Player Biography

AMANDA BLUMENHERST Birthdate: November 4, 1986 Birthplace: Scottsdale, Ariz. Age: 20 Ht: 5'9" Home: Scottsdale, Ariz. College: Duke
Player Notes: 2007 NCAA National Player of the Year, one of only four players to win it twice won the 2007 Honda Sports Award came in fourth individually at the 2007 NCAA Championship won the 2007 Arizona Wildcat Invitational won the 2007 UCF Challenge won the 2007 LSU/Cleveland Golf Classic won the 2007 ACC Championship First-team All-America finished her 2007 collegiate season with a No. 1 ranking in the Golfweek/Sagarin Performance Index. posted a school-record stroke average (71.00), along with seven top-5 and 10 top-10 finishes in 10 tournaments this year won the 2006 and 2007 Golfstat Cup, joining current LPGA player Lorena Ochoa as the only Division I golfer to win this honor on two different occasions came in 10th at the 2006 U.S. Women's Open (tied for low-amateur honors) Reached the second round of the 2007 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links Member of the USA's victorious 2006 Curtis Cup team Represented the USA at the 2006 Women's World Amateur Team Championship in South Africa earned National Golf Coaches Association and Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year honors in 2005-06 was named the 2005-06 Edith Cummings Munson Golf Award honoree, given to the All-America and Scholar All-America with the highest grade-point average in Division I women's golf won the 2006 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship finished second at the 2006 NCAA Division I Central Regional won the 2006 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship (won by seven strokes) won the 2006 Betsy Rawls Invitational tied for ninth at the 2006 NCAA Division I Women's Championship had two other wins during her freshman campaign - the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational and the Mason Rudolph Women's, her first collegiate event had top-10 finishes in all 11 events she played as a freshman 2005 Women's Western Amateur medalist won 10 American Junior Golf Association events Made the cut at the 2006 LPGA Wegman's, finishing 17th Played in the 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2005 U.S. Girls' Junior a member of the 2002 and 2003 U.S. Junior Solheim Cup teams a four-time member of the AJGA Canon Cup West Team (2002-2005) 2005 Wendy Heisman Finalist 2004 Phoenix Women's High School Academic Athlete of the Year 2005 A2 5A Athlete of the Year finalist 2003 and 2004 Arizona Golfer of the Year won 2003 and 2004 Arizona 5A Girls' High School State Championship her lowest competitive round was 63, shot at the 2007 NCAA East Regional (10 birdies, 9 under, matched NCAA 18-hole record for relation to par) she has had three holes-in-one, including one in her first AJGA tournament 2006 Nancy Lopez Award winner (outstanding female amateur golfer) likes to ski daughter of Dave and Amy has one brother, Drew, and one sister, Erica majoring in history.