Wolfpack women's golf is off to Scottsdale, Ariz., to compete in the NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championships final site for the first time since 2015. The tournament will be held at Grayhawk Golf Club from May 19-24, and NC State is one of 30 teams competing for the national title.

TOURNAMENT FORMAT/INFO
All 30 teams will participate in three rounds (54 holes) of stroke play from May 19-21. After those three rounds, the top 15 teams and top nine individuals not on an advancing team will have a final round of stroke play on Monday, May 22 after which an individual champion will be crowned and the top eight teams will be determined for match play. National television coverage of the match play portion of the event will be provided by the GOLF Channel.

Grayhawk Golf Club
Course Par/Yardage: 72/6,399

NC State Lineup
1. Lauren Olivares Leon
2. Vania Simont
3. Natalie Armbruester
4. Isabel Amezcua
5. Caitlin Whitehead
ALT. Jaclyn Kenzel

DANCING AGAIN
NC State is making its fourth NCAA Championships appearance as a team and its first since 2015. Each player on the roster will be making their debut at the final national site. The Pack punched its ticket with a second-place finish at the Raleigh Regional on its home course after entering the 12-team regional seeded eighth. Head coach Page Marsh has guided NC State to every one of its 20 postseason appearances, with all of those coming in the last 21 seasons.

HISTORY MAKERS
After setting 18-hole (278, -10) and 54-hole (847, -17) program records earlier in the regular season, NC State put together a historic Raleigh Regional. The Pack opened the regional with a 282 first round, a postseason program record, and finished the week with a cumulative score of 861 (-3) for its second-best NCAA Tournament score of all time.

Wolfpack sophomore made history of her own with the best individual postseason performance in program history. She placed second at the event for the best regional finish by any NC State women's golfer. Her finish came behind a career-low and program record-tying score of 208 (-8). All three of Olivares Leon's scores at the event came in under par, highlighted by her setting the 18-hole (67, -5) individual
postseason program record in the opening round.

Natalie Armbruester (T14th) and Vania Simont (T24th) also both finished in the top-25 in regional action. Armbruester turned in a two-under score of 70 in the final round to help the team secure advancement.


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NC State women's golf kicked off its fourth NCAA Championships team appearance on Friday afternoon as it played the first 18 holes of the annual season-ending national tournament.

Following one round of play, the Wolfpack is in a tie for 29th place after shooting a team score of 305 (+17) on the day. Every player in the Pack's travel party made her NCAA Championships debut on Friday.

Natalie Armbruester and Vania Simont tied for the team lead on day one by posting event-opening scores of 74. Aarmbruester birdied two on the back nine, and Simont added a pair of birdies of her own as they each shot two-over in round one.

Lauren Olivares Leon sits a pair of strokes behind them at 76 (+4) after 18 holes of play. Isabel Amezcua knocked in three front-nine birdies to kick off her day and finished the round with a score of 81 (+9).

After being substituted in prior to the round, Wolfpack junior Jaclyn Kenzel rounded out the lineup with a score of 85 (+13) in her first collegiate stroke-play event played since early March.

NC State Scores
T66. Natalie Armbruester: 74 (+2)
T66. Vania Simont: 74 (+2)
T106. Lauren Olivares Leon: 76 (+4)
T149. Isabel Amezcua: 81 (+9)
T154. Jaclyn Kenzel: 85 (+13)

NC State's second round of NCAA Championships action will be in the afternoon wave on Tuesday, May 20. The team will go off of #1 with tee times every 11 minutes beginning at 1:20 p.m. local time (4:20 p.m. EST), and live stats throughout the tournament will continue to be available on Golfstat.com. After 54 holds of competition, the top 15 teams and top nine individuals not on one of those teams will move on to a final round of stroke play on Monday, May 22.

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Round 2 coming up 🔜

Caitlin Whitehead back into the lineup. She'll tee off first for our Pack.

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Wolfpack women's golf improved on its round one performance by a stroke as it shot a collective 304 in the second round of NCAA Championships action on Saturday.

NC State is in 30th place with a score of 609 (+33) through two rounds of competition at the season-ending event.

Lauren Olivares Leon had the team's low round of the day with a three-over 75. The sophomore totaled four birdies on the day, including one late in her outing on hole 17. Natalie Armbruester and Vania Simont are tied with her in the individual standings after both shooting 77 (+5) in the second round. Isabel Amezcua birdied her last hole of the day to finish the round with a score of 76 (+4), and Caitlin Whitehead returned to the lineup and went on to also post a 76 in her first round of NCAA Championships action with the Pack.

NC State Scores: 305-304=609
T112. Lauren Olivares Leon: 76-75=151 (+7)
T112. Natalie Armbruester: 74-77=151 (+7)
T112. Vania Simont: 74-77=151 (+7)
T140. Isabel Amezcua: 81-76=157 (+13)
Caitlin Whitehead: 76 (+4), second round only
Jaclyn Kenzel: 85 (+13), first round only

The Pack will play its third round of the NCAA Championships in the afternoon on Wednesday, May 21 and will go off #1 again. The team will have tee times every 11 minutes beginning at 1:10 p.m. local time (4:10 p.m. EST), and live stats for the third round will be available once again on Golfstat.com. After Wednesday's round, the top 15 teams and top nine individuals not on one of those teams will move on to a final 18 holes of stroke play on Monday, May 22.


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NC State women's golf concluded its 2022-23 season with the third round of stroke play at the NCAA Championships on Sunday evening.

The Pack shot 308 (+20) in the final round and finished 30th with a score of 917 (+53) through three days of action at its first final site appearance since the 2014-15 season.

With the conclusion of its NCAA Championships run, the Wolfpack wrapped up a historic campaign that included:

• The program's fourth NCAA Championships berth of all time and its first since 2015
• Posting a pair of 18-hole program records (278, -10) and a 54-hole tournament record (847, -17) at the ICON Invitational
• Setting a postseason program record with a 282 in the first round of the NCAA Raleigh Regional
• Securing its best regional finish (2nd) in program history
• Lauren Olivares Leon winning the Briar's Creek Invitational for the first individual victory for the Pack in five years
• Tying the team's highest ACC Championships finish since 2017

NC State Scores: 305-304-308=917
T65. Lauren Olivares Leon: 76-75-71=222 (+6)
T125. Natalie Armbruester: 74-77-80=231 (+15)
T133. Isabel Amezcua: 81-76-75=232 (+16)
T139. Vania Simont: 74-77-83=234 (+18)
Caitlin Whitehead: 76-82=158 (+10), second and third rounds
Jaclyn Kenzel: 85 (+13), first round

Olivares Leon shot the Pack's only under-par round at an incredibly tough Grayhawk Golf Course this weekend with a 71 (-1) in the third round. She birdied three holes, including closing out her round with a birdie on 18 after a great third shot out of the front bunker. Amezcua also posted her tournament best score of 75 (+3) with four birdies.

Natalie Armbruester played the final round of her collegiate career (80, +8), and both Caitlin Whitehead (82 +10) and Vania Simont (83, +11) also competed in the Pack's season conclusion.