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- Height:
- 5-11
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- Year:
- Sr.
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- Hometown:
- Oulu, Finland
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- High School:
- Darlington School
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- Major:
- Marketing
Bio
As a Senior: WGCA National Player of the Year...WGCA first-team All-American...Concluded her career with 10 individual medalist performances...Competed in six tournaments...Appeared in 16 total rounds of play...Averaged 70.50 per round...Placed first in four of six tournaments including the first three of the season...Top-five finishes in all six tournaments...Shot a season-low four-under-par (66) in the second round of the Lady Moc Classic...Lowest combined three-round score of 208 (-8) at the Lady Moc Classis (02/17-18/2020)...Finished below par in four tournaments.
As a Junior: WGCA All-American...WGCA second-team All-South Region...Sunshine State Conference Player of the Year...First-team all-SSC...Member of SSC all-championship team...Two-time SSC Golfer of the Week (9/24, 11/5)...WGCA Scholar All-America...SSC Commissioner's Honor Roll...D2 ADA Academic Achievement Award...Appeared in a total of 10 tournaments, 8 of them she finished in the top five... Played 26 rounds... Average score was at a 71.35... Carded sub-70 rounds seven times... The lowest combined score on the season was a 130, at the RMAC Fall Preview... She finished first at four events (RMAC Fall Preview, Saint Leo Invitational, Jekyll-O-Lantern Intercollegiate, and the SSC tournament).
As a Sophomore: WGCA All-America Scholar...Received D2 ADA Academic Achievement Award...Received Sports Club of Tampa Bay UT Female Athlete of the Year...WGCA second-team All-American...WGCA all-South Region...Second-team all-Sunshine State Conference...Earned her second straight invite to the NCAA South Super Regional...Earned SSC Player of the Week (10/23)...Placed third overall at the regional, shooting rounds of 70, 77 and 75...Her 222 was +6...Advanced to NCAA Division II National Championships in Houston...Opened the championships with a 69 as she was in first place through the first round...The 69 at the championships matched her season-best round...Was seventh overall at the championships as she finished with a 295, including rounds of 69, 77, 73 and 76...Finished 8th at the Sunshine State Conference Tournament...Competed in 10 events for the Spartans...Averaged 75.46 per round...Appeared in 26 rounds...Shot a season-low round of 69 at the Saint Leo Invitational and hit it again at the World Golf Invitational.
As a Freshman: WGCA second-team All-American...Became the first golfer in program history to earn a bid to the NCAA South Super Regional...Won the individual championship at the NCAA Regional, shooting rounds of 78, 72 and 70 to finish ahead of the top-ranked player in the nation and eventual national champion Marie Coors from Saint Leo...Set a new UT record with a 70 in her final round...Advanced to the NCAA Division II National Championships in Findlay, Ohio, where she finished ninth overall with a total score of 307...Shot rounds of 77, 77, 78 and 75 at championships...Finished 40th in Sunshine State Conference Tournament...Competed in six event and saw action in 16 rounds... Averaged 76.35 per round...Shot a regular-season best 75 in one round in three events...Finished in the top-10 at four tournaments.
High School: Attended Darlington School in Rome, Georgia and graduated in 2016...Played for coach Matt Peal...Competed in the Finnish Ladies Amateur Championship in 2016 as she shot rounds of 75, 77 and 77 to finish 10th overall in Helsinki.
Personal: Won the 2018 Finnish Championship...Placed fifth at the 2018 European Championship...Played for summer team Virpiniemi Golf Club for coach Tommi Linna…Member of the European Girls Team Championship in 2015…Majoring in Marketing…Daughter of Johanna and Heikki and has two siblings, Roosa and Paavo…Born on April 29 in Mont St Aignan, France.
2019-20 Statistics | 2018-19 Statistics | 2017-18 Statistics | 2016-17 Statistics
Low | Par/- | Finish Top | |||||||||||||
Season | Rounds | Strokes | 72-holes | 54-holes | 36-holes | 18-holes | Round | Rounds | Events | 1 | 5 | 10 | W-L | W-L% | Average |
2016-17 | 23 | 1756 | 307 | 220 | 148 | - | 70 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 485-111 | .814 | 76.35 |
2017-18 | 33 | 2479 | 295 | 222 | 140 | - | 69 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 766-155 | .832 | 75.12 |
2018-19 | 26 | 1855 | - | 212 | 130 | - | 63 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 745-36 | .954 | 71.35 |
2019-20 | 16 | 1128 | - | 208 | 138 | - | 66 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 406-4 | .990 | 70.50 |
Totals | 98 | 7218 | 295 | 208 | 130 | - | 63 | 39 | 36 | 10 | 18 | 23 | 2402-306 | .887 | 73.65 |
News Mentions
WGCA Names Missey Jones South Region Coach of the Year
April 30, 2020
Kiira Riihijarvi Becomes Four-Time All-American
April 21, 2020
Kiira Riihijarvi Named to WGCA All-Region Team
April 20, 2020
Women's Golf Honored in Senior Salute
April 3, 2020
Spartans Finish Fall With Team and Individual Titles
October 29, 2019
Cadavid and Riley Lead Spartans to Second-Place Finish
October 15, 2019
Riihijarvi Leads Spartans to Lady Falcon Invite Title
September 14, 2019
UT Women's Golf Starts Season in National Rankings
September 2, 2019