals:
1. Kendall Dye, Oklahoma
2. Kayla Mortellaro, Idaho
3. Sara Wikstrom, Arkansas, Little Rock
West Regional
ASU Karsten Golf Course, Arizona State Univeristy, Tempe, Arizona, May 7-9
Teams:
1. Arizona State (Pacific-10 Conference)
2. Southern California
3. Louisiana State
4. Pepperdine
5. Arkansas
6. San Jose State (Western Athletic Conference)
7. Arizona
8. California
9. UC Irvine
10. San Francisco
11. UNLV
12. TCU
13. Texas A&M
14. Oregon
15. Long Beach State (Big West Conference)
16. Colorado
17. Texas
18. Baylor
19. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (Southland Conference)
20. Northern Arizona (Big Sky Conference)
21. Oral Roberts (The Summit League)
Individuals:
1. Miki Ueoka, Santa Clara
2. Chelsea Stelzmiller, UC Davis
3. Alice Kim, UC Davis
*Conference automatic qualifiers are indicated in parenthesis next to the institution.
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