DAVIS, Calif. — The UC Davis women's golf team looks to build off its strong start to the 2021 season, making the 90-minute jaunt to the Meadow Club in Fairfax, Calif., to compete as one of 13 teams at the 2021 Juli Inkster at Meadow Club Invitational. The tournament opens with 36 holes on Monday (March 9) at 7:10 a.m., with the remaining 18 holes scheduled to tee-off at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday (March 10).
ON THE TEE…
WHO: UC Davis at the Juli Inkster at Meadow Club Invitational
WHEN: March 8-9, 2021
WHERE: The Meadow Club in Fairfax, Calif.
PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS: BYU, California, Cal Poly, Fresno State, Pepperdine, Sacramento State, San Diego State, San Francisco, San Jose State, Stanford, UC Davis, Washington, Washington State
LIVE SCORING: GolfStat.com
HOW THEY LINE UP…
Head Coach
Anna Temple will send a group made up of sophomore
Jackie Lucena, senior
Madison Wood, senior
Skyler Wood, senior
Hannah Sun, and junior
Andrea Gomez Lloret, to Fairfax for this week's event.
THE COURSE…
The Meadow Club in Fairfax, Calif., will play at par 72 and 6,157 yards for the two-day event.
TOURNAMENT NOTES…
This season's event marks the seventh year of the tournament, which was called the Meadow Club Women's Collegiate and the Bay Area Collegiate before being renamed the Juli Inkster at Meadow Club Invitational in 2019. Oregon State is the defending champion after posting a 7-over 871 at last season's tournament, winning by six shots over second-place Washington State.
IN THE RANKINGS…
Of the 13 teams competing this weekend, 11 are listed among the top 100 according to the latest GolfStat ranking released on March 2: No. 11 Stanford, No. 34 San Diego State, No. 36 UC Davis, No. 37 San Jose State, No. 49 Fresno State, No. 58 Cal Poly, No. 65 Washington, No. 66 California, No. 75 San Francisco, No. 80 Sacramento State, and No. 86 Washington State.
AGGIE STORYLINES…
• UC Davis is making its fifth appearance in the seven years of this tournament in 2021, finishing third as a team in the inaugural event in 2015 and sixth in its last appearance in 2018.
• The Aggies are coming off a tie for third at their own Gunrock Invitational last week, finishing at 8-under for the tournament to match San Jose State and finish one shot better that Pac-12 rival California.
• Four UC Davis players finished among the top 25, led by sophomore
Jackie Lucena, who finished in a tie for eighth with a career-best 6-under 210.
• The 210 was six shots better than her previous 54-hole low of 216 at last year's Westbrook Spring Invitational and tied for the 12th-lowest total in school history.
• It was her second career top-10 finish after ending a rain-shortened Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational in a tie for fourth last season.
• Lucena's second-round 66 broke the tournament's single-round record of 67 set by Stanford's Calista Reyes in 2020 and fell one stroke shy of Andrea Wong's single-round school record of 65 set in the final round of the 2016 NCAA Stanford Regional
• The Aggies' 282 in the second round as a team is tied for the sixth-lowest overall in school history, just five shots off the school mark of 277 set at the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown in 2011.
• In all, 14 of the top 20 lowest individual single rounds, and 11 of the top 21 lowest team scores, were set in this year's Gunrock Invitational.
• Senior
Madison Wood also finished with a career-best 54-hole total of 215 (-1), breaking her previous best of 216 set at the 2018 Ron Moore Women's Intercollegiate.
• Senior
Skyler Wood set a single-round collegiate best with a 70 in the final round, while her 1-over 217 (t21st) was a career best for 54 holes.
• Senior
Hannah Sun finished in a tie for 25th with three consecutive rounds of 73 — her best since three straight 71s at the 2019 Fresno State Classic.
• Junior
Andrea Gomez Lloret finished in a tie for 31st, posting a collegiate best 71 in the opening round and a career-low 54-hole total of 221.
• Newcomers
Linette Jun (t45th) and
Alexandra Tomita (65th) made their collegiate debuts at the Gunrock Invitational, competing as individuals.
• This season marks the 16th for the UC Davis women's golf program
• Head Coach
Anna Temple is in her ninth year at the helm of the Aggies
• UC Davis returns six student-athletes off of last season's roster and welcomes one new face in freshman
Linette Jun (Cupertino, Calif. / Valley Christian HS '20)
• A three-time WGCA All-American Scholar, senior
Madison Wood was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society in 2020.
• Three high school standouts signed National Letters of Intent with the Aggies back in November: Marina Mata de la Barata Barcons of Palo Alto, Calif. (Palo Alto HS), Naomi Danner of Sunnyvale, Calif. (Homestead HS), and Abby Leighton of Santa Rosa, Calif. (Cardinal Newman HS).
ABOUT UC DAVIS
Over 700 student-athletes across 25 intercollegiate athletics teams, following the addition of equestrian and women's beach volleyball in 2018, represent the fifth-ranked public school in the nation.
Centrally located between San Francisco, Lake Tahoe and the Napa Valley, UC Davis is known nationwide as a leader in Title IX gender equity and leadership, ranks annually in the top 10 in diversity and students' social mobility and offers an unrivaled student-athlete experience that features the ideal combination of elite academics, Division I athletics and personal growth.
UC Davis is uncommonly committed to preparing student-athletes for life after graduation with Aggie EVO — an innovative student-athlete outcomes program that helps young women and men develop passions, gain real-world experience, and enjoy a successful launch to full-time employment or graduate school. Through Aggie EVO, Intercollegiate Athletics provides unmatched resources and a vast network of working professionals to ensure post-graduation success for its student-athletes.
