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2023 Big Ten Medalist

2023 Big Ten Player of the Year

2023 WGCA First Team All-American

Four-Time All-Big Ten

University of Illinois Graduate

Career Bests

Best Finish: 1st -- Big Ten Championships (April 21-23, 2023)
Low Round: 62 (-9) -- Big Ten Championships (April 21-23, 2023)
Low 54-Hole Score: 202 (-14) -- Illini Women's Invitational (Oct. 10-11, 2022)

Graduate Student 2022-23

• 2023 Big Ten Championships Medalist
• 2023 Big Ten All-Championship Team
• 2023 Mary Fossum Award
• 2023 Big Ten Player of the Year
• All-Big Ten First Team
• Big Ten Sportsmanship Award Honoree
• 2x Big Ten Golfer of the Week (Oct. 19, March 15)
• Big Ten Women's Golfers to Watch List
• WGCA First Team All-American
• 2023 Augusta National Women's Amateur participant
• 2023 Arnold Palmer Cup Participant
• CSC Academic All-District
• Academic All-Big Ten
• Became the first Illini since 1993 (Renee Heiken) to earn Big Ten Medalist honors.
• Posted the lowest 54-hole total (201) in Big Ten Championships history
• Carded a final round 62 (-9) in the Big Ten Championships, matching a program record for lowest round and setting the record for the lowest round at a conference championship tournament in NCAA history.
• First Illini golfer to earn All-American honors since 1993 (Renee Heiken).
• Recorded the lowest single-season scoring average (70.42) in program history.
• Is the program leader in career scoring average (72.37).
• Finished in the Top 10 in eight of 12 events...finished in the Top 5 in six tournaments.
• Earned the first win of her career with a tied-for-first place finish at the Clemson Invitational on March 24-26.
• Played 36 rounds in 12 events with a team-leading 70.42 scoring average.

Senior 2021-22

• CoSIDA Academic All-District
• All-Big Ten First-Team
• Big Ten Championship All-Championship Team
• WGCA All-American Scholar
• Big Ten Distinguished Scholar
• Academic All-Big Ten
• 2022 Augusta National Women’s Amateur participant
• Big Ten Women's Golfers to Watch List
• 2x Big Ten Conference Women's Golfer of the Week (11/3/2021, 2/23/22) 
• Prairie Farms Scholar Athlete of the Week (3/8/22)
• Played 36 rounds in 12 events with a team-leading 72.81 scoring average
• Led the team with 13 rounds under par
• Led the team seven tournaments as top Illini finisher, including final three tournaments of the season
• Registered eight top-15 finishes: The Landfall Tradition (3rd), ICON Invitational (T-3rd), Lady Buckeye Invitational (T-5th), Big Ten Championships (T-6th), Wolverine Invitational (T-8th), Illini Women’s Invitational (T-13th), Blessings Collegiate Invitational (T-14th), NCAA Tallahassee Regional (T-14th)
• Garnered Big Ten Conference Women’s Golfer of the Week after equaling a season-best third place finish at the ICON Invitational (Feb. 21-22) and carding the lowest 54-hole tournament total in program history with a 13-under par 203, highlighted by an eight-under par 64 in her final round, which also marked the lowest single round score in program history. The senior led the field with 18 birdies in the tournament.
• Named to the All-Championship Team after finishing in a tie for sixth place at the Big Ten Championships (Apr. 22-24, 2022) with a two-over tournament total of 215, including a five-under 66 in her second round
• Named Big Ten Conference Women’s Golfer of the Week after registering her highest finish of the season with a third place showing at The Landfall Tradition with a tournament total of four-under par 212 that included a four-under 68 score. She also led all players with 17 birdies in the tournament.

Junior 2020-21

• All-Big Ten Second Team
• Academic All-Big Ten
• Played 21 rounds in seven events with a 73.24 scoring average
• 73.24 scoring average ranked second-best on the team
• Played five rounds under par
• Two top-10 finishes: Heroes Ladies Intercollegiate (5th), Briar’s Creek Invitational (T-8th)
• Tied eighth-best 54-hole score in program history (-5 (211), Heroes Ladies Intercollegiate, Feb. 7-9, 2021)
• Fifth-place finish at the Heroes Ladies Intercollegiate Feb. 7-9, 2020 was the best spring tournament finish of her career

Sophomore 2019-20

• WGCA All-American Scholar
• Big Ten Distinguished Scholar
• Academic All-Big Ten
• Big Ten Preseason honoree
• Average team finish of 2.29 led the team
• Recorded the eighth-lowest single-season stroke average in program history at 73.10
• Led the Illini in three tournaments
• Started the season with a top-10 finish at the Glass City Invitational
• Carded three rounds under par and five even-par rounds on the season
• Season cut short due to COVID-19 outbreak

Freshman 2018-19

• All-Big Ten First Team
• WGCA All-American Scholar
• Posted the fifth-lowest single season stroke average in program history (72.95)
• Earned three top-five finishes during the fall season
• Posted 13 birdies (second-highest) and tied for 23rd during stroke play at the NCAA Championships with a 226 (+7)
• Tied the fifth-best individual 36-hole score in program history with a 144 (E) at the Big Ten Championships
• Second-best individual 54-hole score in program history with a 208 (-8) at the inaugural hosted Illini Women's Invitational at Medinah
• Tied the fifth-best individual round in program history with a 67 (-5) in the first round of the inaugural hosted Illini Women's Invitational at Medinah
• Earned a career-best finish at the Coeur D’Alene Resort Collegiate (Sept. 24-25)
• Carded a 70 (-1) final round total in her first collegiate event at the Mercedes-Benz Collegiate

High School

• Finished fifth and advanced to the 2018 US Women's Amateur with a 1-under 71
• 2014 California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Team State Champion
• Eight top-10 AJGA finishes
• AJGA Enagic Junior Champion
• 2016 CIF Individual Runner-up
• 2017 Plormares League MVP
• Three year varsity team captain
• 2015 SCPGA Toyota Tour Championship Winner
• 2016 named Inland Valley best girl golfer
• Three-time SCPGA Toyota Tour Champion
• National Junior Golf Scoreboard ranking #44/18 (overall/Class of 2018)

Personal

• Majoring in Information Systems
• Dream job is a food critic
• Favorite golfer is Justin Thomas
• Pre-round rituals are no candies or artificial sugar a day before my tournament
• If I could pick one celebrity to be my caddy: Chris Hemsworth
• If I could live anywhere in the world I would choose Australia
• If I could have an endless supply of one food, it would be candies
• Last movie I watched that I liked is The Incredibles 2
• Daughter of Jing and JiaQi Wang and sister of Julia
• Chose Illinois because: “This is the school with people that I feel I'm most comfortable with and there is a sense of belonging in the golf program that I really believe will help me throughout my years at Illinois.”

Career Statistics

Individual Results

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