QU Women's Golf Opens Spring Schedule at Lady EagleCat Invitational on Mar. 14-15

DAYTONA BEACH, Florida - The Quinnipiac University women's golf will open the 2016 Spring season at the Lady EagleCat Invitational featuring Winthrop and Bethune-Cookman at LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida on Mar. 14-15.

LPGA INTERNATIONAL

Since 1994, the LPGA International has been the home course of the LPGA Tour. Conveniently located near I-95 in Daytona Beach, Florida, it gained its notoriety as the host of numerous LPGA Tour Championships and is now the host of the final state of the LPGA Tour Qualifying School.

METRO ATLANTIC ATHLETIC CONFERENCE PRESEASON POLL

The Quinnipiac University women's golf team was picked to finish second in the 2016 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Coaches' Preseason Poll, as announced by the conference on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016. The Bobcats received one first-place vote in the preseason poll.
Albany received six first-place votes from the eight-member conference, with Dayton also receiving one first-place vote on their way to be selected to finish third. Hartford and Monmouth slotted into the fourth and fifth spots, respectively, while Siena, Fairfield and Niagara filled out the remaining spots in the poll.
Quinnipiac finished fourth at the 2015 MAAC Championship, led by all-conference showings from Nicole Scola (Westerly, Rhode Island) and Taylor Lambrou (Baldwin, New York). It was Scola's second consecutive All-MAAC selection after she guided the Bobcats to a second-place finish at the 2014 MAAC Championship, earning Rookie of the Year honors.

FALL RECAP

The Bobcats fall season got off to a slow start with an 8^th place finish at Navy's Chesapeake Bay Invitational, followed by a 9^th place finish at the Dartmouth Invitational and a 15^th place finish at the Princeton Invitational.
Quinnipiac bounced-back from a slow start to the 2015-16 season with a solid showing at the Quinnipiac Classic, highlighted by a top-five finish by Nicole Scola (Westerly, Rhode Island).
Following its home meet, the Bobcats won the Delaware State Invitational highlighted by a first-place finish by freshman Luciana Tobia (La Paz, Bolivia), who lost in a playoff for medalist honors.
The Bobcats then led the St. John's Invitational on the first day of competition before finishing third with freshman Julia Kemmling (Berlin, Connecticut) finishing fifth.

THE BOBCATS AND GOLFWEEK.COM

Quinnipiac was tabbed as the top team to challenge MAAC favorite Albany for the 2016 conference championship by GolfWeek.com.
Luciana Tobia was also tabbed as a Midseason All-MAAC selection.

NICOLE SCOLA

Nicola Scola has been the Bobcats' top golfer during her first two seasons at Quinnipiac, averaging a team-best 78.55 for her career that has featured 58 rounds across 26 tournaments through this past fall season.
Scola's 2014-15 (77.79) and 2013-14 (78.95) stand as the two best single-season averages in program history while she also owns eight of the top 10 rounds in program history and the top five 36-hole scores all-time.
She is also the program's all-time leader in birdies (66).

JENN WHALEY

Senior captain Jennifer Whaley (Farmington, Connecticut) currently sits at 61 career birdies, good for second place in the Bobcats' all-time record book.
Whaley will lead the Bobcats in her final season, which she enters with a team-high 36 tournaments played.
Whaley has averaged 84.32 for her career, while her 2013-14 average (83.21) ranks fourth all-time.

LUCIANA TOBIA

Freshman Luciana Tobia (La Paz, Bolivia) was named to Golfweek.com's Midseason All-MAAC Team after an impressive fall semester in her first year of collegiate competition.
Tobia will enter the spring semester with a team-best 78.77 average.
She opened her collegiate career with an 8^th place finish at Navy's Chesapeake Bay Invitational before finishing tied for 11^th at the Quinnipiac Classic and a seventh place finish at the St. John's Invitational.
The high point of the first-year Bobcats season came at the DSU Hornets Invitational when she finished tied for first, before losing in a play-off, to lead Quinnipiac to the tournament victory.
In addition, she also tied the program single-round record with a 70 at the Dartmouth Invitational.

EMILY RIBBINS

Emily Ribbins (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands) enters her third spring season with a 83.66 career average.
Ribbins has shown improved play in each of her four semesters at Quinnipiac, with her score improving from season to season.
In 2014-15, Ribbins played in 12 tournaments, averaging an 83.11.

JULIA KEMMLING

Julia Kemmling (Berlin, Connecticut) enters the spring averaging 80.29 per 18 holes, good for third in the Bobcats' line-up.
She currently leads Quinnipiac with the best last-round average (79.00) among the Bobcat golfers, as well as Par 5 Scoring (5.20).
Kemmling also posted a team-best 26 birdies in 12 rounds in the fall and was second to Tobia in Fairways Hit (74.1%).
The Connecticut native converted on 22.1% of birdies, good for 86^th out of 532 NCAA Division I golfers and the tops on the Quinnipiac roster.

CAITLYN BLYDENBURGH

Caitlyn Blydenburgh (Castleton, New York) averaged an 83.17 per 18 holes during the fall semester that saw the first-year Bobcat attack 12 rounds.
Blydenburgh's top round of the fall semester came in her first career round when she carded a 78 on her way to a 54-hole total of 239, good for 25^th place out of 63 golfers.
Blydenburgh was solid again at the Dartmouth Invitational, shooting 82-79 for a 161 and a 27^th place finish out of 51 golfers.

ESTEFANIA MORALES

Estefania Morales (Caracas, Venezuela) had a brilliant freshman campaign in 2014-15, posting the second-best freshman scoring average (83.96) in program history.
She also became the first Quinnipiac golfer to rank among the national leaders, placing sixth among all NCAA Division I student-athletes with a .887 Fairways Hit percentage.
Morales also posted the seventh-best single-season scoring average in program history, and the second-best freshman average in program history.

ABBY CHASE

Abby Chase (Beaver Dam, Wisconsin) was one of five Quinnipiac golfers to play 10 or more rounds in the fall, averaging an 85.50.
Chase's best showing came on the second and third rounds of the Quinnipiac Classic. After shooting an opening-round 88, she bounced back with a 79 and an 81, respectively.
Her best tournament came at the DSU Invitational when she opened with an 82 and followed with an 89 for a career-best 171 and her top finish at 13^th out of 21.

Schedule

QU Women's Golf Opens Spring Schedule at Lady EagleCat Invitational on Mar. 14-15

Players Mentioned

Abby Chase

Julia Kemmling

Estefania Morales

Emily Ribbins

Nicole Scola

Luciana Tobia-Palza

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QU Women's Golf Opens Spring Schedule at Lady EagleCat Invitational on Mar. 14-15

Players Mentioned

Abby Chase

Julia Kemmling

Estefania Morales

Emily Ribbins

Nicole Scola

Luciana Tobia-Palza

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