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Get to know the 5 Arizona Wildcats who won a national championship on Wednesday
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Get to know the 5 Arizona Wildcats who won a national championship on Wednesday

  • May 24, 2018
  • May 24, 2018 Updated Jul 4, 2018
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The Arizona Wildcats women's golf team won its first national championship since 2000 on Wednesday, when it beat Alabama 3-2 in 19 holes. 

Get to know the five Wildcats that brought another national title to Tucson. 

Haley Moore

Class: Junior

Hometown: Escondido, California (San Pasqual High School)

Get to know Moore: 

  • Ranked seventh in her class and 14th overall in the American Junior Golf Association’s rankings coming out of high school in 2015. 
  • Finished in second place at the NCAA Championships as a freshman in 2016. Moore finished with a score of 280 (-8). 
  • When Arizona won the El Tigre Invitational in March, Moore also won the individual competition shooting 210 (-6).
  • Two-time All-Pac-12 First-Team member (2017,2018). 
  • Has finished in the top five in four tournaments this season.  

Bianca Pagdanganan

Class: Junior

Hometown: Quezon City, Phillipines (Assumption Antipolo)

Get to know Pagdanganan: 

  • Made an eagle putt on the 18th hole, which lifted Arizona into a playoff, and ultimately put the Wildcats into the semifinals at the NCAA Championships. 
  • Played at Gonzaga for two years before transferring to UA.
  • Her nickname on the team is the Unicorn. 
  • Pac-12 Honorable Mention in 2018.

 

Gigi Stoll

Gigi Stoll

Gigi Stoll helped lead the Arizona women's golf team to a national title in 2018.

Stan Liu / courtesy of Arizona Athletics

Class: Junior

Hometown: Tigard, Oregon (Beaverton High School)

Get to know Stoll:

  • Finished in the top 16 at the 2017 U.S. Women's Amateur Championship.
  • Won the semifinal match on Tuesday by two strokes to give the Wildcats one of their three points to advance to the national championship.
  • Two-time Pacific Northwest Golf Association Women’s Player of the Year in 2014 and 2015. 
  • Seven-time Oregon Golf Association Junior Player of the Year

Yu-Sang Hou

Yu-Sang Hou
Arizona Athletics

Class: Freshman

Hometown: Taipei, Taiwan (Heping High School)

Get to know Hou:

  • Ranked as the No. 69 amateur golfer in the world before joining UA.
  • Silver medalist at the 2017 Summer University Games in Taipei, Taiwan.
  • Finished second at the 2018 Ping ASU Invitational. 
  • Favorite golfer is Jason Day.

Sandra Nordaas

NCAA Womens Golf

Arizona's Sandra Nordaas peers over the edge of a bunker to see where her shot has landed on the ninth green during the final round of the NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championships in Stillwater, Okla., Wednesday, May 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Sue Ogrocki

Class: Sophomore

Hometown: Oslo, Norway (Wang Toppidrett School)

Get to know Nordaas: 

  • Was named to the Pac-12 All-Academic Second Team in 2018. 
  • Won the 2015 Amateur British Open Girls Championship in Scotland in 2015.
  • Hometown is the capital and most populated city in Norway. 

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