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2004-05 Women's Golf

Melissa Aylor

  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Berkeley Prep
  • Hometown Tampa, Fla.

Biography

2004-05: Earned All-Ivy League honors after finishing sixth at the Ivy League Championships ... Shot a 253 (89-80-84) on April 17 at Maidstone Golf Club ... Finished tied for sixth at the Georgetown Invitational (Apr. 2), after shooting an 81 ... Placed 27th at the William & Mary Tribe Invitational (March 27) with a 77-85=162 ... Finished tied for 20th at the Bucknell Fall Classic (Oct. 24) with a 78-90=168 ... Won the Lehigh Fall Invitational (Sept. 16) with a one-round score of 72 ... First place finish helped the Quakers win the event as well ... Finished the two-day Princeton Invitational (Sept. 26) tied for seventh place after shooting a 78-79=157.
2003-04:
Placed 6th, her best finish of the fall season, at the Princeton Women's Invitational (Sep. 28) with a score of 157 (77-80), and leading the Red and Blue, including a round of 76 ... Finished with a total score of 159 (83-76), including a final round 76 at the Yale University Tournament (Oct. 5) to finish in 14th place and lead the Quakers ... Finished with a 173 (92-81) for 17th place at the Harvard Invitational (Oct. 26) ... Finished in the top 10 in all events of the spring season, including three top-three finishes ... Opened the spring with a pair of 79's at the Hoya Women's Invitational (Mar. 20-21) to finish alone in third ... Shot a two-over 74 to secure a share of third place at the William & Mary Invitational (Mar. 27-28) with a two-day total of 152 ... Finished tied for eighth (79-78-88=245) at the Ivy League championships (Apr. 17-18) ... Had her best finish of the year when she tied for second (76-85=161) at the Penn Invitational (Apr. 24-25) ... Finished the year with a 80.3 per round average ... Named Academic All-Ivy League.

2002-03: Finished 34th with a 167 at the Yale Fall Invitational (Sep. 22) ... Finished 11th at the Princeton Women's Invitational (Sep. 29) with a 161 the Red and Blue ... Placed 29th at the Rutgers Invitational (Oct. 19) with a 170 ... Finished 4th with a score of 152 at the Hoya Women's Invitational at Georgetown (Mar. 23) ... Finished as low-score medallist at the William and Mary Invitational (Mar. 29) with a career-best two-over-par 73, becoming Penn's first individual champion ... Led the Red and Blue at the Ivy League Championships for the second year in a row, placing 11th with a score of 246 (Apr. 27) ... Named Academic All-Ivy League.

2001-02: Made her collegiate debut at the Yale Invitational (Sept. 22-23), carding a two-day score of 176 ... Finished tied for ninth at the Rutgers Invitational (Oct. 12-13) with a score of 160 ... Shot a three-round score of 247 to finish eighth at the Ivy League Championship (April 19-20).

High School: Four-year letterwinner in golf ... Claimed the 2000 and 2001 individual district titles ... Named All-County and All-Suncoast team, 1999-2001 ... Participated in the Florida Junior and American Junior Golf Associations with her best finish coming in 2001, a sixth place finish in the AJGA Abacoa Junior Classic ... Four-year letterwinner in soccer ... Earned MVP honors and coaches award in 1999-2000 ... Received the Athena Young Woman of Promise Award ... University of Miami leadership award winner ... National Honor Society member ...

Personal: Born May 8, 1983 ... Daughter of Ronald and Sharon Aylor ... Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.