10/26/2019 8:32:00 AM | Women's Golf
18-team Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown will take place Oct. 27-29 at Boulder Creek Golf Club.
LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) - The UNLV women's golf team will be back in action Sunday-Tuesday, Oct. 27-29, for its final tournament of its fall season as it hosts the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown at Boulder Creek Golf Club (par 72, 6,277 yards) in Boulder City, Nevada.
FREE ADMISSION: The public is invited to attend the tournament and admission is free.
THE FIELD:Â The tournament features 18 teams: Colorado State, East Tennessee State, Fresno State, Idaho, Long Beach State, New Mexico State, Northern Arizona, Northern Illinois, Oral Roberts, Portland State, San Francisco, South Dakota State, Tulsa, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UNLV, UNR and Wyoming.
THE FORMAT:Â The three-day, 54-hole stroke-play event will consist of three rounds of 18 holes each day. Teams will play five players with the low four scores each day counted for the team total.Â
TEE TIMES:Â Tee times will begin at 12 p.m. on Sunday and 8 a.m. Monday and Tuesday with shotgun starts all three days.
THE LINEUP: Competing for UNLV will be junior Samantha Fuller, freshman Elina Saksa, sophomore Veronica Joels, junior Cathy Liu and sophomore Nastasia Kossacky. Freshman Aliyah Williams and junior Luka van der Merwe will compete as individuals.
LAST TIME OUT:Â UNLV placed 11th at its last tournament, the Jim West Challenge in San Marcos, Texas. Fuller paced the Rebels with a tie for 27th, individually.
LAST YEAR'S LVCS: Oregon State won last year's event by four shots at 26-under (838), while UNLV finished tied for seventh at 1-under. Tulsa's Lorena Tseng earned medalist honors by two shots at 13-under (203), while former Rebel Polly Mack was UNLV's top individual finisher in a tie for 16th at 3-under.
LIVE SCORING:Â Live scoring of the tournament will be available courtesy of Golfstat with a link found at UNLVRebels.com or by clicking here.
NOTABLE:
• UNLV has a new look with just three returners from last year's roster. Six new faces have joined the 2019-20 squad.
• Prior to the 2018-19 season, UNLV had won three straight Mountain West titles and made a NCAA postseason appearance in 16 consecutive years.
• Head coach Amy Bush-Herzer is in her ninth year at the helm of the program. She has led her team to a conference championship four times.
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FREE ADMISSION: The public is invited to attend the tournament and admission is free.
THE FIELD:Â The tournament features 18 teams: Colorado State, East Tennessee State, Fresno State, Idaho, Long Beach State, New Mexico State, Northern Arizona, Northern Illinois, Oral Roberts, Portland State, San Francisco, South Dakota State, Tulsa, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UNLV, UNR and Wyoming.
THE FORMAT:Â The three-day, 54-hole stroke-play event will consist of three rounds of 18 holes each day. Teams will play five players with the low four scores each day counted for the team total.Â
TEE TIMES:Â Tee times will begin at 12 p.m. on Sunday and 8 a.m. Monday and Tuesday with shotgun starts all three days.
THE LINEUP: Competing for UNLV will be junior Samantha Fuller, freshman Elina Saksa, sophomore Veronica Joels, junior Cathy Liu and sophomore Nastasia Kossacky. Freshman Aliyah Williams and junior Luka van der Merwe will compete as individuals.
LAST TIME OUT:Â UNLV placed 11th at its last tournament, the Jim West Challenge in San Marcos, Texas. Fuller paced the Rebels with a tie for 27th, individually.
LAST YEAR'S LVCS: Oregon State won last year's event by four shots at 26-under (838), while UNLV finished tied for seventh at 1-under. Tulsa's Lorena Tseng earned medalist honors by two shots at 13-under (203), while former Rebel Polly Mack was UNLV's top individual finisher in a tie for 16th at 3-under.
LIVE SCORING:Â Live scoring of the tournament will be available courtesy of Golfstat with a link found at UNLVRebels.com or by clicking here.
NOTABLE:
• UNLV has a new look with just three returners from last year's roster. Six new faces have joined the 2019-20 squad.
• Prior to the 2018-19 season, UNLV had won three straight Mountain West titles and made a NCAA postseason appearance in 16 consecutive years.
• Head coach Amy Bush-Herzer is in her ninth year at the helm of the program. She has led her team to a conference championship four times.
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