Oct. 20, 2011
The No. 33 San Diego State women's golf team completes its 2011 fall campaign starting Monday morning with the three-day, 54-hole Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown at the par-72, 6,329-yard Boulder Creek Golf Club in Boulder City, Nev., Oct. 24-26.
The Aztecs are one of 16 schools in the field for the 10th annual event. Other participating squads include fellow Mountain West members host UNLV and Colorado State, as well as BYU, East Carolina, Fresno State, Idaho, Long Beach State, Louisville, Miami, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, Pepperdine, UC Davis and UC Irvine.
SDSU is currently ranked 33rd nationally by Golfweek/Sagarin and 37th by golfstat.com, and is one of five teams in this week's tournament rated in the top 50. The Aztecs are participating in the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown for the second consecutive season and the third time since 2004.
The field will play 18 holes of golf each day, starting with tee times on Monday and Tuesday as early as 7:30 a.m. PT from both the No. 1 and No. 10 holes. Wednesday's action will feature a shotgun start with all squads beginning at 8 a.m. Live results for all three days will be available on the schedule page on goaztecs.com, as well as on golfstat.com.
Five Aztecs Make The Trip For The Fall Finale
First-year head coach Leslie Spalding will bring the same starting five golfers to the Las Vegas area for the third consecutive tournament.
Senior Malin Enarsson (Gothenburg, Sweden), juniors Gina Clark (Murrieta, Calif.) and Christine Wong (Richmond, B.C.), sophomore Tessa The (Los Altos, Calif.) and freshman Amy Alston (Mission Viejo, Calif.) are all slated to make the trip. The Aztecs will not have a sixth student-athlete competing as an individual for the first time since the opener.
A year ago, Enarsson and Clark both played in the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown. Wong, meanwhile, missed the only tournament of her career, as she was representing her native Canada at the Women's World Amateur Team Championships in Argentina.