INDIANAPOLIS – Sam Houston golfers Grace Jin and Amelia Guo have each earned individual berths to the NCAA Norman Regional at the OU Jimmie Austin Golf Club, per a release from the NCAA Division I Women's Golf Committee on Wednesday.
Regional play will take place May 5-7 at six regional sites, with 396 participants and each site featuring 12 teams and six individuals. The top five teams (30 teams total) and the low individual not on an advancing team (six individuals total) from each regional site will advance to compete in the national championships to be played May 16-21 at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif.
Championship play will be hosted by Texas, with the final three days of the championships televised live by the GOLF Channel.
The selections mark the fifth straight season Sam Houston will have representation at an NCAA Regional with the Kats having competed in a regional as a team in each of the last five seasons.
The pair was already named to the CUSA all-academic team earlier this month before finishing fourth among individuals at the Conference USA Championships last week. She opened the season with consecutive titles at the Badger Invitational and has five top-10 finishes this year, pushing her to a No. 145 national rank.
Guo, meanwhile, ranks No. 206 in the country and has three top-10 finishes on her card, including a fifth-place finish to at the "Mo"Morial and most recently closing in a tie for 11th overall at the CUSA Championships.
Norman Regional Site
Teams (seeded in the following order):
1. Stanford
2. Northwestern
3. North Carolina
4. Michigan State
5. Duke
6. Oklahoma
7. Baylor
8. Oregon State (West Coast Conference)
9. Tulsa (American Athletic Conference)
10. Denver (The Summit League)
11. Furman (Southern Conference)
12. Southern Mississippi (Sun Belt Conference)
Individuals (seeded in the following order):
1. Riana Mission, San Francisco
2. Grace Jin, Sam Houston
3. Cynthia Zhang, Boston College
4. Ffion Tynan, Missouri
5. Amelia Guo, Sam Houston
6. Zoe Pinillos, Augusta (Southland Conference)