SAN ANTONIO — The UTSA women's golf team will travel to Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, for the Conference USA Championship on Thursday-Saturday, April 13-15, at PGA National Resort's Champion Course (par 72, 6,102 yards).
The Roadrunners will play against Charlotte, FIU, Florida Atlantic, Middle Tennessee, No. 35 North Texas, UAB, UTEP and WKU in the 54-hole, stroke-play event.
UTSA will travel a lineup of Camryn Carreon, Daniela Abonce, Morgan Ellison, Olivia Williams and Hunter Nugent with Lauren Rios as the alternate.
The field will play 18 holes each day. The Roadrunners will be paired with North Texas and WKU on Thursday with tee times starting at 10:57 a.m. CT off No. 1.
UTSA is coming off a 13th-place finish at the Chattanooga Classic on April 2-4 in Tennessee. Carreon tied for 10th place with an even-par 216 to pace the Roadrunners, earning C-USA Golfer of the Week accolades for her performance.
Carreon leads the team with a 72.87 stroke average and five top-10 finishes in 2022-23. The senior from San Antonio claimed individual medalist honors at the Trinity Forest Invitational in March after carding a program-record 14-under 202 that featured rounds of 68 and 69 on the 36-hole day for a UTSA record-tying 137, followed with a 7-under 65 that eclipsed the previous program record by one stroke.
Abonce stands second on the squad with a 74.77 scoring mark, while Ellison ranks third with a 75.13 average. Williams (76.26), Nugent (77.9) and Rios (78.74) round out the roster.
UTSA has captured a pair of C-USA team and individual titles under sixth-year head coach Summer Batiste, who has twice been named C-USA Coach of the Year. The Roadrunners won back-to-back crowns in 2018 and 2019 behind individual medalists Julie Houston and Gonzalez.
The Roadrunners posted a narrow runner-up finish to North Texas last year, falling short of the Mean Green by a mere one stroke despite a runner-up showing from Carreon and a tie for third by Ana Gonzalez.
UTSA placed fourth in 2021 behind top 10s from Carreon and Hannan Holzmann after claiming back-to-back crowns in 2018-19. The 2020 tournament was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
UTSA, which started its program from scratch in 2005-06, also claimed back-to-back conference crowns in 2011 and '12 as members of the Southland Conference. The Roadrunners have three total runner-up finishes, in 2009 in the Southland and in 2014 and last season in C-USA.
Five Roadrunners have captured individual conference titles, as Allie Jordan (2009) and Shannon Jungmann (2012) won Southland crowns, while Fabiola Arriaga was victorious in UTSA's first C-USA Championship appearance in 2014, before Houston and Gonzalez went back-to-back in 2018-19.
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