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4/12/2018 8:42:00 PM | Women's Golf
HARRISONBURG, Va. - The James Madison women's golf team will travel to the 2018 Colonial Athletic Association Women's Golf Championship this weekend, teeing off against its fellow league members this weekend, Friday-Sunday, April 13-15.
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The tournament, in which the Dukes are seeded fifth, will close out the regular season prior to possible NCAA Regionals, scheduled at four sites on May 7-9, and NCAA Championships, set to be held on May 18-23 at Karsten Creek Golf Club in Stillwater, Okla.
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Three seniors have led the Dukes during the 2017-18 campaign: Gabrielle Weiss, Maddisen Cox and Laura Gomez-Ruiz.
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Gabrielle Weiss
Weiss has been a four-year contributor and leader for the Dukes, playing 89 rounds across her career at JMU. She has tallied one top-10, one top-20 and four top-30 finishes as Duke, taking home CAA Player of the Week honors as a sophomore with a fourth-place finish at the UNCG Forest Oaks Classic. As a senior, she has played in all but one of JMU's 10 regular-season tournaments, highlighted by a pair of 1-over 73s at the Lady Paladin Invitational and Pinehurst Challenge this past fall.
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Maddisen Cox
Cox joined the Dukes for the 2015-16 campaign as a transfer and made an immediate impact, leading JMU in stroke average in each of her first two seasons in Harrisonburg. Following her junior campaign, in which she posted a 75.21 scoring average, she was named First Team All-CAA--the Dukes' first such honor since 2014--and a WGCA All-American Scholar after garnering Dean's List accolades in both her fall and spring semesters, two of five such awards in her collegiate career.
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After racking up three top-five finishes and seven top-10s in her initial two years, she matched her highest career finish this fall as a senior, tying for third at the Idle Hour Collegiate Invitational on her way to the second CAA Player of the Week honors of her career, and missed her career low by one stroke, carding a 3-under 69 in the opening round of the Pinehurst Challenge in October.
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Laura Gomez-Ruiz
Gomez-Ruiz will depart JMU with a bevy of accolades to her name, having already captured two Second Team All-CAA nods and two Second Team VaSID All-State honors prior to her senior season. Coming down the stretch of her senior campaign, Gomez-Ruiz has led the Dukes in scoring in two of her four seasons, including a 74.45 average this season that is on pace to break the program record for single-season average.
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Having already racked up seven top-five finishes in her career, Gomez-Ruiz heads to the 2018 CAA Championships looking to improve on last year's stellar performance, which saw her take home fourth place with a 76-75-72 (+7) weekend in Williamsburg, Va.
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The Dukes will open the CAA Championships with the first of three rounds on Friday, April 13, going off the first tee alongside Towson and William & Mary at 9:20 a.m. GolfStat.com will provide live results throughout the tournament.
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The tournament, in which the Dukes are seeded fifth, will close out the regular season prior to possible NCAA Regionals, scheduled at four sites on May 7-9, and NCAA Championships, set to be held on May 18-23 at Karsten Creek Golf Club in Stillwater, Okla.
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Three seniors have led the Dukes during the 2017-18 campaign: Gabrielle Weiss, Maddisen Cox and Laura Gomez-Ruiz.
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Gabrielle Weiss
Weiss has been a four-year contributor and leader for the Dukes, playing 89 rounds across her career at JMU. She has tallied one top-10, one top-20 and four top-30 finishes as Duke, taking home CAA Player of the Week honors as a sophomore with a fourth-place finish at the UNCG Forest Oaks Classic. As a senior, she has played in all but one of JMU's 10 regular-season tournaments, highlighted by a pair of 1-over 73s at the Lady Paladin Invitational and Pinehurst Challenge this past fall.
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Maddisen Cox
Cox joined the Dukes for the 2015-16 campaign as a transfer and made an immediate impact, leading JMU in stroke average in each of her first two seasons in Harrisonburg. Following her junior campaign, in which she posted a 75.21 scoring average, she was named First Team All-CAA--the Dukes' first such honor since 2014--and a WGCA All-American Scholar after garnering Dean's List accolades in both her fall and spring semesters, two of five such awards in her collegiate career.
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After racking up three top-five finishes and seven top-10s in her initial two years, she matched her highest career finish this fall as a senior, tying for third at the Idle Hour Collegiate Invitational on her way to the second CAA Player of the Week honors of her career, and missed her career low by one stroke, carding a 3-under 69 in the opening round of the Pinehurst Challenge in October.
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Laura Gomez-Ruiz
Gomez-Ruiz will depart JMU with a bevy of accolades to her name, having already captured two Second Team All-CAA nods and two Second Team VaSID All-State honors prior to her senior season. Coming down the stretch of her senior campaign, Gomez-Ruiz has led the Dukes in scoring in two of her four seasons, including a 74.45 average this season that is on pace to break the program record for single-season average.
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Having already racked up seven top-five finishes in her career, Gomez-Ruiz heads to the 2018 CAA Championships looking to improve on last year's stellar performance, which saw her take home fourth place with a 76-75-72 (+7) weekend in Williamsburg, Va.
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The Dukes will open the CAA Championships with the first of three rounds on Friday, April 13, going off the first tee alongside Towson and William & Mary at 9:20 a.m. GolfStat.com will provide live results throughout the tournament.
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