2024-25 Women's Golf Roster
Olivares Leon, Lauren
Marie Madsen NCAA Regional Interview
Thursday, May 08
Coach Page Marsh Announces Her Retirement
Wednesday, January 10
Page Marsh Announces Retirement
Wednesday, January 10
WGOLF Mexico Connection Feature
Thursday, February 03
Lauren Olivares Leon
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Celaya, Mexico
- Major:
- Management
Bio
CAREER TOURNAMENT RECORD
CAREER HONORS:
2023 Briar's Creek Invitational Co-Champion
2024 Briar's Creek Invitational Co-Champion
2024 All-ACC Women's Golf Team
NCAA record holder for lowest round (60, -11) at Cougar Classic (9/11/23)
First woman in collegiate golf to shoot a 60 in a round
Program single season stroke average record (72.18 in 2023-24)
JUNIOR (2023-24):
SOPHOMORE (2022-23):
FRESHMAN (2021-22):
PERSONAL/PREP:
CAREER HONORS:
2023 Briar's Creek Invitational Co-Champion
2024 Briar's Creek Invitational Co-Champion
2024 All-ACC Women's Golf Team
NCAA record holder for lowest round (60, -11) at Cougar Classic (9/11/23)
First woman in collegiate golf to shoot a 60 in a round
Program single season stroke average record (72.18 in 2023-24)
2024-25 BESTS
Low Round: 69 (2x), Round 3 at Collegiate Invitational (2/1/25) and Round 1 at Landfall Tradition (10/25/24)
Low Tournament: 210 (69-70-71), Landfall Tradition (10/25-27/24)
Best Finish: T1st, Landfall Tradition (10/25-27/24)
COLLEGIATE BESTS
Low Round: 60, Round 1 at Cougar Classic (9/11/23)
Low Tournament: 200 (60-72-68), Cougar Classic (9/11-12/23)
Best Finish: T1st (3x), Landfall Tradition (10/25-27/24), 2024 Briar’s Creek Invitational (3/11-12/24) and 2023 Briar’s Creek Invitational (3/13-14/23)
AS A SENIOR (2024-25)
- Played in 10 tournaments in her final season in Raleigh
- Finished No. 88 in the Scoreboard Powered by Clippd Ranking and left college as the No. 72 ranked player in the WAGR
- Made her name in several spots of the record brook, becoming the school record holder for career stroke average (72.75) and career wins (3) and No. 4 in most rounds played (115)
- Logged a 72.93 scoring average with 12 rounds at par or better and two rounds in the 60s as a senior
- Tallied 67 birdies and 352 pars as a senior
- Began the season with a tie for 11th with a 1-under 212 (70-72-70) at the Cavalier Regional Preview
- Earned her third career win to tie the school record at the Landfall Tradition, sharing the individual medalist title with a 4-under 210 (69-70-71)
- Tallied fourth at the Collegiate Invitational in Guadalajara, Mexico, logging a 4-under 212 (70-73-69)
- Registered a 2-under 214 (72-72-70) to place 11th at the Daniel Island Invitational
- Logged a tie for 13th with an even-par 144 (73-71) at the City of Oaks Collegiate
- Competed at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, one of 72 amateurs in the world invited to play at the event, finishing with an even-par 142 (73-69)
- Recorded a tie for 43rd with a 10-over 226 (76-71-79) at the ACC Championship
- Finished her collegiate career at the NCAA Charlottesville Regional, logging a tie for 21st with a 5-over 218 (72-74-72)
JUNIOR (2023-24):
- Tabbed to the All-ACC Women’s Golf Team to become the Pack’s first all-conference honoree since 2018 and eighth in program history
- Finished the year ranked No. 65, according to the Scoreboard by Clippd rankings
- Played in 10 tournaments for 28 rounds
- Recorded a single-season program record and team’s best 72.18 scoring average, 13 rounds at par or better and six rounds in the 60s
- Earned one individual co-medalist honor, four top 10 finishes and six top 20 showings
- Kicked off her junior year by setting an NCAA record 60 (-11) behind 13 birdies (eight in a row and 10 in her last 11 holes) in the first round of the Cougar Classic, finishing with a 13-under 200 (60-72-68) to log third place out of 96 golfers
- Tied for 16th with a 3-over 147 (70-77) at the Blessings Collegiate Invitational, as the third round was rained out in Fayetteville, Arkansas
- Registered a tie for 29th with a 4-over 217 (72-73-72) at the Mercedes Benz Collegiate Championship
- Tallied a tie for 36th with a 15-over 231 (77-78-76) at the Collegiate Invitational in Guadalajara, Mexico
- Repeated as the co-individual medalist at the Briar’s Creek Invitational, logging a 5-under 211 (74-69-68) in the field of 102 golfers
- Became one of two NC State players in team history to earn multiple carer wins
- The win at Briar’s Creek marked the second in her career
- Logged a tie for 14th with a 3-over 219 (71-75-75) at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic
- Went 3-0 in Wolfpack Match Play, defeating Virginia Tech’s Emily Matthews (4&2), Princeton’s Julia Kashimura (7&4) and Augusta’s Victoria Zheng (2UP)
- Logged a tie for seventh with a 4-under 212 (69-70-73) at the ACC Championship
- Earned an individual bid at the NCAA Bermuda Run Regional, logging a 6-under 210 (70-70-70) to tie for seventh out of 63 golfers
SOPHOMORE (2022-23):
- Competed in all 11 tournaments for the Wolfpack as a sophomore, one of four players on the team to do so
- Compiled a 72.71 stroke average in 31 rounds played during the 2022-23 campaign, which ranked fourth in the program's single-season stroke average records
- Captured her first collegiate win at the Briar's Creek Invitational from March 13-14, shooting under par in every round for a 6-under 210 (68-71-71)
- Of the 31 rounds she played, 29 counted toward the team tournament score
- Had a total of 16 even par or under par rounds during her sophomore season
- Set both 18-hole (67, -5) and 54-hole (208, -8) individual postseason program records at the NCAA Raleigh Regional May 8-10, tying for second individually, marking the best regional finish by any Wolfpack player in program history
- Logged a season-low round of 67 in the first round of the NCAA Raleigh Regional marked a postseason low round record, beating out the team’s previous NCAA Tournament best of 68 (-4)
- Secured total of six top-20 finishes in 2022-23, and in addition to her win at the Briar's Creek Invitational, also tied for fourth at the Ivy Intercollegiate on Oct. 10, which was her best career finish before her win in March
- At the Ivy Intercollegiate, tallied six birdies in addition to an eagle on the par-five seventh hole in her opening round
- Led the team at the ACC Championships where she tied for 19th with her score of 220 (+4), shooting an even 72 in the final round of action
- Led the Wolfpack at the NCAA Championships, finishing tied for 65th in her debut at the event with a 6-over 222 (76-75-71)
- Logged three under-par tournament scores with the Pack, playing all 54 holes in each of those: Briar's Creek Invitational, NCAA Raleigh Regional and ICON Invitational (72-72-72=215)
- Picked up a pair of wins at the Wolfpack Match Play event from April 3-4, defeating Duke’s Andie Smith, 1UP and Louisville’s Mairead Martin, 3&2
- Also earned a match play win at the Ivy Intercollegiate with a 1UP win over Penn’s Julie Shin
FRESHMAN (2021-22):
- Broke the freshman scoring average record with a team-leading 73.19 for the year, which also ranked fourth all-time in single season scoring average at NC State (at the time)
- Played in all 10 tournaments for the Pack and was the top finisher for the squad in five of them
- Of the 27 rounds she played, 22 of those were a 75 or lower, as 11 of them were at even or under par, highlighted by a career-low 69 in the final round of the UCF Challenge on Feb. 8
- Best showing of the year was at the Bryan National Collegiate on Sept. 26-28 where she captured her first collegiate top 10 finish with a tie for seventh behind a career-best 3-under 213 (at the time)
- Also earned top 20 finishes at the UCF Challenge on Feb. 6-8 (T13) and the VyStar Gators Invitational on March 5-6 (T14)
- All 27 of her rounds counted towards the team’s tournament total, the only player on the team to do so
PERSONAL/PREP:
- Finished third in the Mexican national rankings during the 2019-20 year
- Owns a combined 16 top-10 finishes, including 10 top-three showings, in national and international tournament play since 2018
- Was ranked No. 960 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings (WAGR) when she arrived at NC State, now ranking inside the top 75 at No. 66
- Received 'Lo Mejor del Deporte Amateur Municipal' (The Best Amateur Sport Municipal 2020) in 2015 and '20 in her state of Guanajuato, which recognizes successful young athletes who have represented the state
- Has an extensive resume in team tournament play, helping her team win the 2019 Mexico Golf Cup, was selected to represent Mexico at the 2019 Toyota Junior Golf World Championship in Japan where the squad finished second and led Team Mexico to a third-place finish at the 2019 Girls Junior Americas Cup in California where she took fourth place as an individual
- Logged fourth at the 2024 LNGA Amateur Championship with a 7-under 209 (70-73-66)
- Finished in fifth at the 2024 Women's Western Amateur Championship