New Mexico
Aztecs Open Season in New Mexico – SDSU Athletics
SAN DIEGO – The Aztec ladies’s golf staff will kick off their 2022-23 season on Monday in Albuquerque, N.M. once they compete within the Department Regulation Agency/Dick McGuire Invitational on the College of New Mexico’s Championship Course.
This would be the seventh consecutive season SDSU has opened its fall slate at this match. The Aztecs completed fourth final yr behind top-12 performances from Sara Kjellker (214, -2) and Bernice Olivarez Ilas (215, -3).
Groups will play 36 holes Monday starting with a 6:30 a.m. PT shotgun begin after which play the ultimate 18 on Tuesday, additionally with a 6:30 a.m. PT shotgun begin.
The 17-team discipline options three groups listed within the Golf Channel’s preseason prime 35 (No. 4 USC, No. 30 Ohio State and No. 31 Texas tech and 4 Mountain West faculties (Fresno State, New Mexico, San Diego State and UNLV). Different groups competing are Cal Poly, Denver, Iowa, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Kent State, North Carolina, Northwestern and SMU.
Head coach Lauren Dobashi (2nd season) will use the of Anna Lina Otten (Neuss, Germany), Anika Sato (Utsunomiya, Japan), Bernice Olivarez Ilas (Ayala Alabang, Philippines), April Ranches (San Diego, Calif.) and Sammy Lee (San Ramon, Calif.).
Otten, Sato and Olivarez Ilas began for the Aztecs in each match final yr. Otten had a stroke common of 76.4 final yr and recorded three rounds of par or higher.
Sato had an outstanding freshman marketing campaign, averaging 74.9 strokes per 18, had three prime 20 finishes, and 6 rounds underneath par.
Olivarez Ilas is SDSU’s prime returner. She certified for the NCAA Event as a person and was second on the staff in stroke common (74.3), rounds beneath par (7) and top-20 finishes (4).
Ranches returned for a fifth yr. She performed in only one match final yr however has logged 17 tournaments and 49 rounds in her profession.
Lee, additionally a senior, has performed in 4 tournaments in her profession and has a profession finest spherical of 73.
That is the 44th annual Department Regulation Agency/Dick McGuire Invitational and the 67th time New Mexico has hosted a ladies’s match. The UNM Championship course is par 72 and has a yardage of 6,354 yards.