Next Week:
Mon.-Wed., May 6-8 NCAA Cle Elum Regional
Tumble Creek Club, Suncadia Resort
Cle Elum, Wash.
Live scoring - http://results.golfstat.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=team&tid=17531
Tournament Central - https://gohuskies.com/sports/2019/4/15/2019-ncaa-di-womens-golf-regional-championships.aspx
Tickets - Admission to the three days are free.
Program - https://www.ncaa.com/DIWomensGolf
SPARTANS AT THE REGIONALS
The San José State women's golf team is making its 24th appearance at an NCAA Regional as the team travels to Cle Elum, Wash., for the NCAA Cle Elum Regional hosted by the University of Washington, May 6-8. The 18 teams will play three rounds at Tumble Creek Club within the Suncadia Resort (80 miles east of Seattle). The par-72 course will play at 6,306 yards. The top-six teams and top-three individuals (not on an advancing team) after the third round advance to the national championships, May 17-22, at the Blessings Golf Club in Fayetteville, Ark.
Teams competing at the regional include (in seeded order):
1. Southern California
2. Arkansas
3. South Carolina
4. Northwestern
5. Washington
6. Miami (Fla.)
7. Oregon
8. San José State
9. Oregon State
10. Old Dominion
11. Iowa State
12. San Diego State
13. Central Florida
14. Ohio State
15. Sacramento State
16. New Mexico State
17. Boston
18. Southern Illinois
Participating Individuals:
1. Sophie Hausmann (Idaho)
2. Polly Mack (UNLV)
3. Rose Huang (BYU)
4. Chanikan Yongyuan (Southern Utah)
5. Christine Danielsson (UC Davis)
6. Elizabeth Prior (UNLV)
LIVE SCORING: Live scoring for all three rounds of the NCAA Cle Elum Regional are available online at http://results.golfstat.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=team&tid=17531
FACEBOOK/TWITTER: Follow the Spartan women's golf team and all San José State athletics teams on the web. Join the official SJSU Spartans page and like the San José State Women's Golf page on Facebook /SJSUWomen'sGolf and read the latest tweets on Twitter @SJSUAthletics.
TEE TIMES: Tee times for the first day of the NCAA Cle Elum Regional are determined by seeding. San José State enters the regional as the #8 seed, so the team will start Monday off the 1st tee at 9:20 a.m. PDT with Oregon and Oregon State. Tee times for Tuesday and Wednesday will be determined by Monday's results.
SPARTAN LINEUP: San José State will travel the same lineup that has played in five tournaments - Abegail Arevalo, Natasha Andrea Oon, Alexandra Cooper, Franziska Friedrich and Antonia Malate.
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
SAN JOSE STATE AT REGIONALS: The Spartans are making their 24th appearance at an NCAA Regional. San José State has won at least a share of two regional titles - 1994 & 1995.
Individually, Madeleine Ziegert is the only Spartan to ever win a regional title. She was the co-medalist at the 2010 West Regional held at the Stanford Golf Course.
SPARTANS ON CLE ELUM : San José State has not played as a team on the Tumble Creek Golf Course at Cle Elum for regional competition. In 2014, former Spartan Regan De Guzman competed as an individual at the regional. She finished 75th in the individual standings.
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. Last week, 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.
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
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.
This year's U.S. Senior Women's Open will be played May 15-19 at the Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club in Southern Pines, N.C. Those dates could prove to be problematic if the Spartans were to advance to the NCAA Championship which will be played May 17-22.
SPARTANS SETTING RECORDS: This year's team has set the school record for the most rounds of par or better in a single season since 2016-17. The Spartans have recorded 28 rounds under par and 18 rounds of par play. The 18 par rounds is the most in the last 19 years, while 28 rounds under par is the second-highest number.
Abegail Arevalo leads the team in most rounds under par, shooting 11 of her 28 rounds under par and four rounds of par. Natasha Andrea Oon has recorded eight rounds under par and a team-best seven round of par.
Season Coach Under Par Par Total
2018-19 Dana Dormann 28 18 46
2016-17 John Dormann 26 17 43
2008-09 John Dormann 29 13 42
2012-13 John Dormann 22 14 36
2014-15 John Dormann 16 15 31
2011-12 John Dormann 16 11 27