Delfino enters Wolf Pack Hall of Fame

Daria Delfino had led the women's golf team at Loyola University New Orleans to its first league championship, emerged as its first All-American, and held multiple program records – including for most individual tournament wins – when she came up for Wolf Pack athletics hall of fame consideration. 
 

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the result for Delfino was a unanimous selection in October 2025. 
 

The Wolf Pack Athletics Hall of Fame will take place on Saturday, Jan. 24. For more information, please visit: loyno.edu/hof26. We'll highlight each of our four inductees this week, leading up to the celebration. 
 

Her calling card for most at Loyola was her senior season. A second-place finish at the Southern States Athletic Conference championship on the Cambrain Ridge course in Greenville, Alabama, toward the end of that campaign propelled the Wolf Pack to its first-ever league title in women's golf. 
 

Then, a little more than a month later, on Oklahoma City's Lincoln Park course, Delfino placed 13th individually to help Loyola finish ninth as a team at the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) tournament. Her mark of 293, +5 at that competition, remained a program record for best NAIA tournament score at the time of her hall of fame selection.
 

It was after that performance that she became the first Wolf Pack women's golfer to gain an NAIA First Team All-America nod. And when she was chosen for induction into the Wolf Pack hall of fame, she was one of only two Loyola women's golfers to have ever earned First Team All-America recognition. 
 

Delfino capped off her exceptional senior campaign by landing on the Louisiana Sports Writers Association's all-state team. She joined three women's golfers from LSU and one from the University of Louisiana at Monroe, meaning she was the only member of the squad to hail from a program outside the NCAA Division I's ranks. 
 

Furthermore, Delfino's four tournament wins during her Loyola career were the most in program history when she was picked for the school's sports hall of fame. At the time, she was one of only two Loyola women's golfers who had won more than one tournament. Those victories were at the 2015 Freed-Hardeman Invitational, the 2017 Tennessee Wesleyan University Spring Invitational, the 2018 Women's Roadrunner Invitational and the 2019 Wolf Pack Spring Invitational.
 

Her successes on the golf course didn't stop there. A fifth Delfino tournament victory worth mentioning came shortly after she graduated from Loyola. In August 2019, she won the Rhode Island Golf Association's Women's amateur championship — just one day after learning her beloved grandmother had died. "This tournament is the Masters of Rhode Island women's golf," Delfino told Rhode Island's Providence Journal at the time. "I was happy that I had my best."
 

Delfino had already become a member of the Loyola sports hall of fame in January 2025 as part of the 2019 women's golf team that was enshrined then. But now Delfino distinguishes herself as the first women's golfer admitted into the institution.
 

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