Aine Donegan Season 2022-23
All-Big 10 Second Team (at Indiana), 2022
FRESHAMAN SEASON (2021-22)
Played 29 rounds in 10 event and averaged a team-best 73.17 strokes per round to break the Indiana single-season and freshman records … Four top 10 finishes, two top-5 finishes and one individual championship … Captured her first collegiate tournament victory at the Courtney Cole Invitational after shooting a 144 (71-73; E) … Top Hoosier in all nine team events … T2 at the IU Invitational with a score of 219 (73-75-71; +3) … Posted a pair of wins at the Big Ten Match Play event by winning matches 3UP and 1UP … Top Indiana player (T6) at the Illini Women’s Invitational with a score of 211 (70-70-71; -5) … Earned her first career top-10 finish (T10) after shooting a 220 (76-74-70; +4) at the Badger Invitational.
PRIOR TO INDIANA/LSU
Finished in the top-40 at the British Girls Amateur Championship in 2018 (32nd) and in ’19 (17th) … 2018 Munster Girls Champion … 2018 Seapoint Scratch Cup Winner … Top-20 finisher in the British Women’s Amateur Championship in 2019 (17th) and 2021 (17th) … In 2019, won the Vaughan Lahinch Scratch Cup, Carlow Scratch Cup, and Seapoint Scratch Cup … Represented Ireland individually at the 2018 Fairhaven Trophy, 2019 World Junior Girls Championship Canada, 2019 Annika invitational, and 2019 Spirit International Amateur Championship Texas … Ninth at the 2021 St Rule Trophy … Played for coach Gary Madden at Glenlo Abbey since she was 10 years old … also competed in soccer, Gaelic football and hurling … Team won Munster junior and senior gaelic football championships.
PERSONAL
Born on March 22, 2022 … Right handed … Parents are Greg Donegan and Ann Gillian … has one older brother, Aaron, and a younger sister, Seona … Anticipated major at LSU is biological sciences … On choosing to come to LSU: “I was starstruck by the campus as well as the amazing athletic facilities that are provided to the women’s golf course. I felt at home as soon as I walked onto campus as well as when I met my coaches and teammates” … To relax likes to go on walks, play pickleball and sleep … Favorite food is sushi and favorite dessert sticky toffee pudding … Favorite professional golfer is Shane Lowry and favorite pro athlete outside golf is Katie Taylor, an Irish professional boxer.