Racer Golf Headed For Auburn Regional

The Murray State Racers learned of their NCAA Women's Golf Championship assignment Wednesday when the team gathered in the clubhouse at Miller Memorial Golf Course in Murray, Kentucky.

Appearing in their sixth NCAA Championship and third consecutive, the Racers will be the 18^th seed at the Auburn Regional at Saugahatchee Country Club in Opelika, Alabama. Play will begin May 7 and finish May 9.

"I am very excited about this team and what they have accomplished to this point," said Murray State Coach Velvet Milkman. "We should never take winning for granted because winning is hard and winning the Ohio Valley Conference Championship is a tremendous accomplishment. I am excited for our two seniors, Linette Holmslykke, Anna Moore and Jane Watts and our entire team to get this opportunity to play at the NCAA level."

Milkman, the only coach that Murray State has ever had since she launched the program in 1993, recently won their 12th Ohio Valley Conference title with a 20-shot win at The Shoals GC in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

The Racers started their NCAA experience in 2009 in Columbus, Ohio (Scarlet Course) and in 2010, they played in Columbus, Indiana (Otter Creek GC). MSU was back in the NCAA in 2014 in Tallahassee, Florida (Southwood CC) and in 2017, visited Lubbock, Texas (The Rawls Course) and last year in 2018 visited Madison, Wisconsin (University Ridge GC).

In 2018 at Madison, the Racers tied their team low round for an NCAA event at 302 and set the team record for a second season in a row with a 916.

The 2019 field for the NCAA Women's Golf Championship has a total of 72 teams and 24 individuals selected to compete in the four NCAA Women's Regional Championships (18 teams and six individuals per regional). 24 teams and 12 individuals will advance from regional sites to the national championship at The Blessings GC in Fayetteville, Arkansas (May 22-27). The other three regionals include: Cle Elum, Washington (Tumble Creek Golf Club), Norman, Oklahoma (Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club) and East Lansing, Michigan (Forest Akers West Golf Course).

There were a total of 27 conferences that received automatic qualification to the 2019 Division I Women's Golf Championships.

Auburn Regional
Duke University
Vanderbilt University
Florida State University
Auburn University
University of Virginia
Furman University (Southern Conference)
Clemson University
University of Houston (American Athletic Conference)
Kennesaw State University (Atlantic Sun Conference)
University of Alabama
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
University of California, Berkeley
University of Maryland, College Park
East Carolina University
University of Denver (The Summit League)
University of South Alabama (Sun Belt Conference)
University at Albany (Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference)
Murray State University (Ohio Valley Conference)

Individuals:
Leonie Bettel – University of Kentucky
Brigitte Thibault – California State University, Fresno
Hanley Long – Middle Tennessee State University
Monica San Juan – University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Anne-Charlotte Mora – Texas State University
Victoria Huskey – College of Charleston (South Carolina)

Cle Elum Regional
University of Southern California (Pac-12 Conference)
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
University of South Carolina, Columbia
Northwestern University
University of Washington
University of Miami (Florida)
University of Oregon
San Jose State University
Oregon State University
Old Dominion University
Iowa State University
San Diego State University (Mountain West Conference)
University of Central Florida
The Ohio State University (Big Ten Conference)
California State University, Sacramento (Big Sky Conference)
New Mexico State University (Western Athletic Conference)
Boston University (Patriot League)
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (Missouri Valley Conference)

Individuals:
Sophie Hausmann – University of Idaho
Polly Mack – University of Las Vegas, Nevada
Rose Huang – Brigham Young University
Chanikan (Pluem) Yongyuan – Southern Utah University
Christine Danielsson – University of California, Davis
Elizabeth Prior – University of Las Vegas, Nevada

East Lansing Regional
Stanford University
University of Arizona
Kent State University (Mid-American Conference)
University of California, Los Angeles
Michigan State University
Campbell University (Big South Conference)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Baylor University
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Georgia
University of Louisville
Augusta University
Louisiana State University
Indiana University, Bloomington
Long Beach State University (Big West Conference)
Xavier University (Big East Conference)
Harvard University (The Ivy League)
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (Horizon League)

Individuals:
Hee Ying Loy – East Tennessee State University
Emma Albrecht – University of Notre Dame
Kirsty Hodgkins – University of Colorado, Boulder
Cecilie Finne-Ipsen – The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Ashley Lau – University of Michigan
6. Tereza Melecka – East Tennessee State University

Norman Regional
University of Texas at Austin (Big 12 Conference)
Wake Forest University (Atlantic Coast Conference)
University of Florida
Arizona State University
University of Oklahoma
Texas Christian University
Pepperdine University
Purdue University
University of Mississippi (Southeastern Conference)
Texas Tech University
Mississippi State University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
North Carolina State University
Texas A&M University, College Station
University of Texas at San Antonio (Conference USA)
University of North Carolina Wilmington (Colonial Athletic Association)
Sam Houston State University (Southland Conference)
Fairleigh Dickinson University, Metropolitan Campus (Northeast Conference)

Individuals:
Michaela Fletcher – University of Memphis
Lauren Cox – University of North Texas
Brigitte Dunne – Southern Methodist University
Lianna Bailey – Oklahoma State University
Han-Hsuan Yu – Oklahoma State University
Lorena Tseng – The University of Tulsa

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