Wisconsin Opens Season at Home
September 06, 2007 | Women's Golf
The Wisconsin women's golf team kicks off the 2007 fall season this weekend at the par-72, 6,175 yard University Ridge as host of the 12-team Badger Invitational. Tee time is set for 8:30 a.m. Sunday for the first two rounds with the final 18 holes beginning at 8 a.m. Monday.
The Badger Invitational is the first of five events on the fall schedule for Wisconsin and it is the lone home event. Wisconsin took second place at the invitational last year behind a first place finish from then-junior Katie Elliot (Madison, Wis.). At the 2006 invitational, Elliot tallied nine birdies, including one on the first hole of a sudden death playoff, en route to her first collegiate tournament win (74-77-74=225). Then-sophomore Jeana Dahl (Fargo, N.D.) also recorded her best career finish with an eighth place finish (80-77-74=231).
The Badgers are in position to have similar success this year with nine letterwinners returning. That group includes the team's top four golfers: Elliot, Dahl, junior Isabel Alvarez (Gijon, Spain) and sophomore Kelsey Verbeten (Green Bay, Wis.).
This year, four newcomers will debut at the Badger Invitational including freshmen Carly Werwie (Kenosha, Wis.) and Zahra Shah (London, England), redshirt freshman Valya Spengel (McHenry, Ill.) and junior transfer Natasha Lopez Moreira (Asuncion, Paraguay). Werwie joins the squad as a two-time WIAA State High School individual champion, three-time all state honoree and a two-time Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Player of the Year.
Aside from Wisconsin, Central Florida, Drake, Georgetown, Illinois State, Iowa State, Big Ten Conference foe Minnesota, Northern Iowa, Oklahoma, Samford, Southern Methodist and Xavier are scheduled for the invitational.
Stay tuned to uwbadgers.com for updates from the 2007 Badger Invitational.
