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University of Illinois Athletics

2016-17 Women's Golf Roster

Katherine Hepler

  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • Hometown Lincoln, Ill.
  • High School University
  • Prev School Mizzou

Biography

Career Bests at Missouri

Best Finish: 5th - Chip-N Club Invitational (Fall 2012)
Low Round: 69 - M&F Bank Intercollegiate (Spring 2013)
Low 54-Hole Score: 217 (+1) - Pat Bradley Invitational (Fall 2013)

Senior - 2015-16

  • Redshirted the season after graduating from Missouri with a year of eligibility remaining.

At Missouri

  • Competed in 14 tournaments
  • Recorded a 76.01 stroke average
  • Posted a 54-hole average of 228.5 strokes
  • Finished in the top 10 in each of her first five tournaments with the Tigers
  • Finished in the top-20 on eight occasions
  • Two-time WGCA All-American Scholar (2013, 2014)

High School

  • Attended University High School in the Corn Belt Conference
  • Went undefeated in all matches and tournaments during her senior season
  • Won the Illinois state title her senior year to become the first girl in University High School history to win the individual title

Personal

  • Daughter of Dave and Grace Hepler
  • Has an older brother, Dave
  • Earned a B.S. in chemical engineering at Missouri
  • Working on her Master's degree in nuclear engineering at Illinois
  • Four-year member of the concert band, jazz band and marching band in high school
  • Three-year member of her high school's pit orchestra and wind ensemble (tenor saxophone, clarinet, baritone saxophone and bass clarinet)

Historical Player Information

  • 2015-16Senior

  • 2016-17Redshirt Senior