Yu Kyung Kim

Photo by: Sideline Photos, LLC

Photo by: Sideline Photos, LLC

Photo by: Sideline Photos, LLC

Photo by: Greg Carroccio

Class:
Sophomore
High School:
Eleanor Roosevelt (Calif.)
Hometown:
Seoul, South Korea

Awards
2023 second-team All-Ivy League
2022 second-team All-Ivy League

2023-24: Posted three Top-20 finishes ... Finished T7 at the UNC Charlotte Classic at +7 (73-77-77; 223) ... Was T8 at the River Landing Classic at +5 (70-74--77; 221) ... Placed T16 at the Red Raider Invitational with a score of +4 (71-72-77; 220) ... Low round of the season was a 69 in the first round of the Princeton Invitational ... Season stroke average of 75.5.

2022-23: Second-team All-Ivy League, tying for 10th at the Ivy League Championship ... competed in seven events between the fall and the spring ... tied for ninth at the Harvard Invitational for her best finish of the season ... season-low round of 69 was in the first round of the Columbia Classic ... season stroke average was 75.68.

2021-22: Second-team All-Ivy League, finishing seventh overall at the Ivy League Championship as Princeton won the league title ... tied for 30th at the NCAA Regional, closing with a 71 after a 75 and 74 to start ... placed third at the Princeton Invitational and tied for third at the team's next event, the Lady Blue Hen, to close out the fall ... low rounds of 70 came between the first two rounds of the Princeton Invite and the second round of the Lady Blue Hen ... played in seven events overall ... stroke average of 74.17.

2020-21: Season canceled due to COVID-19.

Before Princeton: Qualified for the 2017 U.S. Women's Amateur and the 2019 ANA Junior Inspiration ... earned 2018 AJGA Transamerica Scholastic Honor Roll recognition ... tied for third at the AJGA Lizette Salas Junior Championship at Palos Verdes in 2018 and tied for third at the AJGA ClubCorp Mission Hills Desert Junior Classic in 2018, plus two more top-10 finishes that year ... finished at -2 at the Mission Hills event ... tied for fifth at the AJGA Kia Junior Classic and tied for eighth at the AJGA Buick Shanshan Feng Girls Invitational, among the three top-10 finishes that year ... tied for third the 2019 CIF Southern individual regional tournament, shooting a 68 ... team won the CIF Southern Section Eastern Division title that year ... won the King Invitational Championship in 2019, shooting a 70, and carded a 70 and 71 to win the Big VII league championship that year ... earned Press-Enterprise Girls Athlete of the Week in Sept. 2019 after shooting a 71 to win medalist honors at the King (Riverside, Calif.) Invitational, helping Roosevelt set a school record with a 184 score ... had an average nine-hole score in high school of 34.9 in 2019 and an average 18-hole score of 72.1 that year as the team went 10-0 in the league and 15-0 overall.

Personal: Daughter of Byungsang Kim and Sooyoung Byun ... has sisters Yu Eun Kim, who has competed on the Symetra Tour, and Yu Sun Kim ... majoring in neuroscience.