Albane Valenzuela Season 2016-17

Off The Farm
• Top-ranked amateur in Switzerland
• Finalist at 2019 U.S. Women's Amateur 
• 2019 Evian Championship Low Amateur
• 2019 U.S. Women's Open participant
• 24th at 2018 U.S. Women's Open
• 59th at 2018 ANA Inspiration
• Runner-up in 2017 European Ladies Amateur Championship
• Runner-up in 2017 U.S. Women's Amateur Championship
• Represented the Continent of Europe at the 2017 Vagliano Trophy against Great Britain & Ireland and posted 3-0-1 mark
• Competed in 2017 Evian Championship
• Won the 2013, 2014, 2015 Swiss Ladies and Junior Order of Merit
• Represented Europe in the 2016 Patsy Hankins Trophy against Asia-Pacific
• Represented Europe in the 2015 Vagliano Trophy and the 2013 Junior Vagliano Trophy
• Represented Europe at the 2015 Junior Ping Solheim Cup 
• Wildcard for the 2015 and 2016 Evian Championship
• Tied for low amateur (65th) at the 2016 LPGA ANA Inspiration
• Tied for 67th at the 2016 U.S. Women's Open (one of three amateurs to make the cut)
• Tied for fourth in 2016 Tipsport Golf • Masters in Czech Republic (Ladies European Tour)
• Tied for fifth in 2016 in Lalla Meryem Cup in Morocco (Ladies European Tour)
• Won the 2015 Spanish International Amateur Stroke Play
• Won the 2015 Junior Orange Bowl International Golf Championship
• Won the 2015 Doral Publix Junior Classic
• Won the 2014 Swiss International Amateur
• Tied for 21st at the 2016 Olympic Games (youngest athlete/one of three amateurs to qualify)
• Finished second at the 2014 European Nations Cup
• Finished second at the 2016 Mexican Amateur
• Finished second at the 2016 Portuguese Amateur
• Finished second at 2015 European Ladies Team Championship
• Member of Swiss National Team since 2012
• Competed in the Evian Masters Junior Cup in 2012
• Competed in the European Girls Team Championship in 2012 and 2013
• Competed in the European Nations Cup in 2014 and 2015
• Competed in the European Ladies Amateur Team Championship in 2014 and 2015
• Competed in the World Amateur Team Championships in 2014.

As a Senior (2019-20)
• Third at the Molly Intercollegiate (70-77-67, 214, -2)
• Turned professional after earning her LPGA card

As a Junior (2018-19)
• Pac-12 Women's Golfer of the Year - the first in program history
• WGCA First Team All-American
• Golfweek First Team All-American
• Google Cloud CoSIDA first team Academic All-American
• Recipient of WGCA's Edith Cummings Munson Award
• WGCA All-American Scholar
• First Team All-Pac-12
• Honda Sport Award for Golf finalist
• ANNIKA Award finalist
• WGCA PING Player of the Year Award finalist
• CoSIDA Academic All-District
• First Team Pac-12 All-Academic
• Finished 3rd at the Stanford Intercollegiate (67-69-70, 206, -7)
• Won East Lake Cup (68, -4)
• Tied for 12th at the Nanea Pac-12 Preview (71-73-75, 219, E)
• Tied for 8th at the Northrop Grumann Regional Challenge (73-71-73, 217, +4)
• Tied for 39th at the Bruin Wave Invitational (79-79-74, 232, +16)
• Tied for 20th at the Ping-ASU Invitational (74-69-74, 217, +1)
• Tied for 1st at the Pac-12 Championship (65-70-74, 209, -4) losing on first playoff hole
• Tied for 23rd at the NCAA Regional (76-73-72, 221, +5)
• Finished 6th at the NCAA Championships (74-73-73, 220, +1)
• Scoring Average (25 rounds): 72.36
• Wins (1): East Lake Cup
• Top 5 Finishes (3): Stanford Intercollegiate (3rd); East Lake Cup (1st); Pac-12 Championship (T-1st, lost playoff)
• Top 10 Finishes (5): Stanford Intercollegiate (3rd); East Lake Cup (1st); Northrop Grumann Regional Challenge (T-8th); Pac-12 Championship (T-1st, lost playoff); NCAA Championships (6th)

As a Sophomore (2017-18)
• WGCA All-America honorable mention
• All-Pac-12 first team
• Pac-12 All-Academic first team
• Tied for 24th at ANNIKA Intercollegiate (77-70-74, 221, +5) 
• Tied for fourth at Stanford Intercollegiate (70-70-71, 211, -2)
• Tied for 32nd at Nanea Pac-12 Preview (78-73, 151, +5)
• Tied for seventh at East Lake Cup (74, +2)
• Tied for 16th at Northrop Grumman Challenge (76-72-72, 220, +7)
• Second at Bruin Wave Invitational (72-73-72, 217, +1)
• Tied for 19th at Silverado Showdown (76-70-74, 220, +4)
• Tied for 15th at Pac-12 Championships (73-72-75, 220, +4)
• Tied for 27th at NCAA Regional Championships (75-72-71, 218, +2)
• Tied for 21st at NCAA Championships (76-73-66-77, 292, +4)

 As a Freshman (2016-17)
• Ping/WGCA All-America second team 
• WGCA All-American Scholar
• All-Pac-12 first team
• Scoring average (23 rounds): 73.22
• Low round: 69 (Allstate Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate, NCAA Regionals -3)
• Low tournament: 210 (NCAA Regionals)
• Best finish: 1st (NCAA Regionals)
• Ranked 12th nationally
• Tied for 37th at Stanford Intercollegiate (74-77, 151, +9)
• Third at Pac-12 Preview (74-72-70, 216, -3)
• Tied for 13th at East Lake Cup (76, +4)
• Tied for eighth at Peg Barnard Invitational (71-75, 146, +4)
• Tied for 10th at Allstate Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate (74-69-74, 217, +1)
• Tied for third at Bruin Wave Invitational (70-77-76, 223, +4)
• Tied for 11th at Pac-12 Championships (74-76-72, 222, +6)
• First at NCAA Regionals (71-69-70, 210, -6)
• Tied for 10th at NCAA Championships (77-73-73, 223, +7)

The Valenzuela File
• Prepped at Ecole Moser (Geneva, Switzerland)
• Born in New York
• Moved to Mexico City and began playing golf at age 3
• Moved to Switzerland in 2003
• Daughter of Alberto and Diane Valenzuela
• Has younger brother, Alexis
• Father was All-Pac-10 golfer at UCLA
• Speaks four languages
   • French, English, Spanish and German  
• Carded second hole-in-one during practice round at 2017 NCAA Championships