All-Big Ten Baete Earns Regional Bid – University of Nebraska

Nebraska girls’s golfer Kirsten Baete captured All-Massive Ten honors when the convention introduced its annual awards, earlier than she earned a person bid to 2022 NCAA Regionals on Wednesday, April 27.

The fifth-year senior from Beatrice, Neb., made her ultimate push for convention accolades and a berth within the NCAA Stanford Regional together with her fourth-place end on the Massive Ten Championship at Fox Chapel Golf Membership in Pittsburgh over the weekend. Baete, who fired a three-round rating of 212 (-1) on the par-71, 6,045-yard structure. Her efficiency included a final-round 68 (-3) to assist her storm to a top-five end and a spot on the Massive Ten All-Championship Crew.

Her exhibiting on the Massive Ten Championship marked her third top-10 particular person end of the season, together with a person title on the White Sands Intercollegiate within the Bahamas (Oct. 22-24), when she put collectively a career-best 206 (-10) on the 6,415-yard, par-72 structure of the Ocean Membership Golf Course. She was additionally named the Massive Ten Golfer of the Week (Oct. 27) for her efficiency within the Bahamas. For the season, Baete completed with a team-leading 74.00 stroke common over 30 rounds. 

Baete realized of her NCAA Regional choice in the course of the Golf Channel’s reside choice present protection on Wednesday afternoon, simply an hour after the official announcement of the All-Massive Ten groups.

“We’re so excited that Kirsten will get to proceed her senior season at NCAA Regionals,” Nebraska Head Coach Lisa Johnson mentioned. “She has been an excellent consultant for Nebraska girls’s golf all through her profession, culminating with an All-Massive Ten season. She will probably be up towards an excellent discipline of faculty golfers at Stanford, however the course will go well with her strengths. She will probably be prepared for the problem.”

Baete owns 10 profession top-25 finishes, together with a tie for sixteenth on the 2021 Massive Ten Championship when she helped the Huskers to a tie for second on the convention meet to safe an NCAA Regional bid for the crew. Baete provides Nebraska an All-Massive Ten golfer for the third straight season becoming a member of back-to-back honors for Kate Smith in 2020 and 2021. 

A wonderful performer on and off the course all through her profession, Baete was additionally named Nebraska’s Massive Ten Sportsmanship Award winner for girls’s golf. She was additionally lately named a Nebraska Excellent Scholar, as considered one of simply 5 student-athletes throughout all sports activities who will probably be graduating in Could with not less than a 3.90 GPA over her collegiate profession. She can be a three-time WGCA Scholastic All-American, a three-time Massive Ten Distinguished Scholar and a three-team Educational All-Massive Ten choice.

Baete will compete on the NCAA Stanford Regional on the Stanford Golf Course, Could Sept. 11. The total groups competing at Stanford will embody the Cardinal, USC, LSU, Texas Tech, Kentucky, Iowa State, Northwestern, Purdue, UNLV, Cal Poly, Princeton and Sacred Coronary heart.

Stanford, which is the No. 1 seed at its regional, will probably be joined by fellow No. 1 seeds Oregon (Albuquerque Regional), South Carolina (Tallahassee Regional), Wake Forest (Franklin, Tenn., Regional), San Jose State (Ann Arbor Regional) and Oklahoma State (Stillwater Regional). The NCAA Championship will probably be held on the Grayhawk Golf Membership in Scottsdale, Ariz., Could 20-25.

2022 All-Massive Ten Awards
First Crew
Kornkamol Sukaree, Illinois
Crystal Wang, Illinois
Patricie Mackova, Maryland
Hailey Borja, Michigan
Ashley Lau, Michigan
Valery Plata, Michigan State
Jennifer Cai, Northwestern
Kan Bunnabodee, Purdue

Second Crew
Aine Donegan, Indiana
Monet Chun, Michigan
Mikaela Schulz, Michigan
Kirsten Baete, Nebraska
Lauryn Nguyen, Northwestern
Kelly Sim, Northwestern
Aneka Seumanutafa, Ohio State
Inez Wanamarta, Purdue

Massive Ten Golfer of the Yr: Ashley Lau, Michigan
Massive Ten Freshman of the Yr: Lauryn Nguyen, Northwestern
Massive Ten Coach of the Yr: Jan Dowling, Michigan

Sportsmanship Awards
Alise Knudson, Illinois
Mary Parsons, Indiana
Dana Lerner, Iowa
Karla Vazquez Setzer, Maryland
Ashley Kim, Michigan
Shannon Kennedy, Michigan State
Emma Carpenter, Minnesota
Kirsten Baete, Nebraska
Kelly Su, Northwestern
Alexis Phadungmartvorakul, Ohio State
Mathilde Delavallade, Penn State
Kan Bunnabodee, Purdue
Rikke Nordvik, Rutgers
Mackenzie Hahn, Wisconsin