UBC Thunderbirds’ Una Chou leads by two strokes in girls’s particular person championship; Alek Mauro of the Windsor Lancers leads males’s division by one in crowded leaderboard
Kamloops, B.C – The UBC Thunderbirds Males’s crew roared to life on Wednesday whereas the ladies’s crew did not take their foot off the gasoline all through the second spherical to take care of this system’s lead on the 2025 Canadian College / Faculty Championship at Rivershore Golf Hyperlinks in Kamloops, B.C.
The Thunderbirds take an 11 and 9 stroke lead within the males’s and girls’s divisions respectively into Thursday’s third spherical and by advantage of their veterans that led this system to a sweep of the event final yr.
Fifth-year duo Aidan Schumer of Columbus, Ohio and Dylan MacDonald of Markham, Ont., carved out rounds of 68 and 67 respectively to every soar up the leaderboard of the lads’s particular person championship and add to UBC’s crew lead.
Beginning his second spherical on the again 9, MacDonald – who received in a playoff to assert final yr’s males’s particular person championship – collected four-consecutive birdies between holes 14 and 17 to get to two-under par and wipe away an uncharacteristic opening-round 74. He added birdies on the fourth and fifth holes to get to three-under par and extra crucially keep effectively within the hunt to defend his title.
“We’ve all been fairly calm this week,” commented Schumer on MacDonald and the remainder of the Thunderbirds following his four-under spherical of 68. “All 5 of us are graduating after this yr so we’re simply attempting to benefit from the second, and I feel that provides us lots of peace out right here,” he added.
Schumer sits only one again of Alek Mauro of Windsor, Ont. (Windsor Lancers) who holds the outright lead within the particular person championship after 36 holes at five-under par. Kicking off Wednesday in a tie for fourth at one-under par, Mauro began his spherical with a trio of birdies and an eagle on the par-five eighth gap to assist steal the highest spot from first-round chief Daniel Abraha of Kingston, Ont (Queen’s Gaels).
Abraha shot a one-under 71 on Wednesday with 15 pars to remain in competition. He sits alongside Schumer at four-under par and in a tie for second. MacDonald and Dan Kirby of Woodstock, N.B. (Victoria Vikes) path the pair by one stroke after 36 holes.
On the ladies’s aspect, Una Chou of San Diego, Calif. continued her battle with provincial rival Julia Alexander-Carew of Oakville, Ont. The 2 – representing the Thunderbirds and the UBC Okanagan Warmth respectively – took turns main the person championship on Wednesday, with Chou outlasting her closest competitor by sinking a birdie putt in her remaining two holes to get to four-under par and take a two-shot lead into Thursday.
Grace Bell of Calgary, Alta. (UBC Thunderbirds) rounded out the rostrum of the ladies’s particular person championship at one-over par, whereas Lauren Nedo of Coquitlam, B.C. (UBC Okanagan Warmth) and Bo Brown of Mississauga, Ont. (UBC Thunderbirds) path the third spot by one and two photographs respectively after 36 holes.
The highest three each day scores depend in direction of the ladies’s crew complete all through the week, whereas the highest 4 each day scores accrued by the male groups depend in direction of their total complete.
The sphere shall be lowered to the highest 9 male groups and high six girls’s groups – together with any squad inside 10 photographs of the lead – following the conclusion of the third spherical on Thursday. As for the person competitors, gamers inside 10 photographs of the chief will make the minimize, or any participant throughout the high 10 of the leaderboard.
To view the complete leaderboards from Wednesday’s second-round motion, please click on right here. For Thursday’s pairings and tee occasions, please click on right here.
Males’s Group Championship – Prime-5
Girls’s Group Championship – Prime-5
Males’s Particular person Championship – Prime-5
Girls’s Particular person Championship – Prime-5
