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2024-25 Women's Golf Roster

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  • Junior
    Class
  • Gillette, Wyo.
    Hometown
  • Thunder Basin HS
    High School
Farnum
Maria Farnum
Junior
Class
Gillette, Wyo.
Hometown

Summary

Biography

2023-24 (Sophomore):  She did not appear in any contests for the Cowgirls during the season.

2022-23 (Redshirt Freshman):  Farnum did not compete in any tournaments during her redshirt freshman season.  She earned Mountain West Scholar-Athlete honors for the second time in her career and was named Academic All-Mountain West for the first time.
 
2021-22 (Freshman):  Farnum redshirted her first season as a member of the Cowgirl Golf team.  She was named to the Mountain West Scholar-Athlete team for the first time in her college career.

High School: Farnum was a three-time All-State and All-Conference selection at Thunder Basin High School in Gillette, Wyo.  She won the Wyoming Class 4A Individual State Title as a junior in 2019 and was the state runner-up as a senior in 2020.  She led Thunder Basin to consecutive Class 4A State Team Championships in 2019 and ‘20 -- the first two state girls’ golf titles in team history.  As a senior, Farnum won 10 individual tournament titles on way to finishing as the runner-up at state.  She was a two-time team captain in high school.  Farnum  was also part of two East Conference Championship teams at Thunder Basin.  Farnum was one of three players who made up the Wyoming team that represented the state at the 2019 Girl’s Junior America’s Cup in Murrieta, Calif.  She was also part of her Thunder Basin golf team that competed in the National High School Invitational Golf Tournament at Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina in the summers of 2020 and ‘21.  An excellent student, she maintained a perfect 4.0 grade-point average in high school, was the Vice President of her school’s National Honor Society Chapter and was a student council member.  She earned the Journalism Award of Distinction and placed third at the Letters about Literature and Young Authors Competitions.

Personal: She is the daughter of Kip and Nancy Farnum and has two siblings, Lauren and Ashley.