‘Ice in their veins’, Maria Jose Marin enters Arkansas’ exclusive NCAA club

Carlsbad, California – “Welcome to the club.”

These were congratulations from LPGA and Arkansas Legend Stacy Lewis to the current destroyers of Sophomore Maria Jose Marin, which was surpassed the field of star in Omni La Costa to become the third individual for the Lewis and Maria Fassi.

When Lewis won in his national title in 2007. year, Marin was still a newborn. Twelve years later, Fassi triumphed in front of the domestic golf club in Fayetteville, Arkansas, as he inspired California – near California – not a teenage Marin, also inspired by the swimmer and ballet dancer. Maybe she would be like Fassi one day.

A few years later, when Marin opened his recruitment, her first call was from the main trainer Arkansas Shauna Estes-Taylor. Unknown with the process, Marin and her family initially thought it was pliable. Estes-Taylor finished the conversation, with the memory of Marina, “Please remember that I first called.”

What Estes-Taylor saw then was a high-character girl with a personality and a smile that crossed the 5-feet marine frame. She didn’t have the power of Fassi, but she’s more than she invented her average length with precision and persistence.

“She also had ice in her veins,” Estes-Taylor added.

He still works.

Marin began on Monday, with a male advantage compared to Stanford’s Paul Martin Sampedro, a colleague on top, whose cardinal he recorded on Sunday night in 122 holes in the lowest small small tag since 19 in 2013. Years. The rest of the candidates read as who is who is that of the women’s college golf – state teammates in Florida Mirabel Ting and Lottie Woade, the upper two amateur in the world, respectively; USC’s Catherine Park; Stanford’s Kelly Xu; All all Americans starve to loaving Marin, a gifted Lofty-attacker with habal samples on irons that would make any player with jealousy.

Arkansas Sophomore, who inserted under a couple in each of his first seven rounds in her career in La Costa, did his best to block the opposition. But even marine ice veins, which he says she inherited from her father Jose, was released into the fire on this last day.

“It was nervous, I won’t lie,” Marin said. “It was hard not to look at the leaders. I played really good golf, but this was big, big work. I was trying to believe in every shot, so I knew he would get a good score.”

Marin birded a 15-foot opening hole and would never give up his solo advantage. She headed, but once, she missed a short story in 13, and instead decided to leave expensive mistakes.

Sampedro threw only one bird.

Read double Bogee in a couple-4 seventh after birds, four of five previous holes.

Xu also had double killing, on a couple-3 16th, after getting 10 below earlier on their back nine.

The park closed Boga moments.

Ting had two Bogea on her front, but probably the winner of the Annicka Award, who won five times this season and played next to Marina and Park Monday, turned into the greatest threat of marinas on their backs nine. Five holes burst, including a PAR-5 18, to shoot 4-below 68 and finish at 10 below. After Estes-Taylor finally told the marina where she stood in the middle of 18. Ferway, Marin also closed the bird, her polishing of 15-foreten, and the eighth straight-even-steam, and 12-under the winning result.

“I knew I was capable of a big round, and it was,” Marin said.

Arkansas, meanwhile, were six as a team and would face northwest on Tuesday morning, a quarterfinals, one of four, including Stanford Virginia, Oregon-Texas and Florida State-USC. Marin will face Hsina Tai Lin in anchorage, in line where Estes-Taylor wanted his leader, and physically and emotionally. It was probably the deepest team Estes-Taylor ever, but still keeps them superstars.

At the very beginning, starting as a freshman, Marin won then – no. 1 Amateur Julia Lopez Ramirez Three shots for Arkansas’ claims in blessings. She finished her freshman campaign with a couple of runners, plus top-10s on regions and citizens. It seemed ready to break out on the last summer in the American female amateur amateur, although his left knee was injured to seize the semifinal match.

Fortunately, there was no structural damage, only swelling, armed with a new grateful recovery, showed the small effects of the back in the beginning of the beach and another victory in Mashurt, this time with six above Lopez Ramirez. Of course, Marin re-set out of the top 30 at the SEC championship, but was also recognized as a player of the section in the year.

“He works so hard, and she deserves,” Estes-Taylor said. “She put in work, and I’m really happy for her. I know she had a little detained in the middle of our spring, but she continued to reduce her and work in a position today.

“If he has leadership, she’s a heavy to persecute.”

Marin proved on Monday at the highest stage of the NCAA and against his largest stars – and as a result her name is forever equal in history, next to Lewis and Fass. Although it is very likely, the two did not celebrate with this victory of your choice: the chocolate-chip cookies at the top is vanilla ice cream, caramel and potato chips.

If only that 12-year-old Marin could see himself now.