Feb. 26, 2011
NEW ORLEANS, La.—The 10th-ranked Arizona State women’s golf team will face some of the steepest competition of the season as it heads to New Orleans to compete in the Allstate Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate Golf Championship, Feb. 27-March 1, at the English Turn Golf & Country Club.
The field for the tournament contains nine of the last 12 national champions and 12 current top-25 ranked teams. Teams competing include: Alabama, currently the nation’s top ranked squad, No. 2 USC, No. 4 LSU, No. 5 Duke, No. 6 Purdue, No. 8 Virginia, No. 10 Arizona State, No. 13 Vanderbilt, No. 14 North Carolina, host and 15th-ranked Tulane, No. 17 Tennessee, No. 21 Auburn, No. 33 Texas A&M, No. 35 Florida, No. 39 Ole Miss, No. 44 Denver and No. 50 Kentucky.
The line-up for Arizona State features: Carlota Ciganda, Giulia Molinaro, Laura Blanco, Justine Lee and Daniela Ordonez.
On the individual side, 25 of the current top 50 nationally ranked players will represent their respective teams, including LSU’s top-ranked Megan McChrystal, No. 2 Brooke Pancake, Alabama, No. 3 Lisa McCloskey, USC, No. 4 Camilla Lennarth, Alabama, No. 5 Lindy Duncan, Duke, No. 7 Lizette Salas, USC, No. 8 Brittany Altomare, Virginia, No. 10 Marina Alex, Vanderbilt, No. 11 Carlota Ciganda, Arizona State, No. 13 Jennifer Kirby, Alabama, No. 21 Numa Gulyanamitta, Purdue, No. 25 Stephanie Meadow, 25, No. 26 Austin Ernst, LSU, No. 31 Sophia Popov, USC, No. 34 Portland Rosen, Virginia, No. 36 Laura Gonzalez, Purdue, No. 37 Casey Grice, North Carolina, No. 38 Mary Michael Maggio, LSU, No. 41 Nathalie Mansson, Tennessee, No. 42 Paula Reto, Purdue, No. 43 Cydney Clanton, Auburn, No. 44 Megan Grehan, Vanderbilt, No. 45 Cyna Rodrigues, USC, No. 48 Janine Fellows, Tulane, No. 50 Erica Popson, Tennessee.
This marks the third event of the season for the Sun Devils, as they finished in third place at the Wildcat Invitational and second place in the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge. Ciganda took individual medalist honors at the Northrop Grumman, winning her fourth career individual title.
Live scoring will be available for the tournament at www.golfstat.com.