Tuesday, April 26, 2005
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After a year of improvements the women’s golf team did not receive an NCAA regional bid. Kansas, part of the central region, needed to play better throughout the year coach Erin O’Neil said.
Next year at this time, O’Neil would like a regional bid wrapped up before the Big 12 Conference Championships.
Freshman Annie Giangrosso said the team wanted to practice harder during the offseason and focus on improvement.
“We can learn from this and next year put ourselves in position to float through the Big 12,” Giangrosso said.
Colorado, a team Kansas defeated last weekend at the Big 12 Conference Championship, will play in regionals, which surprised O’Neil.
“But they are in the west regional, we are in the central,” she said. “It’s a little stronger.”
O’Neil said the regional bids were decided on strength of schedule, head-to-head play against other teams fighting for a spot, the region a team was in and a team’s central and national rankings. Also, conference champions automatically earn the right to play in regionals, resulting in some teams ranked behind Kansas making it. O’Neil said seeing worse teams in the postseason would serve as motivation for the team.
“They are fired up to start working toward next year,” she said.
Now that the season is over and no players are graduating, the Jayhawks have all summer to improve their games so they can make a run at regionals in 2006.
Also, O’Neil has time to add a few players to the team.
“We’ll hit the recruiting trail starting in May through August,” she said.
Some of the players will gain experience this summer by playing in tournaments, including qualifying tournaments for the U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur.
“We want to put ourselves in position to help the team out and practice harder with more focus,” Giangrosso said.
Even though O’Neil and the players are disappointed, they came away from the season with a positive perspective.
“We still had some really good bright spots,” O’Neil said. “Winning our first event and Amanda (Costner) winning her first tournament. We are excited about next year.”
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