Liv Cheng

	Class: Junior
	Hometown: Auckland, New Zealand
	High School: Macleans College

	Height: 5-5
	Experience: 2V

05/11/2013

Women's Golf Team's Comeback Falls Just Short at NCAA West Regional

Grace Na rallied to post her 10th top-20 finish of the season.

05/10/2013

Women's Golf Through Two Rounds at NCAA West Regional

Pepperdine is tied for 13th but needs a top-eight finish to advance.

05/09/2013

NCAA Women's Golf West Regional Underway for Waves

Pepperdine needs to finish in the top eight to advance to the NCAA Championships.

05/07/2013

Women's Golf Opens NCAA Regional Play at Stanford on Thursday

The Waves are aiming for their 12th NCAA Championships appearance in 15 years.

04/17/2013

Na, Women's Golf Claim WCC Titles Again

The Waves have now won 15 of the 17 league tournaments ever contested.

05/22/2012

2012 NCAA Women's Golf Championships

Photos of the Waves by Paul Levy, taken at the Vanderbilt Legends Club in Franklin, Tenn., from May 22-25.

04/18/2012

Women's Golf at WCC Championships (4/16-18/2012)

Photos of the Waves winning their 11th straight WCC title at San Juan Oaks Golf Club in Hollister, Calif.

03/16/2012

Women's Golf at Bruin Wave Invitational (3/5-6/2012)

Jeff Golden and Athletic Communications photos from the Waves' first-place finish.

10/17/2011

Women's Golf at McGuire Invitational (9/25-26/2011)

Photos by Gary Stepic of the Pepperdine women's golf team in Albuquerque, N.M.

03/19/2011

Women's Golf at Bruin Wave Invitational (3/2/2011)

Jeff Golden photos of the third and final round of the Bruin Wave Invitational at Robinson Ranch Golf Club.

Liv Cheng Career Statistics

CAREER: Named to the All-WCC first team each of her first two seasons ... Has a 76.03 stroke average in 21 tournaments and 61 rounds ... Has five top-10 and eight top-20 results.

PEPPERDINE 2011-12: Named to the All-WCC first team again as a sophomore ... Finished third on the team with a 75.70 stroke average ... Competed in all 11 events and all 33 rounds ... Had three top-10 and five top-20 results ... Named to the NGCA's All-West Regional team after tying for 10th place with a 2-over 218 (74-73-71) ... Took eighth place at the WCC Championships (80-75-73=228) ... Tied for sixth at the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown with a 2-over 218 (69-69-80) ... The pair of 3-under 69s there tied her career best ... Tied for 84th at the NCAA Championships (77-76-77-75=305) ... Off the course, was named an Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar, to the WCC All-Academic first team, a Pepperdine Scholar-Athlete and to the WCC Commissioner's Honor Roll "bronze" honors list.

PEPPERDINE 2010-11: Earned All-WCC first team honors as a freshman ... Competed at all 10 tournaments ... Had a 76.43 stroke average in 28 rounds ... Had three top-20 finishes and two top-10 results ... Tied for eighth place at the WCC Championships (75-79-74=228) ... Tied for 10th place at the Bruin Wave Invitational (74-69-77=220) ... Tied for 12th place at the UNLV Spring Invitational (71-71-75=217) ... Among four sub-par rounds was a 3-under 69 in the second round of the Bruin Wave ... Competed at the NCAA West Regional, but had a DQ in the first round before shooting 84-81 ... Named an NGCA All-American Scholar and to the WCC Commissioner's Honor Roll "silver" list.

AMATEUR/JUNIOR GOLF: Named an All-American first teamer at the Under Armour College Golf Combine ... Won the skills challenge and stroke play title at the event in 2009 ... Tied for fifth place at the 2011 New Zealand Bay of Plenty Open ... Tied for sixth place at the 2011 New Zealand Under-19s ... Competed on the New Zealand team at the 2010 Junior Women's Trans Tasman Cup that beat Australia ... Reached the quarterfinals of the 2009 New Zealand Women's Amateur ... Placed third at the 2008 Jack Newton Junior Golf event.

HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from Macleans College, located in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2010 ... Played on her school's team for four years ... Macleans won the Auckland Intercollegiate Tournament in 2009.

PERSONAL: Born in Taiwan ... Daughter of Jarvis Cheng and Athena Lee ... Majoring in economics ... Chose Pepperdine "because of its great location, academics, size of school and golf team."

FAVORITES: Enjoys listening to music and reading ... Favorites include Annika Sorenstam (pro golfer), Terrace Downs (golf course), the Harry Potter series and The Fountainhead (books), Inception (movie), Grey's Anatomy and NCIS (TV shows), The Strokes and Arctic Monkeys (musical artists), pasta and sushi (food) and skiing and swimming (sports other than golf) ... Favorite things about golf are "it can never be perfected so it's a challenge every day, and only you can control your outcome."

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