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22018-19018-19 WWOMEN’SOMEN’S GGOLFOLF WWAVESAVES AATT NNCAACAA NNORMANORMAN RREGIONALEGIONAL May 3, 2019 MALIBU, California — After winning the West Coast Conference Championships for the 18th time, the #25 Pepperdine women’s golf team will head to Oklahoma for NCAA Regional play. The Waves, the seventh seed, are seeking to advance to the NCAA Championships for the 13th time in program history. EVENT INFO — The NCAA Norman Regional will be held at the Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club in Norman, Oklahoma. The NCAA HISTORY — Pepperdine is competing in NCAA Regional tournament will be held Monday through Wednesday (May 6-8) play for the 21st consecutive year. They’ve advanced to the NCAA with a single round each day. On Monday, the Waves are paired Championships 12 times, last making it in 2017. Pepperdine has with Purdue and Ole Miss and they’ll tee off #1 beginning at 8:20 recorded four top-fi ve and eight top-10 fi nishes at nationals. a.m. CT. Live scoring will be available through Golfstat. The Waves’ best-ever fi nish at a regional was a tie for fi rst place NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS — In order to advance to the NCAA at the 2002 NCAA West Regional at Stanford. The top individual Championships (May 17-22 at Blessings Golf Club in Fayetteville, result was a tie for second place by Katherine Hull that year and Arkansas), the Waves must fi nish in the top six. The top three by Tatiana Wijaya in 2017. individuals from non-qualifying teams will also move on. WCC CHAMPIONSHIPS — Pepperdine rallied to beat BYU by FIELD — In order of seeding (and with Golfstat ranking shown), three shots at the WCC Championships at Manito Country Club the 18-team fi eld includes #2 Texas, #7 Wake Forest, #10 Florida, and claim its 18th league title, but fi rst since 2015. Hira Naveed #15 Arizona State, #18 Oklahoma, #24 TCU, #25 Pepperdine, was the medalist, winning by four shots. This was the fi rst WCC #30 Purdue, #34 Ole Miss, #37 Texas Tech, #44 Mississippi State, title for Pepperdine’s senior class. #48 Virginia Tech, #50 North Carolina State, #54 Texas A&M, #59 UTSA, #94 UNC Wilmington, Sam Houston State and Fairleigh WCC AWARDS — Hira Naveed was named WCC Player of Dickinson. the Year and became the 12th player in program history to earn All-WCC fi rst team honors all four years. Momoka Kobori and PEPPERDINE LINEUP — The Waves’ lineup consists of senior Patricia Wong each made the All-WCC fi rst team for the second Hira Naveed (Perth, Australia), junior Momoka Kobori (Rangiora, time, while Hannah Haythorne collected the award for the fi rst New Zealand), senior Hannah Haythorne (Honolulu, Hawai’i), time. It’s the fi rst time since 2014 that the Waves have put four senior Patricia Wong (Walnut, Calif.) and freshman Kathrine players on the 10-person fi rst team. Laurie Gibbs earned WCC Chan (Richmond, B.C., Canada). Coach of the Year honors for the 13th time. Haythorne also made the WCC All-Academic fi rst team. Four of the Waves in the lineup have previous NCAA Regional experience: Naveed T-6th in 2018, T-43rd in 2017, T-42nd in NAVEED — Hira Naveed is having a senior year to remember. 2016; Kobori T-56th in 2018, T-14th in 2017; Haythorne T-33rd in The WCC Player of the Year is the fi rst Wave ever to win two 2018, T-70th in 2016; Wong T-18th in 2017, T-30th in 2016. Three fall tournaments, and she’s only the second Wave to win at of the Waves were in lineup in 2017 (Kobori, Naveed, Wong) the least three times in a full season. She captured the season- last time Pepperdine qualifi ed for the NCAA Championships. opening Dick McGuire Invitational for her fi rst career victory, and then was co-medalist at the fi nal fall tournament, the Stanford Their season scoring averages are as follows: Naveed 71.92 (on Intercollegiate, before winning the WCC title. pace to be #2 in Pepperdine single-season history), Kobori 74.04, Haythorne 74.96, Wong 75.56, Chan 76.18. She will play in the 2019 Arnold Palmer Cup as a member of the international team. She’s been named to the ANNIKA RANKINGS — The Waves are #25 by Golfstat and #31 by Award Watch List, and she was the WCC Player of the Month Golfweek/Sagarin ... Hira Naveed is #15 by Golfstat and #30 by for September, October and March. In February, she returned Golfweek/Sagarin ... Momoka Kobori is #112 by Golfstat and home briefl y after receiving an exemption to play in the LPGA’s #122 by Golfweek/Sagarin ... Hannah Haythorne is #190 by Women’s Australian Open. Golfstat and #202 by Golfweek/Sagarin. @@WAVESGOLFWAVESGOLF Naveed is averaging 71.92 strokes this season, on pace to fi nish second on the Waves’ @@WAVESGOLFWAVESGOLF single-season scoring list. She’s tied the school single-season record with 14 below- par rounds this season. On the career charts, she ranks fi fth all-time in scoring average QUICK FACTS (73.63), fourth in below-par rounds (30), tied for ninth in top 10 fi nishes (15) and tied for ninth in top 20 fi nishes (22). Location ...............................Malibu, Calif. 90263 Founded .................1937 (Malibu Campus 1972) GIBBS — Under the direction of Laurie Gibbs, who is now in her 26th season as head Enrollment ............. 8,000 (3,000 undergraduate) coach, Pepperdine has earned a place as one of the nation’s top golf programs. Gibbs Nickname.................................................. Waves has been honored 13 times as the WCC’s Coach of the Year, was tabbed the West Colors .......................................Blue and Orange Region Coach of the Year on two occasions and was selected the 2004-05 National Conference ....................................... West Coast President ................................Andrew K. Benton Coach of the Year by Golfweek magazine. Gibbs was inducted into the WGCA Coaches Athletic Director ...........................Dr. Steve Potts Hall of Fame in December 2015. The Waves have won 51 tournaments in her career. Athletic Department phone .........(310) 506-4150 Ticket Offi ce phone ....................(866) WAVE-TIX GOLF HISTORY — The Waves have appeared in the NCAA Championships 12 times in the last 20 years, and have recorded eight top-10 fi nishes and four top-fi ve showings, WOMEN’S GOLF COACHES including a program-best second-place result in 2003. The Waves have won West Coast Conference championships in 18 of the last 23 years, including a streak of 14 titles that Head Coach.....................................Laurie Gibbs ran from 2002 to 2015. Twelve diff erent players have earned All-American honors a total experience ................................. 26th season of 27 times. LPGA Tour players have included Katherine (Hull) Kirk, Lindsey Wright, phone ....................................(310) 506-4482 Tamie Durdin, Nadina (Taylor) Light, Misun Cho, Carolina Llano, Danielle Kang, Taylore e-mail [email protected] Karle and Grace Na. Hull was the 2003 National Player of the Year and was inducted into Assistant Coach..............................Katie Mitchell the WGCA Hall of Fame in 2012. Kang won back-to-back U.S. Amateur Championships experience ...................................3rd season in 2010 and 2011. phone ....................................(310) 506-4059 e-mail ........... [email protected] ONLINE — Follow the Pepperdine women’s golf team on Twitter (@WavesGolf), Facebook (/WavesGolf) and Instagram (pepperdinewomensgolf). WOMEN’S GOLF HISTORY ABOUT PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY — Pepperdine boasts a one-of-a-kind athletic NCAA Championships Appearances ...............12 department with unprecedented success for a school of its size. The Waves have won last .....................................2017 (23rd place) NCAA Division I championships in fi ve diff erent men’s sports — one of just 18 schools best fi nish ...........................2003 (2nd place) to have accomplished this feat — and nine overall. Of this elite group, Pepperdine has NCAA Regional Appearances....................... 21st the smallest undergraduate enrollment, is the only school without football and is the last .....................................2018 (11th place) best fi nish .........................2002 (T-1st place) only university that has not been affi liated with a “major” conference. The Waves have WCC Championship Titles...............................18 won a total of 25 team or individual national championships in their history. Pepperdine last .........................................................2019 has also earned the Division I-AAA All-Sports Trophy, an award based on postseason success that’s given to the top non-football school, three times (most recently in 2011- ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS 12). Located in scenic Malibu, California, the university overlooks the Pacifi c Ocean and its campus and athletic facilities are regularly voted among the nation’s most beautiful. Director/WGOLF Contact ............... Roger Horne Pepperdine, which is affi liated with the Church of Christ, ranks #46 overall on U.S. News offi ce phone .......................... (310) 506-4455 and World Report’s list of America’s best colleges. cell phone ............................. (805) 279-4551 e-mail [email protected] Address ................ 24255 Pacifi c Coast Highway .......................................Malibu, Calif. 90263 Website .................. www.PepperdineWaves.com Twitter .............................................@WavesGolf ......................................@PepperdineWaves Facebook ........................................../WavesGolf ........................................./PepperdineWaves Instagram........................pepperdinewomensgolf