Cullowhee, N.C. – Western Carolina first-year head women’s golf coach Anne Marie Covar has added a mid-year transfer in sophomore Abby Bradley of Castlewood, Va., who has spent the past year and a half competing at NCAA Division II Emory & Henry in Virginia.
 
Bradley had a solid first semester as a sophomore in the fall of 2023, collecting her first career individual medalist honor as part of a pair of podium finishes. She won the 36-hole University of Charleston Invitational back in early September, posting rounds of 76 and 74 to claim a three-stroke victory. She tied for the tournament-high with five birdies and was tied for fourth among the field in total pars with 19.
 
With a trio of top-five finishes including a win and a runner-up finish in the fall, Bradley posted a semester stroke average of 78.11 over nine rounds in the fall.
 

As a freshman in 2023-24, Bradley competed in all nine tournaments for the Wasps, finishing with a single-season scoring average of 79.47 across 19 rounds. Along the way, she recorded four top-five finishes and finished among the individual Top 10 seven times. She twice tied for a career-best second, finishing as the runner-up at the D&E Battle at Brunswick (Sept. 11-12, 2023) and at the Alice Lloyd Spring Invitational (March 23-24, 2024).
 
She capped her freshman season by being selected to the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) Commissioner’s Honor Roll.
 

Bradley excelled at Castlewood High before accepting both a golf and academic scholarship to Emory & Henry. She holds the distinction of being the first girls’ golfer in CHS history to be selected to play in the Virginia Girls High School Golf Championship.
 

In addition to golf, Bradley was on the girls’ cross country and track & field teams as a prep.
 
Bradley joins a Catamount roster of six that features a pair of seniors in leading-scorer Elizabeth Lohbauer and Canadian-born Kaitlyn Wingnean, and a third upperclassman in junior Sadler Miller. A trio of freshmen who just completed their first semester collegiately round out the roster with Raleigh native Annalee Caveney, a second canuck in Saskatchewan’s Ella Kozak, and a second Virginian in Mechanicsville’s Madison Lehr.
 
Following five tournaments in the fall, Western Carolina women’s golf opens the spring portion of its 2024-25 schedule in late February, traveling to Reynolds Lake Oconee in Greensboro, Ga., to compete in the Reynolds Lake Oconee Invitational on the Great Waters Course. WCU’s spring slate includes a return trip to Puerto Rico in early March followed by a pair of in-state tournaments at NC State’s City of Oaks Collegiate March 21-22 and the Catamounts look to defend their tournament title at the Mimosa Hills Intercollegiate in Morganton, N.C., March 31 and April 1.
 
The regular season culminates with the 2025 Southern Conference Women’s Golf Championship, moving this year to the Solina Golf Club in West Columbia, S.C., April 13-15. The team champion and individual medalist if not on the winning team will garner automatic berths into the NCAA regional play.
 
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