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Player Bio: Saki Uechi - UCLA Official Athletic Site

April 17, 2013 | Women's Golf

Summer 2003 -- Represented UCLA as part of the NCAA team that toured and played golf in South Korea, Thailand and Japan.

2002-03 -- Increased her participation to four appearances and 12 rounds ... Improved her scoring average 1.1 strokes from her sophomore season ... Also recorded a pair of Top 20 finishes and contributed with 88% of her rounds ... Tied for 17th at Stanford and tied for 11th at the Kent Youel Invitational ... Posted a season best score of even par 72 in the final round in Hawaii.

2001-02 -- Best finish was a tie for 38th at the Stanford event ... Fired a 73 in the second round, her best score of the season ... Averaged 77.1 in seven rounds and three appearances ... All of her eligible rounds counted in team scoring.

2000-01 -- Advanced to the first round of the 2001 U.S. Women's Amateur before losing 3&1 to Kelli Kamimura of Burlington, WA ... Tied for 7th at the Rainbow Wahine, her best collegiate finish ... Captured eighth place at the Pac-10 Championships and earned Pac-10 Honorable Mention honors ... Tied for 19th at the Ihlandfelt event, her first top 20 finish ... Tied for 33rd at the Pioneer Classic, where she posted an even par score of 72 in the first round ... Tied for 59th at the NCAA West Regionals ... Tied for 104th at the NCAAs ... Averaged 77.7 in 34 rounds of competition with 74 percent (23 of 31) of her scores counting toward the team total ... Earned a spot on the Director's Honor Roll in the Fall .

Summer of 2000 -- Finished runner-up to Natalie Gulbus at the California Women's Amateur with scores of 71-73-78 ... Also was the runner-up at the Ventura City Championship with scores of 72-76.

1999-00 -- Redshirted the season.

High School -- Lettered in basketball as a guard and two-year starter ... Also lettered two years on the boy's golf team for coach Joe White ... Earned First-Team Girl's All-City honors from 1996-99 ... Earned Second-Team All-City Boy's golf honors in 1998 ... Earned Honorable Mention golf acclaim from the L.A. Times in 1998-99 ... Finished 13th as a junior in the girl's state tournament, shooting 75.

Personal -- Enjoys golf because it is "a life-long sport" that has taught her self-discipline ... Biggest thrill was making a hole-in-one at Industry Hills ... Fulfilling a dream by attending UCLA ... Father Satoru was once one of California's top amateurs ... Japanese major.

Career Statistics

  Saki Uechi
Saki Uechi
Player Profile
Class:
RS Senior

Hometown:
Redondo Beach, CA

High School:
Granada Hills HS

Height:
5-4

R/L:
Right

Year

App.

Rds

Victories

Top 10

Top 20

Rnds <>

Rnds <>

Avg.

Low

2000-01

11

34

0

2

3

1

0

77.7

70

2001-02

3

7

0

0

0

0

0

77.1

73

2002-03

4

12

0

0

2

0

0

76.1

72

Totals

18

53

0

2

5

1

0

77.3

70

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