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2016-17 Women's Golf Roster

Dave Winder

Sofie Levin

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Stockholm, Sweden

Biography

AS A SENIOR IN 2016-17
Earned All-Ohio Valley Conference honors for the fourth straight year … concluded her career with the lowest career scoring average in team history at 75.79 … also set EKU career records for par or better rounds (22), birdies (250) and rounds played (121) … posted a 75.44 stroke average her senior season, second on the team and eighth-best in the OVC … played in all 11 events and all 32 rounds … had six top-10 finishes, including three in the top-5 and one first place performance … posted a 628-124 head-to-head record … tied for first at the 2017 ORU/SFA Spring Break Invitational (March 13) with a three-round total of 218 … placed second and also shot a 218 at the John Kirk Panther Intercollegiate (March 26), tied for the sixth lowest total score in program history … tied for fourth in a field of 90 at the Cardinal Classic (Sept. 19) with a 54-hole total of 216, the fourth-lowest score in program history.
 
AS A JUNIOR IN 2015-16
2015-16 All-Ohio Valley Conference honoree … 2015-16 OVC All-Tournament selection … led the team and ranked fourth in the OVC with a 75.89 stroke average … finished in the top-10 in seven of the team’s 12 events, including four top-5 performances … broke the program record with seven rounds of par or better … tied for sixth at the Cardinal Classic (Sept. 22) with a 54-hole total of 219 … tied her career-low, and her own program record, with a second round 68 on her way to a third place finish at the UC Bearcats Fall Classic (Oct. 6) … shot rounds of 72, 76 and 70 for a season-best 218 and placed third at the John Kirk Panther Intercollegiate (March 29) … finished fourth at the OVC Championship (April 20) … 2015-16 Colonel Scholar.
 
AS A SOPHOMORE IN 2014-15
2014-15 All-OVC honoree … 2014-15 OVC All-Tournament selection … 2015 OVC Tournament individual medalist and MVP … led the team and ranked seventh in the OVC with a 76.21 stroke average … second-lowest single season stroke average in program history … her four rounds of par or better, at the time, tied for the most in one season ever by a Colonel … team-best six top-10 finishes, including two first place performances … recorded, what were at the time, three of the four lowest 54-hole tournament scores in program history … a total of 222 at the Bob Hurley Auto ORU Shootout (Sept. 30) was the second-lowest ever by a Colonel at the time … broke what was at the time her own school record of 221 with a score of 219 at the John Kirk/Panther Intercollegiate (March 31), finishing fourth among 83 golfers … tied for first with a single round score of 72 at the Colonel Classic (April 4) … established what was at the time a new school record and finished first with a score of 217 at the 2015 OVC Championship (April 22) … her final round 68 tied her own program-record for the best single round by a Colonel … led EKU and tied for 53rd at the NCAA South Bend Regional (May 9) with a 54-hole total of 229 … 2014-15 Colonel Scholar.
 
AS A FRESHMAN IN 2013-14
2013-14 All-OVC and OVC All-Newcomer Team selection … chosen to the 2014 OVC All-Tournament Team … led EKU and was fourth in the OVC with a 75.73 stroke average in her first collegiate season … broke the program single season record for stroke average of 77.40 … set a new EKU record with a round of 68 (-4) at the Great Smokies Intercollegiate (Sept. 17), her second event as a collegiate golfer … finished in the top-10 nine times in 11 events, including four times in the top-5 … tied for fourth overall with a season-best 36-hole total of 141 at the Great Smokies Intercollegiate … finished fourth among 83 golfers at the UNF Intercollegiate (March 11) with a 54-hole total of 227 … broke the program record of 223 by shooting a season-low 54-hole total of 221 and tying for seventh in a field of 92 at the MSU Ocala Spring Invitational (March 25) … won the individual title at the Colonel Classic (April 5), beating a field of 73 with a two-round total of 152 … tied for fifth with a three-round score of 229 at her first OVC Championship (April 23) … finished her first season with an individual record of 698-72.
 
HIGH SCHOOL
Finished second in the Swedish Championship … a member of her nation’s highest level of junior golf, the Skandia Tour Elite … posted several top-5 finishes on the Skandia Tour including a second place performance at the Skandia Tour Regional held at Huvudstadens Golf Club in Stockholm … finished second in the Junior Masters at Saltsjobadens Golf Club and finished second in the Richard S. Johnson Junior Open … was the 117th ranked player among all females, including professional players, in Sweden … played for Osterakers Golf Club in Stockholm.

PERSONAL
Full name is Sofie Kia Levin ... daughter of Micke and Lotta Levin ... has one sister – Sara … majoring in sociology.

Historical Player Information

  • 2013-14Freshman

  • 2014-15Sophomore

  • 2015-16Junior

  • 2016-17Senior