PEPPERDINE 2008-09: Earned PING All-American honorable mention notice as a freshman ... Had an extraordinary fall season, then had to recover from an appendectomy over the winter break ... Went on to also earn WCC Freshman of the Year and All-WCC first team honors ... Averaged 74.79 strokes in 33 rounds at all 11 tournaments ... Finished #85 in the Golfweek/Sagarin index and #86 in the Golfstat rankings ... Broke former Pepperdine All-American Katherine Hull’s NCAA record when she became the first women’s college player ever to score less than 200 with a winning total of a 17-under 199 at the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown ... Fired a 67-65-67 and didn’t commit a single bogey in the tournament ... The 7-under 65 ties the third-best round in school history, and her 12-under 132 after 18 holes set a Pepperdine record ... For her efforts, she also earned Golfweek and Golf World Player of the Week honors and the WCC Player of the Month award ... Earned midseason All-American honors from Golf World and a spot in Sports Illustrated’s “Faces in the Crowd” ... Had four top 10 and six top 20 finishes ... Tied for 10th at the WCC Championships (79-75-81=235) ... Tied for 27th at the NCAA West Regional (76-73-71=220) ... Was Pepperdine’s top finisher at the NCAA Championships, tying for 10th place (74-69-78-75=296) ... Had a total of seven subpar rounds ... Earned WCC Commissioner’s Honor Roll “bronze” honors.
AMATEUR/JUNIOR GOLF: A four-time AJGA Rolex Junior All-American (2006 first team, 2005 and 2007 honorable mention, 2008 second team) ... Was the medalist during stroke play at the 2008 U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship before advancing to the quarterfinals ... Also qualified for match play at the 2007 U.S. Women’s Amateur and the 2005 and 2006 U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship ... Has more than a dozen top 10 finishes at AJGA tournaments ... A two-time AJGA Valero Texas Open winner ... Was #9 in the Golfweek Junior Rankings at the time of her letter-of-intent signing in April 2008 and attained her best ranking of #11 in the AJGA Polo Golf Rankings.
HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from Montgomery (Texas) High School in 2008 ... Graduated a year early and finished sixth in her graduating class ... Played three years on the varsity ... Won individual class 4A state titles her final two years ... A two-time Houston Chronicle All-Greater Houston Golfer of the Year.
PERSONAL: Born in Bogota, Colombia ... Daughter of Jeff and Maria McCloskey ... Has one brother, Jay ... Lists her career highlight as having made three holes-in-one ... Majoring in business ... Chose Pepperdine “for the strength of the team and the weather.”
FAVORITES: Favorite pro golfer is Tiger Woods ... Favorite golf course is River Oaks Country Club ... Favorite book is Catcher in the Rye ... Favorite movie is The Dark Knight ... Favorite TV show is King of Queens ... Favorite sport other than golf is basketball ... Favorite things about golf are “the competitiveness, mental toughness and nature.”
Courtesy: Pepperdine Athletics
