TEMPE – The eight-time national champion Sun Devil Women’s Golf team will be heading west after being selected to the Stanford NCAA Regional, hosted by Stanford, running May 11-13.
GOLF Channel announced the regionals during their NCAA Women’s Golf Selection Show on Wednesday. Each regional will feature 12 teams and six individuals with a total of 30 teams advancing to the NCAA National Championships to be played May 22-27 at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California. The top two individuals (12 total) from non-qualifying teams from each regional will also advance to the championship.
This is the 33rd-consecutive year that Sun Devil Women’s Golf has qualified for a regional, doing so every time since the format was instituted. ASU has not missed a NCAA postseason since 1991. The program earned their 33rd-straight NCAA postseason berth and will be making its 42nd appearance overall.
“It never gets old getting your name called on selection show day,” Sun Devil Women’s Golf Head Coach Missy Farr-Kaye mentioned. “I’m very proud of this team and how they have positioned themselves all season to make a run in the postseason.”
The program has claimed or shared a total of five regional team championships, with the last coming during their national championship run in 2017. In 2024, the Sun Devils had an impressive showing at the Cle Elum Regional, finishing fourth on their way to reaching the NCAA Championship in Carlsbad. ASU put together second place finishes at regionals in three of the last five years, also doing so at the 2023 Stillwater Regional and 2021 Columbus Regional as part of their run to NCAA Match Play that season.
In the fifth year of the new regional format, six sites were selected instead of the traditional four. For the fourth-consecutive year, there is an increase in advancing teams, changing from 24 to 30. In order to clinch a berth in the NCAA Championship and advance to Carlsbad, Arizona State will have to finish in the top-5 of the 12-team Stanford Regional. Five teams from each of the six regionals form the group that advances to play in the 2026 NCAA Women’s Golf Championship.
Arizona State will be the No. 4 seed in a regional that features No. 1 seed Stanford (ACC Champion). The regional also includes No. 2 seed Pepperdine (WCC Champion), No. 3 Vanderbilt, No. 5 Missouri, No. 6 Arizona, No. 7 Cal State Fullerton, No. 8 Illinois, No. 9 Oregon State, No. 10 Cal Poly (Big West Champion), No. 11 South Dakota State…
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