Cullowhee, N.C. – Four repeat tournaments from a season ago, three return trips from the 2023 and 2024 seasons, a pair of first-time tournaments, and a third-consecutive trip to Puerto Rico comprise the 10-event Western Carolina women's golf schedule for 2025-26, unveiled by second-year head coach Anne Marie Covar just under three weeks shy of the start of the season.
 
The Catamounts compete in four of the same events from last season, including two – the Clemson Invitational and Tot Hill Farm Invitational – in the fall semester, with two in the spring, the Reynolds Lake Oconee Invitational and the conference championship. WCU returns to the Low Country Intercollegiate on Hilton Head Island, S.C., for the first time since 2024, and to the Terrier Intercollegiate and Edisto Island Invitational in the fall, both for the first time in two seasons since 2023.
 
Opening again in nearby Clemson, S.C., WCU's 10-event schedule is split evenly between the fall and spring semesters, culminating with the 2026 Southern Conference Women's Golf Championship at a new venue, the Columbia Country Club in Columbia, S.C. The team champion and individual medalist, if not on the championship squad, garner the league's automatic berth into the NCAA Women's Golf postseason.
 
The Catamounts begin this season the same as last, traveling to Death Valley and The Walker Course at Clemson for the one-day, 36-hole Tiger Classic on Monday, Aug. 25. WCU opened the Covar era a season ago at the same tournament, finishing 14th with returning sophomore Annalee Caveney pacing the squad in her collegiate debut.
 
The first of two tournaments in September has the Catamount strikers traveling to Statesboro, Ga., for The Southern. The two-day, three-round event is Sept. 8-9, hosted by Georgia Southern at the Forest Heights Country Club. The month concludes with a return trip to Zoo City, the seat of Randolph County, for the Tot Hill Farm Invitational. WCU finished seventh at the same course in the three-round tournament last fall.
 
The fall semester concludes with a pair of tournaments in October, two events the Catamounts will grace for the first time since 2023. WCU hits the Upstate for the Terrier Intercollegiate, hosted by SoCon-foe Wofford on Oct. 13-14 at the Country Club of Spartanburg. The squad finished fourth back in 2023. The final event of the fall semester is Oct. 27-28 in the South Carolina Lowcountry at the Edisto Island Invitational on the Plantation Course. WCU was ninth out of 16 teams back in October of 2023.
 
The spring semester begins in late February alongside Lake Oconee in Greensboro, Ga., for the Reynolds Lake Oconee Invitational on Feb. 20-22. WCU finished 13th at the three-day, three-round event last season.
 
A busy March sees the Catamounts compete in three events stretching from Puerto Rico, Hilton Head Island, and Athens, Ga. It's the third consecutive season that WCU has ventured to the "Island of Enchantment" in tournament action. The event is slated for March 3-5, at the Palmas Athletic Club, which hosts the Puerto Rico Iguana Invitational.
 
Returning stateside, March continues back on Hilton Head  Island, S.C.,  with the Low Country Intercollegiate. This year's event is scheduled for The Golf Club at Indigo Run on March 9-10, featuring a two-day, three-round tournament. WCU was fourth back in the spring of 2024 at the same tournament. The month ends with a first-ever trip to the 54th annual Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic, hosted by the University of Georgia at the UGA Golf Course in Athens. Former Catamount women's golfer and current head coach of the Bulldogs' women's golf program, Erika Danford Brennan, and her UGA squad host the event March 28-30 in WCU's final tune-up before the conference championship.
 
The regular season concludes April 20-22 with the 2026 SoCon Championship, shifting venues within the South Carolina Midlands at the Columbia Country Club. Senior Sadler Miller was WCU's top returning golfer from last spring's championship with a 14th-place finish to lead the Catamounts to a sixth-place tie in the 2025 edition.
 
Western Carolina returns just two golfers from a season ago, led by two-sport standout and senior Sadler Miller. She is joined by sophomore Annalee Caveney from Raleigh, N.C. WCU's six-golfer lineup is bolstered by the addition of a trio of transfers and one true freshman in Mia Andrade  (Chapin, S.C.). Graduate student transfer from Queens Univ., EC Niebauer, is among the three transfers that include sophomores Emily Rosenschein (Catawba College) and Elsa Maren Steinarsdottir (North Alabama).
 
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Western Carolina Women's Golf – 2025-26 Schedule:
Fall 2025
Aug. 25 – Tiger Classic – The Walker Course – (Clemson, S.C.) 
Sept. 8-9 – The Southern – Forest Heights CC (Statesboro, Ga.) 
Sept. 29-30 – Tot Hill Farm Invitational – Tot Hill Farm (Asheboro, N.C.)
Oct. 13-14 – Terrier Intercollegiate  – CC of Spartanburg (Spartanburg, S.C.)  
Oct. 27-28 – Edisto Island Invitational (36-18) – Plantation Course (Edisto Island, S.C.)
 
Spring 2026 
Feb 20-22 – Reynolds Lake Oconee Invitational – Great Waters- Reynolds Lake Oconee  (Greensboro, Ga.)
March 3-5 – Puerto Rico Iguana Invitational – Palmas Athletic Club (Puerto Rico) 
March 9-10 – Low Country Intercollegiate – The Golf Club @ Indigo Run (Hilton Head Island, S.C.)
March 28-30 – Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic – Univ. of Georgia Golf Course (Athens, Ga.) 
April 20-22 – 2026 SoCon Women's Golf Championship (18-18-18) – Columbia CC (Columbia, S.C.)