TOWSON, Md. – The Towson women's golf team will play its third tournament of the 2022 spring campaign beginning this weekend at Babs Steffens Invitational in Daytona Beach, Florida. The two-day event, hosted by Stetson, will take place at the LPGA International-Hills Course on Sunday, March 27 and Monday, March 28.

Head coach Shannon Briggs announced that Odette Font Garcia, Jordan Cornelius, Faith McIlvain, Julia Calomiris and Rayab Lee will be competing for the Tigers at the event.

The same five helped Towson finish in 8^th place last weekend at the Red Rocks Invitational. During the second round, Font Garcia broke the program record with a 5-under par 67 and the team established a new team score with a 2-under 286.

The Babs Steffens features 15 teams – Towson, Stetson, Alabama State, Bethune Cookman, Boston University, Campbell, Cincinnati, Fairleigh Dickinson, Georgetown, Jacksonville, North Alabama, Northern Kentucky, Quinnipiac, Seminole State and Texas A&M Corpus Christi. A total of 79 players are expected to play, including individuals.

Sunday, which will consist of the first and second rounds, and Monday's third round will begin with an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start on the 6,005-yard par 72 Hills course. Since 1994, LPGA International has been the home course of the LPGA. Both Hills and its sister course, Jones, have hosted numerous tour events including the final stage of the LPGA Tour Qualifying School.

Live scoring will be done through www.golfstat.com.

Towson will play the Hoya Invitational on April 9-10 at Woodmont Country Club in Bethesda prior to the Colonial Athletic Association Championship at St. James Reserve Course in Southport, North Carolina from April 15-17.

CAA GOLFER OF THE WEEK
Coming off a record setting performance last weekend at the Red Rocks Invitational, Odette Font Garcia was named Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Golfer of the Week by the league office Wednesday afternoon.

Font Garcia, a freshman from Spain, shot a 5-under 67 during the second round of the Red Rocks Invitational at Oakcreek Country Club in Sedona, Arizona to break to school record of 68 (-4) held by three players: former Tiger standout Alix Lowe (10-10-17) and current seniors Jordan Cornelius (3-23-19) and Julia Calomiris (9-21-21).

Font Garcia was -4 through 16 holes Saturday afternoon when the round was suspended because of darkness. She came out Sunday morning and birdied her final hole to set the record, making five birdies and 13 pars during the round.

Font Garcia followed up her record breaking round with a 1-over 73 Sunday, which included an eagle on the Par 5 18^th hole, to finish tied for 15^th overall out of 104 players at 4-over par.

RECORDS ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN
On September 21, 2021, the Tigers broke the school record for lowest team round by shooting a 2-over par 290 during the final round of the Pirate Collegiate Classic in Greenville, N.C. The record lasted less than four tournaments.

Last Saturday, March 19, during the second round of the Red Rocks Invitational, Odette Font Garcia's record round of 67 helped Towson break the team scoring record for a round as the top four performers shot a combined 2-under 286. Font Garcia (-5), sophomore Faith McIlvain (-1), Cornelius (E) and Calomiris (+4) were the four scores used. The 286 was the best of the 19 teams during the second round of the tournament and vaulted Towson into sixth place after 36 holes.

DYNAMIC DUO
Julia Calomiris and Jordan Cornelius arrived on campus together in September 2018 and over the last four years been fixtures in the lineup. They shared the program record, along with Alix Lowe, for lowest single round until Odette Font Garcia broke it March 19.

Calomiris has made the travel roster for all 26 tournaments during her career. Heading into this tournament, she is averaging 77.4 strokes, which includes a career best 68 at the Pirate Invitational on September 21, 2021. She finished 15^th at last spring's Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) tournament.
 
Cornelius, who has played in 23 of 26 events, was the first Towson women's golfer to earn All-Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) honors after finishing tied for third at the 2019 CAA Championship. A month earlier, she shot a 68 during the third round of the Anuenue Spring Break Classic (March 23, 2019) in Hawaii. Her career scoring average is 77.0.  

In the 23 tournaments together, one of the two has been the top Towson finisher 16 times: Cornelius-10, Calomiris-6.

STUDENT-ATHLETES
The Towson women's golf team has the fourth highest Grade Point Average (GPA) among the 19 Athletics teams with a 3.523 cumulative GPA after the fall 2021 semester. Emma Cox, who earned a perfect 4.0 GPA in the fall, has a 3.931 overall GPA, while Julia Calomiris, who also had a perfect GPA in the fall, enters her final semester with a 3.768. Madeline Catalano (3.555), Madison Barber (3.425), Faith McIlvain (3.417), Rayab Lee (3.180) and Jordan Cornelius (3.062) are Honor Roll students.