2023-24 Catamount Women's Golf Roster
Biography
Career: Over 40 career events, totaled 8,375 strokes over 109 total rounds to finish with a scoring average of 76.83 … Finished her five-year WCU career ranked 12th in WCU’s career scoring record book … Her career-best individual came in the 2020-21 season with a runner-up showing at the Bobby Nichols Intercollegiate … Carder her best career 54-hole score of 217 twice – in claiming medalist honors at the Nichols Intercollegiate and in helping WCU win the 2022 Jupiter Women’s Invitational as a senior ... WCU's first golfer to be named a five-time WGCA All-American Scholar.
2023-24 (Fifth-Year Senior): Competed in all 10 of the team’s events including nine stroke-play tournaments and one match-play event … Over 27 seasonal rounds, posted a scoring average of 77.26 … 21 of her 27 rounds in the 70s, carding a career-low round of 69 over the first 18 holes at the Jupiter Women’s Invitational … Posted five Top 25 individual finishes for the squad, placing in a season-best 17th-place tie in the fall-concluding Terrier Intercollegiate … Also finished in a 19th-place tie at the Jupiter Women’s Invitational in the fall semester ... Named to the 2024 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District At-Large team ... Selected as a 2023-24 WGCA All-American Scholar.
2022-23 (Senior): Competed in all 11 of the team’s tournaments as a part of the scoring five … Finished the year with a seasonal scoring average of 76.30 … Carded 26 of her 30 seasonal rounds in the 70s including a career-low round of 70 shot in the first round of the RiverTowne Invitational … Tallied four Top 10 finishes including a pair of seventh-place finishes at the Aggie Invitational and the Buccaneer Classic in the fall … Matched her career-best, 54-hole score of 217 at the Jupiter Women’s Invitational in the fall portion of the schedule … Won two of her three matches at the Oyster Shuck Match Play event in mid-February … Recorded an eighth-place finish at the Mimosa Hills Intercollegiate … Is expected to return to Cullowhee as a fifth-year senior in 2023-24 ... Named to the Spring 2023 Academic All-Southern Conference team ... Named to the 2022-23 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll ... Selected as a 2022-23 WGCA All-American Scholar.
2021-22 (Junior): Competed in seven of the team’s eight stroke-play tournaments and both match-play events on the season … Finished the year third on the squad in scoring average at 76.43 to rank 20th in the final SoCon individual rankings … Posted three, Top 15 individual finishes … Led the Catamount scoring five in once with a 13th-place finish at the Mimosa Hills Intercollegiate … A combined 17 of her 21 rounds on the season were carded in the 70s … Matched her career-low round of 71 at Charleston Southern’s Buccaneer Classic in the fall ... Finished tied for 15th at the 2022 SoCon Women's Golf Championship … Went 4-2 in her six individual match-play pairings over two events ... Selected as a 2021-22 WGCA All-American Scholar ... Named to the Spring 2022 Academic All-Southern Conference team ... Named to the 2021-22 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll and received a SoCon Commissioner's Medal.
2020-21 (Sophomore): Played in all seven seasonal events and 19 rounds as a member of the scoring five, pacing the squad in seasonal stroke average at 76.58, ranked 19th in the SoCon … a combined 15 of her 19 seasonal rounds were shot in the 70s … Led the Catamounts in four of the seven seasonal events … Posted a career-best finish with a runner-up showing at the Bobby Nichols Intercollegiate, carding her career-low 54-hole tournament score of 217 … Shot a career-best round of 71 at the Bobby Nichols Intercollegiate … Tallied an 11th-place tie at the Pinehurst Women’s Intercollegiate … Finished 19th in her first appearance in the SoCon Women’s Golf Championship ... Selected as a 2020-21 WGCA All-American Scholar ... Named to the 2020-21 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll and was named Academic All-Southern Conference.
2019-20 (Freshman): Competed in five events for a total of 12 rounds on the season … Made her collegiate debut at the season-opening, 2019 Judaculla Cup, posting a career-best 14th-place finish … Averaged 78.33 over her first 12 rounds, recording seven rounds in the 70s … Carded her career-low round of 1-over par 73 in the second round of the FAU Winter Warmup … Served as a women’s golf representative on the WCU SAAC ... Named to the 2019-20 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll … Received the Southern Conference Commissioner's Medal … Selected as a 2019-20 WGCA All-American Scholar … Season shortened because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the cancellation of spring sports in mid-March.
Prior to Western Carolina: Finished tied for 18th individually with a 36-hole score of 166 in the NCHSAA 3A Girls Golf Championship, helping Northern Guilford to a second-straight runner-up team finish … Finished tied for fourth as an individual in the 2017 NCHSAA Girls Golf Championship with an 8-over par showing … Posted a top 10 finish in the Mid-State 3A Conference girls golf match-play in 2016 … High school coach was Theodore Bonham. … Has 11 top-five finishes including five podium finishes in SCJGA junior competition, winning the PKBGT Regional North Carolina Series event at the Pinewood Country Club in July 2019 … Ranked 16th in North Carolina on the PKB Girls Golf Tour.
Personal: Is the daughter of Jessie and Robert Ladd.
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