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Women's Golf's Felgueroso To Represent Coastal in the NCAA East Regional as an Individual

       

Women's Golf's Felgueroso To Represent Coastal in the NCAA East Regional as an Individual

CONWAY, S.C. -- Coastal Carolina University freshman women's golfer Aruka Felgueroso has been selected as an individual to play in the NCAA East Regional May 10-12 at the University Golf Club in Baton Rouge, La., the NCAA announced April 30. She is the first CCU player ever selected as an "at-large" individual and just the second from the Big South Conference since 2001, as Radford's Stephanie George made the field that year.

Felgueroso was named both the Big South Player and Freshman of the Year.  She was the runner-up at the Big South Conference Championships, shooting rounds of 76-77-71=224 at the Coosaw Creek Country Club in Charleston, S.C.  She lead all Big South women’s golfers during the regular-season with a 74.00 stroke average and posted a League-best seven top-10 finishes, including Medalist honors at the Unlimited Potential Classic and the Waterlefe/USF Invitational.  Ranked No. 65 nationally by GolfWeek and No. 30 in the GolfStat Cup standings, Felgueroso was Coastal Carolina’s top finisher in nine of 10 events and earned Big South Women’s Golfer of the Week three times.  She shot in the 70s in all 25 rounds she played this season and carded five rounds under par this year.  Felgueroso is just the second women’s golfer in Big South history to win Golfer of the Year and Freshman of the Year (Winthrop’s Janice Roberts in 1998), receiving all 15 first-place votes for the Freshman award.  She is the fourth consecutive Coastal Carolina women’s golfer to be named Freshman of the Year (fifth overall), and the school’s fourth Golfer of the Year recipient.

NCAA East Regional Participants

1. Duke (Atlantic Coast Conference)

2. UCLA

3. Auburn

4. Purdue

5. Texas A&M (Big 12 Conference)

6. North Carolina

7. Alabama

8. Wake Forest

9. South Carolina

10. Virginia

11. Florida State

12. LSU

13. Louisville

14. South Florida

15. North Carolina State

16. Birmingham-Southern (Big South Conference)

17. Furman

18. College of Charleston

19. Western Carolina (Southern Conference)

20. Jacksonville State (Ohio Valley Conference)

21. Jackson State (Southwestern Athletic Conference)

Individuals:

1. Araceli Felgueroso, Coastal Carolina

2. Lene Krog, East Carolina

3. Amanda Mathis, Mississippi State