{"id":242407,"date":"2026-07-13T17:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242407\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T17:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:56:08","slug":"three-womens-golfers-tabbed-wgca-all-american-scholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242407\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Women\u2019s Golfers Tabbed WGCA All-American Scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 PHILADELPHIA &#8211;\u00a0The Women&#8217;s Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) has announced its All-American Scholars for the 2025-26 academic year, and the list features three University of Pennsylvania players: rising senior\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/maggie-ni\/24965\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24965\" target=\"_blank\">Maggie Ni<\/a>, rising junior <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/claire-lu\/24963\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24963\" target=\"_blank\">Claire Lu<\/a>, and rising sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/adrienne-ahn-upton\/25162\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25162\" target=\"_blank\">Adrienne Ahn-Upton<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe criteria for selection to the All-American Scholar Team are some of the most stringent in all of college athletics and include a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.50. A total of 1,551 women&#8217;s collegiate golfers across 403 NCAA and NAIA programs were recognized with this prestigious honor.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNi competed in seven of Penn&#8217;s eight events and finished with a 76.2 stroke average over 19 tournament rounds. That stretch included a low-round, 2-under-par 70 at Delaware&#8217;s Lady Blue Hen Invitational and a 1-under-par 71 at the Space Coast Classic. She was Penn&#8217;s low scorer at Delaware and ranked fifth among Quakers at the Ivy Championship, shooting 26-over-par 242.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLu played in all eight tournaments throughout the year, shooting a 76.5 stroke average across 22 tourney rounds. Her low round of the campaign was a par 72 as an individual at the Lady Blue Hen Invitational and she placed third (77-74\u2014151, +7) at The Intercollegiate at Prospect Bay. Lu finished fourth among her teammates at the Ivy Championship, logging a 19-over-par 235 finish.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAs a freshman, Ahn-Upton played in seven tournaments, ending the year with a 75.6 stroke average across 18 tournament rounds. She finished tied for third at the Lehigh Invitational (75-73\u2014148, +4) and shot a low-round 1-under-par 71 at the Nittany Lion Invitational to begin the season. Her 17-over-par 233 finish at the Ivy Championship ranked third among the Quakers.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Penn women put together another solid year in 2025-26, capturing the program&#8217;s 21st tournament title with a first-place finish (310-296\u2014606, +30) at The Intercollegiate at Prospect Bay. The Red and Blue never finished lower than eighth in any of their events.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>#FightOnPenn<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; PHILADELPHIA &#8211;\u00a0The Women&#8217;s Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) has announced its All-American&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-242407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}