STEPHENVILLE, Texas — Tarleton State Women's Golf fresh off their back-to-back WAC Championship were selected to Waco for the Waco Regional on May 11-13 at the Ridgewood Country Club, the NCAA announced on Wednesday afternoon on the Golf Channel.
 
Tarleton State Women's Golf is heading back to an NCAA Regional for the second-consecutive season in just their second season eligible for NCAA postseason play. Last year, the Texans earned a bid to the Lubbock Regional where they placed 11^th overall. This year, the Purple and White are once again the 11^th seed and will be competing in a field also including: top seeded Texas A&M, 2-seed Oregon, 3-seed Tennessee, 4-seed SMU, 5-seed Baylor, 6-seed LSU, 7-seed TCU, 8-seed Tulsa, 9-seed Colorado, 10-seed Northern Arizona and 12-seed Prairie View A&M.
 
There are six regional sites each featuring 12 teams and six individuals, with 396 participants total. All six regionals are set to begin on May 11 and end on May 13, pending weather. The top five teams and the low individual not on an advancing team from each regional site will advance to compete in the NCAA Women's Golf National Championships.  The 30 qualifying teams and six individuals will advance to play on May 22-27 at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California.
 
Tarleton State pulled off an improbable comeback to win back-to-back WAC Championships last week after ending the first round in fourth place. The Texans improved by 17 strokes in their second round to tie Abilene Christian for first heading into the final day. After the first nine holes, the Texans led by two and saw their lead increase in the back nine to 11 to claim the back-to-back title.
 
The Texans became the sixth program to earn back-to-back WAC women's golf titles in consecutive seasons. The Texans joins BYU (1991-92),  New Mexico (1993-96), Tulsa 1999-2005, San Jose State (2009-12) and New Mexico State (2014-17 and 19, 21-22). Tarleton State is now one of six programs to win multiple team titles. The Texans are the only current WAC school with multiple team championships as well as the only current WAC school to have earned a team victory.
 
Louise Depadt claimed back-to-back titles as the individual WAC Champion as well. Depadt led the Texans after the first day shooting a 74, two-over par to tie for fifth. After making just two birdies on the first day, she poured in four birdies in round two, carding a one-under par 71 to be tied for second trailing the leader by just a stroke heading into the final round. In Wednesday's final round she notched three birdies evened out by three bogeys to shot even par. She birdied one and bogeyed just one in the front nine to retake the lead early on in the day and never gave it up.
 
Depadt is the fifth golfer in the WAC to win back-to-back individual titles and the first since Idaho's Kayla Mortellaro in 2011 and 2012. With Depadt's second title, it makes the Purple and White the ninth program with multiple individual championship titles. Tarleton State is the only current WAC program with multiple individual championships and one of four current institutions with at least one individual championship.
 
Tarleton State Women's Golf has returned to prominence following a dominant run at the NCAA Division II level. Across an 11-year span toward the end of the D2 days, the Texans qualified for the NCAA Regional Tournament 10 times and won 11 Lone Star Conference Championships while members of the LSC. Tarleton State Women's Golf has won its first conference championship since 2018, the last time they had the full team play in the NCAA Regional Tournament.
 
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