University of Houston Athletics
Harm Named All-America Honorable Mention
5/23/2018 2:52:00 PM | Women's Golf
Junior becomes first Cougar in program history to earn All-America honors
HOUSTON – Following a record-setting season, University of Houston junior Leonie Harm was named All-America Honorable Mention by the Women's Golf Coaches Association on Wednesday evening. Harm became the first Cougar to earn All-America honors during her career.
Earlier this month, she competed in the NCAA Championships for the second time in her career. The Gerlingen, Germany, native became the first Cougar to compete at the nation's premier collegiate event in 2016.
Harm joined Albane Valenzuela (Stanford); Alice Hewson (Clemson); Allisen Corpuz (USC); Allyson Geer, Michigan State; Ana Belac (Duke); Bianca Pagdanganan (Arizona); Brittany Fan (Colorado); Dewi Weber (Miami); Haley Moore (Arizona); Hannah Kim (Northwestern); Jaravee Boonchant (Duke); Morgane Metraux (Florida State); Natalie Srinivasan (Furman); Robyn Choi (Colorado); Sierra Brooks (Florida); Yu-Sang Hou (Arizona) as Honorable Mention.
Ainhoa Olarra (South Carolina); Alana Uriell (Arkansas); Dylan Kim (Arkansas); Emilia Migliaccio (Wake Forest); Jaclyn Lee (Ohio State); Jennifer Chang (USC); Kaitlyn Papp (Texas); Mariel Galdiano (UCLA); Olivia Mehaffey (Arizona State); Pimnipa Panthong (Kent State) and Sarah Burnham (Michigan State) were named to the Second Team.
Maria Fassi (Arkansas); Kristen Gillman (Alabama); Jillian Hollis (Georgia); Cheyenne Knight (Alabama); Jennifer Kupcho (Wake Forest); Andrea Lee (Stanford); Leona Maguire (Duke); Sophia Schubert (Texas); Lauren Stephenson (Alabama); Maddie Szeryk (Texas A&M); Patty Tavatanakit (UCLA) and Lilia Vu (UCLA) earned places on the First Team.
ABOUT Leonie Harm
Harm, the 2018 American Athletic Conference Player of the Year, earned her place in the nation's premier collegiate event with a record-setting performance in the NCAA Austin Regional Final Round on May 9.
She drained six birdies with an eagle during the final 18 holes on the way to a school-record 65 to move into a three-woman playoff for the final two individual spots out of the Austin Regional. After nearly two extra hours of play, Harm clinched her place with a par on the seventh playoff hole.
Harm, who stands at No. 32 in the latest Golfstat individual rankings, leads the Cougars in 2017-18 with a 72.71 scoring average and 16 rounds of par or better. She has earned Top-7 finishes in each of her last four tournaments, including a second-place showing at the LSU Tiger Classic on March 23-25.
Harm first competed at the NCAA Championships in 2016. Qualifying out of the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional after tying for seventh, she became the first Cougar to compete at the NCAA Championships and tied for 81st with a score of 224.
She is the Cougars' career leader in stroke average at 73.04 and holds the school single-season record with a 72.70 mark in 2016-17. Harm became only the second student-athlete in program history to compete in 3+ NCAA Regionals during her career.
In addition to her work on the course, Harm is a two-time member of the American Athletic Conference All-Academic Team and was a 2016-17 WGCA All-American Scholar. A biochemistry major, she is poised to collect both honors again for the 2017-18 season in the near future.
ABOUT the WOMEN'S GOLF COACHES ASSOCIATION
The Women's Golf Coaches Association, founded in 1983, is a non-profit organization representing women's collegiate golf coaches. The WGCA was formed to encourage the playing of college golf for women in correlation with a general objective of education and in accordance with the highest tradition of intercollegiate competition. Today, the WGCA represents over 600 coaches throughout the U.S. and is dedicated to educating, promoting and recognizing both its members and the student-athletes they represent.
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