East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State’s women’s golf team will take part in the NCAA Palm Beach Gardens Regional, it was announced Wednesday by the NCAA.
The Spartans were an at-large selection and are the No. 6 seed among 12 teams in the Palm Beach Gardens Regional, hosted by Florida Atlantic and the Palm Beach County Sports Commission. The Palm Beach Gardens Regional will be played from May 8-10 at the PGA National Resort in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
Michigan State will be making its 23rd NCAA Regional appearance since 1999.
“We feel great and we would have felt great no matter where we were going,” Head Coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll said. “We’re thrilled for the 23rd year to be going to the NCAA Tournament and I feel very comfortable because we take the team to Florida so many times in January and February and it’s an area we’re comfortable playing.
“It will be a great opportunity for us. I like the field that is there and everyone has a chance. As we know from sports, anything can happen at any given time. We’ll give it everything we can to get to Scottdale (Arizona).”
Regional play will take place May 8-10 at six regional sites, with a total of 396 student-athletes competing. All six regional sites will have 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, 156 student-athletes total, will advance to play in the national championships to be played May 19-24 at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Championship play will be hosted by Arizona State and The Thunderbirds, with the final three days of the championships televised live by the GOLF Channel.
The 12 teams competing in the Palm Beach Gardens Regional include, in order of seed LSU, Texas, Northwestern, UCF, Duke, Michigan State, California, Arkansas, South Florida, Penn and Quinnipiac.
Michigan State is ranked No. 34 in the country in the latest Golfstat rankings and is coming off a tie for sixth place in the Big Ten Championships last weekend. The Spartans were one of seven schools from the Big Ten Conference to reach the NCAA Regionals.
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