IRVING, Texas – Two teams and four individual entries from the American Athletic Conference are bound for regional sites to begin the 2022 NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Championship.
 
The NCAA Regionals schedule will feature six tournament sites across the country, with 12 teams and six unattached individuals participating at each site from May 9-11. The top four team finishers and best two individuals from non-advancing teams at each regional site will move on to the 2022 NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Championship Finals on May 20-25 at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona.
 
Tulane, the 2022 American champion, earned the conference’s automatic bid earlier this month at Pinehurst No. 6 and was seeded 11th at the NCAA Stillwater Regional. UCF joined Tulane in the field as an at-large selection and the fifth seed at the NCAA Ann Arbor Regional. SMU’s Kennedy Pedigo earned an automatic bid as the 2022 American Women’s Golf Championship individual medalist and was seeded fifth in the NCAA Stillwater Regional. Pedigo will be joined by Tulsa’s Lilly Thomas, who captured the top individual seed as an at-large selection at the NCAA Stillwater Regional. South Florida’s Melanie Green gathered an at-large nod as the second individual seed at the NCAA Tallahassee Regional. Houston's Annie Kim was tabbed as an alternate and will play as the fifth seed at the NCAA Franklin Regional.
 
Tulane etched its name into conference history by capturing the 2022 American Women’s Golf Championship on April 19 at Pinehurst No. 6. The Green Wave posted a final score of 892 (308-289-295) and erased a 10-shot deficit entering the third round to win by five strokes. American Coach of the Year Stew Burke guided Tulane to its first league championship in women’s golf as an American member and the program’s first NCAA Regional berth since 2016 with the victory. Tulane is set for its 14th all-time NCAA Regional start and will look to advance to the NCAA finals for the seventh time, as the Green Wave most recently placed 19th at the 2015 national tournament.
 
UCF will return to NCAA Regionals for the 16th time in program history and the eighth time in the last 11 seasons, earning the No. 5 seed at the U-M Golf Course in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Knights advanced to the finals of the NCAA Championship in 2019 after placing sixth at the NCAA Cle Elum Regional in Cle Elum, Washington. UCF finished third at the 2022 American Women’s Golf Championship to cement an at-large bid into the NCAA Ann Arbor Regional.
 
Pedigo will compete in the NCAA Stillwater Regional field after earning her first career collegiate victory with a one-shot triumph at the 2022 American Women’s Golf Championship at Pinehurst No. 6. Pedigo was one of only two players in the field to card multiple rounds at par or better during the conference tournament. Pedigo has logged six top-25 finishes thus far this season across 10 starts and was named American Women’s Golf All-Conference for the second straight year.
 
Thomas secured the top individual seed at the NCAA Stillwater Regional after a successful junior season at Tulsa, leading the team with a 72.7 stroke average and four top-10 finishes. Thomas’ best performance of the year was a second-place result at the Texas State Invitational on Feb. 7-8. Thomas most recently shared 19th place at the 2022 American Women’s Golf Championship and was named to the American Women’s Golf All-Conference squad for the second year in a row.
 
Green clinched her first career national bid into the NCAA Tallahassee Regional on the heels of a sixth-place showing at the 2022 American Women’s Golf Championship. Green has logged seven top-10 finishes over 10 starts this season, highlighted by a co-medalist performance for South Florida at the SMU Trinity Forest Invitational on March 7-8. Green was also tabbed to the American Women’s Golf All-Conference team for the second consecutive campaign.

Kim is set to make her first NCAA appearance at the Franklin Regional after helping lead Houston to a runner-up showing at the 2022 American Women's Golf Championship. Kim posted a team-best 73.47 scoring average and registered five top-25 finishes, which included a fourth-place showing at the Blessings Collegiate Invitational on Oct. 4-6. Kim added American Women's Golf All-Conference accolades to her season accomplishments earlier this week.
 
American Athletic Conference Women’s Golf
2022 NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Championship
NCAA Regionals (Top four teams, top two individuals from non-qualifying teams advance from each site)
 
NCAA Stillwater Regional – May 9-11; Karsten Creek Golf Club, Stillwater, Oklahoma
No. 11 seed Tulane (American Champion)
No. 1 seed Lilly Thomas, Tulsa (at-large)*
No. 5 seed Kennedy Pedigo, SMU (American Champion)*
 
NCAA Ann Arbor Regional – May 9-11; U-M Golf Course, Ann Arbor, Michigan
No. 5 seed UCF (at-large)
 
NCAA Tallahassee Regional – May 9-11; Seminole Legacy Golf Club, Tallahassee, Florida
No. 2 seed Melanie Green, South Florida (at-large)*

NCAA Franklin Regional – May 9-11; Vanderbilt Legends Club, Nashville, Tennessee
No. 5 seed Annie Kim, Houston (at-large)*
 
*- competing as an individual