ATHENS, Ga. – Penn State women's golf senior Mathilde Delavallade (Royan, France) is set to compete in the 2023 NCAA Athens Regional, hosted by the University of Georgia, on May 8-10.
The three-day tournament features an 18-18-18 format with 396 student-athletes competing across six regional sites with 12 teams and six individuals at each. The Athens Regional will take place at the University of Georgia Golf Course in Athens, Georgia.
Delavallade will tee off for her opening round on Monday, May 8 at 9:53 a.m. and she is paired with Tulane's Carla Bernat and Oklahoma's Mikhaela Fortuna. The group will go off the first tee. The other three individuals, Western Kentucky's Catie Craig, Boston University's Christy Chen and Harvard's Isabella Gomez, will go off hole 10 at 9:50 a.m.
The 12 teams represented in Athens this week are the host Bulldogs, Big Ten foes Ohio State and Maryland, along with South Carolina, San Jose State, Ole Miss, Kent State, College of Charleston, Kansas, Furman, Augusta and Sacred Heart.
The top five teams and top individual (not on an advancing team) will advance to the NCAA Championships on May 19-24 at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Delavallade has competed in all ten events this season for the Nittany Lions posting five top-ten's including a trio of top-five finishes highlighted by a second-place finish after an 8-under, 205, to open the season at the Cougar Classic. She's pacing the team with a career-best 72.25 stroke average, a mark which is currently the lowest single-season stroke average in program history.
This is the first time a Nittany Lion has made an appearance as an individual in an NCAA regional since then-junior Cara Basso competed in the 2018 Madison Regional. Basso finished tied for 42nd in the 96-player field with a 220 (plus-4) that year.
Live scoring for the Athens Regional can be viewed HERE.
