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Photos Courtesy LBSU Assistant Media Relations Director Cameron Fujimoto<\/em><\/p>\n On Monday, April 27, Long Beach State University (LBSU) Junior Kassidy Teare and her loved ones were huddled around a television at a viewing party, their eyes glued to the screen.<\/p>\n Golf Channel presenters Lisa Cornwell and Steve Burkowski stood side-by-side, listing the names of the individual regional qualifiers for the NCAA Division 1 Women\u2019s Golf Tournament at the St. George, Utah site.<\/p>\n On cue, Kassidy\u2019s name materialized onscreen as one of six individuals to qualify to the competition. Excitement and cheers buzzed throughout the room.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was fun to hear my name out loud,\u201d Teare said. \u201cIt was very formal with the regular golf announcers […] very exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n With her qualification, Teare is the first female golfer from LBSU to qualify as an individual to the NCAA Regional Tournament since Kay Hoey in 2005 and 2007, according to LBSU Assistant Media Relations Director Cameron Fujimoto.<\/p>\n She is scheduled to play this Thursday through Saturday at Entrada at the Snow Canyon Country Club in St. George, one of four NCAA Regional sites throughout the country.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a credit to her amount of hard work in the face of adversity,\u201d LBSU Head Women\u2019s Golf Coach Joey Cerulle said. \u201cIt\u2019s a testament to who she is as a person.\u201d<\/p>\n In fact, Teare almost didn\u2019t see the light of competition this spring.<\/p>\n After two years of painful tendonitis, Teare decided to undergo surgery last winter. Before the surgery, \u201cnothing seemed to help,\u201d Teare said. \u201cIt got to the point where I was nearing a wall.\u201d<\/p>\n Within a few weeks of her surgery, she was back on the golf course supporting her teammates.<\/p>\n \u201cI was supposed to take a year off,\u201d Teare said. But she returned to help the team — a speedy recovery that is \u201calmost unheard of,\u201d she said, all because she \u201ccouldn\u2019t bear the thought of not helping\u201d her teammates. <\/p>\n Her support turned into a stellar season with signs of golf stardom, Cerulle said.<\/p>\n \u201cTo have the spring that she had is a glimpse of what\u2019s to come when she\u2019s 100 percent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Cerulle also noted that Teare has plans on going professional after she graduates next year.<\/p>\n Looking ahead, she attended two public Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) events last summer, preparing herself for a life in the sport beyond college.<\/p>\n Her ambitions make performing this week on the national stage all the more relevant. However, Teare says that evaluating her self-talk during competitions and visualizing her game keeps her calm.<\/p>\n \u201cI won\u2019t deny being nervous, but I\u2019m much more excited than nervous,\u201d Teare said. Her goal this year was simply to make the post-season, she said, but now her ultimate goals is making nationals.<\/p>\n \u201cOnce you reach a goal, its funny how you have to re-set,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Her constant goal-setting has not gone unnoticed by her coach and team. Cerulle said she\u2019s come \u201cfull circle\u201d since her freshman year, after journaling her experiences and evaluating how she can approach competitions differently.<\/p>\n \u201cI keep a little book in my bag,\u201d Teare said, where she writes step-by-step instructions for herself. \u201cIf I can focus on one thing, I can accomplish it.\u201d She said she works \u201c90 percent\u201d on her mental game with her college coach and her coach from her high school years in San Diego.<\/p>\n Teare began golfing because of her family; they all played on the weekends growing up. But Teare never took the sport seriously until she was in middle school, she said.<\/p>\n \u201cI started hitting the ball hard and realized I could actually go far,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Long Beach State was the first school to approach her with a scholarship in high school. After applying exclusively to universities outside of the state with weather that would allow her to play year-round, Teare was impressed. She calls the LBSU team the \u201cfunnest\u201d around.<\/p>\n Cerulle said Kassidy \u201cstayed very humble and mature\u201d throughout the season and amid her qualifying news. The focus was always on the team, but now that she\u2019s qualified to the post-season, her mindset is zeroed in on performing her best, hopefully with a trip to the NCAA Division 1 National Championships. Nationals are scheduled to take place May 22-27 in Bradenton, FL.<\/p>\n Cerulle has full faith in her abilities.<\/p>\n \u201c[Kassidy\u2019s] never taking a step back; she\u2019s always taking a step forward,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Teare is prepared to get into her mental zone. <\/p>\n \u201cMy biggest goal for the tournament is to truly play my game,\u201d Teare said. Well, that, and making her team proud.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s very clear I wouldn\u2019t be here without my team,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n The Women’s NCAA Division 1 Regional Golf Tournament Can be Watched May 7 through May 9 on the Golf Channel. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Teare, the first female golfer from LBSU to qualify as an individual to the NCAA Regional Tournament since Kay Hoey in 2005 and 2007, is scheduled to play this Thursday through Saturday at Entrada at the Snow Canyon Country Club in St. George, one of four NCAA Regional sites throughout the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":16572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[56],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-csulb","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"IMG](\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_9058.JPG\")
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