No. 5 Ducks Surge Into NCAA Championships

CARLSBAD, Calif. - No. 5 Oregon enters the 2025 NCAA Women's Golf Championships this week as one of the hottest teams in the nation after posting back-to-back runaway wins at the Big Ten Championships and the NCAA Gold Canyon Regional. UO has three total wins on the season while placing in the top five in every tournament it's played, carrying a stellar 124-17-0 competitive record for the year into the NCAA Championships including an incredible 97-7-0 mark this spring.

The Ducks will kick off the NCAA Championships on Friday with the first of three rounds of stroke play before the 30-team field is cut down to 15 ahead of Monday's final round of stroke play. An individual NCAA champion will be crowned following Monday's round, and the top eight teams will advance to NCAA match play on Tuesday. The quarterfinals and semifinals will be played on Tuesday with the national championship match set for Wednesday, May 21.

Oregon will tee off in the opening round of the NCAA Championships on Friday beginning at 12:12 p.m. PT.

2025 NCAA Women's Golf Championships
Friday, May 16 - Wednesday, May 21
Carlsbad, Calif. | Omni La Costa Golf Resort & Spa
30 Teams | Par 72, 6,330 Yards
Format: Four rounds of stroke play, top 8 advance to match play

How to Follow
Live scoring for the NCAA Championships will be available on Scoreboard Live, and live updates will be provided on Twitter at @OregonWGolf. Golf Channel will have live coverage of the event on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Teeing Off for the Ducks (Scoring Avg.)
1. Kiara Romero (69.79)
2. Suvichaya Vinijchaitham (71.52)
3. Tong An (73.48)
4. Ting-Hsuan Huang (73.25)
5. Karen Tsuru (72.39)
Sub. Anika Varma (75.67)

NCAA Championships History
Oregon is making its 14th all-time appearance at the NCAA Championships, including its fourth in the last five years. The Ducks tied for sixth in stroke play last spring before reaching the match play semifinals, the program's second trip to at least the semifinals in a three-year span. Oregon placed second in stroke play in 2022 and reached the national championship match before falling to No. 1 Stanford. UO has reached match play three times total, first doing so in 2016 on its home course at Eugene Country Club.

2-for-2
Oregon will look to make a run at the national title and complete the postseason triple crown this week after winning both the Big Ten Championship and the NCAA Gold Canyon Regional. The Ducks are one of just three teams (Florida State, South Carolina) to win their conference tournament and place first at a NCAA Regional, joining th historic 2021-22 Oregon team as the only UO squads to achieve the feat in the same season. The Ducks have been led by dominant sophomore Kiara Romero, who is also 2-for-2 this postseason after running away with the individual Big Ten title and medalist honors at the NCAA Gold Canyon Regional.

Kiara Romero - Superstar
After a stellar freshman season in 2023-24 that saw her win WGCA National Freshman of the Year honors and tie for sixth overall at the NCAA Championships, Kiara Romero has managed to level up in a big way as a sophomore. Romero enters the NCAA Championships as the No. 2 ranked player in the nation and the No. 3 ranked amateur in the world, having won both the Big Ten individual championship and the NCAA Gold Canyon Regional individual title. The 2025 Big Ten Golfer of the Year, Romero owns a miniscule 69.79 scoring average this season and has shot par-or-better 23 times in 28 rounds, including a whopping 15 sub-70 rounds. Thirteen of those 15 rounds in the 60s have come this spring, including a career-low 10-under 62 in round two of the NCAA Gold Canyon Regional that is the lowest individual round in Oregon history. Romero won the Gold Canyon Regional by eight strokes with a 16-under 200, the second-lowest 54-hole score in program history. She also has drained 124 birdies this season, including 22 at the NCAA Regional, to break her own UO single-season record of 118 set last spring. Romero's back-to-back wins give her four career victories, tying Kendra Little (2008-11) for the all-time program record.

Romero, Ducks Win Way Into NCAA Championships
Oregon booked its ticket to the 2025 NCAA Championships in emphatic fashion at the NCAA Gold Canyon Regional, shooting a combined 15 under across the final two rounds to run away with second win in a row and third of the season. The Ducks won a NCAA Regional for the second time in program history (2022 Albuquerque Regional), finishing nine strokes ahead of host Arizona State and 35 shots clear of the cut line. Oregon was carried by a dominant performance from Kiara Romero, who fired the lowest round in program history with a 10-under 62 in round two and carded the second-lowest 54-hole score ever by a Duck with a 16-under 200 to win the individual title by eight strokes. Romero joined Briana Chacon (2022) as the only Ducks ever to win an NCAA Regional individual title, carding 22 birdies with 11 during her historic second round. Oregon finished with four players in the individual top 15 as Suvichaya Vinijchaitham (74-73-69) tied for eighth, Tong An (71-72-74) placed 11th and Ting-Hsuan Huang (74-75-70) tied for 15th.

Big Ten Champs!
Trailing by three strokes entering the final round, the Ducks put together a dominant performance to run away with the 2025 Big Ten Championship in their first year in the conference. Oregon fired a stellar 12-under 276 in the final round to win by 14 strokes while matching the tournament 54-hole scoring record with a 12-under 852 for the weekend. Kiara Romero gave Oregon a clean sweep by claiming the individual conference title at 7 under, winning by three strokes on the strength of a 4-under 68 in the final round. It was the second conference title in program history for the Ducks, and second under head coach Derek Radley (2022 Pac-12). Romero joined Hsin-Yu Lu (2022) and Caroline Inglis (2015) as Ducks to win individual conference championships. While Romero stole the headlines, it was freshman Tong An who led the Ducks in their dominant final round with a 6-under 66 en route to tying for fifth overall at 2 under. Freshman Suvichaya Vinijchaitham also placed in the top 10 in ninth at 1 under, firing a 3-under 69 on the final day, and Ting-Hsuan Huang tied for 19th at 3 over after firing a 3-under 69 in the opening round.

Ducks Dominate Big Ten Awards
Oregon cleaned up on the Big Ten end-of-season awards following the Ducks' conference title as Kiara Romero was named the Big Ten Women's Golfer of the Year, Derek Radley was selected as the Big Ten Coach of the Year and four players received all-Big Ten honors. Romero became the first player in program history to be named the conference player of the year, while Radley joined Renee Baumgartner (1997) as Oregon head coaches to be selected as the conference coach of the year. Romero was an all-Big Ten first-team selection along with freshman Suvichaya Vinijchaitham and sophomore Karen Tsuru, giving the Ducks a league-high three first-team honorees. Freshman Tong An was also voted to the all-Big Ten second team as Oregon tied with Northwestern for the most first- and second-team selections in the conference.