SAN ANTONIO — The UTSA women's golf team will tee off its spring season at the Trinity Forest Invitational on Monday-Tuesday, Feb. 1-2, at Trinity Forest Golf Club (par 72/6,258 yards) in Dallas.
The Roadrunners will line up against Baylor, BYU, Chattanooga, Kansas State, Memphis, Missouri State, Nebraska, Oklahoma State, SMU, Texas, Texas Tech, Tulsa and Washington. The field will play 36 holes on Monday and 18 on Tuesday with 8:30 a.m. shotgun starts scheduled for each day. Live scoring will be available at http://results.golfstat.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=participants&tid=20996.
UTSA will open its fourth season under two-time Conference USA Coach of the Year Summer Batiste, who has guided the Roadrunners to back-to-back conference crowns and a pair of NCAA Regional appearances. Batiste welcomes back five veterans from last year's squad that won team titles at the Texas State Invitational and Maryb S. Kauth Invitational, which also marked the last team competition for the Roadrunners after the remainder of the 2019-20 season and 2020 fall campaign were not contested due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Three-time all-conference performer and 2019 C-USA individual champion Ana Gonzalez headlines the group of returnees. The Monterrey, Mexico, native is UTSA's career scoring leader with a 73.72 stroke average and she posted a team-best 74.1 mark last season. She also holds school single-season records for scoring average (73.32), number of par or better rounds (16) and wins (2), all set in 2018-19.
Two-year letterwinners Hannah Holzmann and Katia Mexsen also return. Holzmann, a San Antonio native, registered a 74.3 stroke average and collected her first collegiate victory at the Texas State Invitational last season. Mexsen, who hails from Torreon, Mexico, has appeared in nine career events as a Roadrunner with a top finish of 20th at the 2018 Maryb S. Kauth Invitational.
Camryn Carreon and Nicole Polivchak each made an immediate impact on the UTSA lineup in their first seasons with the squad. San Antonio product Carreon turned in a 75.35 stroke average as a true freshman in 2019-20 and her runner-up showing helped lead the Roadrunners to the Maryb S. Kauth Invitational team title. Polivchak, who transferred from Northern Colorado, logged a 75.0 stroke average and three top-15 finishes, including a tie for ninth at the Texas State Invitational.
The lone newcomer is freshman Live Hope, a native of Trondheim, Norway, who represented her country in the 2019 European Girls Team Championship.
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