And Ott and Staiano weren’t the only Coloradans to notch top-five individual finishes Sunday in conference championships. Hannah Wood of Centennial, a senior at the University of Oklahoma, placed fourth in the Women’s Big 12 Championship in Dallas.

CSU, which is expected to land an at-large berth into the NCAA Regionals, finished second to UNLV out of 11 teams in the MWC tournament, with the Rebels prevailing by 11 strokes. The Rams posted a 3-over-par 867 total.

CSU was the only team in the field to put three players in the top 10. Ott, Staiano and Oelfke tied at 1-under-par 215, 15 strokes behind individual champion Shintaro Ban of UNLV. Ott went 66-75-74, Staiano 71-72-72 and Oelfke 76-68-71. It was the second top-five individual finish this season for each of those three Rams.

Meanwhile, in her final Big 12 tournament, Wood shared fourth place. The Coloradan went 73-75-71 for a 3-over-par 219 total, which left her six strokes behind individual winner Celia Barquin Arozamena of Iowa State.

It was Wood’s fourth top-six individual showing of the season and tied for her season best showing.

In Short: In the Women’s ACC Championship, Coloradan Jennifer Kupcho shares fourth place individually heading into Monday’s final round in Greensboro, N.C. Kupcho, a Wake Forest junior named to the U.S. Curtis Cup team this past week, has shot rounds of 72-70 and stands at 2-under-par 142, five strokes back of leader Leona Maguire of Duke. … If the University of Denver women want to win their 15th consecutive conference title, they’ll have to rally to do it. The Pioneers trail North Dakota State by 10 strokes after Sunday’s first round of the 54-hole Summit League tournament in Nebraska City. DU’s Sophie Newlove shares the first-round lead at 1-under-par 71. … The University of Colorado women are tied for third place after round 1 of the Pac-12 tournament in Seattle. The Buffs trail leader UCLA by four strokes. … Colin Prater of Colorado-Colorado Springs, the 2016 CGA Amateur champion, opened with a bogey-free 8-under-par 63 and leads by three after the opening round of the Men’s Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference tournament in Chandler, Ariz.

Men’s Mountain West Conference Championship
April 20-22, 2018 (final) in Bremerton, Wash.
2. Colorado State 284-293-290–867
5. AJ Ott 66-75-74–215
5. Jake Staiano 71-72-72–215
5. Max Oelfke 76-68-71–215
27. Jack Ainscough 74-78-73–225
41. Parathakorn Suyasri 73-82-74–229

10. Air Force Academy 305-303-309–917
37. Anson Kuznik 76-75-77–228
43. Andy Germann 76-77-78–231
47. Bryant Falconello 74-81-78–233
47. Tate Tatom 82-75-76–233
52. Joshua Wu 79-76-81–236

Also
17. Coloradan Glenn Workman, Wyoming 73-69-78–220
27. Coloradan Tristan Rohrbaugh, Boise State 72-74-79–225

Women’s Big Sky Championship
April 20-22, 2018 (final) in Boulder City, Nev.
9. (out of 12 teams) Northern Colorado 315-305-307–927
12. Nicole Polivchak 76-71-76–223
31. Beah Cruz 80-74-77–231
42. Morgan Sahm 80-80-78–238
44. Marisa Hisaki 83-80-76–239
53. Aili Bundy 79-83-82–244

Also
29. Coloradan Kiselya Plewe, Weber State 76-76-77–229
31. Coloradan Delaney Elliott, Montana State 78-76-77–231
36. Coloradan Jaylee Tait, Montana State 84-76-74–234

Women’s Pac-12 Championship
April 22-24, 2018 in Seattle
3. (out of 11 teams; four strokes behind leader) Colorado 291
7. Brittany Fan 70
9. Robyn Choi 71
27. Kirsty Hodgkins 75
27. Alisha Lau 75
52. Gillian Vance 82

Women’s Summit League Championship
April 22-24 in Nebraska City
2. (out of 8 teams; 10 strokes behind leader) Denver 301
T1. Sophie Newlove 71
10. Lauren Whyte 75
12. Jessica Dreesbeimdieke 77
16. Camille Enright 78
18. Mary Weinstein 79

Men’s RMAC Championship
April 22-24, 2018 in Chandler, Ariz.
TEAM STANDINGS
1. Regis 272
T2. Colorado School of Mines 276
T2. Colorado State-Pueblo 276
4. Colorado-Colorado Springs 281
5. Colorado Christian 292
6. Colorado Mesa 293
7. Fort Lewis 294
8. South Dakota School of Mines 320

TOP 5 INDIVIDUALS
1. Colin Prater, UCCS 63
2. Nic Beno, CO School of Mines 66
T3. Neil Tillman, CSU-Pueblo 67
T3. George Markham, CO School of Mines 67
T3. Nicholas Tenuta, Regis 67
T3. Fraser Hughes, CSU-Pueblo 67

Women’s RMAC Championship
April 22-24, 2018 in Chandler, Ariz.
TEAM STANDINGS
1. Colorado-Colorado Springs 293
2. Colorado State-Pueblo 305
3. Colorado Mesa 307
4. Regis 315
5. Metro State 323
6. Fort Lewis 327
7. Colorado Christian 339
8. Black Hills State 351
9. Adams State 353
10. South Dakota School of Mines 364
11. Chadron Statte 394

TOP 5 INDIVIDUALS
1. Karen Valcarce, Westminster College (Utah) 71
2. Julia Baroth, Colorado-Colorado Springs 72
T3. Courtney Ewing, CSU-Pueblo 73
T3. Alex Darwin, Colorado-Colorado Springs 73
T3. Ashlyn Kirschner, Colorado Mesa 73
T3. Timbrelee McNair, Colorado-Colorado Springs 73

That was apparent again on Sunday when the University of Oklahoma senior finished fifth individually out of 87 players at the 2018 Clover Cup in Mesa, Ariz. Wood (pictured in a University of Oklahoma photo) also helped OU claim its second team title of the season and fourth consecutive top-two finish.

Wood, the 2014 CWGA Stroke Play champion, carded rounds of 73-71-73 for a 1-over-par 217 total, which left her six strokes behind teammate Julienne Soo, who earned the individual title.

Sunday’s showing was Wood’s third top-six individual finish this season and the 12th top-10 of her college career. She has just a few college tournaments remaining in her career — the Clemson Invitational, Big 12 Championship and the NCAA Regionals and possibly the NCAA Finals.
    

The Big 12 announced on Wednesday that Wood and Texas’ Sophie Schubert shared the conference’s Women’s Golf of the Month honor for November.

Wood, who qualified for the U.S. Women’s Open last year, earned the award thanks to finishing a season-best fourth place individually in early November at the Battle at the Beach in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

The University of Oklahoma senior, who won the CWGA Stroke Play in 2014, posted a three-round total of 4-under-par 209, helping the Sooners place second in the team standings, three shots behind winner UCLA.

The showing by Wood (pictured in a Big 12/OU graphic) was her second individual top-10 of the fall schedule as she placed sixth in the Schooner Fall Classic in September.

Wood was one of two Coloradans to finish in the top five at the Battle at the Beach as Jennifer Kupcho of Westminster was the individual runner-up at 7-under 206. Kupcho was recognized as the ACC’s co-Women’s Golfer of the Month for October.
 

Amateur Hannah Wood of Highlands Ranch, the 2014 CWGA Stroke Play champion, earned one of two spots into the Women’s Open that were at stake at a 36-hole qualifier at Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas.

Wood, who just completed her sophomore season at the University of Oklahoma, shot rounds of 74-69 for a 1-over-par 143 total, which left her a stroke behind medalist Su-Hyun Oh. Wood then won a three-person playoff with fellow amateurs Kristen Gillman of Austin, Texas, and Chih-Min Chen of Stillwater, Okla.

Wood, who’s No. 113 in the Women’s World Amateur Golf Rankings, made six birdies on Monday, including five in the second round. She played her final 11 holes of regulation in 4 under par.

“Today I qualified for the Women’s U.S. Open. It has always been a life goal of mine to qualify for this tournament, and today was something very special,” Wood wrote on Twitter.

The U.S. Women’s Open will be played July 7-10 at CordeValle in San Martin, Calif. It will be the first Women’s Open for Wood.

Also on Monday, Kupcho qualified for the Women’s Open by earning medalist honors in a qualifying tournament in Westminster. To read about that, CLICK HERE.

But since she wrapped up her high school career in May 2014, suffice it to say Wood has been on a nice long run of success. She won the 2014 CWGA Stroke Play championship, claimed an individual title at a college tournament a year ago, led the University of Oklahoma in scoring average as a freshman and made the All-Big 12 Conference team, and advanced to match play at the U.S. Women’s Amateur last summer.

Looking back on it now, that victory in the CWGA Stroke Play two years ago seems to have provided just the spark Wood needed. And she apparently sensed it at the time.

“I wanted to do something big,” Wood said after that victory. “I wanted to do something for myself to build some confidence going into college. Now I feel prepared.”

And nowadays, 20 months later, Wood is becoming one of the better women’s college golfers in the nation. As of this week, the OU sophomore stands 10th in the NCAA women’s Division I ranks in season-long scoring average, with a 71.6 norm.

Moreover, she’s become a model of consistency. The former Hale Irwin Elite Player hasn’t yet finished outside the top 20 in a tournament this season, going 6-for-6. And on Sunday she posted her fifth top-11 showing of the season, placing seventh at the Clover Cup event she won in 2015.

In fact, since going to Oklahoma, the two-time CJGA Tournament of Champions winner has finished in the top 20 in 12 of her first 16 college tournaments.

This season, Wood has shot at or under par in 12 of her 17 tournament rounds. It’s little wonder why she’s a consensus top-50 women’s college golfer in the country, with Golfstat ranking her 24th and Golfweek 41st. In addition, she’s currently 70th in the women’s World Amateur Golf Rankings.

And, if she can continue her strong play over the next two months or so, she may very well take ownership of the best season-long stroke average in University of Oklahoma women’s golf history.

That record currently belongs to Jao-Javanil Chirapat, who posted a 72.26 norm in 2012-13. With somewhere between three and five tournaments remaining in the season, Wood is more than half of a stroke ahead of that pace.

And, mind you, Wood is less than halfway through her college career.