ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Just four days after winning its first tournament of the fall, the Navy women's golf team returns to action this weekend when it hosts the 2026 Navy Fall Invitational at the U.S. Naval Academy Golf Club.
 
Playing at the par-72, 6,084-yard course, eight total Midshipmen and nine other schools will open the 36-hole tournament on Saturday with first-round tee times beginning at 9 a.m., while the second round will kick off Sunday with a 9 a.m. shotgun start.
 
Navy Lineup
1. Emma Tang (Sr. / Chino Hills, Calif.)
2. Vivian Cressman (Jr. / Middleton, Wis.)
3. Jamison Louie (Fr. / Sugar Land, Texas)
4. Keira Howard (Sr. / Pleasanton, Calif.)
5. Megan Kirkpatrick (Jr. / Woodbine, Md.)
IND. Iliana Rubio (So. / El Dorado Hills, Calif.)
IND. Malerie Lague (So. / Huntersville, N.C.)
IND. Una Johnson (Sr. / Tacoma, Wash.)
 
The Field
In addition to the host Mids, the tournament will feature Delaware State, Hofstra, Howard, LIU, Manhattan, Monmouth, Mount St. Mary's, Stetson and Towson … All but Manhattan attended the 2025 edition of the Navy Fall Invitational.
 
Live Scoring
Fans can follow the Mids throughout the tournament via SCOREBOARD (powered by Clippd).
 
Last Time Out
Setting three program records over a historic 54-holes, Navy posted its first win of the season Tuesday at the Autumn Harvest in Lopatcong, N.J. … Shooting two of its best rounds in program history while putting two players atop the leaderboard and seeing another player hit a hole-in-one, the Midshipmen sat in the lead after Monday's first two rounds and then used a program-record round Tuesday to hold off host Lehigh at the Architects Golf Club … Navy notched a 7-over par 291 to open the event and followed it by matching the total-strokes program record with a 3-over par 287 to keep ahead of Lehigh, as the Mids then sealed the team title on Tuesday with a 1-over par 285 that broke the total-strokes program record and tied the school-record round in relation to par …  That final round helped Navy set another program record (by total strokes) with a 54-hole team score of 11-over par 863 … Finishing in a three-way tie for the individual medal with Lehigh's Alana Hall, senior Emma Tang and freshman Jamison Louie both posted a program-record total of 1-over par 214 over the three rounds … Finishing one stroke behind Tang and Louie, junior Vivian Cressman tied for fourth at 2-over par 215 and had the best moment of the tournament with her Tuesday ace on hole No. 6.
 
Mids at the Navy Fall Invitational
The Mids have hosted the Navy Fall Invitational in seven of the past 10 years, with the 2022 edition of the tournament being the first time that the host team took home first-place honors while Navy repeated as team champions in 2023 and 2024 … After finishing fifth out of 16 teams in the 2016 Navy Fall Invitational, the Mids placed second out of 12 teams in the 2017 event … Following a three-year hiatus, the event returned in 2021 with Navy placing third out of 13 teams and Angelina Chan finishing tied for seventh on the player leaderboard … The 2022 Navy Fall Invitational saw Mara Hirtle and Stephanie Lee both wrap up play in sixth place at 8-over par 152, as the Midshipmen shot a 40-over par 616 to take the top spot among 15 teams … 2023 featured Hirtle claiming the individual medal at 2-over par 146 while the Mids posted a score of 31-over par 607 to hold off Towson and place first … Emma Tang took home the 2024 individual medal at 2-under par 142, helping Navy to win the team title and shoot a program-record 16-over par 592 team score over the 36-hole event … 2025 saw the Navy "A" team place fourth and the Mids' "B" squad take ninth, while Angelina Kim was the top Navy finisher by shooting 8-over par 152 to tie for eighth.
 
Up Next
Navy is set to close the fall season on Oct. 19-20 with the Spider Invitational in Richmond, Va.