BUIES CREEK, N.C. – Campbell closes its fall women's golf schedule next week when the Camels compete in the UNCG Collegiate, Monday-Tuesday at Forest Oaks Country Club in Greensboro.
 
Through four events, Campbell has posted a 48-11-0 head-to-head record.  The Camels opened the year with runner-up finishes at the Golfweek Fall Challenge and Brittany Kelly Classic before winning the Tot Hill Farm Invitational.
 
Head coach Val Patino's lineup is back at full strength with the return of freshman Miah Rivas, who won the Golfweek event in her collegiate debut and was T5 at the Ball State tournament before missing the last two outings due to illness.  Junior Fanni Gronlund claimed her first collegiate win at Tot Hill Farm and was T5 at the Golfweek Fall Challenge.
 
Senior Jade Potter, who owns a pair of top-5 finishes, will also be in the lineup, along with freshmen Yukino Kudo (T6 at Tot Hill Farm) and Lohaijany Castillo.  Freshman Louisa Bloomfield will compete as an individual.
 
At No. 83 in the Scoreboard/Clippd national rankings, Campbell is the highest-rated team in the field.  The Camels will be paired with Augusta (86) and host UNCG (110) for Monday's first two rounds.
 
The 54-hole event begins with the first two rounds Monday, then concludes Tuesday on the par-72 Ellis Maples design.  Live scoring will be available at Scoreboard.clippd.com.
 
UNCG Collegiate
Forest Oaks CC | Par 72, 6028 Yards
Greensboro, N.C. | Oct. 19-20, 2026
 
Live Scoring: Scoreboard.clippd.com
 
Format: 54 holes (36-18) with 9:00 a.m. shotgun start Monday and Tuesday.
 
The Field (National Ranking): Augusta (86), Campbell (83), Catawba (25-D2), High Point (68-individuals), Lenior-Rhyne (29-D2), Marshall (243), UNC Greensboro (110), Queens (273), Wake Forest (1-individuals), Winthrop (230).
 
The Course – Forest Oaks Country Club (Par 72, 6028 yards): Forest Oaks Country Club first hosted a PGA TOUR event in 1962, the same year is opened.  From 1977-2007, Forest Oaks was the site of the Greater Greensboro Open.  The course underwent only minor alterations until 2002, when Davis Love III was hired to redesign it. The Ellis Maples design has been ranked among the top 50 courses in North Carolina.  Maples also designed Campbell's home course, Keith Hills Country Club, which opened in 1974.
 
The Coach: Val Patino is in her third season on the Fighting Camel staff and first a head coach after being promoted from associate head coach this summer.  In her first three tournaments as head coach, she guided the Camels to a team title (Tot Hill Farm Invitational) and two runner-up finishes (Golfweek Fall Challenge, Brittany Kelly Classic).  During two seasons assisting Hall of Fame coach John Crooks, Patino helped lead the Camels to one postseason bid (2025) and a pair of third-place finishes in the Coastal Athletic Conference Championship.  She has mentored 2025 CAA golfer of the year Alicia Olsson and the 2025 CAA rookie of the year Fanni Gronlund.  A former five-time Big Sky all-conference performer at Idaho, Patino was named assistant coach at Campbell in August 2024 and elevated to Associate Head Coach one year later.  She spent two years as graduate assistant coach at Ball State.
 
The Lineup:
 
Junior Fanni Gronlund (Kirkkonummi, Finland) owns the second-lowest scoring average (71.8) on the team this season with 7 rounds of par, or better golf.  She is ranked No. 250 in the nation.  Gronlund collected her first collegiate win – a T1 finish at the Tot Hill Farm Invitational (67-71-72—210), where she birdied 3 of the last five holes.  She was named CAA Golfer of the Week (Sept. 30).  Gronlund owns the 12th-lowest scoring average (min. 50 rounds) in school history (74.93) with six top-10 finishes in 24 outings.  She opened the season with a T5 effort (67-75-72—214, +1) at the Golfweek Fall Challenge, where she fired a collegiate-low 67 in the opening round at Caledonia.  Gronlund, who led the team with a 74.3 scoring average in '25-26, placed among the top-10 golfers in both the '25 (T10) and '26 (7th) CAA Championship.  Over the summer, she won the Finnish Strokeplay Championship and led Finland to a fourth-place finish in Women's European Team Championship.  She was named CAA Rookie of the Year in 2025 and is a two-time WGCA All-America Scholar.
Collegiate career low round: 67 (2026 Tot Hill Farm Invitational)
Career-best finish: T1 (2026 Tot Hill Farm Invitational)
 
Senior Jade Potter (Edinburgh, Scotland) posted her second top-5 finish of the season – a T4 at the Tot Hill Farm Invitational (70-70-74—214), where she was named to the all-tournament team.  She placed T5 at the Golfweek Fall Challenge (72-70-72—214, +1).  She has compiled a 72.7 scoring average through four events with 4 rounds of par, or better, golf and takes a No. 387 national ranking into the UNCG tourney.  Potter was a member of the 2026 CAA All-Championship team after a career-best T4 finish at the league tournament.  Over the summer, she represented Scotland at the European Ladies Team Championship and Home Internationals.
Collegiate career low round: 70 (4X, last 2026 Tot Hill Farm Invitational)
Career-best finish: T4 (2026 CAA Championship, 2026 Tot Hill Farm Invitational)
 
Freshman Miah Rivas (Guadalajara, Mexico) leads the team with a 71.3 stroke average, has played par, or better, golf four times in her first six collegiate rounds and takes a No. 280 national ranking into the UNCG tournament.  She became the first Campbell women's golfer in program history (since 1989-90) to win her collegiate debut, Sept. 6-8, at the Golfweek Fall Challenge.  At Caledonia, Rivas shot (68-73-69—210) to finish at 3-under par for a one stroke win in the 120-golfer field.  She was named CAA golfer of the week Sept. 9.  Rivas was the 10th Campbell freshman to win a tournament and the first since Isabella Hahne won the Sea Best Intercollegiate in the spring of 2023.  She followed with a T5 (70-72-76—218, +2) showing at the Brittany Kelly Classic.  Rivas has been ranked among the top five players in Mexico and is coming off a summer when she won three tournaments – the National Cup José de Jesús Rodríguez, Mexican Olympics CONADE and the Gaby López Open.
Collegiate career low round: 68 (2026 Golfweek Fall Challenge)
Career-best finish: 1 (2026 Golfweek Fall Challenge)
 
Freshman Yukino Kudo (Tokyo, Japan) has compiled a 73.9 stroke average while playing in all four events for the Camels.  He earned her first collegiate top-10 finish – a T6 (69-74-72—215) at the Tot Hill Farm Invitational, where she fired a collegiate-low 69 in the opening round.  She notched her first collegiate top-20 finish (T20) at the Brittany Kelly Classic (77-73-75—225).  A graduate of Montverde Academy in Florida, Kudo won the opening event in the 2025 IJGA × NXXT College Pathway Series and competed in the Florida State Girls Junior Championship.  She also won the 2025 Lake Nono Junior Open.
Collegiate career low round: 69 (2026 Tot Hill Farm Invitational)
Career-best finish: T6 (2026 Tot Hill Farm Invitational)
 
Freshman Lohaijany Castillo (San Jose, Costa Rica) made her collegiate debut at the Tot Hill Farm Invitational where she finished T42 (78-74-79—246) and helped the Camels win the team title.  Castillo owns three victories and 18 top 10 finishes in World Amateur Golf Rankings (WAGR) events.  She is a two-time (2024, 2025) winner of the US Kids Panama Invitational (15-18 girls), finished second in the 2025 Costa Rica national ranking (champions category) and first among 15-18 female age group. Over the summer, she finished 3rd in the WAGR - V Ranking Nacional (78-71-79), advanced to semifinals of the Costa Rica National Match Play and was 7th in the Costa Rica National Stableford Championship
Collegiate career low round: 74 (2026 Tot Hill Farm Invitational)
Career-best finish: T42 (2026 Tot Hill Farm Invitational)
 
Freshman Louisa Bloomfield (Braunschweig, Germany) will compete at the UNCG Collegiate as an individual.  In her collegiate debut at the Golfweek Fall Challenge, Bloomfield finished T77 (77-74-77—228, +15) and has posted a 79.0 scoring average over two events this season.  She helped her club win the second division title in the 2026 German National League and competed in the German National Championship.  Bloomfield won the GVNB Landesmeisterschaften Damen WAGR event, finished fourth at 2025 German National Match Play Championship and eighth at the 2025 German U18 Girls national championship.
Collegiate career low round: 74 (2026 Golfweek Fall Challenge)
Career-best finish: T77 (2026 Golfweek Fall Challenge)
 
Next: Following the UNCG Collegiate, the Camels will return to action Feb. 8 when they host Appalachian State in a dual match at Keith Hills GC.