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05/06/2025 | News release | Distributed by Public on 05/06/2025 21:08

Tarleton State Women’s Golf’s best D1 season ends in Lubbock at NCAA Regional Tournament

LUBBOCK, Texas - The best season to date for Tarleton State Women's Golf in its NCAA Division I era ended on Tuesday in Lubbock at the NCAA Regional Tournament.

The Texans finished 11th in one of the nation's six regional tournaments featuring the best teams in collegiate women's golf, with Tarleton State competing against No. 6 Texas and No. 7 Wake Forest, amongst others, at The Rawls Course Sunday-Tuesday. Tarleton State entered the 12-team event as the No. 11 seed, and finished as such at +54 (313-312-293).

Wake Forest led after each day and won the tournament at -2, with the Texans taking second at +2, Iowa State third at +10, Tennessee fourth at +22, and Purdue fifth at +25. Those five teams will advance to the NCAA Championship in Carlsbad, California. Texas A&M also shot +25 to tie Purdue, but the Boilermakers won the playoff hole by two strokes.

, the Western Athletic Co-Golfer of the Year, finished first on the Texans at +12, thanks to an even-par third round on Tuesday. She played her best golf of the tournament across her final nine holes, going -2 on the front side, with three birdies and a bogey. Depadt tied-36th in the 68-woman field at +12 (77-79-72).

finished two strokes back of Depadt at +14 (76-83-71) for tied-45th. Fernandez led the Texans in two of the three rounds in Lubbock, posting a team-best first round score of +4, and a team-best round of the tournament in the third round at -1. On Tuesday, she opened with two birdies over her first five holes, and rattled off nine straight pars until her last hole. Fernandez's 71 was a season-best round for the Texan junior.

, an All-WAC Second team member, was a stroke behind Fernandez at +15 (79-73-79). She led the Texans after the second round with her +1 effort on Monday, and finished the tournament tied-48th. She had the tied-eighth most pars in the field overall with 37.

and rounded out the group for Tarleton State. Guzman shot +17 (81-79-73) for tied-54th, and Fox shot +26 (84-81-77) for 60th. Guzman had a -1 effort across an 11-hole stretch on Tuesday, posting 15 pars in the round, while Fox drained four birdies, tied with Depadt's third round with the most birdies in a round by a Texan this tournament.

Four of the five Texans shot their best round of the tournament on Tuesday.

Wake Forest's Carolina Chacarra was the medalist at -7 (69-70-69). The advancing individual to the NCAA Championship is Florida Gulf Coast's Lousiane Gauthier, who finished in fourth at even-par (69-76-71). Gauthier is the advancing individual as Chacarra, Texas' Farah O'Keefe (second at -4) and Wake Forest's Chloe Kovelesky (third at -2) already clinched spots in the national championship tournament as members of advancing teams.

This concludes Tarleton State's special 2024-25 campaign, led by the WAC's Co-Coach of the Year, . Including a WAC Championship victory, the Texans finished top-two in six tournaments this season, top-three in seven and top-four in eight.

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