DeLand, Fla. - Stetson University Director of Athletics Jeff Altier and Head Women's Golf Coach Floyd Kerr are proud to announce that Stetson has been selected as the host institution for the 2011 NCAA Division I Women's Golf East Regional Championship. Stetson Athletics will team with the Central Florida Sports Commission to host the event May 5-7, 2011 at the world-famous LPGA International Legends Course in Daytona Beach, Fla. This is Stetson's first hosting duties for NCAA women's golf since co-hosting with the CFSC for the 2001 NCAA Championship finals.
Stetson joins Notre Dame (Warren Golf Course; South Bend, Ind.) and Washington (Washington National Golf Club; Seattle, Wash.) as hosts for the three regional championships next year. These three sites feed into the NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championship, to be hosted by Texas A&M at Traditions Golf Club in College Station, Texas.
Stetson University and the Central Florida Sports Commission have a long history of working together to put on top-notch sporting events in the region, including the 2004 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championships First and Second Rounds in Orlando. Stetson and the CFSC collaborate annually on collegiate men's and women's golf events at Deland's Victoria Hills GC and are in the midst of a four-year contract to host the 2009-12 Atlantic Sun Women's Golf Championships. The 2009 event was held at Victoria Hills, where it will return in 2011; the 2010 and 2012 tournaments will be contested at Venetian Bay GC in New Smryna Beach.
The Hatters, who made their NCAA Tournament debut last May after capturing the program's first Atlantic Sun Conference championship, previously served as hosts for the 2001 NCAA Championship at Mission Inn Resort in Howey-in the-Hills, Fla. That event featured such future LPGA Tour stars as Natalie Gulbis, Candie Kung, Lorena Ochoa and Anna Rawson.
The 2010 NCAA regionals will be held May 6-8 at host sites East Carolina (Ironwood CC; Greenville, N.C.), Indiana (Otter Creek GC; Bloomington, Ind.) and Stanford (Stanford GC; Stanford, Calif.). The 2010 NCAA Championship will be held May 18-21 at the Country Club of Landfall in Wilmington, N.C., hosted by UNC Wilmington.
