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This Week in Wake Forest Women’s Athletics – Presented by Truist (April 21-27)
4/21/2025 12:06:00 PM | General, Women's Basketball, Women's Golf, Women's Tennis, Women's Track and Field
This weekly feature is brought to you by Truist - The Presenting Partner of Wake Forest Women’s Athletics.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Truist, a longstanding partner of Wake Forest University who is An Official Banking Partner of Wake Forest Athletics and the Presenting Partner of Wake Forest Women's Athletics brings Deacon Nation this weekly update from the Demon Deacons women's programs:
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About Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University is known for its distinctive combination of world-class academics, unrivaled campus experience, intimate learning environment and Power 4 athletics in a top-growing metro market. A Charter member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Demon Deacons have won 59 conference titles and are one of 10 ACC schools to win 10 or more national championships, along with Notre Dame, North Carolina, Virginia, Duke, Syracuse and Florida State. Additionally, Wake Forest anchors the Winston-Salem and Triad market, which includes 1.3M residents and was ranked as ESPN's seventh-best market from a viewership perspective.
Wake Forest's comprehensive excellence includes its highly regarded school of medicine, business school, law school and an innovative department of engineering. Additionally, Wake Forest has campuses across Winston-Salem, Charlotte and Washington, DC – providing many academic offerings to students from across the nation and around the world.
Learn more about Wake Forest University at www.wfu.edu and at GoDeacs.com.
- Track & Field:
- This past weekend, the Wake Forest track & field team hosted the 2025 Wake Forest invitational at Kentner Stadium, as it racked up eight top-five finishes, new personal bests, ACC qualifiers, regional marks and a monumental program record.
- Friday night was highlighted by senior Emma Douglass, who blazed through the women's 800m, breaking a 22-year-old school record.
- With a powerful kick in the final stretch, Douglass crossed in 2:03.49, toppling Nikeya Green's 2003 record of 2:04.46. She not only won her heat but finished fourth overall, marking her second program record this season.
- She now ranks No. 18 nationally and No. 10 in the East in the 2025 NCAA Division I Outdoor Rankings.
- The momentum kept building with Rylan Engels, who recorded a personal best in the women's 1500m, winning her heat and placing 20th overall. Her time now ranks her second all-time in Wake Forest outdoor history.
- Brooke Wilson continued her stellar season, running a personal best 15:47.74 to take fifth in the 5000m. The performance moved her to No. 2 on Wake Forest's all-time list, just behind Michelle Sikes' 15:06.28 set in 2007.
- Friday night was highlighted by senior Emma Douglass, who blazed through the women's 800m, breaking a 22-year-old school record.
- Wake Forest will now look ahead to two meets this weekend with the Penn Relay's (April 24-26) and the Charlotte Invitational (April 26).
- This past weekend, the Wake Forest track & field team hosted the 2025 Wake Forest invitational at Kentner Stadium, as it racked up eight top-five finishes, new personal bests, ACC qualifiers, regional marks and a monumental program record.
- Women's Golf:
- No. 9 Wake Forest Women's Golf took second place this past weekend at the 2025 ACC Women's Golf Championship, after defeating No. 1 Stanford in the semifinal round.
- Through three rounds of stroke play, the Deacons finished fourth and +1 (865), earning their spot in Friday's match play competition.
- Freshman Sarah Lydic provided key numbers for the Deacons in her first postseason appearances. Lydic shot the Deacs' lowest score of round two and finished one stroke under par through two rounds.
- Leading the round three charge was senior Carolina Chacarra, who hit all 18 greens in regulation and carded a bogey-free day for Wake Forest's best round of the day, as well as the week with a final score of 68 (-4). Tied with Chacarra inside the top 10 was sophomore Macy Pate, who finished an even par on the final day of stroke play.
- In the first round of match play, the fourth-seeded Deacons faced the fifth-seeded North Carolina Tar Heels for an in-state rivalry matchup.
- Wake Forest defeated the Tar Heels 3-0 to advance to the semifinals and face the undefeated Stanford Cardinals.
- Competition remained neck and neck as both teams swapped points back and forth throughout the round. Lydic remained dominant throughout her match and finished 8&6 to secure the Deacs first point, followed close behind by freshman Chloe Kovelesky. The Boca Raton native finished 2UP, despite being down three on hole 10. Pate grabbed the final point for the Deacs and secured a trip to the championship on the last hole of the day.
- The Demon Deacons faced the two-seed Florida State in search of back-to-back conference titles and despite an incredible team effort, would ultimately fall to the Seminoles in the final round.
- Through three rounds of stroke play, the Deacons finished fourth and +1 (865), earning their spot in Friday's match play competition.
- No. 9 Wake Forest Women's Golf took second place this past weekend at the 2025 ACC Women's Golf Championship, after defeating No. 1 Stanford in the semifinal round.
- Women's Tennis:
- Wake Forest recently competed in the 2025 ACC Women's Tennis Championships at the Cary Tennis Park.
- The Demon Deacons secured a 4-2 victory over the No. 11-seed SMU during the second round of the tournament last Wednesday.
- Graduate student Anna Zhang came away with the match-clinching victory as she defeated Ellie Pittman in a three-set thriller, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3.
- The Demon Deacons also earned victories from junior Nevena Carton and freshman Kady Tannenbaum in singles action, as well as wins from Carton/Tannenbaum and Zhang and junior Whitley Pate to secure the doubles point.
- Wake Forest's run in the ACC Tournament came to a close on Thursday as the Deacs fell to No. 25 and sixth-seeded Notre Dame in the third round, 4-2.
- Pate came away with a comfortable straight-set victory at fourth singles, while redshirt sophomore Krystal Blanch claimed a three-set win at second singles to give Wake Forest their two wins in the afternoon.
- The Demon Deacons secured a 4-2 victory over the No. 11-seed SMU during the second round of the tournament last Wednesday.
- Wake Forest will now await its NCAA Tournament fate, as the event's selection show is set to air on April 28. Fans can tune into NCAA.com for the reveal, along with additional details to come.
- Wake Forest recently competed in the 2025 ACC Women's Tennis Championships at the Cary Tennis Park.
- Women's Basketball:
- In recent weeks the Wake Forest women's basketball team has announced the addition of four players for the upcoming season including three transfers and one addition to the 2025 incoming freshman class.
- This brings the total number of incoming players for the upcoming season to seven as the Demon Deacons also announced the signing of four freshman additions during the early signing period in November.
- The most recent signing came on Thursday when the Demon Deacons signed transfer guard/forward Mary Carter from Cal Poly.
- During her sophomore season at Cal Poly, Carter averaged 12.9 points per game and 5.9 rebounds per game, starting in 31 of her 32 games that she played during the 2024-25 season. Over the course of the year, Carter knocked down 42.4 percent of her shots while also shooting better than 80 percent from the free throw line.
- Additionally, Carter is the third transfer the Deacs have signed in the cycle along with transfer guard Raven Preston from Elon and transfer forward Grace Oliver from Colorado.
- During her time at Elon, Preston has averaged 11.8 points per game in her first two seasons on the floor, scoring 530 total points. Additionally, she has averaged a near double-double over the course of her career, pulling down an average of 8.7 rebounds per game in her 45 career games.
- During her freshman season at Colorado, Oliver averaged 3.8 points and 3.3 rebounds per game, seeing action in all 32 games while also making starts against Baylor and Houston. Over the course of the year, Oliver knocked down 52.2 percent of her shots and shot 39.5 percent from behind the arc.
- Wake Forest announced the addition of forward Savannah Metcalfe on Wednesday who became the fifth member of the incoming 2025 freshman class.
- The Deacs are getting a multi-sport athlete that played at the national team level for Australia throughout her career including representing Australia at the U17 World Cup in 2022.
- In recent weeks the Wake Forest women's basketball team has announced the addition of four players for the upcoming season including three transfers and one addition to the 2025 incoming freshman class.
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About Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University is known for its distinctive combination of world-class academics, unrivaled campus experience, intimate learning environment and Power 4 athletics in a top-growing metro market. A Charter member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Demon Deacons have won 59 conference titles and are one of 10 ACC schools to win 10 or more national championships, along with Notre Dame, North Carolina, Virginia, Duke, Syracuse and Florida State. Additionally, Wake Forest anchors the Winston-Salem and Triad market, which includes 1.3M residents and was ranked as ESPN's seventh-best market from a viewership perspective.
Wake Forest's comprehensive excellence includes its highly regarded school of medicine, business school, law school and an innovative department of engineering. Additionally, Wake Forest has campuses across Winston-Salem, Charlotte and Washington, DC – providing many academic offerings to students from across the nation and around the world.
Learn more about Wake Forest University at www.wfu.edu and at GoDeacs.com.
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