Women's Golf:

Sept. 10, 2007

UCI OPENS FALL SCHEDULE IN CORVALLIS: The UC Irvine women's golf team opens the 2007 fall schedule at the Giustina Memorial Classic Sept. 17-18 at the Trysting Tree Golf Club in Corvallis, Ore.

The event pairs the men's and women's teams from each participating school in a combined competition. At the conclusion of the classic there will be awards held for individual men's and women's medalists as well as a combined team award.

Participating teams include Oregon, Washington State, Boise State, Idaho, Fresno State, UC Riverside, Idaho State, Portland and host Oregon State.

The Anteater women's team will feature seniors Selaneé Henderson and Kim Lorenzana, sophomores Patty Chawalitmetha and Mariko Makabe and freshman Sarah Fox.

CHIN TO REDSHIRT: Senior Jane Chin will redshirt the 2007-08 season. Chin, a first team All-Big West honoree in 2007, was third on the team in scoring average with a 76.50 mark a year ago. She had three top 10 finishes, including two third place showings at the Anteater and Fresno State Invitationals

YEAR IN REVIEW: The Anteaters won two tournaments last year including capturing their third consecutive Big West title (892), 28 shots ahead of runner-up Long Beach State. Freshman Patty Chawalitmetha shot a Tijeras Creek Golf Club women's course record with a 66 on the final 18 holes to finish second, a stroke off the leader.

 

Chawalitmetha was named Big West Freshman of the Year as well as first team All-Big West. Selaneé Henderson, Jane Chin and Kim Lorenzana were also named first team All-Big West, while Henna Cho was named to the second team. Head coach Julie Brooks, in her first season, was named Big West Coach of the Year.

 

UCI also won the Anteater Invitational with a 54-hole total of 909 (299-298-312), 30 strokes ahead of San Jose State. Henderson was the medalist and the only golfer to post a score under par of the first 36 holes (141), including a tournament low 69 on the first round.

 

Henderson became only the second UCI player to win back-to-back tournaments, also capturing the Spartan Invitational individual title with a score of six-under par 210. She is the program's all-time leader in tournament wins with five.

 

The team tied for fifth place in the NCAA West Regional at Entrada at Snow Canyon in St. George, Utah to advance to the NCAA Championship where they finished 19^th overall.

ANTEATERS TABBED IN COLLEGE PREVIEW: Senior Selaneé Henderson was named one of the Top 50 Players to Watch in Golf World's College Preview while the UC Irvine women's golf team is receiving votes in the Golf World/NGCA Division I Preseason Coaches' Poll.

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