2025-26 Carson-Newman Women's Golf News

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Fall Frosty Awards Nominees: Upset of the Year
Fall Frosty Awards Nominees: Upset of the Year

From now until Jan. 3, the Carson-Newman Athletic Communications Department will debut the Frosty Award nominees for the fall semester.  These are the fall nominees for Upset of the Year. Monday, we'll unveil the Comeback of the Year. 

Fall Frosty Awards Nominees: Female Freshman of the Year
Fall Frosty Awards Nominees: Female Freshman of the Year

From now until Jan. 3, the Carson-Newman Athletic Communications Department will debut the Frosty Award nominees for the fall semester.  These are the fall nominees for Female Freshman of the Year. Sunday, we'll unveil the Upset of the Year. 

Fall Frosty Awards Nominees: Team Performance of the Year
Fall Frosty Awards Nominees: Team Performance of the Year

From now until Jan. 3, the Carson-Newman Athletic Communications Department will debut the Frosty Award nominees for the fall semester.  These are the fall nominees for Team Performance of the Year. Saturday, we'll unveil the candidates for Female Newcomer of the Year. 

A Biblical Connection
A Biblical Connection

Shortly before he passed away in 2016, legendary Carson-Newman head football coach Ken Sparks confided in his friend, former quarterback and assistant coach David Needs, a hope he would like fulfilled. A goal that Needs then the head track coach at Carson-Newman took on as a personal challenge. 

Picot finishes top 10, Fisher in the red while Eagles slot in 12th on the final day of the LeeAnn Noble Memorial
Picot finishes top 10, Fisher in the red while Eagles slot in 12th on the final day of the LeeAnn Noble Memorial

Anaelle Picot strung together three impressive rounds while Emery Fisher shot her best round of the tournament at -1, but the Eagles wouldn’t gain ground on the loaded field.

Picot sits in the top three while C-N Women’s golf slotted twelfth in tough field
Picot sits in the top three while C-N Women’s golf slotted twelfth in tough field

The Eagles improved by two strokes in round two with exceptional play from Picot and Lambert, sitting a stroke behind Erskine and nine strokes out of the top 10.

Final event for women’s golf gives Eagles a chance to finish inside the top 25 in Division II
Final event for women’s golf gives Eagles a chance to finish inside the top 25 in Division II

Carson-Newman will travel to Dahlonega, Georgia, for the LeeAnn Noble Invitational to face a loaded field of 16 teams, 12 of which are ranked or receiving votes.

Three Eagles finish inside the top 25 at St. Simons Island Intercollegiate for 5th-place team finish
Three Eagles finish inside the top 25 at St. Simons Island Intercollegiate for 5th-place team finish

The Eagles Women’s golf team notched a score of +14 on the third day to finish in fifth place below Flagler, Lander, Wingate, and West Florida, who were all ranked teams last season.

Eagles sit in the top five after two rounds at the St. Simons Intercollegiate
Eagles sit in the top five after two rounds at the St. Simons Intercollegiate

With a ten-stroke improvement from round one to two, Carson-Newman sits three strokes out of third place with three players in the top 25.

Fisher grabs medalist honors in a playoff while women’s golf grabs top three at Savannah Lakes Invitational
Fisher grabs medalist honors in a playoff while women’s golf grabs top three at Savannah Lakes Invitational

Fisher and Lee’s Hannah Nall would duke it out in a one-hole playoff, where she would win on the 18th hole while C-N recorded the lowest round of the day to jump three spots for third place.

Fisher cards another round of under par and sits inside the top ten after day one
Fisher cards another round of under par and sits inside the top ten after day one

All five Eagles tallied rounds of 70 or better in round one and sit just outside the top five in the team standings, while Emery Fisher sits two under and is solo fourth in the field.

Lander hosts Savannah Lakes Women’s Fall Invite as women’s golf looks to build upon last week
Lander hosts Savannah Lakes Women’s Fall Invite as women’s golf looks to build upon last week

Women’s golf will head to McCormick, South Carolina to face a field of 15 that includes the #13 Lee Lady Flames and #19 Lander.

Grace Lambert finishes final round at even par to help women’s golf finish 13th at the NCAA DII South Regional Preview
Grace Lambert finishes final round at even par to help women’s golf finish 13th at the NCAA DII South Regional Preview

Lambert would shoot her second round of the year in the 70s while a few scores from C-N in the low eighties would slot the Eagles 13th in the 16-team field.

Emery Fisher holds the solo lead after day one of the NCAA DII South Regional Preview
Emery Fisher holds the solo lead after day one of the NCAA DII South Regional Preview

While the team sits in 13th after the first two rounds, the junior is one under after 36 holes and holds a stroke lead over second place.

Women’s golf gets first look at D2 Southeast Regional course in opening fall tournament
Women’s golf gets first look at D2 Southeast Regional course in opening fall tournament

After a historic season last year where Carson-Newman Women’s Golf made the Southeast regional for the first time since 2010, the Eagles will open up the fall slate with an intimate look at what they will be facing come the championship season.

McElhaney named Director of Compliance, Petz adds SWA duties
McElhaney named Director of Compliance, Petz adds SWA duties

JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – Carson-Newman Vice President for Athletics Matt Pope has announced the promotion of Camden McElhaney to be the athletic department’s third-ever Director of Compliance, while Director of Sports Medicine Kelsey Petz becomes the third woman to take up the mantle of SWA.