Women’s golf finishes 12th in season-opening tournament
The Seton Hall women’s golf team opened its 2021 spring season with a 12th-place finish at the All-State Sugar Bowl Invitational at the English Turn Country Club this past weekend. Lizzie Win shot a 2-over-par, 74 in Tuesday’s final round including four birdies. Win finished tied for 32nd overall among individual golfers at 15-over-par for the tournament. Off the back of a strong senior year, Win returned to the team this...
Men’s golf returns to tournament play at Pinnacle Bank Intercollegiate
The Seton Hall men’s golf finished tied for 13th place out of a 16-team field at the Pinnacle Bank Invitational in Hilton Head, S.C. on Tuesday. Graduate student Alex McAuley led the Pirates on Day Two with a round of even-par, 72. McAuley finished with five birdies Tuesday. Photo via SHU Athletics Senior Alex Acevedo was Seton Hall’s best performer at the tournamnet, finishing 5-over-par in the final round and tied 34th among...
Men’s Golf team excited about return to play
One of the hardest things a person must do is wait. When the thing that someone is waiting on is something they love and are passionate about, the longing becomes even more intense. For the Seton Hall men’s golf team, the wait to return to the course and the game they love has lasted almost a year. Since playing their last tournament at Bandon Dunes in Oregon last March, the team had to deal with the initial shock of having their...
Limited number of fans allowed at New Jersey pro and college sports games
Feb. 23, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. Seton Hall Athletics announced on Tuesday that they plan to allow a limited number of fans to attend Mar. 3’s game against the University of Connecticut. Full story here. Feb. 22, 2021 at 1:20 p.m. Seton Hall Athletics issued a statement stating they are currently working with the Prudential Center to potentially host fans for their Mar. 3 game against the University of Connecticut. “We have...
Seton Hall golf teams adapt to new normal
Seton Hall student-athletes received crushing news in mid-August when the Big East announced the cancellation of all fall sports due to COVID-19. Despite the lack of sports, almost all Pirates sports teams have continued training — albeit in a bizarre new normal. The women’s and men’s golf teams have done so in different ways. The men’s team continues to practice as a team but has encountered difficulty in finding tee times due to an...
Senior Sendoff Series: Alex Chalk
All throughout the months of June and July, The Setonian will be talking to senior student-athletes from the softball, baseball, golf and tennis teams who were unable to play out their final season at Seton Hall. We want to commemorate their time as Pirates and shed light on their accomplishments as well as their plans after graduation. In our first feature of the series, Matt Collins talks to Alex Chalk of men’s golf. Coming to...
Senior spotlight: golf unable to build on fall success
In a perfect world, the Seton Hall women’s and men’s golf teams would be competing at the Big East Championship this weekend and next weekend, respectively. However, as is well known, that plan was derailed due to season cancellations. For both programs, a chance to build upon a successful fall season has been denied. The women, led by Natalie Desjardins, and the men, led by Clay White, each had formidable rosters and looked to excel...
Pirates golf puts forth strong performance over weekend
The Seton Hall women’s golf team finished with another strong performance over the weekend, placing fourth in the Rio Verde Invitational out of a field of 18 teams. The Pirates continue to place within the top-five and have never placed farther than fourth throughout the whole 2019-2020 season. The Pirates ended with a team total of 42-over-par, 306-296-304, and a total stroke count of 906. Individually, the Pirates...
Women’s golf has lofty goals for spring season
The women’s golf team and coach Natalie Desjardins enter the spring with high expectations. The team is seasoned and experienced, due in large part to the production of its four seniors, Lizzie Win, Maddie Sager, Sammie Staudt and Carolina Ronchel-Salas. Desjardins came to Seton Hall in 2017 from LIU Brooklyn, arriving in South Orange a year after three of her seniors did. Desjardins’ defection from LIU spurred Ronchel- Salas to...
Men’s golf returns with focus on the 15th club
For the four upperclassmen on the men’s golf team, the desire to win more has been brewing for four years. Alex Chalk, Gregor Tait, Andres Acevedo and Alex McAuley led the naming of the mental core values for this year’s squad to help them ac- complish team and personal goals. Last semester, men’s golf had one of the highest GPAs among student athlete teams...
Maddie Sager inching closer to Big East success
The Seton Hall women’s golf team is off to its lowest Golfstat team ranking, 54th, since the program began in 2010, thanks to stellar play from top to bottom. Among the golfers having wonderful seasons is Maddie Sager. Two of the biggest goals coming into the season for the Phoenixville, P.A. native was to lower her scoring average – a feat she has accomplished every year – and win her first tournament. In her...
Fouratt, Sager off to dominant starts
The Seton Hall women’s golf is off to a torrid start to the fall season, receiving third and first place results in their first two tournaments. At the Nittany Lion Invitational on Sept. 21 and 22, the Pirates were especially clinical at the top, as Sarah Fouratt and Maddie Sager tied for first place as individual champions with one other competitor for the tournament. The duo each had their own successes throughout the two days....