Charleston Selected for NCAA Athens Regional; UNCW’s Fobes Headed to Raleigh
Miles McQuiggan
INDIANAPOLIS (April 26, 2023) – The Charleston women’s golf team, following its 2023 CAA Championship, will travel to Athens, Georgia, for its NCAA Regional, while UNCW’s
Mallory Fobes will be an individual competitor in the Raleigh Regional.
The Cougars will play in a 12-team event at the University of Georgia Golf Course. Charleston will be joined by South Carolina, San Jose State, Ole Miss, Ohio State, Georgia, Maryland, Kent State, Kansas, Furman, Augusta, and Sacred Heart.
Charleston captured the 2023 CAA title 10 days ago by a 17-stroke margin at The Clubs at St. James in Southport, North Carolina. Cougar teammates
Emma Schimpf and
Viktoria Hund finished 1-2 at the Championship with Schimpf at 3-under on the weekend to win by five shots ahead of a three-way tie including Hund.
The Cougars competed in a regional in Tallahassee, Florida last May and will play a regional for the sixth time since joining the CAA. Schimpf was 21
st in Tallahassee in 2021.
Fobes will play alongside 12 teams – Wake Forest, Arizona State, Florida State, Florida, Arizona, North Texas, TCU, NC State, Purdue, Nebraska, future CAA member Campbell, and Richmond – and participants from Chattanooga, High Point, James Madison, and Virginia Tech in the Raleigh Regional at Lonnie Poole Golf Course.
The top five teams plus the top individual from a non-advancing team in each of the six regionals will play in the national championship at Grayhawk Golf Club in Arizona on May 19-24.
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