Wake Forest Takes Team Title, Kovelesky Wins Co-Champion at ANNIKA Intercollegiate

LAKE ELMO, Minn. – Following back-to-back group scores underneath par, the Wake Forest ladies’s golf secured its first group title of the 2025-26 season on the ANNIKA Intercollegiate at Royal Golf Club in Lake Elmo, Minn.

This marks the twenty seventh win underneath the route of head coach Kim Lewellen and the Deacons’ third victory on the ANNIKA, with the final coming in 2022.

In a discipline that included eight of the top-14 groups within the nation, together with reigning nationwide champions Northwestern, the Thirteenth-ranked Demon Deacons led the competitors on par-four and par-five scoring. They totaled 58 birdies all through the competitors, tied for essentially the most within the competitors.

After beginning the occasion at 6-over par, the Wake Forest battled again to show in two consecutive rounds of seven-under to complete the ANNIKA Intercollegiate in first place at eight-under par.

Leading the Deacs was freshman Chloe Kovelesky, recording her lowest 54-hole rating in her profession with a 207 (-9). Claiming her second collegiate title, Kovelesky penciled in three under-par rounds of 71, 67 and 69.

The Boca Raton, Fla. native is the primary particular person champ on the ANNIKA since Rachel Keuhn in 2019.

With simply eight bogeys over three days, Kovelesky totaled 15 throughout the three days and notched six birdies in her remaining spherical.

At 4 underneath par, graduate pupil Morgan Ketchum shot her lowest spherical of three and birdied 4 out of her 5 final holes of the day. The Winston-Salem native grabbed a top-10 end in her first outing as a Deacon.

Senior Anne-Sterre den Dunnen turned in three rounds of par or higher to seize her first top-10 end of the 2025-2026 season and tied for eighth place at 2-under par.

In her first outing with the Old Gold and Black, graduate pupil Casey Weidenfeld posted consecutive rounds at even par to complete T30.  Junior Macy Pate additionally noticed her greatest spherical of three with a fair par to complete T36.

Straight on to the Stephens Cup

Wake Forest travels to Lake Bluff, Ill. for the Jackson T. Stephens Cup held at Shoreacres from Sept. 15-17. During final 12 months’s competitors, alum Carolina Chacarra shot 4 underneath to clinch the person title.

Coach’s Comments

“What an outstanding first event for the Demon Deacons. We have such a talented and dynamic group of student athletes and we are so excited for Chloe Kovelesky earning her second collegiate win. We leave in two days for the Jackson T. Stephens Cup, so we’ll be back in action quickly.”

Team Leaderboard

Team	Round One	Round Two	Round Three	Total
1 Wake Forest	294	281	281	856
2 Oregon	297	290	272	859
3 USC	292	283	285	860
T4 Texas	301	279	282	862
T4 Northwestern	287	293	282	862
6 South Carolina	291	293	288	872
7 Pepperdine	296	293	290	879
8 San Jose State	298	295	287	8880
9 Duke	303	293	285	881
10 Arizona State	298	299	290	887
11 Minnesota	309	299	298	906
12 Cal	316	301	294	911

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