The University of Louisiana Monroe women’s golf team began play at the NCAA Regionals in Tallahassee on May 11. The Warhawks, seeded ninth, are competing at Seminole Legacy Golf Club and will play 54 holes over three days. The top five teams from this event will advance to the national championship in Carlsbad, California.
This is the second time in four years that ULM has reached the NCAA Regionals. In their previous appearance at the San Antonio regional in 2023, they finished tenth with a score of 912 (+48), ahead of Illinois and Missouri State. Alessia Mengoni placed among the top twenty individually with a score of 222 (+6).
The field for this year’s regional includes Florida, Wake Forest, UCLA, Florida State, Eastern Michigan, Kentucky, Purdue, Clemson, ULM, North Florida, Little Rock and UTRGV.
Recently, ULM claimed its second Sun Belt Conference title in three years by defeating Old Dominion and Texas State during match play. Freshman Zoe McLean-Tattan secured victory for her team by making a decisive putt on the final hole. During stroke play at the Sun Belt Championships prior to match play rounds, Daniela Campillo led ULM and tied for second place individually while Anna Andrysova, Emma Manzini and McLean-Tattan all tied for fourteenth.
The Warhawks’ path to their conference title included strong performances from Manzini against Alina Shchepteva (5&4), Sjursen against Mariana Arronte (3&2), Campillo clinching her match (2&1), McLean-Tattan finishing one-up over her opponent and Andrysova tying through eighteen holes against Barbara Car. Against Texas State in the championship round Andrysova won her match (2&1) followed by Manzini’s win (3&2). After Fia Lindblom scored for Texas State over Campillo (4&3), Sjursen’s one-up lead on hole sixteen set up McLean-Tattan’s birdie putt on eighteen that clinched victory.
This marks only the second Sun Belt title in program history for ULM women’s golf; their first was achieved in 2023.
