2025-26 Women's Golf Roster
Garcia, Maria
Maria Garcia
- Height:
- 5-5
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Queretaro, Mexico
Bio
New Mexico Highlights:
• A unanimous selection as the 2025 Mountain West Conference Freshman of the Year in balloting of league coaches.
• Also voted second-team All-Mountain West.
• Received a quartet of in-season MWC Awards – September Freshman of the Month, October Freshman of the Month, October Player of the Month and April 7 Freshman of the Week.
• Recorded a stroke average of 74.04 and led the Lobos in par-or-better rounds (10), top-10 finishes (three) and top-20 outings (five).
• Competed in all nine events and the Lobos’ top individual finisher in five tournaments – the Ron Moore Intercollegiate (t-5th), Jim West Challenge (t-2nd), the Bruin Wave Invitational (t-13th), the PING/ASU Invitational (t-27th) and the Mountain West Championships (t-17th).
• Christened her collegiate career by tying for 10th at the Branch Law Firm/Dick McGuire Invitational, becoming the first Lobo with a top-10 effort in their debut since 2008.
• Named MWC Golfer and Freshman of the Month in October after covering six rounds at a combined 11-under, which produced a runner-up finish at the Jim West Challenge and a fifth-place showing at the Ron Moore Intercollegiate.
• Became the first golfer in four years to earn MWC Golfer and Freshman of the Month honors for the same month.
• Carded the lowest round ever by a Lobo freshman – a 5-under 67 – and tied the fourth-best overall score in program history in the second round of the Ron Moore Intercollegiate.
• Tied the fourth-best relation-to-par 54-hole score in UNM history by shooting 9-under 207 at the Jim West Challenge.
Pre-Collegiate Highlights:
• Competed in 32 WAGR events from 2022-24 prior to her collegiate career, recording five wins and 22 top-10 finishes.
• Notched a pair of individual victories during the 2022 calendar at the IJGT National Championship and the I Copa Surest – XV Copa Yucatán.
• A three-time winner in 2021, capturing titles at the III Copa Norte, the Campeonato Juvenil de Chile and the Campeonato Nacional Infantil – Mexico.
• Competed in the 2022 U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship at The Club at Olde Stone in Bowling Green, Ky.
Personal:
• Born November 1, 2005, Maria is the daughter of Alejandro Garcia and Maria Elena Arroyo and intends to major in Business (Marketing).
• A unanimous selection as the 2025 Mountain West Conference Freshman of the Year in balloting of league coaches.
• Also voted second-team All-Mountain West.
• Received a quartet of in-season MWC Awards – September Freshman of the Month, October Freshman of the Month, October Player of the Month and April 7 Freshman of the Week.
• Recorded a stroke average of 74.04 and led the Lobos in par-or-better rounds (10), top-10 finishes (three) and top-20 outings (five).
• Competed in all nine events and the Lobos’ top individual finisher in five tournaments – the Ron Moore Intercollegiate (t-5th), Jim West Challenge (t-2nd), the Bruin Wave Invitational (t-13th), the PING/ASU Invitational (t-27th) and the Mountain West Championships (t-17th).
• Christened her collegiate career by tying for 10th at the Branch Law Firm/Dick McGuire Invitational, becoming the first Lobo with a top-10 effort in their debut since 2008.
• Named MWC Golfer and Freshman of the Month in October after covering six rounds at a combined 11-under, which produced a runner-up finish at the Jim West Challenge and a fifth-place showing at the Ron Moore Intercollegiate.
• Became the first golfer in four years to earn MWC Golfer and Freshman of the Month honors for the same month.
• Carded the lowest round ever by a Lobo freshman – a 5-under 67 – and tied the fourth-best overall score in program history in the second round of the Ron Moore Intercollegiate.
• Tied the fourth-best relation-to-par 54-hole score in UNM history by shooting 9-under 207 at the Jim West Challenge.
Pre-Collegiate Highlights:
• Competed in 32 WAGR events from 2022-24 prior to her collegiate career, recording five wins and 22 top-10 finishes.
• Notched a pair of individual victories during the 2022 calendar at the IJGT National Championship and the I Copa Surest – XV Copa Yucatán.
• A three-time winner in 2021, capturing titles at the III Copa Norte, the Campeonato Juvenil de Chile and the Campeonato Nacional Infantil – Mexico.
• Competed in the 2022 U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship at The Club at Olde Stone in Bowling Green, Ky.
Personal:
• Born November 1, 2005, Maria is the daughter of Alejandro Garcia and Maria Elena Arroyo and intends to major in Business (Marketing).
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