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Vanderbilt Women’s Golf Team Heads to Baton Rouge for SEC Championships 4-15-04 4/15/2004 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Vanderbilt’s seventh rated women’s golf team will compete in the Southeastern Conference Championships at the University Club in Baton Rouge, La. this weekend. The Commodores have finished fourth and fifth in this event the past two years but this year has seen Vanderbilt become a stronger, more consistent tournament team. Indeed, the Black and Gold have already won the Texas Betsy Rawls Longhorn Classic and Arizona Wildcat and Kentucky Wildcat Invitationals this year — the most championships in school history. No less than six SEC teams are rated in the Sagarin/Golfstat.com’s latest poll with 10 of 12 league members in the Top 40. Auburn is the defending SEC Tournament champ with Florida’s Aimee Cho the returning individual titlist. “I like our chances to win this tournament as well as anyone’s,” says Coach Martha Freitag. “We will approach it the same way we do every tournament. We need to play smart golf, fight through the adversities that always arise in golf and play our game. When we do that, we are a very difficult team to beat.” Vanderbilt will take its usual contingent. That includes seniors Courtney Wood and Sarah Jacobs, sophomore May Wood and freshmen Kristen Svicarovich and Chris Brady. May Wood has been the SEC Golfer of the Week twice this spring, the last time coming after the recent Bryan National Collegiate in which the Chattanooga native placed second. May earlier won the Arizona Wildcat Invitational. Brady has a victory in the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Classic and lost in a play-off for the Kentucky Wildcat title last fall. Teams will play a practice round Thursday with the tournament beginning at 8:30 a.m. Friday. The 54-hole event concludes Sunday. The University Club is a par 72, 6,387-yard layout south of the LSU campus. Freitag says it is the type of course that doesn’t necessarily “separate” teams and she therefore expects the team race to be very close with many teams in contention. |
