April 19, 2005
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Dates: April 22-24 (Fri. - Sun.)
Site: University of Texas Golf Course in Austin, TX.
Live Scoring: Live scoring will be provided at www.mutigers.com and www.golfstat.com.
Mizzou Head Coach: Stephanie Cooper (Mizzou'94) 4th year
All Time Mizzou Big 12 Finishes
+ 1997 4th + 1998 7th + 1999 6th + 2000 T-4th + 2001 4th + 2002 10th + 2003 2nd + 2004 6th
No. 16 Tigers Take to Texas for Big 12 Women's Golf Championships Fresh off of its third tournament victory of the season, the University of Missouri Women's Golf team opens play in the ninth edition of the Big 12 Golf Championships this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The tourney will be played at the par-71, 7,154-yard University of Texas Golf Course in Austin, TX. The Tigers are in search of their fourth tournament championship of the season and their first Big 12 title. The Tigers have come as close as second place in 2003 in Columbia by just one stroke to Oklahoma State.
The Tigers will open play Friday morning and play 18 holes during each of the next three days. Live scoring for the event will be provided at www.mutigers.com via www.golfstat.com and complete daily recaps will be available following each round at www.mutigers.com.
The Field
No. 9 Oklahoma State (4) No. 16 Missouri No. 22 Texas (2) Baylor Colorado Iowa State Kansas Kansas State Nebraska Oklahoma (1) Texas A&M (1) Texas Tech
(#) - Number of Big 12 Championships Won
- Rankings courtesy of www.golfstat.com.
Format
54 holes with 18 holes on Friday, 18 holes on Saturday and 18 holes on Sunday. Shotgun start will commence play at 8 am.
Note of Note from the 2004-05 Season
The Tigers are in search of the their fourth tournament title of the season and their seventh first place finish under head coach Stephanie Cooper ... Mizzou has an average finish of 5th place in Cooper's four-year tenure in the Big 12 Championships and has finished as high as second in 2003 ... Junior Denise Knaebel (8th, 2003) and seniors Mindy Bullard (2nd, 2003) and Maria Ohlsson (4th, 2004) have all registered top-10 finishes in Big 12 Championship play ... Mizzou has set records this season in the following categories this season ... Lowest Team 54-hole total: 879 at the Central District Invitational ... Lowest Individual 18 hole total: 66 by Maria Ohlsson at the Lady Northern Classic ... Lowest Individual 54-hole total: 214 by Maria Ohlsson at the Lady Northern Classic ... We are on pace to shatter the school record for team 18-hole average by four strokes at 299.3 (the old record was set last season at 303.0) ... The Tigers' three first place finishes this season equals a school record they set last season ... The three tournament wins is the third-most of any Top 25 school on the season (No. 1 Duke - 6 wins, No. 3 UCLA - 4 wins.)
Head Coach Stephanie Cooper
In just four years at the helm, Missouri Head Women's Golf Stephanie Cooper has pushed the University of Missouri women's golf program into the national spotlight and to unprecedented heights in the college golf world. Over the past four years, Cooper has led the Tigers to 34 top-10 finishes and 23 top three finishes. Mizzou has been a fixture in the GolfStat.com rankings throughout the season this year and looks to challenge for a title at this year's Big 12 Championships.
Cooper has brought a level of energy and enthusiasm to the table that is infectious and inspiring. That energy and excitement was augmented this year as the Tigers completed one of the most successful regular season women's golf campaigns in school history. Mizzou finished in the top three in seven of the nine tournaments it competed in. Cooper has led the Tigers to three tournament victories this season and to six tournament wins over the course of the last two seasons. She has also guided the Tigers to several team and individual records this year including lowest 18-hole average (299.3) and lowest 54-hole team total (879). In fact, six of the Tigers' scores this season have managed to jump into the team total top 10.
With the success the Tigers experienced during the 2003-04 season, the coaches from around the Big 12 voted Cooper the Big 12 Coach of the Year, her first such honor. Following the rain-shortened Big 12 Championships (in which Mizzou finished sixth), it was announced that Cooper and Tigers would be headed back to NCAA Central Regional competition for the second straight year during her tenure and for the sixth time in the last seven years.