SAN ANTONIO — The UTSA women’s golf team will travel to Tennessee to play in the Chattanooga Classic, which will be held on Sunday-Tuesday, April 7-9, at Council Fire Golf Course (par 71/5,955 yards).
The Roadrunners will line up with Camryn Carreon, Daniela Abonce, Olivia Williams, Morgan Ellison and Maria Bastarrica in the Volunteer State.
UTSA is 58th in the latest SCOREBOARD National Collegiate Team Rankings and will compete against Campbell, Charlotte, Chattanooga, Cincinnati, No. 49 Colorado State, East Tennessee State, Iowa, Lipscomb, No. 39 Michigan, Middle Tennessee, North Florida, No. 34 South Florida, Western Kentucky, Xavier, and Yale.
The field will play 18 holes with 7:30 a.m. CT starts each day.
This will mark UTSA’s third consecutive appearance in the Chattanooga Classic, an event they won by one shot ahead of UNF in 2022 behind Ana Gonzalez and Hannah Holzmann, who tied for second and fourth, respectively. In fact, Gonzalez registered a hole-in-one on her second to last hole — the 146-yard, par-3 17th — to help send the Roadrunners to the top of the leaderboard.
UTSA is coming off a fourth-place finish at The Bruzzy last weekend in Ardmore, Oklahoma. Abonce tied for ninth place with a 215 (74-67-74) to help the Roadrunners register their second straight and fifth overall top-five showing of the 2023-24 campaign.
Carreon leads UTSA with a 70.52 stroke average and four top-10 finishes — including a pair of victories — this season. The senior all-conference performer has recorded 19 par-or-better scorecards in 27 rounds, including breaking 70 15 times, and appears at No. 67 in the latest SCOREBOARD National Collegiate Individual Rankings.
Abonce ranks second on the team with a 72.85 scoring mark and a pair of top 10s, including a runner-up showing at the Sam Golden Invitational where the sophomore fired a 12-under 204 (68-68-68).
Ellison owns a 73.74 average and three top-15 finishes, highlighted by a 7-under 209 (68-70-71) that earned her a tie for 13th at the Sam Golden Invitational.
Williams is averaging 74.0 strokes per round and boasts a top placement of 10th at the Badger Invitational last fall, while Bastarrica has a 74.54 scoring average and a best finish of 25th at the Nexus Collegiate.
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