UIC Athletics

TOP 5 ROUNDS
73 - Horizon League Championship (April 23, 2018)
73 - NKU Fall Classic (Sept. 11, 2017)
73 - Chitown Classic (Aug. 30, 2015)
75 - Battle at Boulder Creek II (March 5, 2018)
76 - Fall Preview (Oct. 11-12, 2015)

SCORING AVERAGE
2017-18: 80.14
2016-17: 85.55
2015-16: 82.82

BIRDIES
2017-18: 34
2016-17: 18
2015-16: 18
Total: 70

2017-18: Won 2018 Horizon League individual medal in a sudden-death playoff at Mission Inn Resort (April 22-24) ... Held 36-hole lead ... Led tournament field in par-5 scoring at 4.67 strokes per hole ... Earned All-Horizon League Championship honors ... Named All-Horizon League Second Team following the regular season ... Played in all 21 rounds and posted 20 counting scores (95.2%) ... Led team with career-low 80.14 scoring average, which was the third best in program history ... Made 34 birdies, tied for second most in program history ... Posted five top-15 finishes ... Shot even-par 73 during second round of #HLGolf Championship (April 23) to tie career-best score ... Helped UIC finish fourth with a three-round total of 97-over par 973 at Horizon League Championship (April 22-24) ... That is the program's best finish and lowest score at the Horizon League Championship since the program's inception in 2011-12 ... Finished T11^th with two-round total of 157 at Golden Grizzlies Invitational (Sept. 25-26) ... Opened the season with a T6^th finish at the NKU Fall Classic (Sept. 11-12) ... Posted a 73 (2-over par) in the second round (Sept. 11) ... Earned third consecutive WGCA All-America Scholar recognition ... Named to Horizon League Honor Roll ... Won 84^th Illinois State Women's Amateur at Pine Meadow Golf Club in Mundelein, Ill., on June 22.

2016-17: Played nine events and 20 rounds ... Netted an average score of 85.55 ... Best finish was T7th at the UIC Fall Shootout (Sept. 17) ... Shot best round of season, 6-over par, in the 18-hole event.

2015-16: Participated in all ten events of the season as a freshman...Recorded the fifth-lowest average score in program history (82.82) during the fall...Shot her career-low round of 73 at the first event of the year; the Chitown Classic (Aug. 30) where she also finished in fourth place...Finished tied in 24^th place at the 2016 Horizon League Championships (April 22-24) where she fired a 54-hole total of 249…Fired a 76 in the second round of the MAC Fall Preview (Oct. 11)...Sterling tied for 16^th place at the Golden Grizzlies Invitational (Sept. 29)…Collected 18 birdies during her first season as a Flame.

HIGH SCHOOL: Four-time state qualifier and only the second golfer from Lincoln-Way East to earn a medal at state ... tied for sixth place at the 2A State Finals with a two-round total of 153 ... Joined her sister, Kathy, as the only state medalists from Lincoln-Way East ... In the three previous years, Sterling never finished outside the top 30 in Class 2A ... one of only four players to have hit a hole-in-one at the state tournament ... Won the Southwest Suburban Conference championship on four occasions ... Carded a 2-under 70 at the 2014 tournament ... Advanced to her fourth straight state tournament after carding a 72 at the Class 2A Lincoln-Way Central Sectional ... During summer play in the Illinois Junior Golf Association, Sterling won six of 11 events and placed second twice ... Fired a 72 at Ravisloe Country Club and a 73 at Broken Arrow Golf Club ... Home course is Cog Hill & Country Club and she trained under Cog Hill Director of Instruction Kevin Weeks.