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2025-26 Women's Golf Roster

Claire Lu

  • Height 5-3
  • Class Sophomore
  • Highschool The Wardlaw + Hartridge School
  • Hometown Edison, N.J.

Biography

2024-25
  Played in all eight tournaments, six in the lineup and two as an individual
  23 tournament rounds, 75.8 stroke average (+4.17 to par)
  Low round 71, -1 (3rd round at Kingsmill Intercollegiate); 71, +1 (2nd round at Bucknell Invitational)
  WGCA All-American Scholar
SPRING
  *6th among Penn players, t-31st overall at Ivy League Championship (83-79-78—240, +24)
  *t-2nd among Penn players, t-10th overall at Navy Spring Invitational (77-76—153, +9)
  *Tied as low Penn player, t-6th overall at W&M’s Kingsmill Intercollegiate (75-73-71—219, +3)
  *4th among Penn players, t-24th overall at Columbia Classic (77-75-75—227, +11)
FALL
  *3rd among Penn players, t-26th overall at Delaware’s Lady Blue Hen Invitational (77-73-79—229, +13)
  *Individual medalist at the Quinnipiac Classic (74-75-75—224, +8)
  *4th among Penn players, t-30th overall at the Princeton Invitational (76-76-79—231, +18)
  *Individual, t-3rd overall at the Bucknell Invitational (75-71-74—220, +10)
 
High School: Varsity golf letter winner and captain … Helped W +H win two state championships (2021, 22), three sectional titles (2021-23) and four Greater Middlesex Country crowns (2021-24) as well as two NJ Preps championships (2021, 22) … Selected for the All-State Team … Team MVP Award recipient … Three-time NJ States Top 10 (2022, 23, 24) … Second at sectional championships in 2023 … Top three at Greater Middlesex championship three times (2022, 23, 24) … Won the NJ Preps individual title in 2022 … In AJGA play, one first-place finish in 2021 and a top-five and two top-10 finishes in 2023 … Two-time AP Scholar Award … Chinese National Honor Society member.

Personal: Older sister, Grace, plays golf at Rutgers … Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Why Penn? “I chose Penn because I really like the school's strong academic tradition and golf program. I also really like my teammates; they are all very nice and fun people to share the collegiate experience with.”

Historical Player Information

  • 2024-25Freshman

    5'3"
  • 2025-26Sophomore

    5'3"