April 3, 2007
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Aztecs Head To Oregon For Spring Break Tourney
The San Diego State women's golf team travels to St. George, Utah, for the 21st annual BYU Dixie Classic, its final tournament of the regular season. The two-day, 54-hole event will be held from April 3-4, at the Entrada at Snow Canyon Country Club, which will also be the site of this season's MWC championships.
Tee times are slated begin at 8 a.m. (MST) each day on the par-72, 6,151-yard course. Live stats will be available at golfstat.com.
Eight schools in the top 50, according to www.golfweek.com, are slated to compete in the 14-team field at the Dixie Classic. Eleventh-ranked Arizona is the top-ranked team in the tournament, with No. 18 BYU, No. 23 Denver, No. 31 UC Irvine, No. 42 Washington State, No. 48 California and No. 50 Idaho also in the field.
Fab Five: Aztec Line-Up For This Week
SDSU head coach Felicia Brown continues to stick with her same starting five of senior Jamie Oliver (Los Alamitos, Calif.), junior Kim Carmody (Palatine, Ill.) and sophomores Alana Erlandson (Palm Desert, Calif.), Jackie Kazarian (Dana Point, Calif.) and Maki Kamimura (West Covina, Calif.) to Las Vegas.
Both Oliver and Kamimura participated in last year's BYU Dixie Classic, while Kazarian played in the 2005 version.
Rewind: BYU Dixie Classic 2006
The San Diego State women's golf team finished its final regular season tournament by placing in the top 10, moving up one notch to 10th place at 971 (+107), following a third round 323 at the 54-hole BYU Dixie Classic in St. George, Utah.
After ending the first round in 14th place, the Aztecs jumped four slots over the next 36 holes in the team competition, which was won by UNLV (922) at the par-72, 6,151-yard Entrada at Snow Canyon.
SDSU's third round 323 tied for the seventh-best score on the day in the 19-school field. Individually, UNLV's Seema Sadekar grabbed medalist honors with a 76 in the final 18 holes, as round two leader, New Mexico's Mikaela Backstedt, dropped from first to fourth with a final round 85.
All five of the Aztec golfers were within two strokes of one another, as both freshman Heather Wilson (Chula Vista, Calif.) and sophomore Anna Booth (Coffs Harbour, Australia) fired final round scores of 80. Wilson ended up tied for 23rd at 23-over 239, while Booth tied for 30th at 240.
Junior Jamie Oliver was one stroke behind Wilson and Booth with an 81 in the final 18 holes for a three-day effort of 30-over 246. Senior Megan Mulhaupt and freshman Maki Kamimura both carded 82s to end up in the tournament's individual top 55 out of the 101 golfers.
Last Time Out: More BYU Dixie Notes
At the 2005 Dixie Classic, SDSU finished in ninth. The Aztecs were led by Jamie Oliver and her 13th-place finish, while Jackie Kazarian was 15th overall.
In 2004, SDSU left St. George with a third-place finish. The 43rd-ranked Aztecs had two golfers finish in the top five for their third straight top-five finish of the 2004 spring campaign.
Last Time Out: SDSU Logs Top Six Finish In Oregon
San Diego State sophomore Maki Kamimura tied for eighth place with a 16-over 232, including a final round 78, at the Oregon Duck Invitational at the par-72, 6,069-yard Shadow Hills Country Club in Junction City, Ore. The Aztecs maintained their sixth place spot in the team standings, posting a 319 in the final 18 holes for a 54-hole score of 89-over 953.
Kamimura tied with Idaho's Amanda Jacobs for eighth place in the 81-golfer field and was just one stroke out of sixth and two out of fourth. She has finished as SDSU's top golfer in each of the last two events and has logged seven-straight sub-80 rounds. Kamimura has now recorded four top-10 individual performances in her two-year career with the Aztecs.
Junior Kim Carmody slipped from eighth to 20th place after firing a 9-over 81 for a two-day total of 19-over 235. The 54-hole score is a career high by two strokes for Carmody, who also posted her best-ever individual finish.
Aztec sophomore Alana Erlandson carded the team's second-best round in final day action with a 7-over 79 to end up in a tie for 29th at 25-over 241 for the tournament. Redshirt sophomore Jackie Kazarian was just nine spots below Erlandson in the standings in a tie for 38th with a 245, including a final-round 81. Senior Jamie Oliver completed the SDSU contingent with a 35-over 251, which was good for a 53rd place tie with three other golfers.
Looking Back At The Fall Season
The San Diego State women's golf squad played in four team tournaments this past fall, logging top-13 finishes in every event. The Aztecs top performance came at their lone home tournament of the season, the Taylor Made Aztec Fall Classic, where the team took ninth place in the 19-team field.
Individually, the Aztecs swept the top two spots at the La Quinta Inn & Suites Shootout in Flagstaff, Ariz., Sept. 18-19. Anna Booth claimed medalist honors with a 2-over 148, just one stroke better than teammate Maki Kamimura, who carded a 3-over 149.
Four SDSU players ended their fall campaign with a sub-78.00 stroke average, including Alana Erlandson, who posted a team-best 76.88 average in eight rounds.
Coming Attractions
The Dixie Classic will be the final regular season tournament for the Aztecs. The Mountain West Conference championships will take place after the Dixie Classic from April 19-21. The MWC tournament will also be held in St. George, Utah.
Head Coach Felicia Brown
Head coach Felicia Brown is in her fifth season at the helm of the SDSU golf program after serving as an assistant in 2001-02. A native San Diegan, Brown prepped locally at San Marcos High School before playing collegiately at Arizona. She is assisted by Doug Barba for the fourth year in a row.