CORAL SPRING, Fla. – The firsts keep coming for UIndy senior Pilar Echeverria. Friday the University of Indianapolis standout garnered an unprecedented fifth All-America First Team award from the Women's Golf Coaches Association. Last season, she joined just five other individuals as a four-time first teamer, and after using her extra year of eligibility granted due to COVID, the Guatemala native became the WGCA's first-ever five-time honoree.
 
Echeverria has authored a collegiate career that will go down as one of the best in UIndy, GLVC and even NCAA history. In addition to her unique status as a five-time WGCA All-America First Team recipient, she has claimed five All-East Region nods, four GLVC Player of the Year awards and two DII Player of the Year accolades. She also garnered the 2020 GLVC Paragon Award, was the conference's 2020 NCAA Woman of the Year nominee and a finalist for the 2019 DII Honda Athlete of the Year.
 
On the course, she owns nearly every school record, including lowest single-season scoring average (71.56), lowest career scoring average (73.07), most career rounds played (135), lowest 36-hole tournament score (135), lowest 54-hole tournament score (209, twice), most GLVC Player of the Week honors (17) and most tournaments won (18). Counted among her individual titles are three NCAA DII East Regional medals and the conference crown in 2019, as well as tournament wins at Ohio State and Kentucky.
 
Furthermore, Echeverria has been the top player on possibly the best team in the nation over the past five seasons. Since she stepped onto campus in 2016-17, she has led the Greyhounds to an amazing 37 wins in 54 tournaments and an .872 overall win percentage, including a jaw-dropping 111-1 mark versus GLVC competition. UIndy captured the program's second national championship in 2018 and the Hounds were the only team in Division II with a top-three finish at Nationals from 2018-20.
 
During her five-year tenure, Echeverria has also excelled in the classroom, earning a bachelor's degree in Industrial Systems & Engineering and later compiling a 4.0 GPA while working toward a master's in Data Analytics. A two-time Academic All-GLVC honoree, she was voted the 2020 GLVC Women's Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year as well as a CoSIDA Academic All-America® Second Team recipient that same spring.