MSU women's golf earns No. 4 seed in NCAA Regional at Oklahoma

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EAST LANSING — In recent years on selection day for the NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Regionals, Michigan State’s women’s golf team had to wait through most of the hour-long show to find out where it was headed.

On this Wednesday afternoon at the Lasch Golf Center, the Spartans didn’t have to wait long as the Spartans found out just minutes into the selection show that they were headed to Oklahoma on May 5-7 as the No. 4 seed in the Norman Regional.

The 12-team regional, which will be hosted by the University of Oklahoma at the OU Jimmie Austin Golf Club, will include, in order of seed, Stanford, Northwestern, North Carolina, Michigan State, Duke, Oklahoma, Baylor, Oregon State, Tulsa, Denver, Furman and Southern Mississippi.

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“Last year, since we played here (in the 2024 East Lansing Regional), we knew we were going, so it’s been two years since we had that excitement and coming up first, they were a little shocked,” MSU coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll said in a statement. “I don’t think anyone had Norman on their radar, but we’re excited. Every field at the regional is tough. All of the teams are coming to play and they have all proved to be some of the best teams throughout the entire season.

“Every year, we have our work cut out for us, but I feel very good about the teams that are there and very good about our team.”

Michigan State will be making its ninth straight NCAA regional appearance and the 25th in the last 26 years since 1999, all under Slobodnik-Stoll.

Last year in the East Lansing Regional, hosted by MSU at Forest Akers West Golf Course, the Spartans finished in third place among 12 teams and earned a trip the NCAA Championships, the third in the previous four seasons.

Michigan State has made 16 trips to the NCAAs, including 14 under Slobodnik-Stoll.

“We expect to win and we expect to get a spot at the national championship, that’s the ultimate goal,” Slobodnik-Stoll said.

MSU is ranked No. 25 in the country in the latest NCAA Division I rankings and is coming off a runner-up finish at the Big Ten Championships last weekend. The Spartans were one of eight schools from the Big Ten to reach the regionals.

There will be six regional sites across the country, with 396 participants and each site featuring 12 teams and six individuals. The top five teams (30 teams total) and the low individual not on an advancing team (six individuals total) from each regional site will advance to compete in the national championships May 16-21 at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California.

— MSU Athletic Communications contributed to this report.

This article originally appeared on Lansing State Journal: MSU women's golf earns No. 4 seed in NCAA Regional at Oklahoma

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