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CBS News
22-05-2025
- Sport
- CBS News
Northwestern Women's Golf wins first national championship ever
Northwestern captured its first NCAA Women's golf title Wednesday when Dianna Lee holed a 5-foot par putt on the 18th hole to beat Andrea Revuelta for a 3-2 victory over top-seeded Stanford to end a final hour of high tension. Stanford advanced through stroke play with a record score to win by 27 shots and was poised to win its third NCAA title in four years and become the first team to win back-to-back since the move to match play in 2017. Instead, the Wildcats were screaming with delight at at La Costa when Lee — who had twice before missed putts that would have won it — delivered the biggest putt of her life. "More than doing what people didn't think you could is this group believing what it thought it could do," Northwestern coach Emily Fletcher said. Stanford junior Megha Ganne had a 5-and-4 win in the lead match, while Hsin Tai Lin of Northwestern scored a 3-and-2 victory. Laura Nguyen put the Wildcats on the verge of the title with a 7-foot birdie putt for a 1-up victory over Paula Martin Sampedro. That left Northwestern needing only one more point from either Dianne Lee, who was 3-up with five holes to play, or Elise Lee, who had taken her first lead over Stanford's Kelly Xu on the 15th hole. Stanford didn't go down without a might fight. Xu, who missed a 4-foot putt to fall behind for the first time all match, answered with a 15-foot birdie on the par-3 16th and a wedge to 10 feet for birdie on the 17th to regain control. They halved the 18th hole, giving Xu a 1-up victory and team score at 2-all. It came down to the final match that Dianna Lee once had firmly in her grasp. Revuelta bogeyed the 11th and 12th holes to fall 3 down with five holes to play, But she won the 14th with a par and holed a 15-foot birdie putt on the 15th to get within one. Lee was in a back bunker, blasted out to 7 feet and missed her par putt on the 16th. Revuelta, however, pulled her 4-foot par putt to stay 1 down. On the next hole, Lee had a 12-foot birdie putt to win the match and pulled it, running it nearly 5 feet by. Miss that and the match was all square. She holed it to stay 1 up going to the 18th. The par-5 closing hole amounts to a wedge contest with a stream guarding the green. Both players had about 18 feet. Lee's uphill putt spun hard off the left lip and rolled 5 feet by. Revuelta left her downhill putt short, setting up Lee with 5 feet for the win. This time, she made it and the celebration was on for Northwestern, which had reached the final once before in 2017 before losing to Arizona State. The finals at a glance Megha Ganne, Stanford, def. Ashley Yun, Northwestern, 5 and 4. Laura Nguyen, Northwestern, def. Paula Martin Sampedro, Stanford, 1 up. Hsin Tai Lin, Northwestern, def. Meja Örtengren, Stanford, 3 and 2. Kelly Xu, Stanford, def. Elise Lee, Northwestern, 1 up. Dianna Lee, Northwestern, def. Andrea Revuelta, Stanford, 1 up.
Associated Press
22-05-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
Northwestern stuns Stanford to capture first NCAA title in women's golf
CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) — Northwestern captured its first NCAA Women's golf title Wednesday when Dianna Lee holed a 5-foot par putt on the 18th hole to beat Andrea Revuelta for a 3-2 victory over top-seeded Stanford to end a final hour of high tension. Stanford advanced through stroke play with a record score to win by 27 shots and was poised to win its third NCAA title in four years and become the first team to win back-to-back since the move to match play in 2017. Instead, the Wildcats were screaming with delight at at La Costa when Lee — who had twice before missed putts that would have won it — delivered the biggest putt of her life. 'More than doing what people didn't think you could is this group believing what it thought it could do,' Northwestern coach Emily Fletcher said. Stanford junior Megha Ganne had a 5-and-4 win in the lead match, while Hsin Tai Lin of Northwestern scored a 3-and-2 victory. Laura Nguyen put the Wildcats on the verge of the title with a 7-foot birdie putt for a 1-up victory over Paula Martin Sampedro. That left Northwestern needing only one more point from either Dianne Lee, who was 3-up with five holes to play, or Elise Lee, who had taken her first lead over Stanford's Kelly Xu on the 15th hole. Stanford didn't go down without a might fight. Xu, who missed a 4-foot putt to fall behind for the first time all match, answered with a 15-foot birdie on the par-3 16th and a wedge to 10 feet for birdie on the 17th to regain control. They halved the 18th hole, giving Xu a 1-up victory and team score at 2-all. It came down to the final match that Dianna Lee once had firmly in her grasp. Revuelta bogeyed the 11th and 12th holes to fall 3 down with five holes to play, But she won the 14th with a par and holed a 15-foot birdie putt on the 15th to get within one. Lee was in a back bunker, blasted out to 7 feet and missed her par putt on the 16th. Revuelta, however, pulled her 4-foot par putt to stay 1 down. On the next hole, Lee had a 12-foot birdie putt to win the match and pulled it, running it nearly 5 feet by. Miss that and the match was all square. She holed it to stay 1 up going to the 18th. The par-5 closing hole amounts to a wedge contest with a stream guarding the green. Both players had about 18 feet. Lee's uphill putt spun hard off the left lip and rolled 5 feet by. Revuelta left her downhill putt short, setting up Lee with 5 feet for the win. This time, she made it and the celebration was on for Northwestern, which had reached the final once before in 2017 before losing to Arizona State. ___ AP golf:
Independent Singapore
19-05-2025
- General
- Independent Singapore
Woman says that despite Raffles Girls' School being the best thing that happened to her, it also messed up her life
SINGAPORE: A recent video from a former banker turned mom-blogger has stirred up quite the controversy. Earlier this month, Dianna Lee, whose social media bio describes her as 'teaching you everything our mums should've taught us,' spoke up concerning her experiences as a woman educated at Raffles Girls' School, one of Singapore's most respected secondary schools. Ms Lee says at the outset that the school is the 'best thing that happened' to her and that she could not be prouder to be a Rafflesian, clarifying that what she was about to say was not meant to bash RGS. However, she added that she did not realise the psychological damage she received due to having studied at RGS until later. @coolmumdianna #rgs #raffles #rafflesian #singapore #school #feminism ♬ original sound – Cool Mum Dianna🇸🇬🇭🇰 – Cool Mum Dianna🇸🇬🇭🇰 The heart of the matter appears to be how feminism was taught and exemplified at the school, where Ms Lee said students were told they were not just as good as but actually better than boys. She added that RGS girls were taught 'to be men' and as a result, many alumni have risen to the top in various fields such as law, banking, and business. While this has served them well in their careers, when it comes to marriage and motherhood, 'we're completely destroyed,' she said. 'In our eagerness to become men, we reject everything that is feminine,' Ms Lee said, resulting in the students 'fundamentally' looking down on women and more traditional forms of femininity, such as staying home and raising one's children. 'Our definition of femininity is incomplete. Femininity should be about freeing women to choose whatever they want to do in life, including staying womanly. We should have the freedom to tap into both our feminine and masculine energies. Being feminine itself is not something shameful.' In the caption to her post, she said she wanted to hear from fellow RGS alumni or other former girls' school students about how the experience affected them. Her video, which has been posted on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, has gotten a lot of views and some very strong reactions, both for and against Ms Lee's points. One male commenter wrote, 'I married an RGS girl and have an RGS sister, our friends have debated this for years, but I will say the views in this video are by far the most rounded, genuine, and hard-hitting truths.' A woman wrote that she was happy Ms Lee shared her views 'because the thing is, there is inherent strength in the way a woman is in her ability to be soft and strong, which is something most Singaporean women, I would wager, struggle with.' Others were less than thrilled, feeling that Ms Lee had overgeneralized the experience of RGS girls. Some wrote that they had a completely different experience at the school, suggesting that things have changed since Ms Lee was a student. 'Fellow RGS alumni here, and I respectfully disagree. The teachers I had were quite clear that gender equality is about being empowered to make the choice, and also emphasised the need for empathy. One path is not 'better' than another. I have classmates who are now amazing career women, and classmates who chose to be SAHM. We each recognise the difficulties of the other's paths, and the joys that they bring.' Another chimed in with, 'As an RGS alumna, I was really shocked watching this and am sorry that you went through what you did. I can't recall a single instance of the school culture suggesting that male traits are superior, or that being feminine was inferior, or that we should be 'better than men'… Of course, we were taught to strive for excellence (which leads to other issues like perfectionism, etc), but I think it was more of being ambitious rather than putting anyone else down or being less feminine. I hope it means the school culture has been improving since you experienced it!' /TISG
