Fredgaard Finishes First Round at NCAA Championships

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Team		Rounds				Score
		1	2	3	F
1.	#17 Texas	289			289	+1
2.	#13 Oregon	290			290	+2
3.	#6 Stanford	291			291	+3
t4.	#22 Arizona	292			292	+4
t4.	#16 Kent State	292			292	+4
t4.	#2 Duke	292			292	+4
t4.	#4 Wake Forest	292			292	+4
t8.	#3 LSU	296			296	+8
t8.	#5 Mississippi	296			296	+8
10.	#7 Oklahoma State	297			297	+9
11.	#9 Florida State	298			298	+10
12.	#28 Kentucky	299			299	+11
13.	#10 Arizona State	300			300	+12
14.	#30 Michigan State	301			301	+13
t15.	#14 Virginia Tech	302			302	+14
t15.	#21 UCLA	302			302	+14
17.	#23 Michigan	304			304	+16
18.	#15 Auburn	305			305	+17
19.	#20 Maryland	306			306	+18
t20.	#11 Georgia	307			307	+19
t20.	#8 USC	307			307	+19
t22.	#12 Baylor	308			308	+19
t22.	#26 Alabama	308			308	+20
24.	#1 South Carolina	312			312	+24

HOUSTON LEADERS
		1	2	3	F
t87.	Karen Fredgaard (Ind.)	77			77	+5

OVERALL LEADERS
		1	2	3	F
1.	#2 Rachel Heck Stanford	69			69	-3
2.	#16 Kaitlyn Papp Texas	70			70	-2
t3.	#22 Briana Chacon Oregon	71			71	-1
t3.	Elodie Chapelet Baylor	71			71	-1
t5.	#15 Caley McGinty Kent State	72			72	E
t5.	#7 Emma Spitz UCLA	72			72	E
t5.	#30 Emily Price Kent State	72			72	E
t5.	#74 Hsin-Yu Lu Oregon	72			72	E
t5.	#38 Valery Plata Michigan State	72			72	E
t5.	#26 Agathe Laisne Texas	72			72	E
t5.	#60 Siyun Liu Wake Forest	72			72	E
t5.	#25 Jaravee Boonchant Duke	72			72	E
t5.	Sadie Englemann Stanford	72			72	E
t5.	#79 Laney Frye Kentucky	72			72	E
t5.	Maddison Hinson-Tolchard Oklahoma State	72			72	E
t5.	Paula Kimer South Carolina	72			72	E
t5.	Gile Bite Starkute Arizona	72			72	E
t5.	#54 Beth Lillie Virginia	72			72	E

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – University of Houston sophomore Karen Fredgaard posted a 77 to tie for 87^th following the First Round of the NCAA Championships at Grayhawk Golf Club on Friday.

Starting her day off No. 10 on the 6,384-yard course, Fredgaard opened her round with back-to-back bogeys. The Asserbo, Denmark, native rallied with her first birdie of the day on the par-4 14^th hole but made bogey on No. 18 to cap her first nine.

Fredgaard endured a bogey on No. 2 and a triple bogey on No. 6 before sinking a birdie on the 474-yard, par-5 seventh hole.

Fredgaard earned her inaugural trip to the NCAA Championships as one of the nation's Top-10 players. Although the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional was canceled without a shot being played due to unplayable conditions from wet weather last week, Fredgaard's No. 7 ranking made her one of three student-athletes not from a qualifying team to advance to the nation's top collegiate tournament.

Fredgaard and the field will play 54 holes of stroke play with 18 holes each day. Following 54 holes, the Top-15 teams along with the top nine individuals not on an advancing team will advance for one additional day of stroke play Monday to determine the individual national champion.

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PAIRINGS
For Saturday's Second Round, Fredgaard will begin her day off No. 1 at 9:25 a.m. (CDT). She will compete in a group with Celina Sattelkau (Vanderbilt) and Nataliya Guseva (Miami (Fla.)).

Complete Second-Round pairings can be found by clicking here.

ABOUT KAREN FREDGAARD
This season, Fredgaard has emerged as one of the nation's and the world's leading amateur players. The sophomore leads the Cougars with a 70.27 scoring average and 12 rounds of par or better, including seven in the 60s, and was named the American Athletic Conference Player of the Year.

She enters the NCAA Championships as the No. 5 player in the latest Golfstat national rankings and at No. 8 in the recent Golfweek/Sagarin rankings.

Competing in five tournaments during the spring season, she has finished among the Top-10 in each event with four Top-Five showings.

Fredgaard captured the individual title at the UCF Challenge to open the season on Jan. 31-Feb. 2 for the first championship of her collegiate career and tied for third at the prestigious Augusta National Women's Amateur at Augusta National Golf Club on March 31-April 3.

Earlier this month, she was selected to compete for Team International during the 2021 Arnold Palmer Cup in June.

NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS HISTORY
Fredgaard is the second Cougar student-athlete to make the program's third individual appearance at the NCAA Championships.

All-American and two-time American Athletic Conference Player of the Year Leonie Harm was the first Cougar to compete at the NCAA Championships.

The Gerlingen, Germany, native became the first Cougar to compete at the NCAA Championships after finishing seventh at the 2016 NCAA Baton Rouge Regional.

Two years later, she posted a Final-Round 65 and battled through seven-hole playoff to emerge from the 2018 NCAA Austin Regional with an 11^th-place finish.

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