COLUMBUS, Ga. – Junior Zoe Antoinette Campos on the UCLA women’s golf team was selected as one of 25 student-athletes on the 2023-2024 ANNIKA Award Preseason Watch List on Monday morning.
Created in 2014, the ANNIKA Award is annually given to the top female Division I collegiate golfer; the winner voted on by players, coaches and members of the college golf media. Two Bruins have won the ANNIKA Award: Alison Lee (2014) and Bronte Law (2016).
Campos leads this year’s squad in Alicia Um Holmes‘ first season as head coach.
The Valencia, Calif. native was a consensus first-team All-American and ANNIKA Award Top 10 Finalist as a sophomore last year. Campos led the Bruins with a 71.42 scoring average last season which ranked sixth all-time for a single season in UCLA history. She also notched a team-high eight top 10 finishes and placed outside the top 20 only once. She ended the season as the No. 6-ranked golfer in the country, per GolfStat.
Campos won the first two medals of her collegiate career last season with victories in back-to-back tournaments at the Anuenue Spring Break Classic (-12; 66-67-71) and Silverado Showdown (-5; 67-73-71). The California Connections Academy product narrowly missed a berth into the 2023 NCAA Championships with a runner-up finish at the NCAA San Antonio Regional (-4; 70-72-70).
In Summer 2023 competition, Campos competed in her second major championship event at the 78th U.S. Women’s Open. Campos also helped Team USA win the 2023 Arnold Palmer Cup as one of just three golfers and the only American woman to finish unbeaten (2-0-2). She closed out offseason play with a quarterfinal finish of the 57th California Women’s Amateur at La Cumbre Country Club after setting the course record with a bogey-free -6, 66 in the second round of stroke play.
Campos and the Bruins begin the 2023-2024 season in 11 days at the Mason Rudolph Championship at Vanderbilt Legends Club in a three-day tournament from Sept. 22-24.
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