April 28, 2003
Indianapolis, Ind. - The NCAA Division I Women's Golf Committee has announced the teams and individuals selected to participate in the 2003 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championships Regionals.
Three regional tournaments will be conducted May 8-10 to determine the championships field. Regional tournaments are considered preliminary rounds of NCAA championships competition, and all national championships policies will apply.
A total of 324 participants have been selected for the regional competition. Of these players, 126 will advance to the championships finals May 20-23. Eight teams and two individuals will advance from each region.
The championships finals will be held at Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex, West Lafayette, Indiana, hosted by the Purdue University.
The regional sites and the selected teams and individuals are listed below.
East Regional
The East regional will be played May 8-10 at Salem Glen Country Club, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, hosted by Wake Forest University. Conference automatic qualifiers are indicated in parenthesis next to the institution.
Teams: 1 Duke (Atlantic Coast Conference) 2 Arizona 3 Auburn (Southeastern Conference) 4 Vanderbilt 5 Wake Forest 6 Georgia 7 South Carolina 8 Tulane 9 North Carolina 10 Florida State 11 South Florida (Conference USA) 12 East Carolina 13 Furman 14 North Carolina-Wilmington (Big South Conference) 15 North Carolina State 16 Mississippi State 17 Penn State 18 Mississippi 19 Western Carolina (Southern Conference) 20 Georgia State (Atlantic Sun Conference) 21 St. Francis (Pennsylvania) (Northeast Conference)
Individuals: 1 Jenny Gleason, North Carolina-Greensboro 2 Tina Miller, Miami (Florida) 3 Avery Kiser, Princeton
Central Regional
The Central regional will be played May 8-10 at Firethorn Golf Club, Lincoln, Nebraska, hosted by the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Conference automatic qualifiers are indicated in parenthesis next to the institution.
Teams: 1 California (Pacific-10 Conference) 2 Texas 3 Florida 4 Tennessee 5 New Mexico (Mountain West Conference) 6 Tulsa (Western Athletic Conference) 7 Purdue 8 Oklahoma 9 Missouri 10 Baylor 11 TCU 12 Kent State (Mid-American Conference) 13 Michigan State 14 Arkansas 15 Texas A&M 16 Indiana 17 Wisconsin 18 Kansas State 19 Nebraska 20 Yale (Ivy Group) 21 Southern University (Southwestern Athletic Conference)
Individuals: 1 Randi Gauthier, North Texas 2 Louise Kenney, Iowa State 3 Elizabeth Burden, Northwestern
West Regional
The West regional will be played May 8-10 at Karsten Golf Course, Tempe, Arizona, hosted by Arizona State University. Conference automatic qualifiers are indicated in parenthesis next to the institution.
Teams: 1 Pepperdine 2 Southern California 3 Oklahoma State (Big 12 Conference) 4 UCLA 5 Ohio State (Big Ten Conference) 6 Arizona State 7 Stanford 8 New Mexico State (Sun Belt Conference) 9 Washington 10 UNLV 11 San Francisco 12 San Jose State 13 Oregon State 14 Denver 15 Nevada 16 Illinois 17 Washington State 18 Oral Roberts (Mid-Continent Conference) 19 Cal State Northridge (Big West Conference) 20 Portland State (Big Sky Conference) 21 Bradley (Missouri Valley Conference)
Individuals: 1 Nicole Keller, Idaho 2 Stella Lee, UC Irvine 3 Erin Kerr, Colorado