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  Hwanhee Lee
Hwanhee Lee
Player Profile
Class:
Senior

Hometown:
Los Angeles, Calif.

High School:
Cerritos HS

Height:
5-3

Birthdate:
09/27/1982

Experience:
3L

UNLV: The Rebels' career leader in rounds and tournaments played returns for her final season ... Has never missed a tournament entering her senior season ... One of the leaders on the team ... First individual winner for the Rebels ... Her career scoring aveage of 76.63 is the third-lowest in UNLV history.

2003-04 Played in all 37 rounds for the Rebels, setting the team record for rounds in a season ... Finished in the top 20 four times and had two top-five finishes ... Her highest finish was fifth place, which she did twice (Northwest Invite and MWC Championship) ... Shot her lowest round of the year at the MWC Championships, a 71 on the final day of the tournament which matched her career low.

2002-03 Played in all 30 rounds, finishing second on the team with a 76.87 stroke average ... Finished in the top 20 in six of the 10 events she played ... Best finish came at home where she tied for seventh at the Las Vegas Founder Women's Collegiate Showdown ... Finished eighth at the MWC Championship ... Shot a career best 71 in the opening round of the season at the Dick McGuire Invitational.

2001-02 Led the team in rounds (25), stroke average (77.08), and top-10 finishes (2) ... One of those top-10 finishes included a victory at the Lady Aztec Invitational, the first in school history ... Earned MWC Player of the Month and Golf World Player of the Week honors following her win ... Low round was a 73 carded at the Peg Barnard Collegiate.

High School A 2001 graduate of Cerritos High School in Cerritos, Calif. ... Lettered four times on the boys' varsity golf team for coach Dennis McReynolds ... Led the Dons to back-to-back CIF state crowns as a junior and senior ... Ranked as high as No. 17 among U.S. girls ... Showed considerable success on the AJGA circuit, earning All-America honors three times and winning events at Boise, Idaho and at the PING/Langdon Farms Classic ... In 1996, became the youngest woman ever to play in the U.S. Women's Amateur ... Is a three-time qualifier for that event ... Was the boys' individual state runner-up in 1998 ... Competed for the West Coast at the 2000 Canon Cup ... Represented the U.S. at the 2000 World Junior Golf Cup.

Personal Hwanhee Lee was born Sept. 27, 1982, in Seoul, Korea ... The only daughter of Michael and Jin Lee ... Has one brother, James (19) ... Volunteered at a local preschool where her mother serves as the director ... Majoring in art.

Ringler on Lee "Hwanhee has a lot of golf skills but she needs to maintain her focus this season. She has been with the program through thick and thin and I am looking for her to be one of our leaders this year."

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