Women’s Golf Ready for 23rd NCAA Regional Appearance

East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State’s women’s golf team begins play in the 2023 NCAA Palm Beach Regional on Monday morning.

The three-day, 54-hole event will be played from Monday, May 8 to Wednesday, May 10 at the par-72, 6,312-yard course at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

The Spartans tee off at 8 a.m. on Monday, playing alongside Duke and UCF.

The top five teams and two individuals (not among the top five teams) will advance from regional competition to play in the NCAA Championships, which will be held from May 19-24 at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Live scoring will be available via Golfstat.

THE LINEUP

1. Brooke Biermann

2. Shannon Kennedy

3. Katie Lu

4. Leila Raines

5. Valentina Rossi

6. Paula Balanzategui

 

STARTING FIVE

• The Spartans are making their seventh-straight NCAA Regional appearance and the program’s 23rd since 1999.
• Michigan State is ranked No. 34 in the country in the latest Golfstat rankings and No. 39 by Golfweek.
• MSU is coming off a sixth-place finish at the Big Ten Championships.
• Michigan State posted four top-five finishes this year, including a runner-up showing at the Lady Buckeye Invitational, the final regular season event of the season.
• Junior Valentina Rossi, who is second on the team in scoring average (72.54), was named All-Big Second Team last week, her first all-conference honor.
• Rossi, who won the Women’s Amateur Latin American (WALA) Championship in Argentina (in November), missed the Big Ten Championships while playing in the LPGA’s Chevron Championship.
• Sophomore Brooke Biermann, who is third on the team with a 72.97 scoring average, has been MSU’s top individual finisher five times season, including in the last three events, tying for 16th place at the Big Ten Championships.

FAMILIAR TERRITORY

• Michigan State is making its seventh-straight NCAA Regionals appearance and 23rd since 1999. The Spartans are looking to advance to the NCAA Championships for the second time in the last three years, as the team tied for fourth the Louisville Regional in 2021 and finished in 16th place at the NCAA Championships in Scottsdale, Arizona.

REGIONALS EXPERIENCE

• While head coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll is making her 23rd appearance in NCAA Regionals, the Michigan State lineup features four players who have each had seen Regional…