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2009-10 Women's Golf

Katie Sylvan

  • Class First-Year
  • Hometown San Diego, Calif.
  • High School Francis Parker
  • House Affiliation Lowell

Biography

2009-10 (Freshman):
Unanimous choice 2010 Ivy League Rookie of the Year in avote of the conference head coaches ... Also named first teamall-league after recording a fourth place individual finish at theIvy League Championship with a three-round total of 72-82-77-231for the weekend ... Helped Harvard to a seventh place finish at theGolfweek Challenge in Primm, Nev. with a 28th place individualfinish ... Helped Harvard to a win at the Yale FallIntercollegiate with a sixth place individual finish ...Individual medalist in a dual meet win over Central Florida,winning by three shots with a 73 as Harvard won by 11 strokes ...Placed seventh at the Dartmouth Spring Invitational (83-70-153),recording the lowest second round as Harvard won the tournament by38 shots.

Background
Daughter of Ellen Heyneman and Paul Sylvan ... Four-yearletterwinner and three-time captain of girl''s golf at the FrancisParker School ... Recently selected to play for the 2009 Cannon CupWest team in Flagstaff, Ariz., an all-star competition involvingthe top 10 girls players from the West competing against the 10from the East ... HP Scholastic Junior All-American ... Four-timeCoastal League Player of the Year ... Four-time Breitbard All-CIFFirst Team ... Four-time San Diego Hall of Champions All-SectionFirst Team selection ... Breitbard/San Diego Hall of ChampionsAthletic Award ... Four-time team MVP ... Recipient of DavidGlassey Athletic Achievement Award ... Named captain of the 2008San Diego Union-Tribune Golf All-Academic Team... Winner of three AJGA titles (2006 AJGA Buick Junior Open, 2007AJGA Dalhousie Junior Championship, 2008 AJGA Lockton-CapitolFederal Kansas City Junior Championship) ... Qualified for fourU.S. Girls'' Junior Championships (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008),finishing as a medalist in the last two ... Qualified for 2007 USWomen''s Amateur ... 15 Top-10 finishes in AJGA Tournaments ...Ranked #11 in Nation for Class of 2009 by Golfweek/Titleist ...Ranked #20 in Nation by Junior Golf Scoreboard in 2009 ... NationalMerit Commended Student ... Top Student in Rhetoric, Spanish IIHonors, Spanish III Honors, Algebra II ... Rady Children''s HospitalAutism Intervention Center Volunteer ... San Diego Zoo CorpsVolunteer ... Performed an internship at the San Diego SuperiorCourt ... Model United Nations ... Spanish Honors Society ...Speaks four languages (English, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Italian)... Enjoys traveling, cooking, art and playing squash.