Wolverines to Open Fall with Trip to Purdue's Boilermaker Classic

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan women's golf team open its fall schedule in Big Ten country, heading to West Lafayette, Ind., on Monday and Tuesday (Sept. 2-3) for Purdue's Boilermaker Classic. The two-day, 54-hole event will be held at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex's Kampen-Cosler Course.

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• Michigan makes its return to West Lafayette for the first time in 15 years. The last time U-M played an event at the Birck Boilermaker Complex was at the 2009 Big Ten Championships. The Wolverines posted a seventh-place team finish with a 1,268 tally led by former All-Big Ten golfer Ashley Bauer's 11th-place individual finish (313).

• The 2024 Boilermaker Classic field will be made up of 15 teams, including: Abilene Christian, Alabama, Ball State, Georgia Southern, James Madison, Kent State, Michigan, Minnesota, Notre Dame, Old Dominion, Purdue (host), Rutgers, Tulsa, Western Kentucky and Xavier.

• U-M will travel five starters and an individual to the season opener. Juniors Lauren Sung and Sydney Sung and redshirt-junior Mara Janess anchor U-M's starting five, while freshmen Suzie Tran and Mimi Guo will make their collegiate debuts in West Lafayette. Sophomore Grace Wang will travel and play as an individual.

• The 2024-25 season marks a new chapter following the departure of U-M greats Monet Chun and Hailey Borja and three experienced veterans. However, with an influx of experience -- four signees and the return of assistant Mandi Unruh -- Jan Dowling's Wolverines will look for that next legacy moment.

• Last season, Michigan made its fifth straight trip to an NCAA regional and celebrated Chun, who won her second Big Ten title, was named the Big Ten Golfer of the Year and earned WGCA All-America honors. Now juniors, the Sung sisters return to guide U-M. Lauren started eight of her 10 events while setting a new career-best scoring average (75.23), while her twin sister, Sydney, started seven of her nine events and lowered her prior-best scoring average by nearly a stroke and a half (76.00).

• Fresh off a summer trip to her first U.S. Women's Amateur and advancement to match play, Janess is ready to carry the confidence gained from the USGA event into her second full season. Another key for Dowling and Michigan, will be the addition of a strong freshman class -- Thomasine Bartholdson, Guo, Jenna Shilts and Tran.

• Former Wolverine All-American and current professional golfer Ashley Lau became the first Michigan golfer, man or woman, to compete in the Olympics. Playing for her native country of Malaysia at the Paris Games, she used her 306 72-hole total to tie for 55th at Le Golf National.