JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Following the announcement from earlier this summer that the New Jersey City University men's and women's golf programs would be joining the Atlantic East Conference as associate members, head coach Joe Yeck announced today, Tuesday, August 24, the release of the Fall 2021 Gothic Knights golf schedules. Each squad will be playing five regular-season matches, while the women will also play in their first-ever Atlantic East Championship at the end of October. The men's championship will be held in the Spring portion of the 2021-22 campaign.

Things get started first for the NJCU men when they head out to the Shawnee Inn & Golf Resort in Pennsylvania on Saturday and Sunday, September 11-12, for The Gauntlet, a 36-hole competition being put on by Premier Collegiate Tournaments. Then the women kick off their second season in history the following week on Thursday, September 16, for an 18-hole dual match against Stockton University at Blue Heron Pines Golf Club in Galloway, N.J. The men then return to Jersey on Monday, September 20, for the FDU Invitational — their only 18-hole tournament of the Fall — hosted by FDU-Florham at the Mendham Golf & Tennis Club. Later that week, on Friday and Saturday, September 24-25, they compete in the Golden Oaks Shootout, hosted by Arcadia University, at Golden Oaks Golf Club in Fleetwood, Pa.

The month of October starts out with the Gothic Knight women's second match of the year, another dual match this time on Saturday, October 2, against Marywood University in Tunkhannock, Pa., at Stone Hedge Golf Course. The following Saturday and Sunday, October 9-10, the men return to action for the Mason Dixon Collegiate Classic, hosted by McDaniel College at the Birdges Golf Club in Abbottstown, Pa. The NJCU women then compete in back-to-back 18-hole tournaments on Monday, October 11, and Tuesday, October 12. First its the Muhlenberg College Invitational at Lehigh Country Club in Allentown, Pa., followed the next day by the Drew University Spring Brook Invitational at Spring Brook Country Club in Morristown, N.J.

The Knight men close out their Fall campaign on Saturday and Sunday, October 16-17, with the Gino Biondi Memorial Tournament — hosted by Marywood — at Glenmaura National Golf Club in Mossic, Pa. Monday, October 25, marks the end of the women's Fall regular season with 18 holes in Lebanon, Pa., at the Lebanon Country Club for the Lebanon Valley College Fall Invitational. Then, that Thursday, October 28, NJCU competes in its first-ever Atlantic East Championship, which will take place at White Manor Country Club in Malvern, Pa.