The No. 3 WashU women’s golf finished its fall season at the biggest tournament of the fall, the 2024 Golfweek October Classic in Destin, Fla. on Oct. 13-15. The 24-team tournament featured a field with many of the top teams in the nation, including University Athletic Association (UAA) rivals No. 1 Emory University and No. 2 Carnegie Mellon University.
“We’re all hungry to redeem ourselves after last year having not been at nationals. We’re going to show up this year and compete against the best teams and show that we deserve to be here.”
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.
Entering the final day of the Golfweek October Classic on Oct. 15-17, junior Sydney Kuo stared down a four stroke gap between her and the leader. Kuo would quickly close that gap, shooting a tournament-low score of 67 (five under par) and placing first by three strokes.
The Washington University women’s golf team finished second at the 2023 NCAA Division III Championships, putting a team score of 938 behind George Fox University who won the title with score of 933. The finish was the highest in program history for the Bears.
Sydney Kuo, a sophomore golf player, is riding off of a stellar start to the season with a win at the Montgomery Women’s Intercollegiate.
The Bears are currently ranked eleventh in the nation and hope to be awarded a place to compete in the NCAA National Championship.
Swanson has accepted a position as the program director at First Tee, a golf nonprofit in the St. Louis area, and the athletic department is looking for an interim coach to fill her position ahead of the team’s first tournament on Sept. 4.
Since the Bears only played with three golfers, they did not finish with a team ranking in the competition.
Many Bears teams have found their stride as the weather starts to warm.
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