Women’s Golf Ranked 10th Preseason

BATON ROUGE — The LSU women’s golf team, which left late Wednesday for its first tournament of the 2000 fall season, has been voted 10^th in the preseason edition of the MasterCard Collegiate Golf Rankings.

The Lady Tigers are trying to advance to the NCAA Division I Golf Championships for the fourth consecutive year. LSU has finished 10^th in each of the last two championships and finished sixth in the poll a season ago.

Arizona, the defending national champions, is the preseason No. 1 selection, followed by Stanford, Duke, Southern California, Auburn, Tulsa, Texas, San Jose State, Georgia and LSU rounding out the top 10.

Other SEC schools in the top 25 are Tennessee at No. 12 and Florida at 22.

Meredith Duncan, the LSU junior from Shreveport, is 11^th in the country in the preseason individual rankings of the Collegiate Golf Foundation. Duncan finished seventh in the NCAA Division I Women’s Championships a year ago, earning honorable mention all-America status. This summer she advanced to the round of 16 in the United States Amateur and won the Western Amateur.

Three SEC golfers are ranked in front of Duncan: Danielle Downey of Auburn, sixth; Young-A Yang of Tennessee, eighth; and, Celeste Troche of Auburn, 10th.

MASTERCARD COLLEGIATE GOLF RANKINGS
Division I – Women’s Teams
September 6, 2000 (Preseason Edition)

Rank	Team	Votes	’00 NCAA Finish
1.	Arizona	330	1
2.	Stanford	317	2
3.	Duke	312	14
4.	Southern California	295	4
5.	Auburn	286	6
6.	Tulsa	261	16
7.	Texas	243	3
8.	San Jose State	231	15
9.	Georgia	228	7
10.	LSU	214	10
11.	Arizona State	199	11t
12.	Tennessee	182	5
13.	Purdue	180	9
14t.	Pepperdine	167	8
14t.	Wake Forest	167	17
16.	New Mexico State	159	11t
17.	Oklahoma State	152	—
18.	UCLA	142	—
19.	TCU	100	20t
20.	Michigan State	73	20t
21.	Northwestern	62	24
22.	Florida	59	18
23.	New Mexico	54	—
24.	Oregon	42	11t
25.	Ohio State	39	20t