By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION
INDIANAPOLIS – Fort Hays State junior golfer Morgan Brasser has been selected to compete at the 2023 NCAA Division II Women’s Golf Central Region Championships, announced Monday (May 1) by the NCAA office. This will be Brasser’s third-straight trip to the regional meet.
Nine teams (three conference champions, six at-large) and the top six individuals not on those teams from the MIAA, Northern Sun and Great American Conference will make up the field at the Central Regional, held this year at Grand Falls Casino & Golf Resort in Larchwood, Iowa May 8-10. The MIAA will make up 32 of the 51 players at the regional, with six teams earning a bid in addition to two individuals.
The 2022-23 MIAA Women’s Golfer of the Year, Brasser picked up her first of three event victories this season on this course in October at the Augustana Regional Preview. Brasser turned in a two-round score of 4-over 148 to win by three strokes.
Brasser has recorded a program-record stroke average of 75.72 through 25 rounds this season. She has won three times in 11 events, placing inside the top five six times and in the top 10 eight times. She turned in eight round at-or-under par, including two rounds of 69 that tied the program record. She also set a program record with a 36-hole tournament score of 4-under 140 at the Newman Spring Invitational.
A three-time All-MIAA selection, Brasser finished T-12th at regionals as a freshman before finishing seventh last year, one shot back of the final individual qualifying slot.
Brasser is now tied with Hannah Perkins (2017-19) for the most postseason trips in program history. Tiger Sports Hall of Famer Shelby White was the first FHSU women’s golfer to earn a spot in the NCAA DII Regional Championships, doing so in 2006.
The Andale, Kan. native’s opening round is slated to start at 10:50 a.m. off hole 10 on Monday. Tuesday’s round two will begin at 10 a.m. for the individual competitors before round three begins at either 10:50 a.m. or 11 a.m. on Wednesday.
The top three teams and the low two individuals not on those teams will advance to the finals, slated for May 16-20 at Fox Run Golf Club in Eureka, Mo.
2023 NCAA Division II Central Region Championship Participants
Larchwood, Iowa Grand Falls Casino and Golf Resort
Host: Augustana University
Teams:
1. Henderson State [Great American Conference]2. Central Missouri [Mid-American Intercollegiate Athletics Association]3. Rogers State
4. Augustana [Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference]5. Northeastern State
6. Nebraska-Kearney
7. Central Oklahoma
8. Harding
9. Missouri Western
Individuals:
1. Paige Hoffman, Northwest Missouri
2. Morgan Brasser, Fort Hays State
3. Carly Moon, Winona State
4. Ellen Spigner Arkansas Tech
5. Morgan Becker, Oklahoma Baptist
6. Gabriela Maldonado, Arkansas-Monticello