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Campos Named Finalist for WGCA Player of the Year
May 15, 2024 | Women's Golf
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. – Junior Zoe Antoinette Campos on the UCLA women's golf team was named to the Watch List for 2023-24 Division I PING WGCA Player of the Year, it was announced Wednesday morning. The list features five of the best women's collegiate golfers in the country this season.
Recognized annually as the top honor in women's collegiate golf, the PING WGCA Player of the Year is awarded to the best player in Division I, II, III and NAIA women's golf. The award was first given in 1987. The recipient is selected by a prestigious collection of women's collegiate golf coaches who follow criteria that has been established to identify the finest player for the past year. Two Bruins have been named the WGCA Player of the Year in the award's history: Bronte Law (2015-16) and Lilia Vu (2017-18).
Campos is the No. 1-ranked American women's amateur and No. 5-ranked overall women's amateur on the globe, according to the most recent World Amateur Golf Rankings. Other awards Campos has hauled in this season include being named to the All-Pac-12 First Team and 2024 Final ANNIKA Award Watch List.
Campos is coming off her fourth medal of the season at the NCAA Las Vegas Regional last Wednesday, May 8. Her four medals are tied for the most in a single-season in UCLA history. She has also recorded 19 rounds under par in 2023-24, which is tied for fourth-most in a single season (the record is 20 rounds under par set by three separate UCLA golfers).
Campos leads the Bruins in scoring average (70.5) and top-10 finishes (8), and she is the only UCLA golfer to have all of her rounds contribute to the team score (28/28 counting rounds).
Campos and the Bruins will compete at the 2024 NCAA Championships at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif. this week. UCLA gets action underway on Friday, May 17.
Recognized annually as the top honor in women's collegiate golf, the PING WGCA Player of the Year is awarded to the best player in Division I, II, III and NAIA women's golf. The award was first given in 1987. The recipient is selected by a prestigious collection of women's collegiate golf coaches who follow criteria that has been established to identify the finest player for the past year. Two Bruins have been named the WGCA Player of the Year in the award's history: Bronte Law (2015-16) and Lilia Vu (2017-18).
Campos is the No. 1-ranked American women's amateur and No. 5-ranked overall women's amateur on the globe, according to the most recent World Amateur Golf Rankings. Other awards Campos has hauled in this season include being named to the All-Pac-12 First Team and 2024 Final ANNIKA Award Watch List.
Campos is coming off her fourth medal of the season at the NCAA Las Vegas Regional last Wednesday, May 8. Her four medals are tied for the most in a single-season in UCLA history. She has also recorded 19 rounds under par in 2023-24, which is tied for fourth-most in a single season (the record is 20 rounds under par set by three separate UCLA golfers).
Campos leads the Bruins in scoring average (70.5) and top-10 finishes (8), and she is the only UCLA golfer to have all of her rounds contribute to the team score (28/28 counting rounds).
Campos and the Bruins will compete at the 2024 NCAA Championships at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif. this week. UCLA gets action underway on Friday, May 17.
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