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Fri.-Wed., May 17-22
NCAA Championship
Fayetteville, Ark.
Blessings Golf Club
Par 73, 6,473 yards
LIVE SCORING - http://results.golfstat.com//public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=participants&tid=17030
TOURNAMENT CENTRAL - https://arkansasrazorbacks.com/ncaagolf19/
TICKETS - Through the generosity of Tyson Foods and the Tyson Family, tickets for the 2019 NCAA Golf Championships will be provided on a complimentary basis for all attendees. Parking is also free.
TV COVERAGE: The Golf Channel will provide live coverage of the final three days of the championship.
Monday, May 20 - 4-8 p.m. ET/1-5 p.m. PT (individual national championship)
Tuesday, May 21 - 11 a.m. -1:30 pm. ET/8 a.m.-10:30 a.m. PT (quarterfinals)
Tuesday, May 21 - 4-8 p.m. ET/1-5 p.m. PT (semifinal matches)
Wednesday, May 22 - 4-8 p.m. ET/1-5 p.m. PT (championship match)
SPARTANS AT THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP
The San José State women's golf team is making its 21st appearance at the NCAA Championship this week at Blessings Golf Club in Fayetteville, Ark. The course was originally designed by architect Robert Trent Jones, Jr. with a redesign recently completed by noted architect Kyle Phillips. The course will play at par 73 and 6,473 yards.
Teams advancing to this week's championship from the four regionals.
East Lansing Norman Auburn Cle Elum
Kent State Texas Vanderbilt Souther California
Arizona Florida Florida State Washington
UCLA Wake Forest Duke Northwestern
Stanford Purdue Virginia Arkansas
Illinois Arizona State Auburn San José State
Indiana Mississippi Tennessee Central Florida
Participating Individuals:
1. Aneka Seumanutafa (Ohio State) 7. Michaela Fletcher (Memphis)
2. Ellie Slama (Oregon State) 8. Virunpat Olankitkunchai (Maryland)
3. Kaitlin Milligan (Oklahoma) 9. Linette Holmslykke (Murray State)
4. Angelica Moresco (Alabama) 10. Mikayla Fitzpatrick (Xavier)
5. Kathleen Scavo (Oregon) 11. Amanda Hollandsworth (Va. Tech)
6. Allyson Geer-Park (Michigan St.) 12. Haylin Harris (Michigan State)
San José State advanced to the championship after finishing fifth at the NCAA Cle Elum Regional. The Spartans finished at eight-over 872, two shots head of sixth-place UCF. All five Spartan players finished the final round with two pars and birdie to help the team secure a spot at the championship. Natasha Andrea Oon was the top Spartan finisher as she tied for ninth place a four-under 212.
TEE TIMES: Tee times for the first and second rounds are determined by seeding. San José State will start the championship on Friday the 17th at 8:21 a.m. CT/6:21 a.m. PT off of the 10th tee. On Saturday the 18th, SJSU will be in the final group to tee off of the first tee beginning at 1:01 p.m. CT/11:01 a.m. PT. The Spartans will play the first two rounds with Purdue and Ole Miss. Tee times for Sunday, the 19th, will be determined by the results after two rounds.
CHAMPIONSHIP FORMAT: All 24 teams and 12 individuals will complete 54 holes of stroke play. Following 54-holes of competition on Sunday, the top-15 teams along with the top nine individuals not on an advancing team will advance for one additional day of stroke play to determine the top eight teams for match play competition and the 72-hole stroke-play individual champion.
The top eight teams after 72 holes of stroke play will be placed into a bracket with the No. 1 seed playing the No. 8 seed, the No. 2 seed playing the No. 7 seed, the No. 3 seed playing the No. 6 seed and the No. 4 seed playing the No. 5 seed in match play. Ties for the top 15 teams as well as the top 9 individuals, will be broken by use of a sudden-death playoff (time and course conditions permitting). Otherwise, the use of the established non-sudden-death tiebreaking procedures will be used for determining advancement.
Additionally, ties for the top eight teams and NCAA individual champion will be broken by a sudden-death playoff or, if necessary, by the established non-sudden-death tiebreaking procedures.
SPARTAN LINEUP: San José State will travel the same lineup that has played in six tournaments - Abegail Arevalo, Natasha Andrea Oon, Alexandra Cooper, Franziska Friedrich and Antonia Malate. Maddie White is the alternate.
Tournaments Played by This Lineup
Coeur d'Alene Collegiate 2nd/18 teams
Illini Women's Invitational 6th/15 teams
Stanford Intercollegiate 11th/17 teams
The Gold Rush 1st/15 teams
Juli Inkster at Meadow Club Invitational 3rd/12 teams
NCAA Cle Elum Regional 5th/18 teams
SAN JOSE STATE AT THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP: The Spartans are making their 21st appearance at an NCAA Championship and have won three national titles - 1987, 1989 and 1992. Current head coach Dana (Lofland) Dormann was contributor to the 1987 championship, while assistant coach Pat Hurst was a part of the 1989 championship team.
The Spartans last competed at the NCAA Championship in 2013 at the UGA Golf Course in Athens, Ga. SJSU was tied for first with Southern California after the first round at four-under 284, and Regan DeGuzman led the field with a five-under 67. SJSU finished the tournament in 19th. A complete listing of all 20 years of finishes can be found on page 20.
Individually, Hurst is the only San José State player to win the individual title. In all, 12 Spartans have finished in the top-10 at the NCAA Championship. Janice Moodie finished in the top-10 in all four years she competed for San José State, finishing second in 1997. A complete listing can be found on page 21.
SPARTAN COACHING STAFF: Head coach Dana Dormann is in her first year at the helm of the women's program and her 15th season affiliated with the San José State golf program.
She was named the head coach of the program in June of 2018. In late April, her conference peers selected her as the 2018-19 Mountain West Coach of the Year.
San José State Hall of Fame member Pat Hurst serves as the assistant head coach for the program.
TEAM EFFORT AT CLE ELUM TO ADVANCE : San José State got solid efforts from all five players over the final three holes at the NCAA Cle Elum Regional to secure a spot in the championship field. On the final three holes, every player made two pars and a birdie as other teams made their moves to try and overtake the Spartans. The final two Spartans on course, Abegail Arevalo and Natasha Andrea Oon, made birdies on #18. Arevalo hit a four-foot putt for birdie, while Oon had a five-foot putt for her birdie. Earlier, Franziska Friedrich birdied #16, and Alexandra Cooper followed with birdie on the same hole.
How they played the final three holes
Natasha Andrea Oon par-par-birdie
Abegail Arevalo par-par-birdie
Franziska Friedrich birdie-par-par
Alexandra Cooper birdie-par-par
Antonia Malate par-par-birdie
SPARTANS SWEEP 2018-19 MOUNTAIN WEST HONORS: For the first time since joining the Mountain West Conference in 2012-13, the San José State women's golf team swept the conference postseason honors.
Senior Abegail Arevalo is the 2018-19 MW Women's Golfer of the Year. Natasha Andrea Oon is the 2018-19 MW Freshman Women's Golfer of the Year. First-year head coach Dana Dormann is the 2018-19 MW Coach of the Year.
Arevalo, also a first team All-MW honoree for the second consecutive season, has a 72.14 stroke average in 28 rounds played. Arevalo won individual titles at the Coeur d'Alene Collegiate and The Gold Rush, finished in the top-10 in eight of her 10 tournaments played this season and was in the top-20 in every tournament. She has shot under par in 11 rounds and four rounds of par.
Oon, also a first team All-MW selection, tied Arevalo in stroke average at 72.14 in 28 rounds played. Oon won two tournament titles this season – Minnesota Invitational, her first collegiate tournament, and The Gold Rush and finished in the top-10 in seven of her 10 tournaments played and finished in the top-20 in another. She has eight rounds under par and seven rounds of par this season. Oon tied for second at the MW Championship.
Dormann is in her first season as head coach after serving as the associate head coach and assistant coach for 13-plus years. She has coached the team to a 24th ranking on Golfstat and 27th on Golfweek. The team started the season by winning the Minnesota Invitational and won The Gold Rush in late February.
Arevalo is the second Spartan to win MW Women's Golfer of the Year award, following My Leander who won in 2017. Oon is the first Spartan to win the MW Freshman Women's Golf of the Year award. Dormann wins her first honor at the helm of the program, following her husband, John, who was the 2016-17 MW Coach of the Year.
2018-19 Mountain West Women's Golf Honors
FIRST TEAM
Brigitte Thibault, Fresno State
Gioia Carpinelli, San Diego State
Abegail Arevalo, San José State
Natasha Andrea Oon, San José State
Polly Mack, UNLV
SECOND TEAM
Tara Finigan, Boise State
Victoria Gailey, Nevada
Fernanda Escauriza, San Diego State
Sara Kjellker, San Diego State
Elizabeth Prior, UNLV
Player of the Year: Abegail Arevalo, San José State
Freshman of the Year: Natasha Andrea Oon, San José State
Coach of the Year: Dana Dormann, San José State
ACADEMICS IMPORTANT IN TITLE "STUDENT-ATHLETE"
Two Spartan women's golfers were honored at San José State Honors Convocation on May 3. Alexandra Cooper was named a President's Scholar, while Abegail Arevalo was honored as a Dean's Scholar. To earn a President's Scholar designation, a student must earn a 4.00 grade-point average in one of the two semesters (Fall, 2018, & Spring, 2018) before the Honors Convocation. A Dean's Scholar is a San José State student with a 3.65 or higher grade-point average in a semester during the same academic calendar.
FINALS AND GRADUATIONS: While the Spartans are at the championships, finals are going on San José State (15, 16, 17, 20, 21). Graduations will be held on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th. Two Spartans will earn their degrees next week - Alexandra Cooper in kinesiology and Franziska Friedrich in business administration/international business.
UPDATE - SORRY COACH, YOU CAN'T PLAY - DORMANN QUALIFIES FOR 2019 U.S. SENIOR WOMEN'S OPEN: The day after the Spartans were selected to play at the NCAA Cle Elum Regional, Spartan head coach Dana Dormann found herself out on the Stanford Golf Course, qualifying for the 2019 U.S. Senior Women's Open. Being the competitor that she is, Dormann went out and shot an even-par 71 to win medalist honors and qualify for the Open. Over her 18 holes, she made two birdies, two bogeys and 14 pars. This is the second consecutive year that Dormann won a qualifier in the Bay Area for the U.S. Senior Women's Open.
UPDATE - Since this year's U.S. Senior Women's Open will be played at the same time as the NCAA Championship (May 15-19) at the Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club in Southern Pines, N.C., Dormann made the easy choice to coach the Spartans this week instead of playing at the Senior Open.
SPARTANS SETTING RECORDS: This year's team has set the school record for the most rounds of par or better in a single season. The Spartans have recorded 32 rounds under par and 19 rounds of par play. The 19 par rounds is the most in the last 19 years.
Abegail Arevalo and Natasha Andrea Oon are tied for the team lead in most rounds under par, shooting 11 of their 31 rounds under par. Oon shot all three of her regional rounds under par and leads the team with seven rounds of par. Arevalo has shot five rounds of par.
CHAMPIONSHIP CALIBER COACHES: NCAA Championship play is nothing new Spartan coaches Dana Dormann and Pat Hurst. Each helped the Spartans win a team title during their playing days, and Hurst won an individual title. Dormann was also the assistant coach for the 2010 and 2013 teams that played in Wilmington, N.C., and Athens, Ga., respectively.
Dana Lofland Dormann
1987 Championship - University of New Mexico, par 73
74-73-74-77=298 +6, Tied for 17th
Dormann helped the Spartans win the first NCAA Women's Golf Championship as the team beat Furman by one stroke. Her 73 in the second round was the lowest for the Spartans that round.
Pat Hurst
1989 Championship - Stanford University, par 73
70-72-73-77=292 E, NCAA Individual Champion
Hurst won the only individual national championship in school history. As a sophomore, she sank a four-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole win the individual title and give San José State the team title by one shot over Tulsa. Hurst led from start to finish and won the individual title by two shots.