Women's Golf Central: NCAA Athens Regional
5/6/2017 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
| Tournament Central • NCAA Athens Regional | |
| Dates | May 8-10, 2017 |
| Location | UGA Golf Course (Athens, Ga.) Par-72, 6,344 yards Weather | Course Info |
| Scoring/Info | Golfstat.com | Tournament Homepage |
| Field (Golfstat Ranking) | Alabama (3), Georgia (8), Northwestern (11), Arizona (14), Baylor (19), Wake Forest (22), UCF (25), Tennessee (31), North Carolina (35), Clemson (39), Augusta (43), Auburn (45), Kansas State (51), Michigan State (53), Troy (85), Princeton (109), North Florida (134), Quinnipiac (210) |
| WF Lineup | 1. Jennifer Kupcho 2. Sierra Sims 3. Erica Herr 4. Antonia Eberhard 5. Anna Wears |
| Updates | @WakeWGolf  | Complete Notes |
DEACS TRAVEL TO GEORGIA FOR NCAA REGIONAL
• Wake Forest will compete at the 2017 Athens Regional, hosted at the University of Georgia Golf Course
• The Deacs are looking for a top-six finish that would qualify them for the NCAA Championships, held later this month in Sugar Grove, Ill.
NCAA REGIONAL HISTORY
• Wake Forest has qualified for and has been selected to the NCAA Regionals every year since the NCAA switched to the regional format in 1993
• Out of the Demon Deacons' 24 previous appearances at the NCAA Regionals, Wake has advanced on to the NCAA Championships 14 times, including six out of the last 11 seasons
• Wake Forest won the East Regional in both 1994 and 1995, overcoming three-shot deficits on the final day in both tournaments
• Last season, the Deacs finished eighth at the Stanford Regional, but Jennifer Kupcho advanced as an individual to the NCAA Championships, where she finished sixth
SEASON RECAP
• Wake Forest enters the NCAA Regional ranked No. 22 in the Golfstat Rankings
• The Demon Deacons were ranked as high as No. 11 by Golfstat this season
• Wake Forest won the Lady Tar Heel Invitational in October, its first win since 2014
• The Deacs tied for the win at the Landfall Tradition, but lost the title on a scorecard playoff
• Wake Forest set a school 54-hole scoring record at 13-under at the Cougar Classic
GOING LOW
• Both Jennifer Kupcho and Sierra Sims are on pace to break the Wake Forest single season scoring record, set by Sims in 2014-15 (73.09)
• Kupcho enters the tournament with an average of 70.60, while Sims is at 72.04
KUPCHO STARS
• Jennifer Kupcho was named Wake Forest's 2016-17 Female Athlete of the Year
• Kupcho has two victories this season (Lady Tar Heel and Landfall Tradition), the first Demon Deacon since Natalie Sheary in 2008-09 to win twice in a season
• She ended the fall season ranked No. 1 in the Golfstat individual rankings
• Kupcho was the ACC Player of the Month in October
• She has six top-5s and seven top-10s in nine tournaments this season
• 19 of her 25 rounds this season have been under par
• She enters the regional on a school-record streak of nine consecutive rounds of par or better
HEAD COACH Dianne Dailey
• 29th Season at Wake Forest
• Four-time ACC Coach of the Year (1994, 1995, 2009, 2010)
• Led Wake Forest to four ACC Championships
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