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Chang, Kong, Walton to Join Women's Golf from Class of 2020
July 25, 2016 | Women's Golf
Three members of the incoming Class of 2020 will join the Princeton women's golf program in the fall, adding to a program that returns four players from its lineup at the Ivy League Championship last spring.
Alison Chang, Walnut, Calif./Walnut HS
Ranked 40th in the Class of 2016 by Junior Golf Scoreboard ... San Gabriel Valley Tribune Player of the Year as a senior … helped Walnut to three sectional titles and two state runner-up finishes ... posted a runner-up individual finish at the sectional tournament as a senior … team MVP as a senior and a Walnut HS Hall of Fame inductee ... California Interscholastic Federation Scholar Athlete of the Year nominee ... won a pair of PGA of Southern California Junior Tour events in 2012, including the Gail Stockton Memorial at Arrowhead and the Kikkor Golf Championship at Meadowlark … had nine victories on the tour in 2011 … posted seven top-five finishes in American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) events ... won the 2016 Los Angeles Daily News' SoCal Prep Legends award.
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Jiayu (Annie) Kong, Arcadia, Calif./Arcadia HS
Ranked 29th in the Class of 2016 by Junior Golf Scoreboard ... Rolex Junior All-America honorable mention and HP Scholastic All-America ... Pasadena Star-News Player of the Year as a senior, Arcadia's team MVP and school's Sportswoman of the Year … 2015 Pacific League individual champion and sectional finalist … had 10 AJGA top-five finishes from 2013-15 ... on the PGA of Southern California Junior Tour, finished runner-up at the 2015 and 2016 Toyota Tour Cup (TTC) Series event at Morongo Golf Club and the 2015 TTC Morongo Qualifier at Skylinks … won the 2011 TTC event in Santa Ana and won or shared the title at four events each in 2009 and 2010 ... Rotary Club Student Athlete of the Month honoree and earned the City of Arcadia's Mayor's Recognition honor.
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Maya Walton, Austin, Texas/Westlake HS
Ranked 19th in the Class of 2016 by Junior Golf Scoreboard ... ranked as high as 51st in the AJGA Polo Golf rankings ... honorable mention Rolex Junior All-America ... played in the 2014 USGA U.S. Girls Junior championship, the 2014 and 2015 Junior PGA, the 2016 U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball and the 2016 Canadian Women's Amateur ... posted six top-10 tournament finishes since July 2015 including a win at the Legends Junior Tour's James A. Ragan Memorial in February 2016 ... tied for seventh at the 2015 AJGA Girls Championship at Furman … won the 2015 PGA Junior Series event at Taconic Golf Club title by seven strokes ... tied for fifth at the 2016 Kathy Whitworth Invitational and posted five more top-five AJGA finishes in a three-year span ... set the women's tournament course record of 66 at Willow Creek Country Club in New York at the 2015 AJGA Lessing's Classic.
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Alison Chang, Walnut, Calif./Walnut HS
Ranked 40th in the Class of 2016 by Junior Golf Scoreboard ... San Gabriel Valley Tribune Player of the Year as a senior … helped Walnut to three sectional titles and two state runner-up finishes ... posted a runner-up individual finish at the sectional tournament as a senior … team MVP as a senior and a Walnut HS Hall of Fame inductee ... California Interscholastic Federation Scholar Athlete of the Year nominee ... won a pair of PGA of Southern California Junior Tour events in 2012, including the Gail Stockton Memorial at Arrowhead and the Kikkor Golf Championship at Meadowlark … had nine victories on the tour in 2011 … posted seven top-five finishes in American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) events ... won the 2016 Los Angeles Daily News' SoCal Prep Legends award.
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Jiayu (Annie) Kong, Arcadia, Calif./Arcadia HS
Ranked 29th in the Class of 2016 by Junior Golf Scoreboard ... Rolex Junior All-America honorable mention and HP Scholastic All-America ... Pasadena Star-News Player of the Year as a senior, Arcadia's team MVP and school's Sportswoman of the Year … 2015 Pacific League individual champion and sectional finalist … had 10 AJGA top-five finishes from 2013-15 ... on the PGA of Southern California Junior Tour, finished runner-up at the 2015 and 2016 Toyota Tour Cup (TTC) Series event at Morongo Golf Club and the 2015 TTC Morongo Qualifier at Skylinks … won the 2011 TTC event in Santa Ana and won or shared the title at four events each in 2009 and 2010 ... Rotary Club Student Athlete of the Month honoree and earned the City of Arcadia's Mayor's Recognition honor.
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Maya Walton, Austin, Texas/Westlake HS
Ranked 19th in the Class of 2016 by Junior Golf Scoreboard ... ranked as high as 51st in the AJGA Polo Golf rankings ... honorable mention Rolex Junior All-America ... played in the 2014 USGA U.S. Girls Junior championship, the 2014 and 2015 Junior PGA, the 2016 U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball and the 2016 Canadian Women's Amateur ... posted six top-10 tournament finishes since July 2015 including a win at the Legends Junior Tour's James A. Ragan Memorial in February 2016 ... tied for seventh at the 2015 AJGA Girls Championship at Furman … won the 2015 PGA Junior Series event at Taconic Golf Club title by seven strokes ... tied for fifth at the 2016 Kathy Whitworth Invitational and posted five more top-five AJGA finishes in a three-year span ... set the women's tournament course record of 66 at Willow Creek Country Club in New York at the 2015 AJGA Lessing's Classic.
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