Women's Golf Tees Off At East Regional Thursday
5/6/2015 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
2015 Raleigh Regional Live Scoring / Results
CONWAY - The Coastal Carolina University women's golf team will begin play at the 2015 NCAA Raleigh Regional on Thursday (May 7) with a day one tee of 8:24 a.m. at the Lonnie Poole Golf Course on the campus of North Carolina State University.
The low six teams and low three individuals not on those teams will advance to the NCAA Championships, slated for May 22-27 at The Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Fla. Hosted by USF, the 2015 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championships will feature teams and student-athletes - who advanced from NCAA Regional Qualifying - competing in an individual stroke-play format over 72 holes with the top eight teams qualifying at the conclusion of play for the team match-play tournament.
Representing the 2015 Big South Champion Chanticleers at the Regional will be Big South Golfer of the Year and Championship Medalist Lena Schaeffner, Freshman of the Year Malene Krolboll Hansen, All-Conference member Emee Herbert along with Bailey Cocca and Frida Castillo.
Coastal, ranked 49th nationally by Golfstat, will enter the Regional as the 13th seed. The Chanticleers will be paired with familiar opponents during Thursday's opening round, playing alongside 14th-seeded Campbell and 15-seeded College of Charleston.
This marks the sixth NCAA Regional appearance for the Chanticleers, who also earned a bids in 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2013. Of Coastal's six NCAA Regional selections five, including this year's, have been by virtue of an automatic bid by winning the Big South Conference championship.
The NCAA East Regional field will feature some of the toughest competition of all the three sites, which includes top-seeded and second-ranked South Carolina along with regional rivals GRU Augusta, NC State, Furman, Campbell and College of Charleston. Thirteen of the 18 teams in the Regional are ranked in Golfstat's top 50.
2015 NCAA East Regional Teams (Conference Automatic Bid)
1. #2 South Carolina
2. #7 Louisiana State
3. #10 Mississippi State
4. #15 Northwestern
5. #18 Florida
6. #24 Central Florida (AQ)
7. #28 Furman (AQ)
8. #31 Alabama
9. #34 Iowa State
10. #40 Ohio State
11. #42 North Carolina State
12. #47 GRU Augusta
13. #49 Coastal Carolina (AQ)
14. Campbell
15. College of Charleston (AQ)
16. Seton Hall (AQ)
17. Wichita State (AQ)
18 Fairleigh Dickinson (AQ)
2015 NCAA East Regional Individuals
1. Juliet Vongphoumy, Maryland
2. Jessica Welch, Jacksonville
3. Frida Gustafsson Spang, East Carolina
4. Genevieve Ling, Boise State
5. Manuela Carbajo Re, Georgia
6. Ashley Burke, South Florida
