2014-15 Women's Golf

Marika Liu

  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Pendleton
  • Hometown Beverly Hills, Calif.

Biography

2014-2015 (Senior): Named 2015 Ivy League Player of the Year ... Awarded Yale’s Meyer Humanitarian Award ... Earned a bid to NCAA Regionals in Texas ... Finished T-1st and received First Team All-Ivy Honours for her excellent performance at the Ivy League Championships ... Won the Princeton Invitational (75-72-72) ... Placed fifth at the BYU Entrada Classic (72-70-73) ... Finished eighth at the Nittany Lion Invitational ... Placed tenth at the Yale Women''s Fall Intercollegiate ... Carded low rounds of 70 at the Furman Lady Paladin Invitational and BYU Entrada Classic

2013-2014 (Junior): Earned All-Ivy Honours for her sixth place finish at the Ivy League Championship ... Finished seventh at the Middleburg Bank Intercollegiate and Nittany Lion Invitational ... Placed 17th at the Seton Hall Pirate Invitational ... Competed in the 2014 US Women’s Amateur and US Women’s Amateur Public Links, 2014 Florida Women’s Amateur Championship 

2012-13 (Sophomore): Earned First-team All-Ivy Honours for her stunning third place finish at the Ivy League Championship ... Placed second at the Lehigh Invitational ... Finished in sixth at the Dartmouth Invitational ... Finished in sixth at the Brown Invitational ... Closed in 11th at the Hoya Invitational ... Qualified for the 2013 US Women’s Amateur 

2011-12 (Freshman): Played in two tournaments ... low round was a 75 in first career tournament at the Yale Women''s Intercollegiate

Before Yale: AJGA Rolex All-American 2008 & 2009 ... HP Scholastic Academic All-American 2009 & 2010 ... Qualified for the 2011 U.S. Women''s Amateur … Won AJGA 2010 Florida Junior Open ... 9 AJGA Top-5 Finishes ... Ranked 14th for class of 2011 in US Golfweek/Sagarin Rankings ... Valedictorian ... National Honour Society ... Harvard Book Club Award

 

Nickname: Mar

Lowest Score: 66

Why you chose Yale: When I walked around campus for the first time, I thought it was eerily beautiful yet enchanting — a place unlike any I’d been to before. I loved Coach and the team, and the incredibly rich history and resources of the school. 

Favorite Album: In Between Dreams (Jack Johnson) and Battle Studios (John Mayer)

Favorite Food: Scones

Favorite Place at Yale: The Yale Art Gallery… and all of the libraries around campus!

Place You''d Like to Visit: Tenerife, Spain; Seychelles; Mauritius 

Historical Player Information

  • 2011-12First Year

  • 2012-13Sophomore

  • 2013-14Junior

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    2014-15Senior

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