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Postseason arrives for TCU women's golf
May 7, 2008
FORT WORTH, Texas -- The TCU women's golf team will make its 13th consecutive NCAA postseason appearance when it begins play Thursday at the NCAA Central Regional Championship in Austin. The 54-hole event will be held at the University of Texas Golf Course. Live scoring is available at www.golfstat.com. Joining the 30th-ranked Horned Frogs, seeded 11th, in the 21-team field will be top-seed UCLA along with Purdue, Alabama, Denver, Kent State, Pepperdine, LSU, Texas A&M, Notre Dame, Texas, Florida State, N.C. State, East Tennessee State, Texas Tech, Washington, Nebraska, Harvard, Texas State, Illinois State and Fairleigh Dickinson. Eight teams and two individuals at each of the three regional sites advance to the NCAA National Championship May 20-23 in Albuquerque. Last year, TCU posted its best regional finish in school history when it placed third at the NCAA Central Regional in Ann Arbor, Mich. The Frogs earned their first trip since 2000 to the NCAA National Championship, where they finished 11th. The NCAA Central Regional will represent TCU's second visit in the last two months to the University of Texas Golf Course. The Frogs tied for fifth out of 18 teams at the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational (March 17-19). The Frogs, paired with Texas and Florida State, will tee off at 8:10 a.m. TCU's five-player lineup includes a trio of freshmen in Prisela Campbell, Allyson Ferguson and Melissa Loh. All three newcomers have made a major impact this season. Loh had TCU's best score at the Mountain West Conference Championship, tying for sixth with an 8-over-par 227. Ferguson was the Frogs' top finisher at the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational as she tied for seventh. Campbell's 78.1 stroke average leads the trio of rookies. TCU sophomore Valentine Derrey, the Co-Mountain West Conference Player of the Year, will see her sister in the field. Stephanie Derrey is a senior at N.C. State. It will be the third tournament this spring the Derreys have competed against each other. TCU and N.C. State previously faced off at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic and the Bryan National Collegiate. Derrey, TCU's leader in stroke average (75.0), has four top-10 finishes and eight top-20 results in nine tournaments this season. She is the lone Frog in this weekend's lineup to play in last year's NCAA Regional and NCAA Championship. Senior Carrie Morris has postseason experience as she competed in the 2006 Central Regional in Bryan, Texas. Morris is second on TCU with a 77.9 stroke average. TCU won the 1983 NCAA National Championship.
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