Women's Golf Announces 2024 Fall ScheduleWomen's Golf Announces 2024 Fall Schedule

Women's Golf Announces 2024 Fall Schedule

Head coach Kristen Simpson and the Penn State women's golf team announced its 2024 fall schedule earlier this week. The Nittany Lions will compete in five tournaments this coming fall.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Head coach Kristen Simpson and the Penn State women's golf team announced its 2024 fall schedule earlier this week. The Nittany Lions will compete in five tournaments this coming fall.

Penn State has a very familiar scheduled lined up for the fall season once again beginning the year at Yeaman’s Hall in Hanahan, South Carolina for the 20th annual Cougar Classic on September 9-10.

Just four days later the Nittany Lions return to Happy Valley for the 48th annual Nittany Lion Invitational on September 14-15 prior to closing out the month of September at a new event, the Cavalier Regional Preview, on September 23-24 as Kristen Simpson makes her first trip to Charlottesville as a head coach after graduating from UVA in 2008.

Penn State takes the following week off before returning to the Old Dominion State on October 4-6 for the sixth annual Evie Odom Invitational in Virginia Beach, Virginia, formerly the Princess Anne Invitational.

The Nittany Lions then conclude their fall slate in familiar fashion in late October at the Landfall Tradition in Wilmington, North Carolina on October 25-27.

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Penn State is led by rising seniors Michelle Cox (Allentown, Pa.) and Drew Nienhaus (St. Louis, Mo.) who enter the 2024-25 season looking to build off impressive junior campaigns as the duo paced the Nittany Lions with four top-10 finishes between them including an individual medalist honor for Cox at the Columbia Classic back in February.

Cox led the team with a 73.07 stroke average, the third best single-season stroke average in program history. Cox came out of the gates strong last fall ripping off a 68.0 opening round stroke average during the four events highlighted by a pair of 5-under, 67’s.

Nienhaus wasn’t far behind finishing the year with a 73.79 stroke average, which ranked just outside the top-10 all-time for the Nittany Lions. Nienhaus finished tied for sixth at the Columbia Classic paired with Cox’s medalist honor the duo helped the Nittany Lions to a runner-up finish, their best of the season.

Penn State has brought in four freshman paired with the four returners and should have strong internal competition when play resumes in September.

FULL 2024 FALL SCHEDULE