Holy Angels Girls Golf Pre-Season #1

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Girls golf:

Preseason Top 10 rankings, 2025

1-Holy Angels (Last year: 17-0)

Holy Angels enters the season as the team to beat after winning back-to-back State Championships and three straight North Jersey sectional titles. The Angels were also named the NJ.com Team of the Year and return a loaded squad consisting of First-Team All-State selection Inha Jun and Third-Team selection Olivia Lee.

Holy Angels won its third straight state championship by shooting a 315, 13 strokes ahead of Wardlaw-Hartridge, and was led by Lee who tied for fifth with a 73. Jun tied for 10th with a 74.

The Angels won their third straight sectional title by shooting a 314, 29 strokes ahead of Bergen Tech, with Jun capturing her second straight individual title (72) by two strokes. Eleanor Lim also returns for her sophomore season and placed fifth in the sectional tournament with a 79 while Lee tied for sixth with an 81.

Angelina Kim and Sharanya Agarwal return for their senior seasons with Kim recording a Second Team All-State selection after finishing eighth in the sectional with an 82. Agarwal was ninth with an 83.

Holy Angels won its third straight Bergen County title after shooting a 292, 36 strokes ahead of Bergen Tech, with Kim capturing her second straight individual title (71) by beating out Lee by one stroke. Jun placed fourth on a match of cards (74) while Lim was fifth (75).

The Angels won the Big North Conference Tournament with a 299, 19 strokes ahead of Bergen Tech, with Jun capturing first by one stroke (71). Kim tied for second while Agarwal tied for seventh (78).

Holy Angels won the Arcola Invitational by shooting a 123, 16 strokes ahead of Bergen Tech, and finished the season 17-0 in match play.

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Photo Matt Kipp | For NJ Advance MediaDespite finishing 20 strokes off the top spot of the 2022 Tournament of Champions, Holy Angels knew it was a team on the rise.Fast forward a year later, the Angels capped a historic 14-0 season by shooting a 325 to win the Girls Golf State Championships at Raritan Valley Country Club in Bridgewater over Bergen Tech by 14 strokes.“It’s kind of like the cherry on top to a fantastic year,” Holy Angels head coach Patrick Dunne said. “I’m so happy for the kids and the program, winning the state title was something we strived for.”The 2022 NJ.com Coach of the Year gave credit to the maturity his girls came into the season with and understands they now go from hunting to the hunted.“These girls don’t need to be motivated, I told them at our banquet we got a target on our backs and everybody wants to beat us now. We just have to work that much harder” he said.“I always tell them to just give me their best and that’s all I can ask for. Wardlaw-Hartridge beat us the year before so we had a goal to beat them and now it will be the same for us.”Angelina Kim led her squad with an 11th-place finish by shooting an 8-over 80 while Olivia Lee tied for 14th with an 81. Inha Jun (83) and Sharanya Agarwal (86) also recorded top-40 finishes.“I think she played two rounds of golf the day before when she wanted to qualify for the U.S. Open, so I think she might have been a bit tired,” Dunne said regarding Kim’s finish.“She’s definitely a leader by example though. She loves the game and had been chosen as the Bergen County Athlete of the Week earlier in the season.”Dunne also discussed what Kim’s aspirations are once her high school golf career is over.“She’s said a dream of hers is to become a professional golfer,” he added. “So I’ve told her she’s going to have to stay with it and continue to improve her game and be more consistent.”Perhaps the biggest separator between Holy Angels and its contemporaries was the combination of youth and depth it possessed as Kim, Jun, and Agarwal all wrapped up their sophomore campaigns while Lee introduced herself as a freshman.“As long as I have Inha and Angelina I’m going to compete, but girls’ golf has gotten so much better that even two girls of that caliber need other players to back them up,” Dunne said.“I feel like success breeds success so if other kids see how successful our program is they will want to join too. Academics come first though so not only do they need to be good golfers, but good students too. That way if they are talented enough where they think about a career in golf they also have an education to fall back on.”Jun also helped her team capture its second consecutive North Jersey Sectional title with a tournament-best 73 while Kim came in second with a 75.“Inha improved her game tremendously,” Dunne explained. “She worked on her game all summer long and improved her distance on drives sometimes 20 yards further than the year before.Among the quality performances that Jun displayed over the season, one that stuck out to Dunne was on April 25 when she finished with a 32 against Immaculate Heart.“She was amazed that everything was going in,” he said. “I told her ‘some days putts fall and some days they don’t’, but she was so consistent around the green. Those extra 20-30 yards on drives really helped quite a bit this year.”Dunne also credited Lee’s contributions to the team and feels she has a bright future ahead of her.“She had a great year and came in with some experience playing in tournaments,” he said. “I remember the first match she played in she shot a 43 and afterwards said ‘I could do better.’ She might have been a little too nervous or excited but she had a really good day.”