Harm Named to All-Region Team
5/30/2016 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
EUGENE, Ore. â€" After competing as the University of Houston Women's Golf program's first representative at the NCAA Championships, freshman Leonie Harm was recently named to the Women's Golf Coaches Association All-Region Team for the Baton Rouge Regional.
Harm, who only joined the Cougars at the start of the spring semester, became a fixture in the Cougars' starting lineup during the second half of the season. Despite her short tenure, she finished second on the team with a 74.35 scoring average and added five rounds of par or better, including a team-best four in the 60s.
She broke into the team's starting lineup at the UNF Collegiate on March 7 and helped lead the Cougars to their second team tournament championship of the season.
Harm posted a score of 225, including a Second-Round 69, to help lead Houston to the American Athletic Conference team championship on April 17-19 at Hammock Beach Resort & Golf Club in Palm Coast Fla.
The Gerlingen, Germany, native earned her place in the nation's premier collegiate event after tying for seventh with a score of 1-under-par 215 at the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional on May 5-7. After opening with a Regional school-record 69, she overcame an 82 in the Second Round and posted another 69 in the Final Round to tie as the third individual qualifier for the NCAA Championships
Competing in only its second season of team competition, Houston missed qualifying as a team by only two strokes at the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional. Under Head Coach Gerrod Chadwell's leadership, the program was added to the Houston Department of Athletics for the 2013-14 season and only began competing for team championships in 2014-15 per NCAA rules.
Despite the program's brief history, the Cougars have established themselves as one of the nation's best. Houston has qualified to compete at an NCAA Regional in every season in which it was eligible and ranks at No. 28 nationally in the latest Golfstat poll.
The All-Region Teams were based on the top-10 finishers and ties at each of the NCAA Regional sites. Harm was joined on the Baton Rouge Regional team by Elise Bradley (LSU), Virginia Elena Carta (Duke), Sandy Choi (Duke), Katelyn Dambaugh (South Carolina), Lea Garner (BYU), Leona Maguire (Duke), Linnea Strom (Arizona State), Charlotte Thomas (Washington), Maria Torres (Florida) and Karolina Vickova (Florida)
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