LAKE ELMO, Minn. – The California women's golf team returns to the course next Monday through Wednesday for the first time since its record-breaking 2023-24 campaign. The Golden Bears are set to begin a new era in the ACC under head coach Sofie Aagaard at the ANNIKA Intercollegiate presented by 3M.

Cal will be one of 12 teams competing at the par-72, 6,395-yard course at Royal Golf Club, featuring a lineup that includes senior Kaylyn Noh, record-setting standouts junior Adora Liu and sophomore Constance Fouillet, and the roster's two new faces in freshmen Claudia Lara Miravitlles and Marie-Agnes Fischer.

This will be the Bears' first appearance at the ANNIKA Intercollegiate, which is in its 10th edition in 2024 and its sixth at Royal Golf Club. Three teams that ended the spring ranked top-10 in the country will be in competition, including defending tournament champion South Carolina.

TOURNAMENT INFO

• Dates: Sept. 9-11
• 54 holes (18-18-18, Monday-Wednesday)
• First Tee Times (Holes 1 & 10): 6:30 a.m. PT
• Location: Lake Elmo, Minn. | Royal Golf Club
• Course Info: Par 72 | 6,665/6,615 Yards
• Host: ANNIKA Foundation
• Live Scoring: Golfstat

THE FIELD (12)
California, Minnesota, Wake Forest, Duke, Oregon, UCLA, UCF, Clemson, Iowa State, Arizona State, South Carolina, Purdue

THE BEARS (Hole 10)
1. Claudia Lara Miravitlles - 7:25 a.m. PT
2. Kaylyn Noh - 7:35 a.m. PT
3. Constance Fouillet - 7:45 a.m. PT
4. Adora Liu - 7:55 a.m. PT
5. Marie-Agnes Fischer - 8:05 a.m. PT

Liu and Fouillet led Cal to its lowest-ever scoring average (291.1) last season, with Liu breaking the program's best individual 18-hole average (72.4) and Fouillet (72.7) coming in at No. 2 all time while setting a new freshman record.

Fischer – a standout contributor for Golf Team Germany for the past several years – won multiple matches at the European Girls' Team Championships in July, helping Germany to a second-place finish. She will be making her Cal debut alongside Claudia Lara Miravitlles, one of five international golfers on the roster who joined the Bears out of St. Paul's School in Barcelona, Spain.

NEW ERA
For the first time ever, Cal will be opening a season without Nancy McDaniel, who spent the previous 29 years as the team's founding head coach. Replacing McDaniel for Cal's inaugural season in the ACC is fellow California Athletics Hall of Famer Aagaard, who earned three straight NGCA All-American honors with the Bears from 2003-06, returned to Cal as an assistant coach for two years from 2013-15, and most recently led Washington State to back-to-back NCAA Regionals in 2023 and 2024.

WGCA ASSISTANT COACH OF THE YEAR
Associate head coach Bev Terry stepped up in a huge way in 2023-24, taking on more coaching duties than ever before while guiding the Bears to one of their best seasons ever. Cal set numerous program records last season, including its lowest 54-hole team score (-28), longest win streak (3), and lowest team scoring average (291.1). The Bears earned five top-five finishes – its most since 2016-17 – and advanced to the NCAA Regional round for the 23rd time since 2000, resulting in Terry earning the first national assistant coach of the year award in program history.

THE FALL SLATE
The Bears will compete five times during the fall, following up the season-opening ANNIKA Intercollegiate with the annual Big Match against Stanford (Sept. 26) and the Molly Invitational (Sept. 30-Oct. 1) in Seaside, a tournament which last year saw Cal kick off its record-setting win streak. The Bears play their final competitions of the calendar year at the Stanford Intercollegiate (Oct. 18-20) and the Nanea Invitational (Oct. 28-30) in Kailua Kona, Hawaii.

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