Frogs To Begin NCAA Regional Play
5/6/2009 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
May 6, 2009
FORT WORTH, Texas -- The TCU women's golf team will make its 14th consecutive postseason appearance when it begins play Thursday at the NCAA West Regional in Tempe, Ariz.
The 54-hole event will be held at the Arizona State University Karsten Golf Course. Live scoring is available at www.golfstat.com.
Joining the 36th-ranked Horned Frogs, seeded 12th, in the 21-team field will be top-seed and host Arizona State along with USC, LSU, Pepperdine, Arkansas, San Jose State, Arizona, California, UC Irvine, San Francisco, UNLV, Texas A&M, Oregon, Long Beach State, Colorado, Texas, Baylor, Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Northern Arizona and Oral Roberts.
Eight teams and two individuals at each of the three regional sites advance to the NCAA National Championship May 19-22 in Owings Mills, Md.
The Horned Frogs, under head coach Angie Ravaioli-Larkin, have advanced to the last two NCAA National Championships, representing their first back-to-back trips since 1999 and 2000. TCU is looking to reach the NCAA National Championship in three consecutive seasons for the first time since 1982-84.
In each of the last two years, TCU has posted the top-two regional finishes in its history. A Horned Frog best third-place result in 2007 was followed by a fourth-place effort last spring.
TCU's lineup at the NCAA West Regional will include junior Valentine Derrey, sophomores Prisela Campbell and Allyson Ferguson and freshmen Brooke Beeler and Rachel Raastad.
Derrey is playing in her third regional, while Campbell and Ferguson are in their second.
Derrey, Campbell and Raastad were all-conference selections as TCU led the Mountain West Conference with its three honorees.
The Horned Frogs are the only team in the Mountain West Conference to place four golfers in the top 10 in stroke average. Derrey (74.6) and Raastad (75.0) are fifth and sixth, respectively, while Campbell (75.4) and Beeler (75.6) rank eighth and ninth, respectively.
In its last tournament, TCU was second at the Mountain West Conference Championship. The Horned Frogs have recorded seven top-10 finishes in their nine tournaments this season.
TCU is playing in Tempe for the first time since the 2005 Arizona State Invitational.
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