March 5, 2003

(Salinas, CA) Katherine Hull of Pepperdine completed a start-to-finish individual victory with a six-under par 66 to lead her team to victory in the SJSU Spartan Invitational women's golf tournament.

Hull, a senior, finished with a 16-under 200 on the par 72, 5,938-yard Corral de Tierra Country Club course. Her 54-hole total is the best 54-hole individual score by a player in NCAA Division I women's golf this season. Earlier this season, Christine Boucher of Kansas State posted a 12-under par score of 204 in her win at the Edwin Watts/Palmetto Intercollegiate in Kiawah Island, South Carolina last November.

Hull, the nation's number-one ranked player according to GolfStat, had 17 birdies and two eagles in the tournament including six birdies and an eagle in the final round. She has finished first in three tournaments this season.

Along with her teammate, Lindsey Wright, who finished a distant second at eight-under par 208, Pepperdine overpowered the 14-team field with an 18-under par team score of 846. The Waves were 36 strokes better than second place UCLA, which finished at 882. All five Pepperdine players finished in the top-20 of the 75-player field.

California, third at 890, Arizona State, fourth at 894, and UNLV, fifth at 898, also had team totals below 900.

Host San Jose State tied with the University of San Francisco for tenth place at 923.

Angela Won of UC Irvine was the only other individual to finish under par at two-under 214, 14 strokes behind Hull. UCLA teammates Charlotte Mayorkas and Gina Umeck tied for fourth at 217.

Senior Susie Laing was the top finisher for USF with a share of 25th place after a 227 (77, 76, 74).

FINAL RESULTS           SJSU Spartan Invitational
                         Corral de Tierra CC      Salinas, CA
                         Dates: 03/04 - 03/05     (Today:03-05-2003)
                                   Par:        72
                                   Yardage:  5938

      Fin.   School                   Scores
         1   Pepperdine Univ.         275  292  279    846       -18
         2   UCLA                     283  302  297    882       +18
         3   California, U. of        300  297  293    890       +26
         4   Arizona State U.         284  306  304    894       +30
         5   UNLV                     299  299  300    898       +34
         6   Washington, U. of        303  300  298    901       +37
         7   UC - Irvine              303  304  308    915       +51
         8   Oregon State U.          306  311  301    918       +54
         9   Oregon, U. of            305  307  309    921       +57
        10   San Francisco, U. of     302  314  307    923       +59
             San Jose State Univ      302  313  308    923       +59
        12   Long Beach State         313  309  305    927       +63
        13   Hawaii, Univ. of         322  333  337    992      +128
        14   CSU-Monterey Bay         360  339  351   1050      +186


USF INDIVIDUAL FINISHES
T 10   San Francisco, U. of     302  314  307    923
T 25    Susannah Laing           77   76   74    227
T 35    Lyndsey Devenish         72   80   80    232
T 46    Nikki Jacoby             75   83   77    235
T 46    Jordan Auten             79   80   76    235
T 55    Mariko Shimozaki         78   78   83    239