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2020-21 Women's Golf Roster

Ryan Thorpe
D. Todd Moore
Liz Wacienga
Liz Wacienga
Cody Wainscott

Pilar Echeverria

Pilar Echeverria

  • Class:
    Fifth Year
  • Hometown:
    Guatemala City, Guatemala
  • High School:
    Colegio Americano de Guatemala

Summary

Biography

STATS
2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21

AWARDS & HONORS
2x WGCA Division II Player of the Year (2019, '20)
2020 NCAA Woman of the Year conference nominee
2020 GLVC Paragon Award co-winner
2019 DII Honda Athlete of the Year finalist
5x WGCA All-America First Team
5x WGCA All-East Region
4x GLVC Player of the Year
5x All-GLVC
2017 GLVC Freshman of the Year
17x GLVC Player of the Week (4 in 2016-17, 4 in 2017-18, 5 in 2018-19, 3 in 2019-20, 1 in 2020-21)
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2020 CoSIDA Academic All-America® Second Team
2020 GLVC Women's Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year
2x Academic All-GLVC (2017, '20)
2017 WGCA All-American Scholar
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School-record 18 tournament wins
3x NCAA DII East Super Regional medalist (2017, '18, '19)
2020 Bettie Lou Evans Invitational medalist (UK)
2019 GLVC Championships medalist
2019 Lady Buckeye Invitational medalist (Ohio State)

2019-20
Continued her record-shattering career with a stellar senior campaign, winning three of six events in the abbreviated season on the way to breaking her own program mark with a 71.6 scoring average ... once again named the WGCA Division II Player of the Year, becoming the first back-to-back winner since 2015 ... set school and league records by earning a fourth consecutive GLVC Player of the Year award and a fourth straight All-America First Team selection ... carded a nine-under 135 at the Music City Invitational in October, matching the program low score for 36 holes; also helped UIndy set the team record for lowest 18-hole score at that event (275) ... nominated for the prestigious NCAA Woman of the Year Award ... garnered a number of other postseason honors, including the GLVC Paragon Award, Academic All-America® Second Team honors and GLVC Women's Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year accolades.

2018-19
Orchestrated a truly historic season, setting a number of school records on the way to becoming the first Greyhound to win WGCA Division II Player of the Year accolades ... broke UIndy single-season marks for lowest scoring average (72.5), most individual wins (7), highest winning percentage (.972) and most GLVC Player of the Week honors (5) ... voted the DII Honda Athlete of the Year finalist for women's golf … became the first player in school program history with three consecutive WGCA All-America First Team nods … also picked up her third straight WGCA All-East Region honor and GLVC Player of the Year laurels ... won four consecutive tournaments late in the season, including the Division I Lady Buckeye Invitational at Ohio State, the GLVC Championships and the NCAA DII East Super Regional … also shared seventh at the NCAA DII Championships, leading the Greyhounds to a semifinal appearance.

2017-18
Led UIndy to the national championship, carding a one-over 289 (73-75-72-69) to take runner-up honors at nationals … shot even-par (69-71-76) to capture medalist honors at the NCAA DII East Super Regional – one of three individual tournament titles on the year … only Greyhound to shoot in the 60s at both regionals and nationals … finished the season with a school-record 73.2 scoring averaging, breaking her own mark set just last season … voted the GLVC Player of the Year for the second consecutive season … named All-Super Region and All-GLVC for the second time each ... collected a league-high four GLVC Player of the Week awards ... won both the UIndy Invitational and the Bing-Beall Classic in the fall.

2016-17
Had prehaps the greatest season ever by a Greyhound freshman, setting the program record for lowest single-season scoring average (74.1) ... voted All-America First Team by the Women's Golf Coaches Association as a freshman … became the fifth-ever women's golfer to be voted the GLVC Player and Freshman of the Year in the same season ... also garnered first-team accolades on both the All-GLVC and All-Super Region squads … finished first in the league and seventh in Division II on the Golfstat.com head-to-head player standings … racked up nine top-10 finishes in 12 events, including medalist honors at three tournaments ... shot a team season-low 68 in the second round of the Big Apple Invitational on the way to her first collegiate win ... tied for second that the GLVC Championships (71-74) before winning the NCAA DII Super Regional 1 (71-70-73) ... helped the team to a third-place finish at the NCAA DII Championships, placing 12th overall (73-81-77-77) … named Academic All-GLVC as well as a WGCA All-American Scholar.

OTHER
Ranked as highly as No. 63 in the 2020 World Amateur Golf Rankings ... qualified for both the 2020 and 2017 U.S. Women's Amateur Championship ... represented her native Guatemala at the World Amateur Team Championships in 2014, 2016 and 2018 … also competed for her home country at the 2015 Pan Am Games and the 2014 Bolivarian Games … won the National & Internacional Championship in Guatemala with scores of 74-76-71-76 … two-time winner of the Junior Central American Tour Sportsmanship Award … recorded best international finish with a runner-up performance at the Internacional de Columbia Tournament.
 
PERSONAL
Daughter of Mario and Monica Echeverria ... majoring in Industrial & System Engineering.

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Historical Player Information

  • 2016-17Freshman

  • 2017-18Sophomore

  • 2018-19Junior

  • 2019-20Senior

  • 2020-21Fifth Year

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