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2023-24 Women's Golf Roster

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Scott Walstrom, NIU
Scott Walstrom - Northern Illino
Scott Walstrom - Northern Illino

Emily Romancew

  • Height 5-3
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Pierrefonds, Quebec, Can.
  • High School Ecole Secondaire Des Sources

Biography

2023-24: MAC Golfer of the Week……All-MAC First Team…..Saw action in all 10 tournaments for the Huskies, with 28 rounds of golf played as a member of the starting five….Won the NAU Red Rocks Invitational (Mar. 16-17)….Recorded eight top-15 finishes this season….Season-low round score of 69 at the FIU Pat Bradley Invite (Oct. 14-16).....Led the team at the MAC Championships to their third straight top-3 finish with a seventh place finish….Average round score of 74.01.....Academic All-MAC....CSC Academic All-District....WGCA Scholar All-American

2022-23: Established herself in the Huskies’ starting five as she participated in all 11 of the Huskies’ tournaments. Paced the team in back-to-back tournaments, the Atlantic Invitational (10th place) and the Beach Invitational (T31st place). Her three-under 68 round one card at the Atlantic Invitational etched a new career-high 18-hole round. All-MAC Second Team. Academic All-MAC honoree.

2021-22: Competed in six tournaments during her sophomore campaign. Had a scoring average of 78.35 which was fifth-best on the squad. Kicked off the season by besting her 18-hole low at the Redbird Invitational (Sept. 5-6) by shooting a 73 in round two. Carded another 1-over par 73 to close the season in round two of the Redbird Spring Invitational (April 8-9) en route to a top-10 finish. 2021-22 All-American Scholars from the Women's Golf Coaches Association. Academic All-MAC honoree. 

Spring 2021: Played as an individual in the final two regular season tournaments of the year as a true freshman. Posted a scoring average of 77.0 over six rounds with five of six rounds in the 70s. Shot a season-best 74 in the final round of the Redbird Spring Invitational (April 9-10). Tied for ninth with a 54-hole total of 16-over par 232. Made her Huskie debut as an individual at the EKU Colonel Classic (March 29-30) and opened the tournament with a 78. Totaled a 14-over par 230, her season best, to tie for 34th. All tournaments were played in the spring due to COVID-19.

Prior to NIU:  During the summer before her arrival at NIU, won the 2020 Quebec Junior Provincial Match Play and Stroke Play events. Was runner-up in the Quebec Provincial Women's Tournament. Spent the 2019-20 year in CEGEP, a post-secondary education, pre-university system in Quebec. Named MVP and Rookie of the Year as a member of the women’s golf team there. In 2019, finished as runner-up in the CCAA National Championship and took third place at the Future Links Quebec Championship in June. Placed eighth at the AJGA Senior Showcase at Innisbrook in Florida. Claimed a pair of tournament titles in 2018, at the PING CCAA National Championship and the Future Links Quebec Championship. Added a pair of third-place finishes and totaled seven top 10 finishes over the last two years. Played in multiple events run by Golf Quebec, Golf Canada and the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA), including provincial and national championships. Graduated with honors at the top of her class at Ecole Secondaire des Sources. Earned the All-Canadian Academic Award in Fall 2018. 
 
Personal: Daughter of Anne Dionne and Robert Romancew. Birthday is September 15. Majoring in mechanical engineering.

 
 Romancew's NIU Career Statistics  
 Season  Tournaments Rounds Strokes Average Low 18 Low 54 Best Finish
2021 2 6 462 77.0 74 230 T9 (Redbird Invit.)
2021-22 6 17 1,332 78.35 73 238 T8 (Redbird Spring Invit.)
2022-23 11 33 2,498 75.69 68 211 10 (Atlantic Invit.)
2023-24 10 28 2,074 74.01 69 213 1 (NAU Red Rocks)
Totals 29 84 6,366 75.79 68 211 1 (NAU Red Rocks)

Historical Player Information

  • 2020-21Freshman

    5'3"
  • 2021-22Sophomore

    5'3"
  • 2022-23Junior

    5'3"
  • 2023-24Senior

    5'3"