2024-25 CSUN Top Moments - Women's Golf Claims Three Tournament Wins
From June 11 to August 11, GoMatadors.com will present the top CSUN Moments from the 2024-25 sports season. Today, we celebrate the Matador women's golf team's three tournament championships over the course of the 2024-25 season.
On Sept. 23, 2024, the CSUN Women's Golf team won its first tournament team championship in 11 years, capturing the Eagle Invitational at Circling Raven G.C. in Worley, Idaho. The win was the first of three tournament championships the Matadors would take home in 2024-25.
Individually, CSUN picked up a pair of wins as freshman Ariya Soldwisch won the Eagle Invitational and junior Gracie Piar claimed individual medalist honors at the WMU Bronco Fall Classic in October.
After opening the season with a fifth-place team finish at Utah Valley's Wolverine Invitational, the Matadors were the only team to finish under par to claim the Eagle Invitational team championship by three shots while Soldwisch posted her best collegiate tournament finish. The win was CSUN's first team tournament title since capturing the 2014 Matador Invitational, as CSUN set a program record for a 36-hole tournament. At 1-under 575, the Matadors shattered the previous record of 591 set at the Lamkin Cup/Cal Poly Invitational in 2009. Soldwisch wound up tied for first with Montana State's Lauren Greeny at 6-under 138.
The Matadors followed up two weeks later, winning the WMU Bronco Fall Classic, behind Piar's individual championship. With a three-round score of 924, CSUN held off Ohio (929) by five shots and host Western Michigan (930) by six.
The team victory gave CSUN consecutive tournament wins for the first time in program history as the Matadors followed up their win at the Eagle Invitational two weeks earlier. It also marked the first time since 2009 that CSUN has won multiple events in the same season. CSUN also captured its second straight individual championship as Piar picked up her first win since 2023 when she took medalist honors at the Utah Tech Invitational. Piar, who led after 36 holes at 1-over 145, carded a 4-over 76 on Tuesday to finish the tournament at 5-over 221. Piar had two birdies and 11 pars in the final round.
The Matadors then finished off an impressive regular season, winning the Fresno State at Copper River Country Club on Apr. 1. CSUN carded a season-best 285 team total to overtake a pair of teams and capture its third tournament title of the season. The Matadors' final round 285 was one shot better than their second round 286 at the Eagle Invitational in September.
Sophomore Nicole Tanoue fired a season-low 4-under 68 for the second consecutive round to finish second in the 45-player field at 4-under 212. After posting five birdies in the second round on Monday, Tanoue, who finished one shot back of the individual medalist (Louise Depadt of Tarleton State), had seven birdies in the final round. She had four birdies on the front nine to make the turn at 3-under before adding three birdies and a pair of bogeys on the back nine to finish the day at 4-under 68.
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