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When 蜜柚直播鈥檚 men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 2008 swimming teams won NCAA championships within a week of one another, Livengood didn鈥檛 bite when asked if he anticipated running out of display space.

鈥淭hat will be a good problem to have,鈥� he said. 鈥淚 look forward to it.鈥�

Progress on NCAA championships slowed considerably and the sun-beaten banners faded and lost their shine. The school that won 14 NCAA championships from 1991-2008 has since won but two: Andy Lopez鈥檚 College World Series baseball title of 2012 and Laura Ianello鈥檚 inspiring burst to the 2018 NCAA women鈥檚 golf championship.

None of the 21 banners are on display today; all were removed by crews building the $15 million Cole and Jeannie Davis Sports Center.

But by the time the construction crews tidy up and vacate the street adjacent to 蜜柚直播 Stadium, the UA women鈥檚 golf team will be well at work on No. 22.

Ianello鈥檚 team returns virtually intact and is ranked in every top 10 poll in women鈥檚 golf. The first of five tournaments leading to the Pac-12 Championships begins Sunday in Los Angeles and the Wildcats won鈥檛 be just another pretty face.

鈥淚 feel like a lot of eyes are on us,鈥� 蜜柚直播 senior Desiree Hong said Wednesday.

鈥淧eople notice the 鈥楢鈥� a little bit more now when they鈥檙e walking around golf tournaments,鈥� said assistant coach Justin Bubser.

It鈥檚 not that the Wildcats are new to the business of contending for golf championships. The school that produced LPGA legends Annika Sorenstam and Lorena Ochoa won NCAA titles in 1996 and 2000 and finished in the top 10 at the NCAA six times in the last nine years.

Women鈥檚 golf has surpassed softball as 蜜柚直播鈥檚 most successful sports program of the last decade.

Ianello all but smacks her lips at the prospect of opening the season among the game鈥檚 heavyweights. 鈥淥ur goal is to win it again,鈥� she said.

She says this fully aware that the degree of difficulty in NCAA women鈥檚 golf is unrelenting.

The current Annika Trophy watch list, the women鈥檚 golf equivalent of the Heisman Trophy, starts this way:

1. Patty Tavatanakit, UCLA

2. Albane Valenzuela, Stanford

3. Mariel Galdiano, UCLA

4. Andrea Lee, Stanford

蜜柚直播鈥檚 four leading players are considered LPGA Tour prospects, but its first name on the Annika list is sophomore Yu-Sang Hou, at No. 16.

Two of 蜜柚直播鈥檚 regulars 鈥� Hou and senior Haley Moore 鈥� were recently invited to the inaugural, 70-player Augusta Women鈥檚 Amateur. But the Pac-12 is so loaded that USC will have three players at Augusta: Alyaa Abdulghany, Jennifer Chang and Allison Corpuz.

鈥淲e鈥檙e ranked No. 9 in one poll 鈥� behind six teams from our conference,鈥� said Ianello.

To Ianello鈥檚 credit, she was able to keep 80 percent of her starting lineup intact after winning the NCAA championship. Gigi Stoll, who generally played in the No. 4 or No. 5 slot, chose to turn pro.

Moore, whose steely 5-foot putt won the NCAA championship, eschewed yet another chance to become a pro, saying 鈥渨hen I first stepped on campus I knew I wanted to stay here four years; I鈥檒l need to have your college education someday.鈥�

Senior Bianca Pagdanganan, whose 30-foot eagle putt saved 蜜柚直播 from elimination at the NCAA Tournament, played in an LPGA Tour event last summer and several international championships for her native Philippines, also chose to return for a final college season.

鈥淚 still think I have a lot more I can learn in my last semester of college,鈥� she said.

With that type of approach, the Wildcats aren鈥檛 likely to be awed by anybody, especially since they beat No. 1 UCLA, No. 2 Alabama and No. 4 Stanford in last year鈥檚 NCAA match-play finals.

How good can this team be?

蜜柚直播 won the Pac-12 Preview in November, a mini-NCAA Tournament in itself. Hou not only won that event impressively, shooting 6 under par, she was second in October鈥檚 prestigious East Lake Cup.

Junior Sandra Nordaas, whose clutch play was a key part of the NCAA victories in Oklahoma, was strong in the fall, finishing third overall in the Windy City Classic. She was the UA鈥檚 No. 2 finisher in the Pac-12 Preview.

No one kicked back and gathered dust.

Ianello spent an early January week in South Florida scouting junior tournaments for Class of 2019, 2020 and 2021 prospects. Moore played in the 2019 Australian Masters of the Amateur. Pagdanganan and Hou were contenders in the Hitachi Ladies Classic in Taiwan. When all returned to 蜜柚直播, the UA women鈥檚 golf team drove to Sabino Canyon and hiked 10 miles to Seven Falls and back.

A view from the top never gets old.