By: Chris Harlan
Wednesday, October 1, 2025 | 9:31 PM
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Elizabeth Forward’s Mya Morgan smiles after winning the WPIAL Class 3A girls golf championship on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025, at Sewickley Heights Golf Club.
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Elizabeth Forward’s Mya Morgan smiles while receiving her gold medal after winning the WPIAL Class 3A girls golf championship on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025, at Sewickley Heights Golf Club.
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Elizabeth Forward’s Mya Morgan chips onto the green on No. 9 during the WPIAL Class 3A girls golf championship on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025, at Sewickley Heights Golf Club.
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Elizabeth Forward’s Mya Morgan watches her tee shot on No. 13 during the WPIAL Class 3A girls golf championship on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025, at Sewickley Heights Golf Club.
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Peters Twp.’s Betty Glyptis chips onto the green on No. 18 during the WPIAL Class 3A girls golf championship on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025, at Sewickley Heights Golf Club.
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Peters Twp.’s Ellie Benson watches her tee shot on No. 13 during the WPIAL Class 3A girls golf championship on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025, at Sewickley Heights Golf Club.
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Peters Twp.’s Betty Glyptis fist bumps Fox Chapel’s Clara Koteski after she sank a birdie putt on No. 13 during the WPIAL Class 3A girls golf championship on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025, at Sewickley Heights Golf Club.
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Moon’s Liv Degori chips onto the green on No. 12 during the WPIAL Class 3A girls golf championship on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025, at Sewickley Heights Golf Club.
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Fox Chapel’s Ava Calandra hits from a bunker on No. 13 during the WPIAL Class 3A girls golf championship on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025, at Sewickley Heights Golf Club.
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Greensburg Central Catholic’s Alayna Sawovy lines up her putt on No. 18 during the WPIAL Class 2A girls golf championship on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025, at Sewickley Heights Golf Club.
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Greensburg Central Catholic’s Kennedy Kelly smiles with Shady Side Academy’s Alyssa Zhang after Zhang won the WPIAL Class 2A girls golf championship on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025, at Sewickley Heights Golf Club.
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Shady Side Academy’s Alyssa Zhang hugs Chartiers Houston’s JoJo Jaskulski after winning the WPIAL Class 2A girls golf championship on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025, at Sewickley Heights Golf Club.
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Elizabeth Forward’s Mya Morgan eyes up her putt on No. 18 during the WPIAL Class 3A girls golf championship on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025, at Sewickley Heights Golf Club.
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Elizabeth Forward’s Mya Morgan was playing in a foursome with the golfer who beat her in last year’s WPIAL championship, but don’t call this a grudge match.
“I don’t hold grudges,” said the senior. “I think everyone deserves what they get.”
But Morgan, the 2023 WPIAL champion, freely admits she used last year’s runner-up finish as fuel to win another gold medal. The Central Michigan recruit carded a 3-over-par 75 on Wednesday at Sewickley Heights to win the WPIAL Class 3A girls title by seven shots.
She finished the 36-hole tournament at even par after shooting a 3-under 69 in the first round last week at Seven Oaks.
“It was not easy getting here,” Morgan said. “Last year with the upset and second place, it motivated me a little bit (to think), ‘Hey, you’re better than this. Don’t let last year affect you. Use it as fuel.’ ”
Morgan entered the final round with a five-shot advantage, and she kept the lead by never letting a small mistake become a big one.
Her scrambling skills showed on No. 14 when she hooked a drive that stopped only a few feet from going out of bounds on the par 5. She punched out and still rallied for a par.
“I had a 6-foot screamer down the hill,” Morgan said. “It went around 360 (degrees) and dropped.”
This was only her second time playing the course after a practice round Sunday. She carded one birdie and four bogeys in the final round. On the back nine, she had eight pars.
“She didn’t have a lot of putts fall today, but she was very consistent and didn’t get into trouble,” Elizabeth Forward coach Justin Korona said. “She made the girls try to catch her.”
Peters Township sophomore Betty Glyptis finished second at 7-over, and senior teammate Ellie Benson was third at 11-over. Benson won the WPIAL title last year with an eight-shot victory over Morgan.
The top seven finishers in Class 3A advanced to the PIAA championship Oct. 20 at Penn State.
Also qualifying for states were Fox Chapel’s Clara Koteski (17-over), Moon’s Liv Degori (21-over), Pine-Richland’s Siena Smith (22-over) and North Allegheny’s Kayli Dings (23-over). Dings earned the final spot in a playoff against Upper St. Clair’s Olivia Ziegler (23-over), now the alternate for the state championship.
Morgan is the defending PIAA champion. But before heading to Penn State, she will compete with her teammates in the WPIAL team championships.
“I am in team mode until then,” Morgan said. “I’m putting my team first. I’ve already won states. I don’t need to win it again. I don’t need to prove anything. I want a team title.”
Morgan wasn’t too familiar with the hilly course that hosted Wednesday’s round but stuck with the strategy she developed in her one practice round three days earlier. The conditions had changed with the arrival of swirling winds, but she stayed steady.
“She knew her game plan,” Korona said. “She was hitting 5-irons. She was hitting 5-woods. She hit drivers. She knew what she was going to do. The putts weren’t falling, or it could’ve been an even-par or under-par round.”
Her best hole was the sixth, a 421-yard par 5.
Morgan crushed a 340-yard drive, leaving her about an 80-yard wedge to the green. She can routinely drive the ball around 300 yards. Her eagle putt from about 18 feet lipped out, leaving her a tap-in for birdie.
Korona agreed that last year’s loss was clearly still motivating Morgan.
“Yeah, she wanted to win,” Korona said. “She played amazing at Seven Oaks, which I think was the best round I’ve ever seen her play. It was tough out here today. To shoot even par at these two courses is amazing.”
This one felt different than sophomore year, because there also was a sense of finality.
“This is the last one,” she said. “It feels surreal winning it the last year that I can.”
Chris Harlan is a TribLive reporter covering sports. He joined the Trib in 2009 after seven years as a reporter at the Beaver County Times. He can be reached at charlan@triblive.com.
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