Moon Township, Pa.-Tess Wolfe (Beaver Falls, Pa. / Blackhawk), who just completed her freshman season on the Robert Morris University women's golf team, was named to the National Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar Team. Wolfe, a mathematics major, is the only player from the Northeast Conference to earn the honor and the fourth Colonial in the last three seasons to be placed on the team.
Wolfe had the fifth-best scoring average on the team in her freshman campaign at 86.4 per 18 holes. She finished the year by posting three top-10 finishes in the team's final four tournaments, highlighted by a third-place showing at the Saint Francis Red Flash Invitational. Her three-event stretch began with a ninth-place showing at the FDU Knights Invitational and ended with a seventh-place tie at Mount St. Mary's Spring Invitational.
Over 17 rounds, she averaged 15 strokes over par. Her low-round of the season was a 10-over par round of 80 at the season-opening Bucknell Women's Invitational.
The NGCA All-American Scholar Teams for Division I, II & III were announced with a total of 494 women's collegiate golfers recognized with this prestigious honor. The criteria for selection to the All-American Scholar Team are some of the most stringent in all of college athletics. The minimum cumulative GPA is 3.50 and student-athletes must have competed in at least 50% (Division I) or 66% (Division II & III) of the college's regularly scheduled competitive rounds during the year.