Oregon Am Champion Gigi Stoll, Arizona Women's Golf Win NCAA Women's Title
STILLWATER, OKLA. - Gigi Stoll (Tigard, Ore.) and her teammates on the University of Arizona Women's Golf Team won the NCAA Women's Division I National Championship on Wednesday.
The championship, starting on May 19th at Karsten Creek Golf Club with stroke play, concluded on the 23rd with with two days of match play, featuring the top-8 teams from the stroke play portion of the event. Arizona, the No. 8 seed in match play, faced off against the University of Alabama, the No. 2 seed.
Stoll, a junior, won her quarterfinal and semifinal matches on Tuesday. Against top-seeded UCLA, she defeated junior Lilia Vu 2-up, who had been named the Women's Golf Coaches Association Player of the Year the same day. Against Stanford in the semifinals, Stoll won her match 5&3 against sophomore Ziyi Wang, who recently finished fourth at the 2018 Pac-12 Championships and finished second at last year's California Women's Amateur Championship.
Against Alabama, Stoll played against Kristen Gillman, currently the No. 10 ranked women's amateur golfer in the world and 2014 U.S. Women's Amateur champion. Stoll fell 4&3 against Gillman, but the Wildcats finished with three total points out of five matches, earning their third national championship and first since 2000. Haley Moore, who Stoll played with at this year's U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball earlier this month, won in a playoff to secure the winning point for Arizona.
This year marked the second-straight year that a golfer from Oregon was a member of the National Championship-winning team. Last year, Monica Vaughn (Reedsport, Ore.) won both the individual and team title with Arizona State.
Stoll has won three Oregon Women's Amateur titles (2014, 2015, 2017), including last year's. The former Beaverton High School standout also has earned three Oregon Junior Amateur wins (2011, 2013, 2014) and won the 2015 Oregon Women's Stroke Play Championship.
Click here for full scoring from Wednesday's NCAA Women's Division I National Championship.








