By: Rebecca Osowski

HANOVER, N.H. – On Wednesday, Carolyn A. Pelzel ’54a Head Coach of Women’s Golf Alex Kirk announced the three incoming student-athletes that will join the program for the 2024-25 season.
 
Amanda Adams is one of the two incoming first-years to join the Big Green. The Winchester, Massachusetts native has many golf and Dartmouth connections, including her mother, Tracy Welch ’93, whom she has won the Massachusetts Mother-Daughter State Golf Championship with four times.
 
Adams has also won the Hurricane Junior Golf Tour 2023 Boston Summer Finale, tied for sixth at the 2024 Massachusetts Women’s Stroke Play Championship, tied for tenth at the 2024 New England Women’s Amateur Junior Championship, as well as competed at the 2024 Optimist Junior Golf Championship.
 
Olivia Cong from Germantown, Maryland is the other of two first-years on the 2024-25 roster. Cong has succeeded on the course and in the classroom, earning AJGA Rolex Scholastic All-American honors as well as AP Scholar with Distinction as both a junior and senior at Poolesville.
 
On the course, Cong won the 2023 AJGA Mizuno/Keith Mitchell Junior Championship, has earned seven top-five finishes and two low final round awards in AJGA events, is a three time Maryland Public Secondary School Golf Stat Champion, and a four-year MVP.
 
Finally, joining the Big Green as a transfer student is Lauren Pham. Pham, originally from Las Vegas, Nevada, spent the last year at Kansas, being named to the Academic All-Big 12 Rookie Team.
 
She also excelled in high school, being named their women’s Golf Player of the Year in 2021 as well as being crowned the 2021 Las Vegas City Junior Amateur Champion and competing in the Elite Eight at the Women’s Western Junior and qualifying for the 72^nd USGA U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship.
 
The Big Green and newcomers Adams, Cong, and Pham will get the 2024-25 season underway on the first weekend of September, traveling to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for the Golfweek Invitational.