Sept. 11, 2006
SAN DIEGO -
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SDSU Opens In New Mexico
In what has become an annual trip for the Aztecs, the San Diego State women's golf team opens its 2006-07 campaign at the 28th Annual Branch Law Firm/Dick McGuire Invitational in Albuquerque, N.M. The tournament begins on Monday, Sept. 11, with two rounds of action, followed by the final 18 holes on Tuesday. The Invitational features shotgun starts on both days.
The event, which is hosted by New Mexico, will be held at the Lobos' par-73, 6,069-yard University Golf Course. SDSU will be among a field of 17 teams from around the country, including eight teams ranked in the preseason Golfweek top 30 poll and five schools in the Mountain West Conference.
No. 2 Arizona State will be the favorite, followed by No. 10 Texas A&M, No. 14 Florida, No. 18 UNLV, No. 25 South Carolina, No. 26 BYU, No. 27 New Mexico and No. 30 TCU. Also competing are Hawai'i, New Mexico State, UNC-Wilmington, Oregon, USF, Texas, Texas Tech and UTEP.
The Aztecs have opened the season at the Dick McGuire Invitational in four of the last five years and have played in five straight tournaments. A year ago, the team tied for 15th after finishing 16th in 2004. SDSU was 11th in 2003 and 18th overall to open the 2002 campaign.
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Felicia Brown, entering her fifth season as head coach, will bring one senior and four sophomores with her to New Mexico.
The group will be led by the team's lone senior in Jamie Oliver (Los Alamitos, Calif.), while redshirt sophomore Jackie Kazarian (Dana Point, Calif.) and sophomores Alana Erlandson (Palm Desert, Calif.), Maki Kamimura (West Covina, Calif.) and Heather Wilson (Chula Vista, Calif.) are also making the trip.
Kamimura is the lone golfer to have also played in the Dick McGuire Invitational a year ago, while Kazarian is competing in her first tournament since the 2004-05 campaign, after redshirting a year ago.