COMPETITION: Mount St. Mary's at Princeton Invitational
WHEN: Sat-Sun, Sept. 24-25, 2011 (Sat – 36 holes 8 a.m.; Sun – 8 a.m.)
WHERE: Springdale Golf Club, Princeton, N.J.
MOUNT PARTICIPANTS: Nicole Fazio, Abbey Fry, Kelsey Hayward, Jennifer Kim, Sarah Roe
COMPETING TEAMS: Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Lehigh, Mount St. Mary's, Penn, Princeton, Rollins, Rutgers, Siena, Seton Hall
2010 Team Champion: Yale (302-292-302=896)
2010 Individual Champion: See Hee Moon (74-68-71=213)
opening tee... The Mount St. Mary's women's golf team will make its first appearance in the Princeton Invitational on Saturday and Sunday. Teams will play two rounds on Saturday and one round on Sunday in the 15th annual women's golf fall event for the Tigers.
last time out… Sarah Roe won the Gettysburg Invitational for the second-straight year on Monday at the Bridges Golf Course. Roe won the event by shooting a 79 on the day to beat out teammate Nicole Fazio by six strokes for medalist honors. The senior won the event last year after shooting a 76 at the event when it was played at the Quail Valley Golf Course on Sept. 20, 2010. Fazio finished second in the event after shooting an 85 in the round. Kelsey Hayward finished third after ending one stroke behind Fazio with an 86. Jen Kim (7th place, 90), Abbey Fry (8th place, 101) and Sara Fuss (9th place, 104) rounded out the Mount's competitors. Fuss made her collegiate debut in the event as an individual.
next on the green... The Mountaineers travel to the ECAC Championships on Oct. 2-3 in Egg Harbor Township, N.J.
double your pleasure… Senior Sarah Roe won the Gettysburg Invitational for the second-straight season on Sept. 19. The senior took the honor last season by carding a round of 76 at Quail Valley. This year at the event, Roe posted a 79 to earn the medalist honors for the second time.
making their marks… Seniors Christina Hall and Sarah Roe have etched their names into the Mount record book. Sarah Roe holds the third-best single-round in program history after shooting a 76 at the Gettysburg Invitational last year to win the event. Roe also shot a 78 in her career to rank eighth on the chart. Hall has posted five marks on the single-round Top-10 including a 76 at the Mount St. Mary's Fall Classic in 2008. Hall also has three of the squad's Top-10 for two round scores and has the top mark for career average at the Mount (86.7) while Roe is in third place (87.2).
moving on up… As a team, the Mount women's golf team continued to make improvements in the last four years. During that stretch, the squad has posted all 10 of its Top-10 single rounds and nine of the 10 for two-round standards in program history. Last year, the squad averaged a program record 341.1 strokes per round.
new to the mountain... Joining first-year head coach Kevin Farrell in 2011-12 are freshmen Sarah Fuss, Kelsey Hayward and Jen Kim for their first year in Emmitsburg. Hayward and Kim will be making their collegiate debut at the Towson Invitational.
about the coach... Kevin Farrell begins his first season as the women's golf head coach in 2011-12 and will enter his third season at the helm of the men's golf team. Farrell was a standout golfer on the Mountaineers men's golf team from 2004-08. He finished in the Top-10 at the NEC Championships in both his junior and senior seasons to earn spots on the All-NEC team. Farrell is one of five players in team history to earn finish in the Top-10 at the NEC Championships twice in his career and his three-round score of 220 at the 2008 NEC Championships is still the record for three rounds at the NEC Championships.
