2020-21 Women's Golf Roster
Biography
2020-21 (Freshman): Competed in two events as a true freshman, making her debut in the fall semester at the Mercer Invitational … Also competed in the spring-opening, stroke and match-play event, the Battle at Old South … Finished the year with a stroke average of 84.75 over four rounds in the two events … Posted her career-low round of 83 in the third round of the Mercer Invitational … Halved her first match in the Battle at Old South against Jacksonville ... Named to the 2020-21 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll ... Received a SoCon Commissioner's Medal.
Prior to Western Carolina: An accomplished, three-year varsity letter winner who began her high school career at Brownsville Veterans Memorial and was home-schooled as a sophomore before transferring to Los Fresnos and sitting out her junior year ... Ranked second in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) in scoring average prior to the COVID-19 pandemic that halted her senior season, winning all four RGV tournaments she played prior to the stoppage ... Collected first-team all-conference, all-county, all-area, and all-region honors each season as a prep ... High school coach at Los Fresnos was Luis Gonzalez ... Played on the Southern Texas PGA Junior Golf tour posting six top 10 finishes in 2020 and 13 in 2019 including 10 podium finishes with five first-place tallies ... Also competed in five tournaments on the Texas Junior Golf Tour - three in 2018-19 including a best finish of fifth in the Region II Showcase at the Cottonwood Creek Golf Course and two in 2019-20 with a fourth-place showing at the Region IV Kickoff at The Republic Golf Club.
Personal: Full name is Vanessa Laris Campos ... Is the daughter of Rick Campos.
