The Colorado Buffaloes women’s golf team will compete in the NCAA Women’s Golf Waco Regional from May 11 to 13 at Ridgewood Country Club in Waco, Texas. The event will feature a par-70 course with a yardage of 6,094 and a format of 54 holes over three days.
This regional is one of six across the country, with teams seeded from Texas A&M as the top seed to Prairie View A&M as the twelfth. Colorado enters as the ninth seed and will play alongside TCU and Tulsa in Monday’s first round, starting at 7:50 a.m. Mountain Time.
The top five teams from each regional, plus the lowest-scoring individual not on those teams, will advance to the NCAA Finals at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California, scheduled for May 22-27. Other regionals are being held in Ann Arbor (Michigan), Chapel Hill (North Carolina), Simpsonville (Kentucky), Stanford (California), and Tallahassee (Florida).
This marks Colorado’s ninth appearance at an NCAA Regional and its first since 2018. The Buffaloes have advanced past regionals twice before—in 2012 and during their last national appearance in 2018. This season has seen notable success for Colorado; they won their first tournament since September 2017 by claiming the Ram Classic on September 23 and added another victory at February’s Causeway Invitational in Sacramento.
Individually, Carolyn Fuller leads Colorado with a scoring average of 73.19 and was named both team MVP and Most Improved player while also earning honors as the Colorado Golf Association Women’s Player of the Year after her win at Eisenhower Golf Club last July. Ellen O’Shaughnessy ranks second on the team with several top finishes this season; Maya McVey brings championship experience from her time at Central Missouri; Teemapat Pateetin has excelled academically while maintaining strong scores; Ananthi Vivek rounds out the lineup after joining as a freshman this spring.
Looking ahead to regional play, Colorado aims to build on its recent momentum—having finished in the top ten of all ten regular-season events—and hopes to secure one of five coveted spots advancing them to nationals later this month.
