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NCAA Regional Day 1
Kaneshiro Punches Ticket to NCAA Regional
4/23/2025 1:10:00 PM | Women's Golf
Colorado State to send Kaneshiro to Lubbock Regional to compete individually
FORT COLLINS - The Colorado State women's golf team will be represented by Kara Kaneshiro at the 2025 NCAA Regional Rounds taking place May 5-7.
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Kaneshiro will compete in the Lubbock regional at the The Rawls Course as an individual with a bid to the NCAA Championships on the line. While she will compete individually among the entire Lubbock field of golfers, Kaneshiro will look to be the lowest scoring of the six individuals competing and among the individuals of non-qualifying teams in order to punch her ticket to Carlsbad, California and the 2025 NCAA Championship taking place May 16-21.
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Kaneshiro's last appeared for the Rams at the 2025 Mountain West Championships, notching a fifth-place finish playing three-over par on the tournament overall and leading the Rams to a fourth-place team finish.
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The sophomore boasts a No. 202 individual ranking according to Scoreboard with an average 72.5 score per round this season. Competing in all ten of Colorado State's tournaments this season, Kaneshiro played even or better overall in four of the ten tournaments for the Rams including her best performances being at the Rainbow Wahine Invitational October 21-23 finishing fourth and playing six-under par and the Westbrook Invitational February 23-24, finishing sixth out of 78 golfers, finishing eight-under par.
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The Lubbock Regional Field is as follows:
Teams (seeded in the following order):
1.   Texas
2.   Wake Forest
3.   Arizona (Big 12 Conference)
4.   Texas A&M
5.   Iowa State
6.   Tennessee
7.   Purdue
8.   Campbell
9.   UC Davis
10.   Florida Gulf Coast (Atlantic Sun Conference)
11.   Tarleton State (Western Athletic Conference)
12.   Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (Southland Conference)
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Individuals (seeded in the following order):
1.   Ryann Honea, Abilene Christian
2.   Chantal El Chaib, Georgia
3.   Klara Hurtova, Texas Tech
4.   Kara Kaneshiro, Colorado State
5.   Yvonne Chamness, Texas State
6.   Julia McLaughlin, High Point (Big South Conference)
The Rams competed as a team last season in a regional round with Sofia Torres being the last Ram to play as an individual in the regional round in 2023.
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Kaneshiro will compete in the Lubbock regional at the The Rawls Course as an individual with a bid to the NCAA Championships on the line. While she will compete individually among the entire Lubbock field of golfers, Kaneshiro will look to be the lowest scoring of the six individuals competing and among the individuals of non-qualifying teams in order to punch her ticket to Carlsbad, California and the 2025 NCAA Championship taking place May 16-21.
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Kaneshiro's last appeared for the Rams at the 2025 Mountain West Championships, notching a fifth-place finish playing three-over par on the tournament overall and leading the Rams to a fourth-place team finish.
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The sophomore boasts a No. 202 individual ranking according to Scoreboard with an average 72.5 score per round this season. Competing in all ten of Colorado State's tournaments this season, Kaneshiro played even or better overall in four of the ten tournaments for the Rams including her best performances being at the Rainbow Wahine Invitational October 21-23 finishing fourth and playing six-under par and the Westbrook Invitational February 23-24, finishing sixth out of 78 golfers, finishing eight-under par.
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The Lubbock Regional Field is as follows:
Teams (seeded in the following order):
1.   Texas
2.   Wake Forest
3.   Arizona (Big 12 Conference)
4.   Texas A&M
5.   Iowa State
6.   Tennessee
7.   Purdue
8.   Campbell
9.   UC Davis
10.   Florida Gulf Coast (Atlantic Sun Conference)
11.   Tarleton State (Western Athletic Conference)
12.   Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (Southland Conference)
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Individuals (seeded in the following order):
1.   Ryann Honea, Abilene Christian
2.   Chantal El Chaib, Georgia
3.   Klara Hurtova, Texas Tech
4.   Kara Kaneshiro, Colorado State
5.   Yvonne Chamness, Texas State
6.   Julia McLaughlin, High Point (Big South Conference)
The Rams competed as a team last season in a regional round with Sofia Torres being the last Ram to play as an individual in the regional round in 2023.
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