Women's Golf Ready For NCAA Regional

The Penn women's golf accumulation is acclimatized in and available to get fulfill history at the NCAA West Regional, which starts Thursday and goes on through Saturday at the Stanford Golf Beforehand in Stanford, Calif. Stanford's golf beforehand will play at par 71 with a breadth of 6,103 yards.

Making their native postseason realisation back satisfactory a varsity affairs in 2000, the Quakers are assigned to tee off from the 10th aperture at 1:25 p.m. (4:25 Eastern) on Thursday and from No. 1 at 8:55 a.m. (11:55 Eastern) on Friday. Saturday's tee times will be bowed by anniversary team's continuing branch into that final day.

Penn is seeded 23rd out of 24 teams in the West Regional, a acreage that show nine of the Top 25 teams and is dialect by No. 1 UCLA and No. 3 Arizona. The top eight teams will advance to the NCAA Championships, which will yield abode May 18-21 at the Country Club of Landfall in Wilmington, N.C. The top two alone players whose teams did not beforehand will aswell move on to the NCAA Championships. Two added regionals are demography abode this weekend, the East Regional in Greenville, N.C. and the Central Regional in Columbus, Ind.

As it was at the Ivy League Championships, Penn's calendar will affection seniors Catherine Elliott, Meredith Kotowski, and Lisette Vitter; green Tiffany Cheung; and apprentice Isabel Han. That accumulation formed to the Ivy League title, cutting the best aggregation account all three canicule en avenue to a 22-stroke achievement over second-place Yale. Han accomplished additional overall, while Cheung was third; both of them accustomed first-team All-Ivy honors. Vitter placed sixth all-embracing and was a second-team All-Ivy honoree.

Han will advance the way for Penn on Thursday, teeing off at 1:25. Cheung will chase at 1:36, again Elliott at 1:47 and Kotowski at 1:58. Vitter will annular out the group, teeing off at 2:09 p.m. Penn is arena with 22nd-seeded Texas State and 24th-seeded Portland State on Thursday.

Penn's Ivy appellation was the assertion point on what has been a beauteous uptick in the program's fortunes beneath second-year arch drillmaster Mark Anderson. Consider that endure year, Anderson's first, the Quakers went 40-64-1 adjoin Division I programs; this year, Penn is 79-14, with an ECAC abatement appellation to accompaniment the Ivy championship.

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