Valentine Delon Season 2024-25

2024-25
• Competed in all 11 events, logging a team-best 16 par-or-better rounds
• Led the Hokies with a 72.50 scoring average
• Recorded a team-best seven top-20 finishes
• Ended five tournaments in red figures, including four in a row to open the spring season
• Medalist at the Advance Golf Partners Collegiate behind an 8-under 208 (65-70-73); led the Hokies to the team title as well
• Runner-up at the Schooner Fall Classic with a 5-under 135 (67-68)
• Tied for seventh at the Daniel Island Invitational behind a 5-under 211 (73-68-70)
• Carded a 2-under 214 (71-68-75) to tie for 13th at the Yale Invitational
• Placed third at the Ironwood Invitational, firing a 1-under 215 (71-74-70) to fuel Tech to its second team title of the season
• Delon's 7-under 65 in the opening round of the Advance Golf Partners Collegiate tied the program's single-round record

2023-24
• Compiled a 73.97 scoring average in 10 events as a freshman
• Posted a team-best two top-10 showings
• Finished in red figures at three tournaments, including a season-best 5-under 205 (71-67-67) at the Schooner Fall Classic
• Led the Hokies at the ACC women's golf championship by tying for seventh at 4-under 212 (69-71-72)
• Logged a team-best 11 par-or-better rounds

Junior/Amateur
• 2024 French Ladies Champion following a 1-up victory over Camille Min-Gaultier at the Golf Club of Lyon on June 16. Won five straight matches en route to the tournament title. In stroke play, Delon fired rounds of 70 and 74 to tie for fifth at even-par 144 and lock up the sixth seed for match play. Delon nearly cruised to the championship match, which included a 5&4 quarterfinal win and a 6&5 semifinal win. In the 36-hole final against Min-Gaultier, Delon erupted for 12 birdies – seven on the first 18.
• French ranking of No. 22 as of November 2022
• Checks in at No. 650 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings
• Averaged a 72.6 for the 2022 season
• Two-time vice champion of France in her division (2017, 2022)
• Four-time competitor in the French team championship with her club
• Placed second at the 2021 Torremirona Open, firing rounds of 71-72-72
• Carded a final-round 65 at the 2021 German Ladies International to tie for 24th
• Won the 2022 Grand Prix of Saint Cloud with a 71-70-69 showing
• Made the cut at the 2022 European Ladies Amateur, tying for 64th
• Claimed the 2022 Classic of Joyenval with rounds of 72-70-75
• Two-time club champion
• Competed for France at the 2023 European Girls' Team Championship at Hossegor Golf Club in France

Personal
• Valentine Delon
• Daughter of Antoine and Laetitia Delon
• Has two siblings, Victoria and Vladimir
• Father is the captain of the French men's golf national team
• Plans to major in business and economics