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Sooners Tee Off Spring Season in Puerto Rico
February 22, 2006 | Women's Golf
NORMAN, Okla. - The Oklahoma women's golf team will begin its spring season this Friday, Feb. 24, at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico. The tournament is hosted by Purdue University and will be played at the 6,000-yard, par-72 Cocoa Beach Golf Course.
The young Oklahoma lineup will include lone senior Amparo Gala, sophomore Kelly Jacques, sophomore Heather Wright, redshirt freshman Staci Smoot and true freshman Kendall Dye.
“First of all, they are really excited to get back to play because they have been practicing for four weeks now,” said head coach Carol Ludvigson of her golfers. “They are excited and very enthusiastic about this tournament. There will be a different lineup from this fall so it will be interesting to see the difference in team dynamics.”
The 16-team field includes Purdue (ranked No. 3), Arkansas (9), Texas A&M (18), Kent State (21), Florida (22), Oklahoma State (23), East Tennessee State, Indiana, Iowa State, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, TCU, Tulsa and Wisconsin.
The tournament will feature a 54 hole format. Beginning Friday, 18 holes will be played each day with the tournament wrapping up on Sunday.
The Sooners will also compete in the “Mo” Morial Invitational (Mar. 10-12) this spring, along with the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational (Mar. 17-19), Liz Murphy Collegiate Classic (Mar. 24-26) and the Susie Maxwell Berning Classic (Apr. 9-10 in Norman).
Fall Season Recap
After a good start in the first two tournaments of the fall, the Sooners will be looking for that same enthusiasm as they begin the spring season. The Sooners finished seventh in both the Badger Invitational and Mary Fossum Invitational. The momentum slowed, though, and the team finished 20th at Price's “Give em Five” and 15th at the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown.
Sophomore Kelly Jacques led the Sooners with top-10 finishes in the first two tournaments, including a third-place finish at the Mary Fossum Invitational where she shot a career-low round of 71. In the same tournament, true freshman Kendall Dye shot a career-low 72 and finished tied for 21st as the Sooners carded a season-low round of 295 (+7).
Junior Jaclyn Stelzer posted a top-15 finish at the Badger Invitational, where she shot a season-low 74 and tied for 14th. True freshman Kendall Dye led the way for OU in the last two tournaments with a tie for 33rd at Price's “Give em Five” and a tie for 31st at the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown.
“We didn't do as well as we had hoped in the fall, so we are looking forward to a good spring semester,” said Ludvigson. “The girls are very enthusiastic, have a lot of drive and are ready to go.”
The Oklahoma Lineup
Kendall Dye: A true freshman who led the team with a 33rd-place finish at Price's Give em Five ... Shot a 228 to tie for 21st at the Mary Fossum Invitational ... With a fall-low final score of 222, finished tied for 31st after shooting three rounds of 74 at the Las Vegas Invitational... Earned five career wins, 27 top-five finishes and 34 top-10 finishes in high school.
Amparo Gala: Only senior on the squad ... Earned a career-best second-place finish at the 2004 Jeannine McHaney Invitational ... Named to the Academic All-Big 12 First Team for maintaining a 4.0 GPA as a junior ... February 2004 Big 12 Golfer of the Month ... Finished in the top five in two tournaments as a freshman.
Kelly Jacques: Finished in the top 10 in the first two fall tournaments of the season, including a career-best third-place finish at the Mary Fossum Invitational and seventh place at the Badger Invitational ... Posted OU's second-lowest individual average (78.79) as a freshman last year... Shot a career-low round of 71 and tied for 14th at the 2004 Kent Youel Invitational.
Staci Smoot: Finished tied for 47th (shot a 238) at the Badger Invitational, her first collegiate tournament ... Carded a 237 (+17) and tied for 32nd at the Mary Fossum Invitational, where she posted a career-low 73 ... Selected to All-State and all-conference teams all four years in high school.
Heather Wright: Opened the fall season with a 239 in the Badger Invitational (T49th place) ... Shot another 239 at the Mary Fossum Invitational to tie for 56th ... Posted a season-low 76 at the Las Vegas Invitational ... Earned a career-best fourth-place finish with a career-low 71 at the BU-Tapatio Springs Shootout last season.
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