R Shining Moments: Women's Golf
Apr 16 | Women's Golf
Senior co-captain Ana Cortes carded a career-best tying 70 to help the Scarlet Knights total a 291 in the final round of the Juli Inkster at Meadow Club Invitational. It would mark the last round of 2019-20 for RU, which concluded its season with a 300.85 scoring average, second best in program history.
Earned its third straight National Girls and Women in Sports Day Team Academic Award, presented annually by the New Jersey Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. The team had a Fall 2019 grade point average of 3.73 to lead all Rutgers athletic programs. Lori Char, Ana Cortes, Carrie-Ann Lee, Leigha Devine, Anna-Maria Diederichs and Nicole Ewing earned Dean's List recognition.
Men’s basketball received much instruction during its record-setting season in 2019-20, but none seemed more necessary than the direction from the women’s golf team at the Rutgers University Driving Range, featured in episode 4 of Knightlife (click image for video).
Anna-Maria Diederichs earned Big Ten Conference Golfer of the Week after carding a 219 (72-72-75) to place third in the 68-player field at the Lady Blue Hen Invitational at Rehoboth Beach Country Club. Diederichs became the first Scarlet Knight freshman to earn women's golfer of the week since RU joined the league in 2014-15.
Sophomore Maeve Rossi and freshman Anna-Maria Diederichs both posted top 10 finishes to help the Scarlet Knights place third with a 609 (305-304) in challenging conditions at the 11-team Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational at Sahalee Country Club. The Scarlet Knights battled temperatures in the low-to-mid 40's on both days to finish just two strokes off the pace in a field featuring programs from the Pac 12, Big Ten and Big West Conferences. Rossi tied for ninth with a 151 (75-76), while Diederichs tied for fourth in the 60-player field with a 149 (75-74).
Carded a program-record 281 to jump four positions and place second with an 874 (295-298-281) total at the 13-team Bettie Lou Evans Invitational on the University Club of Kentucky Big Blue Course. The Scarlet Knights topped their previous best round by three strokes, as senior Carrie-Ann Lee finished as runner-up in the 75-player field with a three-under 213 (71-75-67).
