The Lake Forest College women's golf team began 2025-26 with a sixth-place finish at Carthage College's Ives Grove Firebird Women's Fall Classic on Friday and Saturday.

Senior Alijah Campbell was the Foresters' top finisher at the tournament, tying for ninth place in the 90-player field with a 36-hole score of 157. She was the only player at the event to birdie six different holes in the two rounds combined and just six golfers had better scores on Saturday than her career-best 76 (+4).

Fellow senior Gabrielle Krebs finished three shots behind Campbell and tied-for-15th overall with a final score of 160.  Just four of her competitors had more than her 22 pars over the course of the weekend and she tied for sixth at the tournament in par-4 scoring at 4.35.

Freshmen Sophie Smith and Eva Kennedy tied for 23rd and 38th, respectively, in their collegiate debuts. Smith carded back-to-back rounds of 82 and was one shot ahead of Kennedy on Friday and two on Saturday. Sophomore Amanda Adley matched Kennedy in the first round and had an 89 in the second to finish tied-for-53rd.

Aurora University was the team champion with a two-day total of 608, which was 22 shots better than runner-up University of Northwestern, St. Paul and 26 ahead of Carthage. The next three teams in the standings were separated by just four strokes with Lake Forest's score of 648 narrowly trailing fourth-place North Central College (644) and fifth-place University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

The next event on the Foresters' schedule is next Friday's WLC Invitational. The tournament, hosted by Wisconsin Lutheran College, will be played at Washington County Golf Course in Hartford, Wisconsin.