Meet the Semifinalists at 35th U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur

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Krissy Carman, 27, Eugene, Ore.

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• No. 2815 in Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking®/WAGR®

• Playing in her second USGA championship (2018 Four-Ball)

• Won the 2022 Oregon Stroke Play Championship

• Medalist at the 2022 Oregon Amateur

• Runner-up at 2022 Oregon Mid-Amateur

• Played collegiately at Oregon State (two years) before transferring to Portland State University
  

• 2016 Big Sky First-Team All-Conference

• Carman’s mother, Suzanne, played collegiately at Oregon State and met her husband at Rose City Golf Course in Portland

• Mother of a 2-year-old son, Conrad

• Stepped away from competitive golf for three years (2018-21) and returned to the game when she and her husband, Mitchell, brought their son to the golf course in a jogging stroller

Road to the Quarterfinals

• Shot 73-70—143 in stroke play to earn the No. 5 seed
• R64: Def. Kathy Hartwiger, 3 and 1
• R32: Def. Alexandra Austin, 6 and 5
• R16: Def. Ana Alicia Malagon Perez, 4 and 3
• Quarterfinals: Def. Kimberly Dinh, 4 and 3 

Aliea Clark 26, New York, N.Y.

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• No. 2010 in Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking®/WAGR®

• Playing in her fifth USGA championship

• Runner-up in the 2021 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur, becoming just the second No. 64 seed to reach the championship match, following Alexandria Frazier in the 2010 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur

• Advanced to match play in the 2022 U.S. Women’s Amateur at Chambers Bay, the only mid-amateur to do so

• Played her collegiate golf at UCLA, where her teammates were current professionals and USA Curtis Cup competitors Alison Lee and Bethany Wu

• Currently enrolled in graduate school at NYU, where she is pursuing a dual degree; an MBA from Stern and an MFA from Tisch in film production

• An alum of LPGA-USGA Girls Golf

Road to the Quarterfinals

• Shot 78-71—149 in stroke play to earn the No. 27 seed
• R64: Def. Sarah Salvo, 3 and 1
• R32: Def. Lauren Greenlief, 3 and 2
• R16: Def. Ina Kim-Schaad, 5 and 3
• Quarterfinals: Def. Jacqueline Setas, 19 holes

Isabella DiLisio, 25, Hatfield, Pa.

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• No. 2736 in Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking®/WAGR®

• Playing in her third USGA championship (2013, 2014 U.S. Girls’ Junior)

• Played collegiately at University of Notre Dame

• Current club champion at Philadelphia Cricket Club (third year in a row), site of the 2024 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship

• Runner-up at 2021 Pennsylvania Women’s Amateur

• Team USA member in 2015 Toyota Junior Golf World Cup

• Won the 2014 Pennsylvania Women’s Amateur

• Great-grandfather, Nick Ciocca, caddied for Ben Hogan when he won the 1950 U.S. Open at Merion Golf Club

• Served as a volunteer standard bearer at 2013 U.S. Open at Merion Golf Club

Road to the Quarterfinals

• Shot 72-76—148 in stroke play to earn the No. 26 seed
• R64: Def. Andrea Cropper, 2 and 1
• R32: Def. Jacqueline Twitty, 19 holes
• R16: Def. Courtney McKim, 3 and 1
• Quarterfinals: Def. Kate Scarpetta, 3 and 2

Jennifer Peng, 26, San Diego, Calif.

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• Not ranked in Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking®/WAGR®

• Playing in her fourth USGA championship

• Earned medalist honors for second straight year in the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur

• Only player with two eagles during stroke play – both on the par-5 18th

• Recorded the lowest 18-hole score in championship history with a 6-under 66 in the second round of last year’s event

• Played collegiately at Yale University

• Member of Yale Women’s Golf All-Decade Team

• 2016-2017 Ivy League Player of the Year

Road to the Quarterfinals

• Shot 71-67—138 in stroke play to earn the No. 1 seed
• R64: Def. Connor Macon, 2 and 1
• R32: Lila Thomas, 2 up
• R16: Def. Lindsay Gahm, 2 and 1
• Quarterfinals: Def. Meghan Stasi, 2 up

Jonathan Coe is a senior manager of championship communications for the USGA. Email him at jcoe@usga.org.