TAMPA, Fla (May 16, 2025) – The South Florida women's golf team has signed Regina Plascencia, a transfer from Georgia Southern University. Plascencia will join the Bulls as a senior this fall, after a successful three seasons with Georgia Southern.
 
Regina Plascencia was named to the 2023-24 Second Team All Sun Belt in her sophomore season. During her career at Georgia Southern, Plascencia has posted one top-five finish, three top-10 finishes and nine top-20 finishes. Her best finish was at the 2024 Spartan Suncoast Invitational where she tied for fourth. She also set her career low-round (70) and her low 54-hole total, 215 (-1).
 
Over her last two seasons with the Eagles, the junior from Mexico has a scoring average of 74.38 over 40 rounds.
 
The Bulls are eager to Regina Plascencia to their lineup this upcoming fall.
 
ABOUT USF WOMEN'S GOLF
Tampa native AJ Newell, a former LPGA Tour Player and NCAA All-American, was named head coach of USF women's golf by Vice President for Athletics Michael Kelly on June 3, 2024.
 
Newell will look over leadership of the Bulls' program following a successful three-year stint as assistant coach at the University of Michigan, where she helped lead the Wolverines to three-straight NCAA Regional appearances, a 2022 Big Ten title, and the 2022 NCAA Championship Finals.
 
 In the record-setting 2023-24 campaign, the Bulls won three times and finished in the top four in nine of 10 events. The three wins are the most in a season since four 2011-12. USF finished third in the American Athletic Conference Championship, which equals the best finish in the tournament in program history. In 2022-23 and 2023-24, the Bulls played in back-to-back NCAA Regionals for the first time since 2001-02. Senior standout Melanie Green, the AAC Conference Player of the Year in 2023-24, an all-conference performer in each of her four seasons, was named to the WGCA 2023-24 Division I All-American second team. Green qualified for the 2022 NCAA Regional as an individual and was named a 2023 All-American Honorable Mention. Green and the Bulls reached the NCAA Regional as a team in 2023, marking the program's first postseason appearance in 11 years. Follow @USFWGolf on Twitter for the latest information concerning the program.
 
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