Ducks Earn No. 1 Seed at Gold Canyon Regional
04/23/25 | Women's Golf
EUGENE, Ore. - The Oregon women's golf team will make its 17th consecutive NCAA Regional appearance after earning the No. 1 seed in the 2025 Gold Canyon Regional on Wednesday morning.
The Ducks - who are No. 5 in the national rankings and coming off a win at the Big Ten Championships - have a reached a NCAA Regional every year since 2008, excluding the 2019-20 season that was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic. This will be the program's 29th all-time NCAA Regional appearance.
Hosted by Arizona State, the Gold Canyon Regional will be played at Superstition Mountain Golf and Country Club beginning on Monday, May 5, and concluding on Wednesday, May 7. Oregon is the top team in the field with No. 8 Arizona State, No. 17 Auburn, No. 20 Mississippi State and Oklahoma State rounding out the top five seeds.
The Gold Canyon Regional is one of six around the country, with the top five finishing teams from each site advancing to the 2025 NCAA Championships on May 16-21 at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif. Oregon is looking to return to the NCAA Championships after reaching the national semifinals in Carlsbad last spring, the program's second trip to the semifinals in the last three seasons.
"We are very excited about the opportunity to head to Gold Canyon for the NCAA Regional round," head coach Derek Radley said. "It's been a really fun season for our team and earning the top seed at a regional is a testament to all of the hard work our ladies have put in and everything they have accomplished. We're looking forward to getting out to Arizona with an opportunity to punch our ticket to the NCAA Championships."
The Ducks won their second conference title in program history over the weekend, claiming the Big Ten title in their first year in the league. Oregon was three strokes back of the lead entering the final round before posting a stellar 12-under 276 in the final round to win by 14 strokes and match the 54-hole tournament scoring record with a 12-under 852.
Oregon is led by star sophomore Kiara Romero, the No. 3 ranked player in the country who shot 7 under across three rounds to win the Big Ten individual title by three strokes. Romero became the third Duck ever to win an individual conference title, joining Hsin-Yu Lu (2022) and Caroline Inglis (2015).
Romero is one of three Ducks in the top 30 of the individual national rankings, along with freshman Suvichaya Vinijchaitham (No. 25) and sophomore Karen Tsuru (No. 29). All three players have won a tournament this season, marking the first time in program history Oregon has had three different individual champions in the same year.
UO owns a stellar competitive record of 113-17-0 so far in 2024-25, including an 86-7-0 mark in the spring. The Ducks have two tournament wins and four runner-up finishes while placing in the top five in every tournament they've played, and they are on track to shatter the program single-season record for team scoring average of 288.89 with a current mark of 285.57. Oregon has posted six of the eight lowest team rounds in program history this season, including a UO record 18-under 266 at the Alice & John Wallace Classic.
2025 NCAA Gold Canyon Regional
1. #5 Oregon
2. #8 Arizona State (host)
3. Auburn
4. Mississippi State
5. Oklahoma State
6. California
7. Virginia Tech
8. San Jose State
9. Sacramento State
10. Cal State Fullerton
11. Navy
12. Quinnipiac
The Ducks - who are No. 5 in the national rankings and coming off a win at the Big Ten Championships - have a reached a NCAA Regional every year since 2008, excluding the 2019-20 season that was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic. This will be the program's 29th all-time NCAA Regional appearance.
Hosted by Arizona State, the Gold Canyon Regional will be played at Superstition Mountain Golf and Country Club beginning on Monday, May 5, and concluding on Wednesday, May 7. Oregon is the top team in the field with No. 8 Arizona State, No. 17 Auburn, No. 20 Mississippi State and Oklahoma State rounding out the top five seeds.
The Gold Canyon Regional is one of six around the country, with the top five finishing teams from each site advancing to the 2025 NCAA Championships on May 16-21 at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif. Oregon is looking to return to the NCAA Championships after reaching the national semifinals in Carlsbad last spring, the program's second trip to the semifinals in the last three seasons.
"We are very excited about the opportunity to head to Gold Canyon for the NCAA Regional round," head coach Derek Radley said. "It's been a really fun season for our team and earning the top seed at a regional is a testament to all of the hard work our ladies have put in and everything they have accomplished. We're looking forward to getting out to Arizona with an opportunity to punch our ticket to the NCAA Championships."
The Ducks won their second conference title in program history over the weekend, claiming the Big Ten title in their first year in the league. Oregon was three strokes back of the lead entering the final round before posting a stellar 12-under 276 in the final round to win by 14 strokes and match the 54-hole tournament scoring record with a 12-under 852.
Oregon is led by star sophomore Kiara Romero, the No. 3 ranked player in the country who shot 7 under across three rounds to win the Big Ten individual title by three strokes. Romero became the third Duck ever to win an individual conference title, joining Hsin-Yu Lu (2022) and Caroline Inglis (2015).
Romero is one of three Ducks in the top 30 of the individual national rankings, along with freshman Suvichaya Vinijchaitham (No. 25) and sophomore Karen Tsuru (No. 29). All three players have won a tournament this season, marking the first time in program history Oregon has had three different individual champions in the same year.
UO owns a stellar competitive record of 113-17-0 so far in 2024-25, including an 86-7-0 mark in the spring. The Ducks have two tournament wins and four runner-up finishes while placing in the top five in every tournament they've played, and they are on track to shatter the program single-season record for team scoring average of 288.89 with a current mark of 285.57. Oregon has posted six of the eight lowest team rounds in program history this season, including a UO record 18-under 266 at the Alice & John Wallace Classic.
2025 NCAA Gold Canyon Regional
1. #5 Oregon
2. #8 Arizona State (host)
3. Auburn
4. Mississippi State
5. Oklahoma State
6. California
7. Virginia Tech
8. San Jose State
9. Sacramento State
10. Cal State Fullerton
11. Navy
12. Quinnipiac
Players Mentioned
Kiara Romero | NCAA Regional Preview
Tuesday, April 29
Suvichaya Vinijchaitham | NCAA Regional Preview
Tuesday, April 29
Derek Radley | NCAA Regional Preview
Tuesday, April 29
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