Oct. 12, 2011
The San Diego State women's golf team will take on its toughest field of the fall campaign when it travels to the Bay Area for the 2011 Stanford Intercollegiate, Oct. 14-16, in Stanford, Calif.
The tournament features three rounds of golf on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (54 holes total). The shotgun start begins Friday and Saturday at 8:30 a.m. PT and at 7:30 a.m. on Sunday at the par-71, 6,100-yard Stanford Golf Course. Live scoring for all three rounds will be available via golfstat.com.
SDSU will be one of 16 schools in the field, which also includes each of the nation's top three teams according to the latest golfstat.com rankings in No. 1 and reigning NCAA champion UCLA, No. 2 Oklahoma State and No. 3 Arizona State. The Aztecs will also face four other top-15 squads in No. 8 USC, No. 9 Texas, No. 10 Vanderbilt and No. 12 Virginia. Rounding out the list of participants are No. 21 UC Davis, No. 29 Oregon, No. 31 Denver, No. 36 Washington, No. 39 Kent State, No. 50 Stanford, No. 65 Oregon State and No. 73 San Jose State.
The No. 38 Aztecs are coming off a first-place finish in their second tournament of the fall campaign, having rallied from a 10-stroke deficit in the final 18 holes to win the Wyoming Cowgirl Desert Intercollegiate this past weekend.
Six Aztecs Headed To Stanford
First-year head coach Leslie Spalding will bring six Aztecs on the road for the second week in a row, including all five who placed in the top 20 in last week's outing in Palm Desert.
Newcomer Tessa The (Los Altos, Calif.) will be making her second appearance for SDSU after placing third overall at the Wyoming Intercollegiate last week. Junior Alessia Knight (Bologna, Italy) will compete again as an individual this week.
Senior Malin Enarsson (Gothenburg, Sweden), juniors Gina Clark (Murrieta, Calif.) and Christine Wong (Richmond, B.C.) and freshman Amy Alston (Mission Viejo, Calif.) will all log their third consecutive tournament appearance.
The is the only current SDSU student-athlete who has played a collegiate tournament at the Stanford Golf Course with that being last year's Peg Barnard Invitational, where she tied for 53rd while competing for Colorado. The Aztecs last played in Palo Alto for the 2004 NCAA West Regionals, when they tied for 15th place.