University of Oklahoma Athletics

Ludvigson in Her 14th Year as Head Coach for UO

June 14, 1999 | Women's Golf

April 2, 1999

HEAD COACH CAROL LUDVIGSON
Carol Ludvigson is in her 14th year as head coach of the University of Oklahoma womens golf team. The 1995 co-national coach of the year, she guided the Sooners to a third-place tie at the Big Eight Championship two years ago. Ludvigson was a member of the Sooners conference championship squad in 1981 and 10 years later claimed another Big Eight title as a coach. She has earned two Big Eight Coach-of-the-Year awards (1991 and 95) and three NCAA West Region Coach-of-the-Year award.

COMING UP: PING/ASU INVITATIONAL
The Oklahoma womens golf team will head to Tempe, Ariz., to compete at the Ping/ASU Invitational, its third tournament of the spring season. Traveling for the Sooners will be senior Lisa Craig, senior Leslie Elliott, freshman Wendy Martin, freshman Jennier James and freshman Jennifer Tannehill. Golfweek/Sagarin Women's Rankings has OU's freshman Wendy Martin ranked the 187th best player in the country. Other Sooner rankings are freshman Jennifer Tannehill (305), freshman Jennifer James (327), senior Leslie Elliott (328), sophomore Kellie Jamison (368), senior Lisa Criag (374), freshman Betsy Berry (488) and junior Jaime Dello-Russo (525). The tournament will be held at the 6,090 yard, par 72, Karsten Golf Course, April 1-3. The format is 54-hole stroke play with 18 holes each day. The field contains 17 teams including ASU, Arizona, California, Duke, New Mexico, New Mexico State, Oregon, Oregon State, Southern California, Stanford, San Jose State, Texas A&M, TCU, Texas, UCLA and Washington. The field includes six of the nation's top-8 women's golf teams, including 11 of the top-20. OU finished tied for 12th out of 16 teams last after shooting a 929. The Invitational will also feature several top women's collegiate golfers, highlighted by Arizona State's Grace Park, the 1998 U.S. Amateur Champion; Duke's Jenny Chuasiriporn, the 1998 U.S. Open Runner-up; and USC's Jennifer Rosales, the 1998 NCAA Champion.

OU LED BY FRESHMAN
The Sooners finished fifth out of eight teams at the Betsy Rawls Invitational, March 26-28. They were led by four freshman on the 5,919-yard, par-72, Great Hills Golf Club in Austin, Texas. OU shot three rounds of 315-322-321 to finish 66 strokes behind team champion Texas. Freshman Wendy Martin closed out the final round of play with a 72 on her way to finishing tied for ninth. The final round 72 was also her best round on the season. Other Sooner finishers were freshman Jennifer James (241, tied for 20th), freshman Jennifer Tannehill (242, 23rd), freshman Betsy Berry (247, tied for 32nd), senior Lisa Craig (249, tied for 36th) and sophomore Kellie Jamison (255, tied for 41st). Berry 's score did not count against the teams score since she competed as an individual.

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