SAN DIEGO -- The San Diego State women's golf team is back in action Monday at the Silverado Showdown in Napa, Calif. The three-day event will be contested with 18-hole rounds Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday on the par-72, 6,192-yard Silverado Golf Club.
The Aztecs are one of 13 teams in the field, which features eight in the top 50 of the latest Golfstat rankings, including No. 8 Arizona State, No. 11 USC, No. 13 Oregon, No. 18 Northwestern, No. 34 Iowa State, No. 36 Oregon State, No. 37 UCLA and No. 45 SDSU. Others slated to compete in the tournament are California, Colorado, San José State, Washington and UNLV.
San Diego State is teeing off from the 10th hole at 8:45 a.m. PT Monday and will be playing the first round with Arizona State and UCLA.
The Aztecs are coming off a good showing at the The Bruzzy where they took sixth out of a loaded 15-team field at 8-over-par 872.
SDSU head coach Leslie Spalding has decided on the lineup of Sara Kjellker, Andrea Gomez, Bernice Olivarez Ilas, Anna Lina Otten and April Ranches.
Kjellker is coming off her second runner-up finish of the season and third of her career at The Bruzzy at 3-under 213. Kjellker had rounds of 2-under 70 and 1-under 71 on Sunday, and even-par 72 Monday to tie for second with three others. For her efforts, she was named the Mountain West Women's Golfer of the Week. Kjellker continues to lead San Diego State with a 73.50 scoring average, rounds under par (4) and even-par rounds (2).
Gomez, meanwhile, ranks second on the team with a 76.08 stroke average. Gomez has a pair of top-20 finishes and finished tied for 37th last week at The Bruzzy.
Ilas was the Aztecs' top finisher at the Juli Inkster at Meadow Invitational, tying for third out of 66 entrants at 2-over 218, the best finish of her career. She tied for 64th last week at The Bruzzy and ranks third on the team this year with a 76.33 scoring average.
Otten tied for 60th at The Bruzzy and ranks fourth on the team in stroke average (79.00).
Ranches is coming off her best finish of the season at The Bruzzy where she tied for 22nd at 3-over 219. Her 80.33 scoring average ranks fifth on the team.
SDSU has competed at the Silverado Showdown three times in the tournament's history, finishing 15th at the inaugural edition in 2014, 13th in 2016 and 10th in 2019. Former San Diego State great Emma Henrikson recorded San Diego State's highest individual placement in three appearances in 2016, tying for 13th at 4-over 220. Kjellker (T-19th, +7) and Ranches (T-82nd, +22) both played in the 2019 tournament for the Aztecs.
Northwestern will be looking to defend its team title from 2019 when it carded a collective 6-over 870 to beat USC (+10) by four shots.
The Silverado Showdown is the final event for SDSU before the Mountain West Championships, which will take place April 20-21 at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif.