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 WCU head women's golf coach Steve Lott and Catamount front-runner Brandy Andersen look for an exciting 2004-05 season. |
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July 29, 2004
Cullowhee, N.C. - Western Carolina head women's golf coach Steve Lott has set his team's schedule for the 2004-05 season to include six fall tournaments and three in the spring leading up to the 2005 Southern Conference Championship. The 2004 SoCon runner-up Catamounts will look to an experienced cast of linksters to bring the trophy back to Cullowhee after Furman reclaimed the title last season.
The Lady Cats will be appearing in some very familiar places this year, starting off at the Unlimited Potential/Bay Tree Classic in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Sept. 24-26, a prestigious and highly competitive tournament in which WCU finished 11th out of 36 teams in 2003. After traveling to the University of Kentucky Wildcat Invitational for the second straight year, the team heads back to the East Carolina Lady Pirate Invitational where the Cats came in third last year and second the season before.
October 18-19, Western will play host to the sixth annual Wachovia-Great Smokies Intercollegiate, which the Catamounts have won the past two years, led by two-time individual champion Brandy Andersen. In November, WCU will once again play in the Edwin Watts/Palmetto Intercollegiate and then compete at the Augusta State - Lady Jaguar Invitational for the first time.
Once action resumes in the spring, the Cats head to Pinehurst to play in the C of C - Pinehurst Shootout and then back down to Florida for the Lady Herd/El Diablo Intercollegiate for the second straight year where they hope for a repeat performance of last spring when the team took home the trophy, beating out the next closest opponent by 14 strokes. Wrapping up regular-season action, WCU will head north to the James Madison - Bonnie Hoover Invitational April 9-10 in Harrisonburg, Va.
The 2005 SoCon Championship will take place this year in Greenville, S.C., at the Furman University Golf Course April 22-24. The NCAA East Regional is set for May 5-7 in Gainesville, Fla., and the NCAA Championship will be held May 17-20 in Corvallis, Or.
"This should be our most competitive team ever," coach Lott said. "The strength of the incoming freshman class will give us great depth. We have increased the strength of our schedule which should help us reach our goal of being a perennial top 50 team and compete for another Southern Conference championship."
2004 WCU WOMEN'S GOLF SCHEDULE
Sept. 24-26 Unlimited Potential/Baytree Classic Myrtle Beach, SC Oct. 1-3 Kentucky/Wildcat Fall Invitational Lexington, KY Oct. 11-12 ECU/Lady Pirate Fall Intercollegiate Greenville, NC Oct. 18-19 Wachovia-Great Smokies Intercollegiate Waynesville, NC Nov. 1-2 Edwin Watts/Palmetto Intercollegiate Kiawah Island, SC Nov. 8-9 Augusta State-Lady Jaguar Invitational Augusta, GA Mar. 6-8 College of Charleston-Pinehurst Shootout Pinehurst, NC Mar. 21-22 Lady Herd/El Diablo Intercollegiate Citrus Springs, FL Apr. 9-10 James Madison-Bonnie Hoover Invitational Harrisonburg, VA Apr. 22-24 Southern Conference Championship Greenville, SC May 5-7 NCAA Eastern Regional Gainesville, FL May 17-20 NCAA Championship Corvallis, OR
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