Zaretsky selected for NCAA Regional

INDIANAPOLIS — Texas Tech sophomore Lauren Zaretsky was selected on Wednesday to participate in the 2024 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championships, as an individual, live on the Golf Channel. She was one of six individuals named to the Las Vegas Regional that will compete with a field of 12 teams placed in the region.

The Las Vegas Regional will be played at Spanish Trail Country Club in Las Vegas, Nev. and will be hosted by UNLV.

While Wednesday snapped a streak of the Red Raiders qualifying for eight consecutive regional appearances as a team, head coach JoJo Robertson has qualified her team or an individual every season in her tenure since being hired in the summer of 2009. Tech's last time not qualifying as a team, and the only other time Robertson did not qualify the Red Raiders as a team was in 2014, but instead sent Kimmy Hill to the NCAA Central Regional.

Zaretsky qualifies as the three-seed among individuals in the Las Vegas Regional and as the nation's 102nd-ranked player, per Scoreboard powered by Clippd.

Zaretsky leads the Red Raiders with a 71.5 scoring average this season through 10 events and 28 rounds. She owns five top 20 finishes in nine stroke play contests and claimed her first career win to kick off the spring season, Feb. 4-6, at the UCF Challenge. Her season boasts 16 rounds shot par or better and eight rounds carded in the 60s, both team bests.

In total, the NCAA Division I Women's Golf Committee announced 396 participants with each regional, of six sites, featuring 12 teams and six individuals. Regional play will take place May 6-8. The top five teams (30 teams total) and the low individual not on an advancing team (six individuals total) from each regional site will advance to compete in the national championships.

The national championships will be played May 17-22 at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif. For more information on the event, visit ncaa.com.

Las Vegas Regional (May 6-8)
Teams (seeded in the following order):

UCLA
Arkansas
Arizona
Florida State
California
Purdue
Baylor
Oklahoma
Colorado State
Kent State (Mid-American Conference)
Xavier (Big East Conference)
Dartmouth (The Ivy League)

Individuals (seeded in the following order):

Toa Yokoyama, UNLV
Lauren Lehigh, New Mexico
Lauren Zaretsky, Texas Tech
Myah McDonald, New Mexico
Victoria Liu, Princeton (Ivy League)
Lizzie Neale, Northern Arizona (Big Sky)

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