USC Aiken to Open NCAA Regional Play on Monday
DELAND, Fla. – The 22nd-ranked University of South
Carolina Aiken golf team opens play in the 2011 NCAA Division II
South/Southeast Regional on Monday, May 2.
The NCAA regional will be contested at the par 72 Victoria Hills
Golf Club in DeLand, Fla. The three-round tournament will feature a
round each day from May 2-4 starting at 7:30 a.m. each day.
USC Aiken will be vying to make its 16th appearance in the NCAA
Championship Tournament in the regional.
The Pacers, who are making their 19th appearance in the NCAA
Tournament in the last 20 years, are the ninth seed in the
South/Southeast Regional.
USC Aiken under Hall of Fame head coach Mike Carlisle in the NCAA
Division II Tournament has three NCAA Division II National
Championships (2004, 2005, 2006) and three NCAA Division II
runner-up finishes (1995, 1996 and 1999). USC Aiken’s first
national championship in 2004 was obtained at the Victoria Hill
Golf Club.
In the past seven years overall, USC Aiken has five NCAA National
Championships, three team titles and two individual crowns. In
2008, USC Aiken finished seventh as a team at the NCAA Division II
Championship Tournament, but Jeff Goff became the school's second
ever NCAA Individual Champion. Goff joined Dane Burkhart as the
only Pacers to claim individual medalist honors at the NCAA
Championship Tournament in program history.
The 2010-11 USC Aiken golf team is extremely young with no
upperclassmen on the squad.
Freshman Hayden Letien (Sumter, S.C./Sumter) has paced USC Aiken
all spring. The All-Peach Conference selection is leading the
Pacers with a 74.0 scoring average.
All three rounds of the 2011 NCAA Division II South/Southeast
Regional will be able to be followed live on USC Aiken’s
official athletic website at www.PacerSports.com.
Live Stats
Victoria Hills Golf Club Official Website
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