BUIES CREEK, N.C. – Campbell continues is fall 2023 women's golf schedule next week in the Red Raider Invitational at The Rawls Course in Lubbock, Texas.
 
The 54-hole event begins Monday and runs through Tuesday on the par-72 Tom Doak design.  The field includes Big 12 Conference members host Texas Tech and Cincinnati, plus Iowa of the Big Ten.  Campbell is the only CAA school in the 11-team field.
 
Head coach John Crooks and associate head coach Ashley Sease will take a lineup to the Lone Star State that includes four members of last season's Big South Conference champions.  In addition to freshman Alicia Olsson, red-shirt sophomores Izabella Grimbrandt and Taylah Ellems, sophomore Isabella Hahne and senior Sanna Lundmark will compete for the Camels.
 
Led by Olsson's seventh-place individual showing, Campbell tied for sixth at the season-opening Golfweek Fall Challenge.
 
The Red Raider Invitational is the second event in Campbell's inaugural season as a member of the Coastal Athletic Association (CAA).
 
Red Raider Invitational
The Rawls Course / Lubbock, Texas
Par 72, 6562 Yards / Sept. 25-26, 2023
 
Live Scoring: Golfstat.com
 
Format: 54 holes (36-18). 8:00 a.m. shotgun start Monday and Tuesday.
 
The Field (11 teams): Abilene Christian, Campbell, Cincinnati, Houston Christian, Incarnate Word, Iowa, Oklahoma City, Princeton, Texas Tech, UTEP, UTRGV.
 
The Course – The Rawls Course (Par 72, 6562 yards): The Rawls Course opened in 2003 and is a West Texas masterpiece designed by renowned architect Tom Doak. The course was created for Texas Tech University and was designed by taking a flat cotton field on the high plains of the West Texas panhandle and creating an entire landscape from scratch. Doak moved 1.3 million cubic yards of topsoil and shaped the earth to mimic the land east and south of Lubbock where the great plain suddenly starts falling into the valleys and canyons that lead to the Caprock region.
 
The Coach: Now in his 34th year in charge of the Campbell men's golf program and 33rd as head coach of the CU women, John Crooks has been named league coach of the year 23 times in his tenure.  His teams have combined to earn 35 NCAA post-season trips, including 11 in a row for the women.  His teams have won 160 tournaments and with 99 career tournament titles, Crooks trails only Dan Brooks of Duke (141) on the all-time coaching victories list among Division I women's coaches.  He has guided his teams to 27 league titles, including 19 on the women's side and eight in men's competition.
 
The Lineup:
Freshman Alicia Olsson (Amal, Sweden) posted a T7 individual finish in her collegiate debut at the Golfweek Fall Challenge (73-71-70—214, +1).  She is a two-time (2021, 2022) Varmland Player of the Year, who finished 10th at the 2022 French International Ladies Amateur Championship stroke play.
 
Red-shirt sophomore Izabella Grimbrandt (Stockholm, Sweden) tied for 35th place at the season-opening Golfweek Fall Challenge (73-75-74—222, +9).  She competed in four events last season and produced a 75.4 stroke average over 10 rounds.  She owns a career-best T8 finish (70-69-71—210, -3) to help CU win the 2022 Golfweek Fall Challenge at Caledonia.
 
Sophomore Isabella Hahne (Kungsbacka, Sweden) opened the year with a T62 finish (76-79-73—228, +15) at the Golfweek Fall Challenge.  She was named the 2023 Big South Conference Freshman of the Year, as well as to the all-conference first team, and to the all-championship team.  She owns three top-10 finishes in 11 career events, including a T 1st (70-76-69—215) at the 2023 Sea Best Intercollegiate at San Jose.
 
Red-shirt sophomore Taylah Ellems (Canberra, Australia) is making her season debut at the Red Raider Invitational.  A Big South all-freshman team selection in 2023, Ellems competed in nine events and produced a 77.24 scoring average last season.  She was in the lineup for all three rounds at the 2023 NCAA Raleigh Regional.
 
Senior Sanna Lundmark (Skellefea, Sweden) placed T35 (77-73-72—222, +9) at the Golfweek Fall Challenge.  She is a three-time WGCA All-America Scholar and all-conference performer and owns six career top-10 finishes.  The 2023 Big South Scholar-Athlete of the Year, Lundmark was an all-conference second team choice after she finished 7th among Big South stroke average leaders (75.14).