Lucia Lopez Ortega Season 2022-23

Two seasons at San José State…five top-five finishes and 10 other top-20 finishes in her career… Academic All-Mountain West and Mountain West Scholar Athlete…WGCA All-America Scholar…currently ranked 93rd on the WAGR.
 
San José State Golf Honors
2022-23 WGCA Honorable Mention All-America
2023 NCAA Individual Runner-up – Stroke Play
2022-23 First Team All-Mountain West
2021-22 Mountain West Freshman of the Year
2021-22 First Team All-Mountain West
2021-22 WGCA All-American Scholar
 
2022-23: Honorable mention WGCA All-American selection…finished tied for second at the NCAA Championships at 9-under 279, one shot behind champion Rose Zhang…one of only three golfers at the championship to shoot under par all four rounds (68-69-71-71)…made an eagle on par-5, #18 in the second round and reached the green in two shots in each of the four rounds…first team All-Mountain West selection…played in all 11 tournaments and 34 rounds...71.88 stroke average, the fourth-best in school history…ranked 27^th in Golfstat…tied for fifth at the Therese Hession Regional Challenge where she shot even-par 213…finished in the top-20 in nine of the 11 tournaments played…tied for ninth at the Stanford Intercollegiate where she shot a 4-under 67 in the first round…tied for ninth at the Mountain West Championship where she shot 2-under 214 for the tournament...only eagle of the season came at the MountainView Collegiate she had one on the par-4 #6 in the first round…tied for 16^th at the NCAA Athens Regional where she shot 4-over 220 including a 71 in the second round.
 
2021-22: Mountain West Freshman of the Year…first team All-MW honoree…played in all 11 tournaments…73.09 stroke average and finished 89^th in the Golfstat rankings…tied for third at the NCAA Ann Arbor Regional at even-par 213…finished second at the Mountain West Championship at three-under 213, seven strokes behind teammate Natasha Andrea Oon… two other top-five finishes – third at the MountainView Collegiate and fourth at the Juli Inkster at Meadow Club Invitational…finished even or under par in all four top-five placings…10 rounds under par this year… shot a 68 four times this season including the first round of the MW Championship…also shot a 69 in the second round of the MountainView Collegiate…finished tied for 57^th at the NCAA Championships where she shot a 2-under 70 in the third round…made an eagle in each of the first two rounds of the NCAA Championships…started the season tying for 16^th at the Branch Law Firm/Dick McGuire Invitational… tied for 20^th at The Molly Collegiate Invitational…honored as the September Mountain West Freshman of the Month for her two top-20 finishes, two MW Freshman of the Week honors in March and the MW Golfer of the Week for her finish at the Juli Inkster at Meadow Club Invitational…made five eagles during the season…sank a hole-in-one in the first round of the Juli Inkster at Meadow Club Invitational…did it on the par-3 #11 from 131 yards.
 
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: Was ranked fourth in the U18 Spanish National Rankings and 24^th in the U18 European Golf Rankings…represented Team Spain at the European Team Championship and Spanish Team Championship in July of 2021…finished fourth at the 2021 Spanish Amateur Championship…won the 2021 Memorial Celia Barquin Copa Principado de Asturias…second at the 2021 Campeonato de Madrid…won the 2020 Golf East Mallorca Cup and ninth at the 202 Spanish Ladies Amateur Championship.
 
HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from les Ortega y Gasset in Madrid in 2021.
 
PERSONAL: Majoring in biology…would like to go to medical school after graduation…San José State President’s Scholar…Academic All-MW honoree…Mountain West Scholar Athlete…likes sports and animals…Lucia Lopez Ortega was born in Manacor, Mallorca.