SAN MARCOS, Texas – The Texas State women's golf team, after winning the Sun Belt Conference Tournament in convincing fashion last week, has earned the No. 15 seed at the 2016 NCAA Women's Golf Bryan Regional on May 5-7 at Traditions Club. Eighteen teams qualify for each of the four regionals spread throughout the country. This is the sixth time in nine seasons that the Bobcats have qualified for the NCAA Regional.
A total of 384 participants have been selected for regional competition. Of these players, 132 will advance to the championships finals. Six teams and three individuals will advance from each regional. The national championships will be May 20-25 at Eugene County Club in Eugene, Oregon, hosted by the University of Oregon. The final three days of the championship will be televised live by the Golf Channel.
The Traditions Club varies from a 6,242 yard track to 6,373 yards with par set at 72. The format of the tournament is 54 holes with 18 holes played each day.
The Bobcats earned a spot in the regional after taking the SBC Championship with a tournament total of 895 to finish 19 strokes ahead of Troy in second place. Texas State earns the victory after back-to-back second place showings in 2014 and 2015.
Maty Monzingo earned medalist honors after defeating Little Rock's Shania Berger in a two-hole playoff.
Monzingo and Berger both parred the first playoff hole and with an approach shot inside flagstick's range on the second playoff hole, Monzingo set herself up with a short birdie putt. Berger went on to miss her birdie putt from about 30 feet while Monzingo knocked in her birdie to become the individual medalist.
Monzingo, who was a Second-Team All-SBC selection, was one of three Bobcats to be named All-Conference.
Lora Assad and
Millie Saroha were both selected as First-Team All-SBC recipients.
A tournament central web page will be made live on Tuesday and can be found at 12thMan.com/ncaagolf. Live scoring for the event can be found
here and there will be walking scorers with each group.
Participating Teams (seeded in the following order):
- UCLA
- Georgia
- Arizona
- Kent State (Mid-American)
- Furman (Southern)
- Texas A&M
- TCU
- Texas
- SMU
- Louisville
- Miami (Fla.)
- Tulane
- Campbell (Big South)
- Indiana
- Texas State (Sun Belt)
- Delaware (Colonial Athletic)
- Lamar (Southland)
- Quinnipiac (Metro Atlantic)
Participating Individuals:
- Laura Lonardi, Baylor
- Alessandra Liu, William and Mary
- Bianca Pagdanganan, Gonzaga
- Hannah Wood, Oklahoma
- Brooke Ferrell, Wisconsin
- Amy Ihm, Iowa
Troy's Fátima Fernández Cano Earns At-Large Berth to NCAA Regionals
TROY, Alabama – Troy junior Fátima Fernández Cano has earned an at-large berth into the NCAA Regional field as an individual; she will play at the NCAA East Regional which will be held at the Shoal Creek Golf and Country Club in Birmingham, Ala.
The NCAA East Regional runs May 5-7 with 18 teams and six individuals. The top six teams and top three individuals (not on qualifying teams) will advance to the NCAA Championship.
"Fátima put together an impressive resume this season and there was not doubt in my mind that she would earn an at-large bid into Regionals," Troy head coach Bart Barnes said. "To win five tournaments and finish in the top 10 of two others is truly remarkable and she deserves this opportunity to continue her season."
Cano finished the season ranked 18th nationally with a 72.15 stroke average and tied for 19th with a +0.35 score versus par. A native of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Cano was one of the best in the country on par-4 holes as she finished fifth with a 4.05 average for the year.
This will be the third straight NCAA Regional appearance for Cano after Troy earned the Sun Belt's at-large team bid each of the past two years; she becomes the first Troy women's golfer to earn an at-large individual berth to the NCAA postseason.
Cano won five of her nine tournaments on the year and posted an average finish of 5.2 in all the events. She finished the year with 10 of her 26 rounds under par and with five rounds in the 60s.