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RJ Garcia

Quest for National Championship Begins Friday for Spartans

LIVE SCORING

The seventh-seeded San José State women's golf team is making the program's 23rd appearance at the NCAA Championships. The Tom Fazio-designed Raptor course unfolds over the gentle hills and across shaded natural arroyos found in this corner of the Sonoran Desert. The course is listed among the best public golf courses in Arizona by Golfweek and Golf Magazine. The course will play at par 72 and 6,399 yards. 
 

TICKETS: Through the generosity of local contributors, entry to the golf course and parking is free to the public. Parking for spectators will be on-site until the lot is full and then will be directed to the overflow off-site location.

TV COVERAGE: The Golf Channel  will provide live coverage of the final three days of the championship. 
Monday, May 22 - 2-6 p.m. PT (individual national championship)
Tuesday, May 23 - 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m. PT  (quarterfinals)
Tuesday, May 23 - 2-6 p.m. PT (semifinal matches)
Wednesday, May 24 - 2-6 p.m. PT (championship match)

TEE TIMES: Tee times for the first and second rounds are determined by seeding. San José State will start the championship on Friday the 19th at 12:25 p.m. PT off of the 10th tee. On Saturday the 20th, SJSU will tee off on the 10th tee beginning at 7:05 a.m. PT. The Spartans will play the first two rounds with Florida State (8th seed) and Southern California (9th seed). Tee times for Sunday, the 23rd, will be determined by the results after two rounds. 

CHAMPIONSHIP FORMAT: All 30 teams and six 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.

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 tie breaking procedures.

SPARTAN LINEUP: San José State will travel the same lineup that has played in the past six tournaments - Antonia Malate, Kajsa Arwefjäll, Lucia Lopez Ortega, Louisa Carlbom and Rebecca Gyllner. Jordyn Parr is the alternate.
 


SAN JOSE STATE AT THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS:  
The Spartans are making their 23rd appearance at an NCAA Championship and have won three national titles - 1987, 1989 and 1992. Current head coach Dana (Lofland) Dormann finished tied for 17th individually at the 1987 championship.

The Spartans competed at the 2022 NCAA Championships at Grayhawk. The team advanced to match play for the first time in school history, finishing seventh in the team standings after four rounds of stroke play. In match play, SJSU fell 3-0 to second-seed Oregon in the quarterfinals. Natasha Andrea Oon finished second in the individual standings, the first Spartan to finish second since Janice Moodie finished second at the 1997 NCAA Championships

In 2019, the team finished 19th in the three-round stroke play portion of the tournament, shortened due to inclement weather. Oon finished ninth in the individual standings at 3-over 222 (par 73). She was the first Spartan to finish in the top-10 at an NCAA Championship since 1997.

Pat Hurst is the only San José State player to win an individual title. In all, 13 Spartans finished in the top-10 a total of 22 times at the NCAA Championships. Janice Moodie finished in the top-10 in all four years she competed for San José State, finishing second in 1997.