Bauer to Compete at World University Golf Championship
5/19/2010 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
May 19, 2010
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- University of Michigan women's golf senior captain Ashley Bauer (Grand Blanc, Mich./Grand Blanc HS) will play as a member of Team USA at the 13th World University Golf Championship, to be played Monday through Friday (June 7-11), at Antequera Golf Club in Malaga, Spain.
Joining Bauer on Team USA will be Laura Anderson (Louisville), Stefanie Kenoyer (Furman), Laura Kueny (Michigan State) and Catherine O'Donnell (North Carolina). The 2010 team will be coached by former Iowa women's coach Diane Thomason, who has served as coach/coordinator with Team USA for the last 12 years. Team USA has won seven of the 12 World University Golf Championship titles, including the last three titles.
At least 22 countries are expected to compete in the four-day men's and women's individual and team stroke-play competition at the Antequera Golf Club, which is a demanding 6,562-yard course that's surrounded by El Torcal, a stunning mountain park.
Practice rounds are scheduled for June 6 and 7, when the opening ceremonies will be held. Following the four days of individual and team stroke-play competition, the event concludes on June 11 with the closing ceremonies. The format of the event will feature three of the five members competing together as a team, while the two remaining players will compete as individuals.
Bauer, who was an All-Big Ten First Team selection, recently closed her stellar career with the Wolverines playing in her third NCAA regional as an invited individual. In her final season, Bauer started all 12 tournaments extending her consecutive streak to 48 events, not missing a tournament in her four seasons in Ann Arbor.
She led U-M with a 73.51 average breaking the school single-season record by more than two strokes. She had one individual title among seven top-10 finishes and four top-five finishes this season, and she has finished as the top Wolverine in nine of U-M's 11 events.
Bauer highlighted her season at the 2010 Big Ten Championships by finishing as the medalist runner-up with a U-M 72-hole tournament record tally of five-under 283. The runner-up finish equals the best ever by a Wolverine at the conference event. En route to the record-breaking tally at the conference tournament, Bauer crushed the U-M record for a single-round total with a seven-under 65 in the second round, becoming the first Wolverine to shoot below 68.
Bauer holds virtually every U-M record, including single-round score (65, -7), 18-hole tournament (68, -3), 36-hole tournament (148, shared), 54-hole tournament (209, -4) and 72-hole tournament (283, -5). In 48 career events, she has posted 28 top-20 finishes, with 20 finishes in the top 10 and 10 in the top five.
Bauer has helped U-M to five team titles in her career and has won two collegiate events, the 2008 Wolverine Invitational and the 2010 Rio Verde Collegiate Invitational. Her current single-season (72.79) and career (75.59) scoring averages are the best in school history.
• World University Golf Championship
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