For the first time in Stanford women’s golf history, we won
the 2015 National Championship at Concession Golf Club in Bradenton,
Florida.
This was the first year match play was added to the women’s
championship format. We played 4 rounds
of stroke play where juniors, Mariah Stackhouse and Lauren Kim led the way finishing
6th and 7th respectively individually helping us gain a
berth to the match play event. Sophomore Casey Danielson and freshman Shannon
Aubert topped the year with a 3-0 match play record to help us top Arizona,
USC, and Baylor University to clench the title! Junior Mariah Stackhouse showcased
a heroic comeback after being 2 down with 2 to play in the final round of match
play. She birdied the par 5 17th and followed that with another
birdie on 18 to force extra holes. After winning the 19th hole with
a par, the Stanford women’s golf team made history clenching the 2015 National
Championship!
We had 5 student athletes earn PAC-12 Conference
All-Academic honors. Junior Lauren Kim received first team All American honors
for the second year in a row and Junior Mariah Stackhouse received an honorable
mention All American honor. Coach Anne
Walker in just her third year at Stanford received the National Coach of the
Year Award!
This summer, junior Lauren Kim represented the USA in the
World University Games in Gwangju, Korea. Her and her teammates led team USA to
a third place bronze medal finish. Lauren’s scores of 73-72-73-71 propelled her
to a third place finish individually. Freshman Shannon Aubert and sophomore
Quirine Eikenboom played in the European team championship representing their
home country of France and Germany respectively. Team France took home the
trophy.
Our only senior Mariko Tumangan graduated this year with a
major in psychology. Mariko has been a huge asset to this team, she leaves
Stanford a two time WGCA Academic All American, a three time PAC-12 All
Academic honorable mention, with a low collegiate round of 66! We are happy to
announce that Mariko will be staying close to the farm working at a start up
company in San Francisco called Gain Fitness.
We are so proud of what our team has accomplished and we are
excited to have all the players back on campus to kick off our fall season at
the Branch Law Firm Invitational in New Mexico.
