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Jay Mendell Season 2024-25

Height
5'7
Class
Sophomore
Hometown
Lafayette, La.
High School
Ascension Episcopal School
Experience
1L

2024 All-SEC Freshman Team
2024 LSWA First-Team All-Louisiana
2023-24 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll

FRESHMAN SEASON (2023-24)
Appeared in all 13 tournaments for the Tigers … One of seven players named to the 2024 SEC All-Freshman Team … Five-time SEC Freshman of the Week in his first season at LSU … Among five players to be named First-Team All-Louisiana by the LSWA after a season that included a 72.36 scoring average over 39 rounds … Fired 21 rounds of par or better with a low round of a 67 at the Hal Williams Collegiate, a tournament that Mendell won from a field of 80 with a 10-under 203 (67-68-68) … Mendell also finished the Hootie at Bulls Bay T1 in a field of 81 with a 6-under 210 (71-68-71) to lead the Tigers to a tournament victory … Shot a 1-over 217 in the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional, coming back from an opening 76 to shoot 69-72 at the University Club to help send the Tigers back to the NCAA Championship … 10 rounds in the 60s.

PRIOR TO LSU
Lafayette, Louisiana, native that attended Ascension Episcopal… Won the 2023 Louisiana individual state title after shooting a 12-under par, 132. It was the lowest score in any division in the past nine years… Placed 8th at the Junior Orange Bowl, 2nd at the Pete & Alice Dye Junior tourney and 7th in the Southern Junior… was a qualifier and participant in the United States Junior Amateur Championship and the Western Junior event and in 2021 was a member of the winning twosome in the tournament named after a former LSU and current PGA star, the Sam Burns Junior Four-Ball…

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