SAN ANTONIO — The UTSA women's golf team will open the spring season on Monday-Tuesday, Feb. 6-7, at the Paradise Invitational, which will be held at Osprey Point Golf Club (par 72/6,404 yards) in Boca Raton, Florida.
The Roadrunners will compete against BYU, Colorado State, host Florida Atlantic, Georgia Southern, Indiana, Kansas State, Kennesaw State, Mercer, Missouri, No. 47 Nebraska, USF, No. 19 Vanderbilt and Wisconsin.
The field will play 36 holes on Monday with a 7 a.m. CT shotgun start and the final round is slated for Tuesday. Live scoring will be available at results.golfstat.com.
The Roadrunners will field a lineup of Camryn Carreon, Olivia Williams, Morgan Ellison, Hunter Nugent and Daniela Abonce this week in the Sunshine State.
This will mark the second straight season UTSA has participated in the Paradise Invitational. Carreon tied for 15th place with a 3-under-par 213 (69-73-71) and UTSA finished eighth with an 865 (277-296-292). The Roadrunners set a program record for low team score and low team score versus par with an 11-under 277 in the opening round, and they registered a 3-under 573 on the first day, which is tied for the third-best 36-hole total in school annals. Nugent equaled the UTSA standard for low round and low round versus par with a 6-under 66 for the opening 18 holes.
Under the direction of two-time Conference USA Coach of the Year Summer Batiste, UTSA posted a pair of top-10 finishes in the fall campaign, headlined by a sixth-place showing at the Dale McNamara Invitational on Oct. 10-11 in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.
Individually, Carreon paces the team with a 74.0 stroke average and two top 10s. The senior from San Antonio grabbed a share of sixth with a 217 (75-71-71) at the Dale McNamara Invitational and she was named Conference USA Women's Golfer of the Week after posting her 10th career top 10, tying for eighth with a 3-under-par 213 to lead the Roadrunners to 14th place in a field of eight nationally ranked teams at the Jim West Challenge on Oct. 23-24.
Abonce and Ellison are close behind Carreon in scoring average at 74.48. Abonce, a freshman from Veracruz, Mexico, logged her best finish of 16th after posting a 221 (75-74-72) at the Dale McNamara Invitational. Ellison, a sophomore from Peachtree City, Georgia, has a pair of top-20 showings including a tie for 10th with a 218 (75-69-74) at the same tournament.
Williams (76.76), Lauren Rios (78.9) and Nugent (79.33) round out the roster.
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