No. 22 Women's Golf at the Jack Leaman Invitational
Saturday-Sunday, April 11-12
The Orchards Golf Club | South Hadley, Mass.
WHAT TO KNOW
• The 22nd-ranked Babson women's golf team will travel to western Massachusetts to compete against some of the top program's in the country at the Jack Leaman Invitational for the third season in a row on Saturday and Sunday.
• The 11-team field will compete at The Orchards Golf Club, a 5,665-yard, par 72 layout that hosed the U.S. Women's Open in 2004 and was designed by famed architect Donlad Ross back in 1922.
2025 JACK LEAMAN INVITATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
• Sophomores
Alice Zhu and
Jennie Pan both shot 79 as Babson tied for ninth with a score of 335 as last year's tournament was shortened to 18 holes because of poor weather conditions.
• Zhu and Pan tied for 21st place at 7-over and sophomore
Hannah McCarthy carded a 12-over 84 to tie for 44th position as the Beavers ended the round deadlocked with Trinity.
ABOUT THE BEAVERS
• No. 22 Babson is coming off a fourth-place finish in the one-day Hartford Invitational last Saturday at Blackledge CC in Hebron, Conn.
• First-year
Vanya Bansal tied for third place with a 4-over 76, junior
Victoria Salim shot a 79 to tie for 13th position at 7-over and the trio of McCarthy, junior
Laura Lu and first-year
Katie Yang all shot 81 to grab a share of 17th for the Beavers, who posted a team score of 317.
• Bansal has finished under par once and leads the team with a 77.17 stroke average over 12 rounds, Yang (78.90) owns a pair of top-15 showings and McCarthy (79.17) has finished among the top 35 three times in five tournaments of at least 36 holes.
• Salim has posted scores of 83-77-79 in three rounds during the 2025-26 campaign, and sophomore
Camila Amaya tied for 22nd at the Polar Bear Shootout in early October and shot 79-78-83 to finish fifth out of 16 players in the Indian Mound Invitational at Jekyll Island on March 20-22.
STRONG FIELD MEETS AT THE ORCHARDS
• The Beavers will continue to play against some of the top teams in both the region and all of Division III as seven of the 11 squads competing are currently ranked among the top 17 in the Scoreboard rankings.
• No. 2 NYU, the defending Jack Leaman Invitational champions, No. 4 Williams and No. 6 Amherst are all ranked among the top 10, while Hamilton (11), Middlebury (13), Wellesley (15) and Bowdoin (17) will all tee it up this weekend.
BEAVERS WELL-REPRESENTED IN THE SCOREBOARD RANKINGS
• In addition to being ranked 23rd nationally as a team, three Babson players are currently among the top 150 in the individual Division III rankings.
• Bansal enters the weekend ranked 79th, Yang is 86th and McCarthy is 147th, and all three players are also among the top 50 in the East region.
NUMBERS TO KNOW
• Babson owns a 313.00 team scoring average this season and has posted a score of 311 or better in five of 12 rounds this year.
• The winning score of the 2024 Jack Leaman Invitational was 608 by Wellesley and only one team, Amherst with its first round 299, broke 300.
• The Green and White has posted at least one score of 76 or better in nine of 12 rounds this season.
UP NEXT
• The Beavers will conclude the regular season at the Northeast Invitational on April 18-19.
