Melanie Green has been assigned to the Tallahassee Regional which begins on May 9.
TAMPA (April 28, 2022) – University of South Florida sophomore Melanie Green (Medina, N.Y.) has earned at at-large bid to compete in the 2022 NCAA Women’s Golf Regionals. Green has been assigned to the Tallahassee Regional as the No. 2 individual seed.
The regional bid comes on the heels of Green being named to The American All-Conference Team for the second time in as many seasons.
“This moment is really special for me and super exciting,” Green said after viewing the selection show. “I want to thank my teammates and coaches for all their support this year, and my swing coach, Nick Semuta, for always having my best interest and always being available to me. I also need to thank Doctor Lee for all his constant support since I’ve been here at South Florida.”
Green will head to the Tallahassee Regional looking to add to her already record-breaking season. Her 19 rounds of par or better and 102 total birdies in 2021-22 are both new single-season program records. Green carries a 71.64 scoring average into the event which is also poised to become a new single-season record.
During her sophomore campaign, Green earned a top-10 finish in seven of her 10 outings, including her first collegiate win at the Trinity Forest Invitational in March where she was just one of two players to shoot even par at the event.
Green opened the 2021-22 season by carding a program record score of 205 at the USA Intercollegiate which including an opening-round score of 65 (-7) to also set a new program record for round vs. par. She helped lead South Florida to a fifth-place team finish at the AAC Championship last week by finishing sixth individually for her second straight top 10 finish at the conference championship tournament.
“This is a big day for Melanie and our program,” said head coach Erika Brennan. “We are thrilled that she gets to continue her season. We’ve played this golf course before so we know the challenge that awaits. It’s going to be a fun test of golf, and with the efforts she has put in this season, we know she’s ready.”
The Tallahassee Regional will be hosted by No. 3-seed Florida State at Seminole Legacy Golf Club on May 9-11. Participating teams and individuals include:
Teams
1. South Carolina
2. UCLA
3. Florida State
4. Ole Miss
5. Illinois
6. Mississippi State
7. Miami
8. Denver (The Summit League)
9. North Florida (Atlantic Sun Conference)
10. College of Charleston (Colonial Athletic Association)
11. Georgia Southern (Sun Belt Conference)
12. Quinnipiac (Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference)
Individuals
1. Letizia Bagnoli, Florida Atlantic (Conference USA)
2. Melanie Green, South Florida
3. Olivia Schmidt, Arkansas State
4. Berta Sanchez Sabe, Jacksonville State
5. Alizee Vidal, Kennesaw State (Atlantic Sun Conference)
6. Victoria Schroedl, Fairleigh Dickinson (Northeast Conference)
(*automatic qualifiers noted in parentheses; remaining are at-large bids)
Tallahassee is one of six regional sites with 12 teams each along with six individuals (36 total). The top four teams and two individuals from each regional will advance to the NCAA Championship at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona on May 20-25.
About USF Women’s Golf
The Bulls are in their fourth season under head coach Erika Brennan in 2021-22. USF is among the fastest rising program in the country, as they climbed 75 spots in the national Golfstat rankings following Brennan’s first season. The Bulls won two tournaments in 2018-19 and set several program records, including season scoring average (293.43) and team rounds of par or better (6), and in 2019-20 the Bulls posted a wire-to-wire win at the Old Friends Invitational, marking the program’s third tournament title since spring 2019. USF opened its abbreviated 2020-21 campaign by breaking the program team record for low 54-hole team score (861).
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