Overview
Stockton Women's Golf competed seven times during the 2024-25 season, playing three events in the fall and four more in the spring. The Ospreys achieved measures of individual success, with four of the five golfers who played during the season recording personal bests during the year.
The season was the final one for
Rodger Gottlieb as head coach. After seven years getting the program up and running as its initial head coach, Gottlieb elected to take a step back and become the assistant coach for 2025-26 in a role switch with
Bruce Chelucci, who was the assistant coach for the past two years.
The Ospreys competed in tournaments in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. One golfer played seven of the team's eight total rounds while one teammate played six rounds and another played four. Three team members competed during the fall semester and then graduated in December.
Team Leaders:
Best Scoring Average:
Elenora Byrne, 85.4
Best Round:
Elenora Byrne, 78
Most Rounds Played:
Elenora Byrne, 7
Highlights
- Elenora Byrne led Stockton with a scoring average of 85.4 in a team-high seven rounds played. Byrne shot a career-best 78 and won in a field of 12 players at the Kean Tri-Match. She broke 90 in six of her seven rounds including cracking 80 twice by following up her 78 with a 79 three days later at the Ocean County College Spring Invitational.
- Lexi Hughes joined Byrne as the mainstays of the team who played in both semesters. Hughes played six of Stockton's eight rounds, highlighted by a career-best 123 in the Ocean County College Spring Invitational.
- Paula Handel played four rounds in the fall semester and posted a 104.5 scoring average. After finishing the previous season with four straight scores of 107 or better, Handel picked up right where she left off and added four more rounds of 107 or better. She shot a personal-best 101 on day two of the Arcadia Golden Oaks Shootout.
- Madison Sauder returned to the squad for the first time since the team's inaugural 2019-20 season. Sauder played two rounds in the fall and recorded her best two career scores with a 103 at the Stockton Fall Invitational and a 104 at the Albright Women's Invitational.
- Ella van Schalkwyk concluded her career with a 102 at the Albright Women's Invitational in her lone round of the season. The tournament was van Schalkwyk's 35th career round as an Osprey, which is the most by any golfer in the program's six intercollegiate seasons.