CORAL GABLES, Fla. – University of Miami women’s golf senior Renate Grimstad was selected as a Second Team All-American Tuesday, as announced by the Women’s Golf Coaches Association (WGCA).
Capping the season with a program record-shattering 71.00 scoring average through 20 rounds of competition, Grimstad is the 22nd individual Hurricane to achieve All-America distinction in program history.
“Renni was off to a great start this year and was ranked atop the ACC [in scoring]. We were excited for what the spring had in store,” Miami head coach Patti Rizzo said. “She won her first college tournament and was looking forward to winning more before our season ended.”
Despite the Hurricanes’ season being cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Grimstad’s dominance on the course was evident.
Along with setting a new program record, besting former UM standout golfer Dewi Weber’s 71.94 scoring average from 2016-17, the Bergen, Norway, native led the entire Atlantic Coast Conference with a -0.85 relative to par scoring average.
“She gained so much confidence,” Rizzo said. “I think it had a lot to do with understanding who she is as a person and setting her own personal expectations instead of trying to live out everyone else’s expectations. She’s a very hard worker and she was reaping the benefits of her hard work.”
After securing her first collegiate title with a dominant 15-under-par performance at the UCF Challenge (Feb. 2-4), seven-strokes lower than the competition, and later capturing February’s ACC Golfer of the Month accolades, Grimstad ranked 29th nationally in the final golfstat.com rankings.
