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USC, UCLA and Duke will be the top seeds in the NCAA Division I Women’s Regionals May 8-10, the NCAA announced April 28.

USC, No. 1 in the Golfweek/Sagarin Rankings, will headline the West Regional at Lincoln Hills Golf Club in Lincoln, Calif., forcing No. 2 UCLA to the Central Regional at the University of Texas Golf Club in Austin. Third-ranked Duke is the top-seeded team in the East Regional at the University of Georgia Golf Course in Athens. Men’s fields will be announced May 5.


Eight teams and two individuals from each of the 21-team regionals will advance to the NCAA Division I Women’s Championship May 20-23 at the University of New Mexico Championship Golf Course in Albuquerque.

The East and West regions each have four of the top 10 teams in the Golfweek/Sagarin College Rankings in their fields, while the Central has two. The East has the lowest combined rank among its top eight seeds (98), followed by the West (99) and Central (105).

The top 52 teams in the Golfweek/Sagarin College Rankings all made the postseason, as well as 11 lower-ranked teams that automatically qualified by winning their conference championships. No. 53 Augusta State was the highest-ranked team not to make the postseason.

Princeton’s Susannah Aboff, No. 62 in the Golfweek/Sagarin Rankings, was the highest-ranked individual to be left out of a regional. Coastal Carolina’s Araceli Felgueroso, No. 184, was the lowest-ranked individual to earn one of nine individual berths to regionals. Twenty-one players not included in the postseason were ranked ahead of Felgueroso.

– Staff and wire reports

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NCAA women’s regional fields (with seeds):

EAST
University of Georgia GC, Athens, Ga.

• Teams: 1. Duke, 2. Florida, 3. Georgia, 4. Auburn, 5. Wake Forest,
6. Tennessee, 7. Virginia, 8. New Mexico, 9. Vanderbilt, 10. Louisville,
11. South Carolina, 12. Furman, 13. East Carolina, 14. Georgia State,
15. Central Florida, 16. Missouri, 17. Indiana, 18. UNC-Wilmington,
19. Jacksonville State, 20. Charleston Southern, 21. Jackson State.

• Individuals: Dori Carter, Mississippi; Emma de Groot, Tennessee-Chattanooga; Paula Hurtado, Florida International

WEST
Lincoln (Calif.) Hills GC

• Teams: 1. USC, 2. Arizona State, 3. Arkansas, 4. Arizona, 5. Oklahoma State, 6. California, 7. Michigan State, 8. Stanford, 9. BYU, 10. Tulsa,
11. North Carolina, 12. Ohio State, 13. San Jose State, 14. Oklahoma,
15. Oregon, 16. UNLV, 17. UC Davis, 18. UC Irvine, 19. Fresno State,
20. Oral Roberts, 21. Portland State

• Individuals: Mallory Blackwelder, Kentucky; Danielle Cvitanov, San Francisco; Emily Powers, Kansas

CENTRAL
University of Texas GC, Austin, Texas

• Teams: 1. UCLA, 2. Purdue, 3. Alabama, 4. Denver, 5. Kent State,
6. Pepperdine, 7. LSU, 8. Texas A&M, 9. Notre Dame, 10. Texas, 11. TCU,
12. Florida State, 13. North Carolina State, 14. East Tennessee State,
15. Texas Tech, 16. Washington, 17. Nebraska, 18. Harvard, 19. Texas State, 20. Illinois State, 21. Farleigh Dickinson,

• Individuals: Steffi Kirchmayr, College of Charleston; Sara Wikstrom Arkansas-Little Rock; Araceli Felgueroso, Coastal Carolina.


Posted: 4/28/2008

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