NCAA Women’s Golf Regional Tournament fields announced, Tarleton State to play in Lubbock May 5-7

STEPHENVILLE, Texas - The Texans already knew they were going to play in one of the six NCAA Regional Tournaments, they just didn't know where. On Wednesday, the NCAA Division I Women's Golf Committee announced on the GOLF Channel where the selected teams and individuals will be competing for a bid in the 2025 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championships.

Tarleton State was named the No. 11 seed at the Lubbock Regional Site. The Texans will be one of 12 teams competing at The Rawls Course in Lubbock, Texas, along with 1-seed Texas, 2-seed Wake Forest, 3-seed Arizona, 4-seed Texas A&M, 5-seed Iowa State, 6-seed Tennessee, 7-seed Purdue, 8-seed Campbell, 9-seed UC Davis, 10-seed Florida Gulf Coast and 12-seed Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.

Regional play will take place May 5-7 at six regional sites, with 396 participants and each site featuring 12 teams and six individuals. The top five teams (30 teams total) and the low individual not on an advancing team (six individuals total) from each regional site will advance to compete in the national championships to be played May 16-21 at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California. Championship play will be hosted by Texas, with the final three days of the championships televised live by the GOLF Channel.

The other regional tournaments will be played in Charlottesville, Virginia, Columbus, Ohio, Gold Canyon, Arizona, Lexington, Kentucky, and Norman, Oklahoma. The other six individuals competing at the regional tournament in Lubbock are student-athletes from Abilene Christian, Georgia, Texas Tech, Colorado State, Texas State and High Point.

Tarleton State Women's Golf became the first program to earn an automatic NCAA Tournament berth in the university's first full-fledged year at the NCAA Division level

Tarleton State won the WAC Championship last week among the nine-team Western Athletic Conference field. Tarleton State's capped off a special run at Wigwam Golf Course in Litchfield Park, Arizona, to win the individual championship by four strokes. She turned in a final round -6 (66) effort to finish the three-day, 54-hole outing at -10 (72-68-66).

Tarleton State as a team won by three strokes at +12 (294-283-299). Besides Depadt winning at -10, tied-sixth at +3 (73-69-77), tied-13th at +7 (74-72-77), tied-31st at +15 (75-74-82), while logged back-to-back 79's in the final two rounds after withdrawing in the first.

Tarleton State Women's Golf has returned to prominence following a dominant run at the NCAA Division II level. Across an 11-year span toward the end of the D2 days, the Texans qualified for the NCAA Regional Tournament 10 times, and won 11 Lone Star Conference Championships while members of the LSC. Tarleton State Women's Golf has won its first conference championship since 2018, the last time they had the full team play in the NCAA Regional Tournament.

Depadt became the first Texan to win medalist honors at the conference tournament championship since Casey Wild won the LSC Championship Tournament in 2017. Depadt dominated the 48-woman field thanks to a tournament-best 15 birdies. Depadt broke the WAC's conference tournament 54-hole record, a mark that stood for seven years by Siripatsorn Patchana at 207 (-6).

This season out of 10 tournaments, the Texans have won two, finished top-two in six, finished top-three in seven, and finished top-four in eight.