2024-25 Women's Golf Roster
Biography
2024-25 (Senior):
- All-MAAC First Team
- CSC Academic All-District
- MAAC All-Academic Team & MAAC Academic Honor Roll selections
- Eastern Athletic Communications Association (EAST-COMM) Academic Honor Roll
- MAAC Golfer of the Week (3/12/25)
- Co-Individual champion at the SHU Spring Break Invitational (+10, 154)
- Competed in eight events
- Held a career-low 78.9 scoring average over 21 rounds
- Posted an additional top-three finish, placing second at the Crusader Invitational with a 36-hole score of +11
- Also notched a top-10 finish with a seventh-place showing in her Fall 2024 debut at the SHU Fall Classic, shooting +15 over the 54 holes
2023-24 (JUNIOR):
- MAAC All-Academic Team & MAAC Academic Honor Roll member
- Named the Female Leo Dufort Student Athlete of the Month for April 2024
- Held an 80.68 scoring average over 22 rounds
- Shot a team-best round of 77 at the Purple Eagle Invitational on October 2
- Finished tied for 26th at MAAC Championships shooting +23 over three rounds
2022-23 (SOPHOMORE):
- Named a WGCA All-American Scholar
- MAAC All-Academic Team & MAAC Academic Honor Roll member
- Held an 81.30 scoring average over 20 rounds
- Finished tied for fifth at the Saratoga Invitational Sept. 16-17
- Shot a team-best round of 75 at the Hartford Hawks Invitational on October 3
- Finished tied for 33rd at the 2023 MAAC Championships
2021-22 (FRESHMAN):
- Named a WGCA All-American Scholar
- MAAC Academic Honor Roll member
- Held an average score of 82.80 over 20 rounds during nine competitions
- Best finish came at the Hartford Hawks Invitational in September (T-17th)
- Recorded a low round of +7, 79 in the second round of the Hartford Hawks Invitational on September 26
- Finished in a tie for 33rd at the 2022 MAAC Championships
BEFORE SIENA:
- Qualified for the Massachusetts Girls State Tournament in 2017 & 2018
- 2018 Boston Herald All-Scholastic selection
- Qualified for the Massachusetts Boys State Sectional Tournament in 2017
- Represented Massachusetts in the Junior Inter-City Tri-State Tournament in 2017
- Started on the North Attleboro Boy's Golf Team for each of her four years of high school
- Founded the Girls Independent Golf League and was featured on the Golf Channel and NBC's "The Champion Within"
- Recipient of the International Network of Golf's Player Development Award in 2017
PERSONAL:
- Born on May 30
- Daughter of Dave & Sara Barend
- Has a younger sister - Sadie
- Majoring in psychology, with plans to became a sport psychologist or a college golf coach
- Chose Siena because of the small community feel
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