Monday, October 7
Medinah, IL
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Illini Women's Invitational at Medinah
Meghan Royal
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No. 5 Women’s Golf to Play at Illini Invitational
October 05, 2024 | Women's Golf
LOS ANGELES – The No. 5-ranked UCLA women's golf team begins competition at the Illini Women's Invitational at Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill. with 36 holes on Monday, Oct. 7.
Fans can follow the two-day, 54-hole stroke play event with this live scoring link.
This marks the Bruins' second tournament in the state of Illinois in as many weeks after tying for eighth at the Windy City Collegiate Classic on Tuesday, Oct. 1.
UCLA Lineup: Francesca Fiorellini, Meghan Royal, Caroline Canales, Zoe Antoinette Campos and Tiffany Le.
UCLA Individual Competitors: Natalie Vo.
*The Field (15): Illinois, Alabama, (6) Auburn, UCF, Georgia, Houston, Indiana, Louisiana-Monroe, Maryland, North Texas, (19) Ole Miss, (23) Pepperdine, Texas Tech, Tulsa and (5) UCLA.
* rankings from latest WGCA Coaches Poll
Weather Report: Sunny skies with temperature highs in the mid 60s to low 70s.
Par and Yardage: Par 72, 6,166 yards.
Last Time Out
UCLA finished T-8th (+35, 899) out of 15 teams at the Windy City Collegiate Classic at Westmoreland Country Club in Wilmette, Ill. earlier this week. Freshman Francesca Fiorellini, making her collegiate debut, led the Bruins' lineup with a t-13th (+5; 72-72-77) finish. The Italian recorded four birdies in her first round on Monday and shot a bogey-free back nine in her second round later that day.
2023-24 In Review
UCLA concluded one of the most dominant seasons in program history with its fifth-ever runner-up finish at the NCAA Championships under the direction of first-year head coach Alicia Um Holmes in 2023-24. Um Holmes won four team titles and secured the third-best scoring average (287.8) in program history in year one, earning her Golfweek Women's Coach of the Year.
UCLA was victorious in Um Holmes' second tournament as head coach at the Windy City Collegiate Classic where the Bruins ousted nine top-25 teams with a score of -32, 832 to tie the lowest 54-hole mark in program history. UCLA had a stretch of three consecutive wins to begin the spring at The Match in the Desert, the Nanea Pac-12 Preview and The Show. The four wins were the most for the program since the 2017-18 season.
The Bruins' memorable postseason run began by making the eight-team cut line for match play at the NCAA Championships hosted at Omni La Costa Resort in Carlsbad, Calif. UCLA toppled Texas A&M in the Quarterfinals, 3-0-2, and Oregon in the Semifinals, 3-1-1, before falling to top-seeded Stanford in the Finals, 3-2. The result marked the fifth runner-up finish in program history.
Six of Um Holmes' eight golfers recorded multiple top-10 individual finishes in 2023-24, led by consensus First Team All-American and ANNIKA Award Finalist Zoe Antoinette Campos and WGCA Honorable Mention All-American Caroline Canales. Campos was named to the All-Pac-12 First Team while three Bruins were recognized as Honorable Mention: Canales, Meghan Royal and Kate Villegas.
Um Holmes' offseason recruiting prowess led to much success in 2023-24. Three of the four transfers she signed to her first-year roster – Royal, Villegas and Natalie Vo – were in the starting lineup for UCLA's NCAA Championship run.
Preseason Recognition
Three UCLA women's golfers hauled in several preseason All-America accolades while the team was listed in all three major preseason polls. Zoe Antoinette Campos was a consensus Preseason First Team All-American according to both Golfweek and Golf Channel. Francesca Fiorellini was listed on the Second Team by Golfweek and Third Team by Golf Channel, and Caroline Canales was tabbed to Golf Channel's Third Team.
The Bruins start the 2024-25 season ranked No. 3 in the WGCA Preseason Coaches Poll and No. 4 in both Golfweek and Golf Channel's Preseason Top 25.
Bruins and the ANNIKA Award
For an eighth straight season, at least one UCLA women's golfer was listed to the Preseason/Fall ANNIKA Award Watch List. Zoe Antoinette Campos made her second appearance on the Watch List along with incoming freshman Francesca Fiorellini, it was announced by the organization in September.
Created in 2014, the ANNIKA Award is annually given to the top female U.S. collegiate golfer; the winner voted on by players, coaches and members of the college golf media. UCLA's Alison Lee (2013-15) was the first to take home the award in 2014 and Bronte Law (2013-16) earned the honor the next season in 2015.
Senior Leaders
The Bruins' lineup is led by seniors Zoe Antoinette Campos and Caroline Canales who, together, have started a combined 74 collegiate tournaments and played in 205 rounds. Campos and Canales own a wealth of postseason experience with each playing 12 rounds of stroke play (eight) and match play (four) at the NCAA Championships over their previous three years.
For the second straight season in 2023-24, Campos was a consensus First Team All-American (WGCA & Golfweek), an ANNIKA Award Top 10 Finalist and an All-Pac-12 First Team selection. She led UCLA with four wins, a 70.7 scoring average, nine top-10 finishes, 21 rounds under par, 10 rounds in the 60s and was the only Bruin to have all rounds count towards the team score. Campos' four medals are tied for the most in UCLA single-season history while her 21 rounds under par set a program record. Two of Campos' wins came at Spanish Trail Country Club in Las Vegas, Nev., the latter of which was at NCAA Regionals with a score of -6, 210. She is the seventh Bruins' golfer to medal at an NCAA Regional.
Canales received the first All-American recognition of her career last season, being named WGCA Honorable Mention. The Calabasas, Calif. native ranked second on the team with a 72.6 scoring average, four top 10s and 12 rounds under par. Canales concluded the year with an unblemished 3-0-0 record in the match play portion of the NCAA Championships. Canales' 7&5 victory against Oregon's Karen Tsuru in the Semifinals was the largest margin of victory by a UCLA golfer at the NCAA Championships.
Campos and Team USA
Zoe Antoinette Campos represented the Red, White and Blue in two major summer competitions. In the first of two events played in Europe, Campos helped Team USA to an Arnold Palmer Cup win for a second straight year at Lahinch Golf Club in Ireland in July, defeating Team International by a score of 32.5-27.5 Campos went 1-2-1 with a 1UP foursome victory in her matches.
One month later, Campos became the 11th Bruin to compete at the 43rd Curtis Cup at Sunningdale Golf Club in England where Team USA finished second to Team Great Britain & Ireland, 10.5-9.5. Campos went 1-2-1 in her matches with a 2&1 foursome victory with her partner Catherine Park (USC) on day two of the competition.
Summer Success
Senior Natalie Vo won the 58th California Women's Amateur at The Peninsula Golf and Country Club in San Mateo on July 27, earning her an automatic exemption at U.S. Women's Amateur. Vo defeated Amelia Garibaldi (Fresno State) in the championship match, 2&1, with the help of an excellent approach shot on the par-4 17th which fell two feet from the pin to set up the title-clinching putt. Vo's title marked the second straight year and the fourth time ever a Bruins' golfer won the California Women's Amateur. Previous winners include Kate Villegas (2023), Ty Akabane (2018), Cindy Scholefield (1986) and Mary Enright (1980).
Vo and Zoe Antoinette Campos made their second and fifth U.S. Women's Amateur appearances, respectively, at Southern Hills Country Club in Oklahoma in August. Campos placed third in the stroke play portion with scores of 72-68 (-2) before being ousted in the Round of 64 by Bailey Shoemaker (USC), 1UP.
The B1G Day is Here
UCLA officially joined the Big Ten Conference Aug. 2, ushering in a new era in the Bruins' storied and illustrious athletic tradition. UCLA, along with previous conference foes Oregon, USC and Washington, have moved to an 18-team Big Ten Conference with a footprint spanning from the Pacific to the Atlantic.
UCLA's approaching membership in the Big Ten Conference was initially announced more than two years ago, on June 30, 2022.
"The day has finally come," said Martin Jarmond, The Alice and Nahum Lainer Family Director of Athletics. "After two years of planning and preparation, UCLA is proud and excited to join the Big Ten Conference. I am grateful for the energy and effort that has been put into shaping this pivotal move by our hard-working staff members, as well as our coaches and student-athletes. The investments we have made into our programs and student-athletes over the past 24 months have set us up to continue to compete at the elite level that defines UCLA Athletics."
Three of the Big Ten's newest members, UCLA (three), USC (three) and Washington (one), have combined for all seven of the conference's NCAA Women's Golf Championships.
Fans can follow the two-day, 54-hole stroke play event with this live scoring link.
This marks the Bruins' second tournament in the state of Illinois in as many weeks after tying for eighth at the Windy City Collegiate Classic on Tuesday, Oct. 1.
UCLA Lineup: Francesca Fiorellini, Meghan Royal, Caroline Canales, Zoe Antoinette Campos and Tiffany Le.
UCLA Individual Competitors: Natalie Vo.
*The Field (15): Illinois, Alabama, (6) Auburn, UCF, Georgia, Houston, Indiana, Louisiana-Monroe, Maryland, North Texas, (19) Ole Miss, (23) Pepperdine, Texas Tech, Tulsa and (5) UCLA.
* rankings from latest WGCA Coaches Poll
Weather Report: Sunny skies with temperature highs in the mid 60s to low 70s.
Par and Yardage: Par 72, 6,166 yards.
Last Time Out
UCLA finished T-8th (+35, 899) out of 15 teams at the Windy City Collegiate Classic at Westmoreland Country Club in Wilmette, Ill. earlier this week. Freshman Francesca Fiorellini, making her collegiate debut, led the Bruins' lineup with a t-13th (+5; 72-72-77) finish. The Italian recorded four birdies in her first round on Monday and shot a bogey-free back nine in her second round later that day.
2023-24 In Review
UCLA concluded one of the most dominant seasons in program history with its fifth-ever runner-up finish at the NCAA Championships under the direction of first-year head coach Alicia Um Holmes in 2023-24. Um Holmes won four team titles and secured the third-best scoring average (287.8) in program history in year one, earning her Golfweek Women's Coach of the Year.
UCLA was victorious in Um Holmes' second tournament as head coach at the Windy City Collegiate Classic where the Bruins ousted nine top-25 teams with a score of -32, 832 to tie the lowest 54-hole mark in program history. UCLA had a stretch of three consecutive wins to begin the spring at The Match in the Desert, the Nanea Pac-12 Preview and The Show. The four wins were the most for the program since the 2017-18 season.
The Bruins' memorable postseason run began by making the eight-team cut line for match play at the NCAA Championships hosted at Omni La Costa Resort in Carlsbad, Calif. UCLA toppled Texas A&M in the Quarterfinals, 3-0-2, and Oregon in the Semifinals, 3-1-1, before falling to top-seeded Stanford in the Finals, 3-2. The result marked the fifth runner-up finish in program history.
Six of Um Holmes' eight golfers recorded multiple top-10 individual finishes in 2023-24, led by consensus First Team All-American and ANNIKA Award Finalist Zoe Antoinette Campos and WGCA Honorable Mention All-American Caroline Canales. Campos was named to the All-Pac-12 First Team while three Bruins were recognized as Honorable Mention: Canales, Meghan Royal and Kate Villegas.
Um Holmes' offseason recruiting prowess led to much success in 2023-24. Three of the four transfers she signed to her first-year roster – Royal, Villegas and Natalie Vo – were in the starting lineup for UCLA's NCAA Championship run.
Preseason Recognition
Three UCLA women's golfers hauled in several preseason All-America accolades while the team was listed in all three major preseason polls. Zoe Antoinette Campos was a consensus Preseason First Team All-American according to both Golfweek and Golf Channel. Francesca Fiorellini was listed on the Second Team by Golfweek and Third Team by Golf Channel, and Caroline Canales was tabbed to Golf Channel's Third Team.
The Bruins start the 2024-25 season ranked No. 3 in the WGCA Preseason Coaches Poll and No. 4 in both Golfweek and Golf Channel's Preseason Top 25.
Bruins and the ANNIKA Award
For an eighth straight season, at least one UCLA women's golfer was listed to the Preseason/Fall ANNIKA Award Watch List. Zoe Antoinette Campos made her second appearance on the Watch List along with incoming freshman Francesca Fiorellini, it was announced by the organization in September.
Created in 2014, the ANNIKA Award is annually given to the top female U.S. collegiate golfer; the winner voted on by players, coaches and members of the college golf media. UCLA's Alison Lee (2013-15) was the first to take home the award in 2014 and Bronte Law (2013-16) earned the honor the next season in 2015.
Senior Leaders
The Bruins' lineup is led by seniors Zoe Antoinette Campos and Caroline Canales who, together, have started a combined 74 collegiate tournaments and played in 205 rounds. Campos and Canales own a wealth of postseason experience with each playing 12 rounds of stroke play (eight) and match play (four) at the NCAA Championships over their previous three years.
For the second straight season in 2023-24, Campos was a consensus First Team All-American (WGCA & Golfweek), an ANNIKA Award Top 10 Finalist and an All-Pac-12 First Team selection. She led UCLA with four wins, a 70.7 scoring average, nine top-10 finishes, 21 rounds under par, 10 rounds in the 60s and was the only Bruin to have all rounds count towards the team score. Campos' four medals are tied for the most in UCLA single-season history while her 21 rounds under par set a program record. Two of Campos' wins came at Spanish Trail Country Club in Las Vegas, Nev., the latter of which was at NCAA Regionals with a score of -6, 210. She is the seventh Bruins' golfer to medal at an NCAA Regional.
Canales received the first All-American recognition of her career last season, being named WGCA Honorable Mention. The Calabasas, Calif. native ranked second on the team with a 72.6 scoring average, four top 10s and 12 rounds under par. Canales concluded the year with an unblemished 3-0-0 record in the match play portion of the NCAA Championships. Canales' 7&5 victory against Oregon's Karen Tsuru in the Semifinals was the largest margin of victory by a UCLA golfer at the NCAA Championships.
Campos and Team USA
Zoe Antoinette Campos represented the Red, White and Blue in two major summer competitions. In the first of two events played in Europe, Campos helped Team USA to an Arnold Palmer Cup win for a second straight year at Lahinch Golf Club in Ireland in July, defeating Team International by a score of 32.5-27.5 Campos went 1-2-1 with a 1UP foursome victory in her matches.
One month later, Campos became the 11th Bruin to compete at the 43rd Curtis Cup at Sunningdale Golf Club in England where Team USA finished second to Team Great Britain & Ireland, 10.5-9.5. Campos went 1-2-1 in her matches with a 2&1 foursome victory with her partner Catherine Park (USC) on day two of the competition.
Summer Success
Senior Natalie Vo won the 58th California Women's Amateur at The Peninsula Golf and Country Club in San Mateo on July 27, earning her an automatic exemption at U.S. Women's Amateur. Vo defeated Amelia Garibaldi (Fresno State) in the championship match, 2&1, with the help of an excellent approach shot on the par-4 17th which fell two feet from the pin to set up the title-clinching putt. Vo's title marked the second straight year and the fourth time ever a Bruins' golfer won the California Women's Amateur. Previous winners include Kate Villegas (2023), Ty Akabane (2018), Cindy Scholefield (1986) and Mary Enright (1980).
Vo and Zoe Antoinette Campos made their second and fifth U.S. Women's Amateur appearances, respectively, at Southern Hills Country Club in Oklahoma in August. Campos placed third in the stroke play portion with scores of 72-68 (-2) before being ousted in the Round of 64 by Bailey Shoemaker (USC), 1UP.
The B1G Day is Here
UCLA officially joined the Big Ten Conference Aug. 2, ushering in a new era in the Bruins' storied and illustrious athletic tradition. UCLA, along with previous conference foes Oregon, USC and Washington, have moved to an 18-team Big Ten Conference with a footprint spanning from the Pacific to the Atlantic.
UCLA's approaching membership in the Big Ten Conference was initially announced more than two years ago, on June 30, 2022.
"The day has finally come," said Martin Jarmond, The Alice and Nahum Lainer Family Director of Athletics. "After two years of planning and preparation, UCLA is proud and excited to join the Big Ten Conference. I am grateful for the energy and effort that has been put into shaping this pivotal move by our hard-working staff members, as well as our coaches and student-athletes. The investments we have made into our programs and student-athletes over the past 24 months have set us up to continue to compete at the elite level that defines UCLA Athletics."
Three of the Big Ten's newest members, UCLA (three), USC (three) and Washington (one), have combined for all seven of the conference's NCAA Women's Golf Championships.
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