Each year, the ANNIKA Award presented by STIFEL recognizes the top female Division I golfer. The announcement and award presentation has become a special part of the NCAA DI Women’s Golf Championship.
Previous winners of the award have gone on to have amazing careers on and off the golf course. Notable names include Ingrid Lindblad (2024), Rose Zhang (2023, 2022), Maria Fassi (2019, 2018) and Leona Maguire (2017, 2015). In addition to the distinction, the winner this year will earn an exemption into the Amundi Evian Championship, an LPGA major championship.
The ten finalists this year are all incredible players with bright futures:
- Carla Bernat – Kansas State
- Carolina Chacarra – Wake Forest
- Kary Hollenbaugh – Ohio State
- Jasmine Koo – USC
- Maria Jose Marin – Arkansas
- Meja Ortengren – Stanford
- Andrea Revuelta – Stanford
- Kiara Romero – Oregon
- Mirabel Ting – Florida State
- Lottie Woad – Florida State
Today, STIFEL presented the ANNIKA Award to Florida State’s Mirabel Ting. A junior from Malaysia, Ting has had a stellar year, winning 5 tournaments this season (three of those consecutively!) and earning ACC Golfer of the Year. She also finished top 6 in 9 out of 10 of her stroke play events. She is the top-ranked player from Malaysia and was invited to compete in the Maybank Championship, an LPGA Tour event, where she finished T12 as an amateur with Charley Hull, Celine Boutier and other professionals. There’s a reason Ting is ranked as the #2 amateur in the world – #1 is her teammate and fellow finalist, Lottie Woad.
Ting played in the quarterfinal matches this morning and won 3&1 against USC’s Bailey Shoemaker. She is playing this afternoon as well in the semifinals vs. Stanford’s Andrea Revuelta.
