5/4/2018 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
May 4, 2018
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LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) - Fresh off its third straight Mountain West title, the UNLV women's golf team will tee of Monday in its 16th straight NCAA Regional. The Rebels were one of 18 teams placed at the Tallahassee Regional, which is hosted by Florida State and will be played at the Don Veller Seminole Golf Course and Club, May 7-9. One round will be played each day, with action beginning at 8 a.m. ET each morning.
The Scarlet & Gray are the 11th-seeded team in the region, with Alabama earning the top seed in the field. Furman is seeded second, followed by fellow West Coast programs Arizona and Washington as the third and fourth seeds. Host Florida State is the seventh seed.
UNLV captured its seventh MW title in program history and third straight at the league championship in April, marking the second time the program has won three consecutive conference tournaments - the first coming from 2004-06. Four of the program's seven titles have come in the last eight years under head coach Amy Bush-Herzer, who was named the MW Coach of the Year for the third time in her career. Freshman Polly Mack earned the league's Player and Freshman of the Year honors, becoming the first player in program history to earn both in the same year. Junior Elizabeth Prior and sophomore Nastasia Kossacky were honored as second-team selections.
Overall the season has been a successful one as the Rebels have won four team tournament titles during the 2017-18 season. In addition to their victory at the MW Championship, UNLV won its two home tournaments - October's Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown and February's Rebel Beach Invitational - and won a third tournament in Las Vegas, the Jackrabbit Invitational in March, which was hosted by South Dakota State but played at the familiar Boulder Creek Golf Club. They won that invitational by a staggering 53-strokes, while senior Mackenzie Raim finished atop the individual leaderboard to earn her third career medalist honor.
NCAA REGIONAL FORMAT: The three-day 54-hole tournaments will be played at four sites: Tallahassee, Florida; San Francisco, California; Austin, Texas; and Madison, Wisconsin. Each site hosts 18 teams and six individual entrants, who will play one round of 18 holes each day. The six teams and three individuals not on those teams with the lowest scores from each regional will advance to the finals to make up the 24 qualifying teams and 12 individuals that will compete for the NCAA title.
THE COURSE: The Tallahassee Regional will be played at the home of the Florida State's men's and women's golf programs, the Don Veller Seminole Golf Course and Club. It is a par-72 6,342 yard course.
THE FIELD: Joining the Rebels, who are the 11th seed in the Tallahassee Regional, and host institution and seventh-seeded Florida State is as follows (in order of seeding): #1 Alabama, #2 Furman, #3 Arizona, #4 Washington, #5 Wake Forest, #6 Vanderbilt, #8 Clemson, #9 Georgia, #10 Tennessee, #12 Kennesaw State, #13 Denver, #14 Coastal Carolina, #15 Missouri, #16 College of Charleston, #17 Richmond and #18 Albany. The six qualifying individuals are: Hee Ying Loy - East Tennessee State University; Claudia De Antonio - Louisiana State University; Fernanda Lira - University of Central Arkansas; Emma Svensson - University of Central Arkansas; Valentina Giraldo - Jacksonville State University; and Kaeli Jones - University of Central Florida.
THE LINEUP: The UNLV lineup at the Tallahassee NCAA Regional is senior Mackenzie Raim, junior Elizabeth Prior, freshman Polly Mack, sophomore Nastasia Kossacky and junior Shannon Oh.
TEE TIMES:
LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) - Fresh off its third straight Mountain West title, the UNLV women's golf team will tee of Monday in its 16th straight NCAA Regional. The Rebels were one of 18 teams placed at the Tallahassee Regional, which is hosted by Florida State and will be played at the Don Veller Seminole Golf Course and Club, May 7-9. One round will be played each day, with action beginning at 8 a.m. ET each morning.
The Scarlet & Gray are the 11th-seeded team in the region, with Alabama earning the top seed in the field. Furman is seeded second, followed by fellow West Coast programs Arizona and Washington as the third and fourth seeds. Host Florida State is the seventh seed.
UNLV captured its seventh MW title in program history and third straight at the league championship in April, marking the second time the program has won three consecutive conference tournaments - the first coming from 2004-06. Four of the program's seven titles have come in the last eight years under head coach Amy Bush-Herzer, who was named the MW Coach of the Year for the third time in her career. Freshman Polly Mack earned the league's Player and Freshman of the Year honors, becoming the first player in program history to earn both in the same year. Junior Elizabeth Prior and sophomore Nastasia Kossacky were honored as second-team selections.
Overall the season has been a successful one as the Rebels have won four team tournament titles during the 2017-18 season. In addition to their victory at the MW Championship, UNLV won its two home tournaments - October's Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown and February's Rebel Beach Invitational - and won a third tournament in Las Vegas, the Jackrabbit Invitational in March, which was hosted by South Dakota State but played at the familiar Boulder Creek Golf Club. They won that invitational by a staggering 53-strokes, while senior Mackenzie Raim finished atop the individual leaderboard to earn her third career medalist honor.
NCAA REGIONAL FORMAT: The three-day 54-hole tournaments will be played at four sites: Tallahassee, Florida; San Francisco, California; Austin, Texas; and Madison, Wisconsin. Each site hosts 18 teams and six individual entrants, who will play one round of 18 holes each day. The six teams and three individuals not on those teams with the lowest scores from each regional will advance to the finals to make up the 24 qualifying teams and 12 individuals that will compete for the NCAA title.
THE COURSE: The Tallahassee Regional will be played at the home of the Florida State's men's and women's golf programs, the Don Veller Seminole Golf Course and Club. It is a par-72 6,342 yard course.
THE FIELD: Joining the Rebels, who are the 11th seed in the Tallahassee Regional, and host institution and seventh-seeded Florida State is as follows (in order of seeding): #1 Alabama, #2 Furman, #3 Arizona, #4 Washington, #5 Wake Forest, #6 Vanderbilt, #8 Clemson, #9 Georgia, #10 Tennessee, #12 Kennesaw State, #13 Denver, #14 Coastal Carolina, #15 Missouri, #16 College of Charleston, #17 Richmond and #18 Albany. The six qualifying individuals are: Hee Ying Loy - East Tennessee State University; Claudia De Antonio - Louisiana State University; Fernanda Lira - University of Central Arkansas; Emma Svensson - University of Central Arkansas; Valentina Giraldo - Jacksonville State University; and Kaeli Jones - University of Central Florida.
THE LINEUP: The UNLV lineup at the Tallahassee NCAA Regional is senior Mackenzie Raim, junior Elizabeth Prior, freshman Polly Mack, sophomore Nastasia Kossacky and junior Shannon Oh.
TEE TIMES:
Monday, May 7: 8:00 a.m. ET (8:50 a.m. - Shannon Oh; 9:00 a.m. - Nastasia Kossacky; 9:10 a.m. - Polly Mack; 9:20 a.m. Elizabeth Prior; 9:30 a.m. - Mackenzie Raim)
Tuesday, May 8: 8:00 a.m. ET.
Wednesday, May 9: 8:00 a.m. ET
LIVE SCORING: http://results.golfstat.com//p ublic/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?p g=participants&tid=15150
Tuesday, May 8: 8:00 a.m. ET.
Wednesday, May 9: 8:00 a.m. ET
LIVE SCORING: http://results.golfstat.com//p ublic/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?p g=participants&tid=15150
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