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2023-24 Women's Golf Roster

Illinois State Athletics
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Scott Walstrom, NIU
Scott Walstrom, NIU
Scott Walstrom, NIU

Sydney Naro

  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Toronto, Ontario, Can.
  • High School Hills International Golf Academy
  • Prev School Michigan State

Biography

2023-24: All-MAC Second Team…… Saw action in all 10 tournaments for the Huskies, with 28 rounds of golf played as a member of the starting five…..Season-best finish was a tie for eighth at the MAC Championships…..Had five top-15 finishes…..Season-low round of 70 happened at the Redbird Invite (Sept. 11-12)….Average round score of 75.58.....Academic All-MAC....CSC Academic All-District....WGCA Scholar All-American

2022-23: Participated in all 11 of the Huskies’ tournaments. Was second on the team with a 75.12 stroke average in 18-hole rounds. Logged three top-10 finishes, including three-straight top-six finishes, in her first year with the Huskies, including a tournament win at the Falcon Florida classic in February. After garnering back-to-back 68s in the final two rounds, her 10-under 206 card was the best 54-hole individual scorecard in team history. Named the MAC Women’s Golfer of the Week twice. All-MAC Second Team. Academic All-MAC honoree.

Prior to NIU: Competed in 13 tournaments in three seasons at Michigan State for a collegiate career stroke average of 76.1. Played in six events as a freshman in 2018-19, including each of the last four, and recorded a fourth-place finish at the Lady Buckeye Invitational with a score of three-over par 219 - opened the tournament with a career-low score of 67. Went on to place 22nd at the Big Ten Championships with a three-over par 147 (75-72) and finished the season with a career low stroke average of 74.75. A two-time Academic All Big Ten and WGCA All-American Scholar at MSU.

Prep: Attended high school in Australia where she played for Hills International Golf Academy, has lived in seven different countries. Qualified for the 2017 U.S. Junior Girls Championship and was a quarterfinalist at the 2018 U.S. Women's Western Junior Golf Championship at Mistwood Golf Club in Romeoville, Illinois.

Personal: In the Global MBA program at NIU.

 
Naro's NIU Career Statistics  
 Season  Tournaments Rounds Strokes Average Low 18 Low 54 Best Finish
2022-23 11 33 2,479 75.12 68 206 1 (Falcon Fla. Classic)
2023-24 10 28 2,119 75.58 70 222 T8 (MAC Championships)
Totals 21 61 4,598 75.38 68 206 1 (Falcon Fla. Classic)

Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23Graduate Student

  • 2023-24Graduate Student