Washington University women’s golf’s junior Sydney Kuo won the WashU Spring Invite by two strokes with a score of 145 (one stroke over par) across two rounds on April 6 and 7. Led by Kuo, the No. 11 Washington University women’s golf team finished second, recording a score of 610 (34 strokes over par) on the par 72 course.

WashU athletics had a strong first week of April, highlighted by a road conference sweep by softball. Baseball won a key non-conference game on a walk-off homer, and the golf, track and field, and tennis teams all put up strong performances.

From football to soccer and cross country, athletes and coaches have never been more excited to step back onto the field and compete with some modicum of normalcy.

For the second consecutive year, the No. 3 Washington University women’s golf team took home the title at the Illinois Wesleyan University Spring Fling while senior Olivia Lugar sealed the individual championship this past weekend in Normal, Ill.

After losing by just one stroke last season, the Washington University women’s golf team couldn’t come as close this year at the WUSTL Spring Invite, but the Bears still recorded a second-place finish on Saturday and Sunday in Madison, Ill.

The third annual WUSTL Spring Invitational came down to one stroke, and the No. 1 Washington University women’s golf team was on the wrong end of the final standings. Despite the narrow loss to NAIA No. 6 William Woods University, which has now won every rendition of the tournament, the Bears chose to dwell on the positives.

Basketball stars Kevin Love, Damian Lillard and LaMarcus Aldridge and Washington University sophomore Connie Zhou all either were raised in or currently reside in Lake Oswego, Ore., a suburb of Portland. All were also featured in this past week’s issue of Sports Illustrated magazine, the NBA preview issue. Zhou is not an NBA player, but a golfer.

national champion and first-ranked Mary Hardin-Baylor University rounded out the top five at 938. The second-round 294 was a tournament low and the second-lowest score in team history, three strokes shy of the 291 fired at the Millikin University Fall Classic on Sept. 24, 2011. The top four Bears had 12 birdies combined in the second round.

After having difficulty with cold and rainy conditions on the first day, the No. 3 Washington University women’s golf team placed fourth at the O’Brien National Invitational in South Bend, Ind., this past Sunday and Monday. The Bears shot an overall two-day score of 652, finishing 26 strokes behind tournament champion and No.

Both a change in weather and grass await the freshman recruiting class for the Washington University women’s golf team now that each of the three players has journeyed from California to St. Louis. Jessica Wibawa from Encino, Calif., Xin Fang from Menlo Park, Calif., and Samantha Han from San Jose, Calif.