North Carolina State University Athletics
2025-26 Women's Golf Roster
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Vania Simont
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Mexico City, Mexico
CAREER TOURNAMENT RECORD
SOPHOMORE (2023-24):
FRESHMAN (2022-23):
PERSONAL/PREP:
2025-26 BESTS
Low Round: 66, Round 2 at Daniel Island Invitational (3/2/26)
Low Tournament: 215 (70-73-72) at Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitational (10/17-19/25)
Best Finish: T3rd, City of Oaks Collegiate (3/16-17/26)
COLLEGIATE BESTS
Low Round: 66, Round 2 at Daniel Island Invitational (3/2/26)
Low Tournament: 209 (70-69-70) at ICON Invitational (2/27-28/23)
Best Finish: T3rd, City of Oaks Collegiate (3/16-17/26)
SENIOR (2025-26)
- Played in all 11 tournaments and 32 rounds
- Counted in 30 of the 32 rounds
- Registered 11 rounds at par or better and one round in the 60s
- Had 81 birdies and 373 pars
- Logged two top 10 finishes, six top 20 showings and nine top 30 finishes
- Broke the career rounds played record with 120 and finished third in career scoring average (74.21)
- Tallied a 73.15 scoring average in the spring and 72.43 scoring average in the last five tournaments with seven rounds at par or better in that stretch
- Began the season with a 10-over 223 (79-71-73) at the Cougar Classic
- Was solid at the Inverness Intercollegiate to tie for eighth and log a 9-over 222 (72-76-74)
- Tied for 14th with a 5-over 215 (70-73-72) at the Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitational
- Recorded a 4-over 220 (73-74-73) at the Landfall Tradition with a tie for 29th
- Finished with a 5-over 221 (78-72-71) to tie for 19th at the Collegiate Invitational
- Registered a tie for 11th with an even 216 (76-66-74) at the Daniel Island Invitational
- Her 66 in the second round at Daniel Island became the fifth best round in school history and a career-low round
- Logged an even-par 144 (72-72) in the weather-shortened Briars Creek Invitational, tying for 16th
- Registered a career best tie for third with a 5-over 221 (76-70-74) at the City of Oaks Collegiate
- Was solid at the ACC Championship, which was big in guiding NC State to its first ACC Championship Match Play appearance with an even 216 (72-72-72) to tie for 28th
- Her even 215 marked the fifth best 54-hole score at an ACC Championship in school history
- Earned the Pack’s first ever win in match play at the ACC Championship with a dominant 3&2 win over Duke’s Avery McCrery
- Finished her Wolfpack career with a tie for 25th with a 7-over 217 (71-71-75) at the NCAA Chapel Hill Regional
JUNIOR (2024-25)
- Played in 11 tournaments to tally a 75.34 scoring average
- Tallied five rounds at par or under and one round in the 60s, while logging two top 10 finishes
- Logged one eagle, 72 birdies and 335 pars in 11 tournaments
- Earned a tie for 22nd with an 8-over 221 (73-71-77) at the Cavalier Regional Preview
- Registered a tie for 48th with a 14-over 224 (76-71-77) at the Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitational
- Recorded a tie for 48th with a 17-over 233 (77-79-77) at the Collegiate Invitational in Guadalajara, Mexico
- Earned a season-low 6-under 210 (69-80-71) to log a career best fifth place finish at the Daniel Island Invitational
- Finished in a tie for ninth with a 9-over 225 (77-72-76) at the City of Oaks Collegiate
- Tied for 28th at the ECU Ironwood Invitational with a 13-over 229 (76-79-74)
- Had a tie for 47th with an 11-over 227 (77-77-73) at the ACC Championship
- Finished her junior season with a tie for 43rd with a 15-over 228 (74-77-77) at the NCAA Charlottesville Regional
SOPHOMORE (2023-24):
- Played in nine tournaments for 25 rounds
- Logged a 74.80 scoring average with six rounds at par or better and one round in the 60s
- Registered two top 20 finishes
- Started the season with a 6-over 219 (75-70-74) to tie for 65th at the Cougar Classic
- Registered a tie for 33rd with a 9-over 153 (82-71) at the Blessings Collegiate Invitational, with the third round cancelled due to inclement weather in Fayetteville, Arkansas
- Tied for 29th at the Tar Heel Invitational with a 6-over 222 (76-74-72)
- Registered her first top 20 showing of the season with a tie for 20th following a 2-over 215 (67-72-76) at the Mercedes Benz Collegiate Championship
- Opened the spring season with a season-best tie for 14th place behind an 8-over 224 (78-70-76)
- Logged a tie for 21st with a 3-over 219 (73-75-71) at the Briar’s Creek Invitational
- Played in all three matches at Wolfpack Match Play, not losing a match, with a tie vs. Virginia Tech’s Valentine Delon and wins over Princeton’s Caiyi Flora Zhang (4&3) and Augusta’s Kennedy Carroll (4&3)
- Tied for 50th with a 12-over 228 (75-78-75) at the ACC Championship
FRESHMAN (2022-23):
- Competed in all 11 tournaments for the Wolfpack as a rookie, one of four players on the team to do so
- Compiled a 73.55 stroke average in 31 rounds played during the 2022-23 campaign, marking the second-best stroke average by any Wolfpack rookie and ranked seventh in the team’s single-season stroke average records
- Out of the 31 rounds she played, 27 of those counted towards the team tournament score
- Fired a bogey-free 68 (-3) in opening round of her Wolfpack debut at the Cougar Classic, while also firing off a 69 (-2) in the final round of the tournament to finish in a tie for 13th with a cumulative score of 210
- Matched her season-low round with a 68 at the Landfall Tradition, posting that score in the first round on Oct. 28
- Picked up a pair of wins at the Wolfpack Match Play event from April 3-4, defeating Duke’s Erica Shepherd, 2&1, Louisville’s Gomez Cisterna, 8&7 and Florida State’s Kaylah Williams, 1UP
- Finished in the top 20 six times, doing so three times in her first four appearances as a member of the Pack
- Earned a season-best finish of a tie for 10th at the ICON Invitational with a 7-under 209 (70-69-70), shooting under par in all three rounds to help the Pack team set 18-hole and 54-hole tournament records
- Scored first collegiate eagle on the par-five 15th hole to post a 73 (+2) in the second round of the ACC Championship
- Finished in a tie for 139th in her NCAA Championships debut with a score of 234 (74-77-83)
PERSONAL/PREP:
- Listed at No. 82 in the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) national rankings and No. 788 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings (WAGR) when she signed with NC State
- Was the runner-up at the AJGA C.T. Pan Junior Championship and the AJGA Greenwood Junior Championship
- No. 2 golfer in home country of Mexico during the 2017-18 season and tabbed the top player the last three years
- Won the Copa Notre in 2020 and finished as runner-up in 2021
- Earned a second-place finish in the 2019 and 2020 Copa Yucatan
- Helped Team Mexico win the 2021 Girls Junior Americas Cup, finishing third individually with a 7-under 206
- Won the 2019 Doral Publix Junior Championship in Miami, and the 2017 US Kids Teen World Championship in Pine Hurst, North Carolina
- Logged a runner-up finish at the 2017 US Kids European Championship in Scotland
- Five-time AGVM Regionals winner
- Won tournaments with the AGVM team in 2018 and 2021, claiming individual victories in 2018, 2021 and 2022 on the Campeonato Nacional Interzonas
- Tied for 12th at the inaugural Women's Amateur Latin America
- Reached the round of 16 at the 7th US Women's Amateur Fourball with Daniela Burgos
- Placed seventh at the Mexican Amateur in 2021