Elizabeth Tong

Year:
Senior
Hometown:
Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
Height:
5-6

SENIOR YEAR (2014-15)

Set a new IU single-season record for scoring average (73.64) ... played in all 10 tournaments… placed in the top 25 in seven tournaments, including four top 10 efforts… led all Hoosiers with a 221 (69-76-76) and placing tied for 6th at the Longhorn Invitational… also placed tied for 6th at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic with a score of 217 (73-73-71)… finished 5th at the Briar’s Creek Invitational with an even par 216 (74-74-68)… earned a 2nd place finish at the Lady Buckeye Invitational by finishing with a 1-under par 215 (68-74-73)… shot a season low round of 68 on 3 different occasions.

JUNIOR YEAR (2013-14)

Competed at the 2014 U.S. Women's Open ... won the Golf Association of Ontario's (GAO) Women's Champion of Champions event in June 2014 ... advanced to the round of 32 at the U.S. Women's Amateur Championship ... named Women's Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar ... Academic All-Big Ten ... tallied five top-25 finishes on the season and was second on the team in stroke average (76.76) ... tied for 20th at the IU Fall Kickoff (77-75) ... tied for 24th at the Mary Fossum Invitational (78-74-78) ... closed the fall season with a tied for 20th finish at the Hoosier Fall Invitational (76-72-75) ... had a season-best finish of tied for sixth at the Westbrook Invitational (71-70-72), recording her three lowest rounds of the season ... followed that up with a tied for 28th finish at the BYU at Entrada Classic (79-85-77) ... placed tied for 20th at the Lady Buckeye Invitational (80-77-75) ... tied for 49th at the Big Ten Championships (78-81-79).

SOPHOMORE YEAR (2012-13)

Led the team in scoring average at 75.28 in 38 rounds of play ... posted five top-10 finishes and six top-25 finishes ... posted a trio of individual wins this year, taking first at the IU Fall Kickoff (72-73), Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown (70-76-68) and Indiana Invitational (71-75-71) ... her final-round 68 in Las Vegas matched her career best, set one tournament earlier in the second round of the Hoosier Fall Invitational ... tied for sixth at the Branch Law Firm/Dick McGuire Invitational (77-72-70) ... sixth at the Hoosier Fall Invitational (75-68-79) ... tied for 13th at the Westbrook Spring Invitational (76-76-70) ... tied for 26th at the Lady Buckeye Invitational (82-79-75) ... tied for 32nd at the Big Ten Championships (78-77-77) ... top Hoosier finisher at the NCAA Central Regional, placing tied for 26th (70-74-76) ... Academic All-Big Ten ... named Women's Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar.

FRESHMAN YEAR (2011-12)

Finished third on the team in scoring average at 77.20 ... started her collegiate career with a tie for 18th at the IU Fall Kickoff (84-77) ... tied for eighth at the Lady Northern Intercollegiate (71-76-77) ... her first-round 71 was a season low ... tied for 15th at the IU Fall Invitational at Crooked Stick (78-78-73) ... tied for 42nd at the Challenge at Onion Creek (73-79-78) ... tied for 27th at the Westbrook Invitational with a score of 222, matching her season-low 71 in the first round (71-74-77) ... top-25 finish at the Lady Jaguar Intercollegiate (77-76-76), placing tied for 25th ... tied for seventh at the rain-shortened IU Invitational (75) ... tied for 40th at the Big Ten Championships (81-79-76).

PREP/PERSONAL

Won the 2011 Investors Group Ontario Junior Spring Classic Girls' Championship in Uxbridge, Ontario ... in 2010, Tong won three tournaments including the AJGA CorseMax Philadelphia Qualifier at Penn Oaks, the Toronto District Colleges Athletic Association Golf Tournament and the Sydney Mulqueen Tournament at Mississauga where she shot her best round of the year of 70 ... won her first tournament in 2006 and totals 15 first-place tournament finishes all-time ... has a Royal Canadian Golf Association Handicap Factor of 0.0 and will play her second season for the York District Amateur Team in 2011 ... member of the Golf Association of Ontario (GAO) Under 19 Team Ontario Program of Excellence in 2010 ... finished in a first-place tie at the 2007 GAO Clublink Bantam Tour, finishing either first our second in each of the four tour events that took place in the months of July and August ... in the classroom, Tong has ranked in the top three students academically throughout her high school career ... she has consistently been on the Principle's Honor Roll with Distinction every year since the seventh grade and has received awards in French, English, marketing and science ... parents are Man Lee Tong and Susan Sue-Chan ... born April 17, 1993.