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The All-MVC Level
If you enjoy golf, it is difficult to find a better way to enjoy it than by supporting the ISU Women's Golf Team. In the fall season, there are three matches that are easy driving distances from TH, and two are in the Central Time Zone which gives one an extra hour to get there on the first day. Day one is typically 36 holes out of the 54 that are played.
Bloomington, Illinois, Indy and Evansville are all a reasonable drive and for a modest cart rental fee one can cruise among the players supporting all of them while visiting with the families of the players.
If you want to attend the long first day, let me know and maybe we can ride together.
Four players (Tai, Baker, Florek and DiNunzio) were honored as achieving WGCA Academic All American status.
Tai majors in Bio Chemistry; Baker in Math; not sure about Florek; DiNunzio in Mechanical Engineering.
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Indiana State women's golf head coach Greg Towne has announced the Fall 2025 schedule. The Sycamores hit the course four times in the fall, the first time since 2021-22 the team will compete four times instead of five.
Indiana State starts the fall in Normal, Ill. at the Redbird Invitational for the fourth-straight season. The Sycamores then head to Butler for their Butler Fall Invitational. The team will compete in this tournament for the eighth time in the last 10 years dating back to the 2015-16 season.
The Trees will then travel to Toledo, Ohio to the Toledo Rocket Classic for the first time since that 2016-17 season.
To cap the fall, Indiana State will look to take the Braun Intercollegiate crown for the third-straight year down in Evansville. The team won each of the last two tournaments, highlighted by returning senior Yang Tai's individual first-place finish last season. The Lady Sycamores have won three tournaments in the past two seasons. Prior to these past two seasons, it had been since the 2016-17 season when the team won a tournament.
The schedule for Spring 2025 will be announced later this year.
Coach Towne returns seven of eight golfers from last year's team and brings in one freshman. Seniors Yang Tai and Eliza Baker are gearing up for their final season, joined by juniors Rosalie DiNunzio and Sophia Florek. Sophomores Gabby Cone, Nicole Feistl, and Alana Gilbert, now with one season in the books, look to solidify a spot in the starting lineup. Keira Brazeau is the lone incoming freshman, hailing from Palatine, Ill.
Yang Tai, returning Senior from Beijing, China via IMG Academy. Earned her first collegiate victory at the Braun Intercollegiate in Evansville shooting 3-over leading the Sycamores to the team win ... Four top 6 finishes ... Finished as the low player for Indiana State in four tournaments ... At the 2025 MVC Tournament she led the tournament on par-3 holes with a score of 2-under ... Named to the MVC Scholar-Athlete Team and was a recipient of the State Farm Good Neighbor Spring Award. Led the team in scoring last season with a 76.6 average.
Sophia Florek . 16 rounds of 25 were 79 or better ... Was one of three golfers at the MVC Tourmament to record an eagle ... Stroke average of 78.08
Rosalie DiNunzio: Best finish was at the PFW Hammock Beach Invitational, tying for 4th place, to help the Sycamores earn the tournament win ... Three top 12 finishes ... Was the lowest finisher for the Sycamores in one tournament (Butler) ... Stroke average of 78.88
Alana Gilbert: The only freshman to play in all 10 tournaments in the season ... In the starting line in 5 in 8 tournaments ... Shot two different rounds of 72 for a collegiate low, the most recent at the 2025 MVC Tournament ... Best finish of T5th came at the Braun Intercollegiate in Evansville to help the Sycamores earn the tournament win ... Was the second-lowest finisher for Indiana State at the MVC Tournament ... Finished as the low player once (ISU Spring Invitational) ... Stroke average of 80.16
Eliza Baker from Adelaide, Australia : Competed in seven tournaments as a junior shooting a season low of 77 twice ... Best finish came at the PFW Hammock Beach Invitational, tying for 13th ... Finished the season with a stroke average of 82.75
Gabby Cone: Competed in 7 tournaments as a freshman ... Her low round and best finish both came as the PFW Hammock Beach Invitational, carding a 78 in the second round leading to tying for 16th place ... Finished the season with a stroke average of 83.06
Nicole Feistl: Competed in 7 tournaments as a freshman ... Shot a collegiate low 76 at the PFW Hammock Beach Invitational leading to her lowest finish of the season (T13) ... Stroke average of 82.58
Lone new recruit is Keira Brazeau from suburban Chicago: She's a three-time ISHA Individual State Qualifier and a four-time all-conference athlete.
Brazeau has finished in the top five in her last seven-of-eight tournaments she completed dating from August into May, including tying for seventh in the 2024 Medinah Country Club Shriners Junior Open.
She tied for fourth place in the 2024 American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) Circle K Junior Championship. In both 2023 and 2024 she finished in the top 15 in the Hurricane Tour National Championship, following up being Illinois Player of the Year Junior Golf Association Runner Up in 2022 and 2023.
The signee is an AJGA Rolex Scholastic Honor Roll recipient and a volunteer coach at Old Orchard CC Junior Camps.
Bloomington, Illinois, Indy and Evansville are all a reasonable drive and for a modest cart rental fee one can cruise among the players supporting all of them while visiting with the families of the players.
If you want to attend the long first day, let me know and maybe we can ride together.
Four players (Tai, Baker, Florek and DiNunzio) were honored as achieving WGCA Academic All American status.
Tai majors in Bio Chemistry; Baker in Math; not sure about Florek; DiNunzio in Mechanical Engineering.
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Indiana State women's golf head coach Greg Towne has announced the Fall 2025 schedule. The Sycamores hit the course four times in the fall, the first time since 2021-22 the team will compete four times instead of five.
Indiana State starts the fall in Normal, Ill. at the Redbird Invitational for the fourth-straight season. The Sycamores then head to Butler for their Butler Fall Invitational. The team will compete in this tournament for the eighth time in the last 10 years dating back to the 2015-16 season.
The Trees will then travel to Toledo, Ohio to the Toledo Rocket Classic for the first time since that 2016-17 season.
To cap the fall, Indiana State will look to take the Braun Intercollegiate crown for the third-straight year down in Evansville. The team won each of the last two tournaments, highlighted by returning senior Yang Tai's individual first-place finish last season. The Lady Sycamores have won three tournaments in the past two seasons. Prior to these past two seasons, it had been since the 2016-17 season when the team won a tournament.
The schedule for Spring 2025 will be announced later this year.
Coach Towne returns seven of eight golfers from last year's team and brings in one freshman. Seniors Yang Tai and Eliza Baker are gearing up for their final season, joined by juniors Rosalie DiNunzio and Sophia Florek. Sophomores Gabby Cone, Nicole Feistl, and Alana Gilbert, now with one season in the books, look to solidify a spot in the starting lineup. Keira Brazeau is the lone incoming freshman, hailing from Palatine, Ill.
Yang Tai, returning Senior from Beijing, China via IMG Academy. Earned her first collegiate victory at the Braun Intercollegiate in Evansville shooting 3-over leading the Sycamores to the team win ... Four top 6 finishes ... Finished as the low player for Indiana State in four tournaments ... At the 2025 MVC Tournament she led the tournament on par-3 holes with a score of 2-under ... Named to the MVC Scholar-Athlete Team and was a recipient of the State Farm Good Neighbor Spring Award. Led the team in scoring last season with a 76.6 average.
Sophia Florek . 16 rounds of 25 were 79 or better ... Was one of three golfers at the MVC Tourmament to record an eagle ... Stroke average of 78.08
Rosalie DiNunzio: Best finish was at the PFW Hammock Beach Invitational, tying for 4th place, to help the Sycamores earn the tournament win ... Three top 12 finishes ... Was the lowest finisher for the Sycamores in one tournament (Butler) ... Stroke average of 78.88
Alana Gilbert: The only freshman to play in all 10 tournaments in the season ... In the starting line in 5 in 8 tournaments ... Shot two different rounds of 72 for a collegiate low, the most recent at the 2025 MVC Tournament ... Best finish of T5th came at the Braun Intercollegiate in Evansville to help the Sycamores earn the tournament win ... Was the second-lowest finisher for Indiana State at the MVC Tournament ... Finished as the low player once (ISU Spring Invitational) ... Stroke average of 80.16
Eliza Baker from Adelaide, Australia : Competed in seven tournaments as a junior shooting a season low of 77 twice ... Best finish came at the PFW Hammock Beach Invitational, tying for 13th ... Finished the season with a stroke average of 82.75
Gabby Cone: Competed in 7 tournaments as a freshman ... Her low round and best finish both came as the PFW Hammock Beach Invitational, carding a 78 in the second round leading to tying for 16th place ... Finished the season with a stroke average of 83.06
Nicole Feistl: Competed in 7 tournaments as a freshman ... Shot a collegiate low 76 at the PFW Hammock Beach Invitational leading to her lowest finish of the season (T13) ... Stroke average of 82.58
Lone new recruit is Keira Brazeau from suburban Chicago: She's a three-time ISHA Individual State Qualifier and a four-time all-conference athlete.
Brazeau has finished in the top five in her last seven-of-eight tournaments she completed dating from August into May, including tying for seventh in the 2024 Medinah Country Club Shriners Junior Open.
She tied for fourth place in the 2024 American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) Circle K Junior Championship. In both 2023 and 2024 she finished in the top 15 in the Hurricane Tour National Championship, following up being Illinois Player of the Year Junior Golf Association Runner Up in 2022 and 2023.
The signee is an AJGA Rolex Scholastic Honor Roll recipient and a volunteer coach at Old Orchard CC Junior Camps.