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2008-09 Women's Golf Roster

Sara Ovadia

  • Class Senior
  • High School Dos Pueblos
  • Hometown Santa Barbara, Calif.

Biography

Fall 2008: Runner-up at the Nittany Lion Invitational, finishing second with a score of 79-73-72 (224) ... shot 80-79 (159) at the Princeton Invitational, finishing tied for 24th ... shot 78 to tie for 29th at Yale Invitational ... finished 19th at the Spider Invitational, with a score of 78-77 (155).    

 

2007-08: Lead the team in three tournaments ... finished 26th at the Ron Moore (76-79-72) ... tied for second at the Princeton Invitational (77-75-152) ... finished eighth at the Sprider Invite, helping the team to a second place finish ... was 10th at the UAB Flall Beach Blast ... finished tied for eighth at the Ivy League Championships (228).  

 

2006-07: The 2007 Ivy League Individual Champion ... first team All-Ivy League  ... started every tournament ... placed 16th in the Rutgers Invitational with a 74-88-162 ...    finished 9th at the Dartmouth Invitational (76-78-154) ... finished 19th at the Notre Dame Invite (77-77-80-234) ... took sixth at the William & Mary Invitational with a 152 (74-78) ... finished second at the Georgetown Invitational with a 151 (80-71). 

 

2005-06: Won the individual title at the Dartmouth Invitational, lifting Columbia to the team championship at its first fall tournament ... tied for second overall at Georgetown (78-75) ... finished fifth overall at Old Dominion (79-73--152), lifting Lions to a second-place finish ... shot 76-81--157 for 12th overall at the Yale Invitational ... finished in top third at William & Mary with a score of 84-79 ... finished 15th of 75 at James Madison after carding a 80-76 ... was Columbia’s best finisher, finishing tied for 10th at the Ivy League Championships.

 

Pre-Columbia: Four-year letterwinner at Dos Pueblos ... team captain as a senior ... Channel League champion in fall 2004 ... team earned four CIF Northern Division divisional titles from 2001 to 2004 and two CIF Southern Section titles in 2002 and 2003 ... earned two fifth-place finishes on the American Junior Golf Association tour ... AP scholar ... also earned the President’s Award for Outstanding Academic Excellence.

 

Personal: Father played tennis at UCLA ... daughter of Anne and Daniel Ovadia ... b. June 15, 1987 in Seattle ... history major.

 

Historical Player Information

  • 2005-06Graduate Student

  • 2006-07Sophomore

  • 2007-08Junior

  • 2008-09Senior