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José Marin Named Finalist for ANNIKA Award

May 9, 2025

FAYETTEVILLE – Arkansas women’s golfer Maria José Marin is a finalist for the ANNIKA Award, the pinnacle honor for women’s college golfers.

José Marin is the first finalist from Arkansas since Maria Fassi in 2019. Fassi won the award in 2018 and 2019.

The Cali, Colombia native is fresh off a runner-up finish earlier this week at the NCAA Columbus Regional and will lead the Hogs in their 13th NCAA Championship appearance next week at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California. Earlier this month, José Marin was named the SEC Player of the Year and joined the elite company of Fassi and Stacy Lewis as Arkansas’ only recipients of that honor.

Maria José Marin’s 2024-25 Bio

  • The top-ranked SEC women’s golfer and No. 6 overall according to Clippd’s national rankings
  • Last season’s SEC Freshman of the Year. Joins Maria Fassi (2018, 2019) and Stacy Lewis (2008) as Arkansas’ only golfers to be named SEC Player of the Year
  • Has played in all 36 rounds of No. 2 Arkansas’ season and holds a 69.2 (adj.) scoring average and a 703-90-12 W-L-T record. Leads the Hogs with an -.01 average score to par, birdies (112), and match play wins (3). Has 19 rounds at par or better.
  • 2 wins: Blessings Collegiate Invitational (-11), Puerto Rico Classic (-9) 2 runner ups: Carmel Cup (-6), NCAA Columbus Regional (-4)
  • 5 top 5s, 7 top 10s
  • At the Blessings Collegiate, José Marin went back-to-back and added her second career individual title. The sophomore set a BCI record for the lowest individual score (-11) and bested her 2023 score of -10. Finished 9-under in February’s Puerto Rico Classic, her second lowest career 54-hole score
  • Ranked the No. 1 NCAA women’s golfer for the month of February
  • Played at the 2025 Augusta National Women’s Amateur, will represent the Team International at the Arnold Palmer Cup in June
  • 2024-25 Awards/Honors: 3x SEC Golfer of the Week, ANNIKA Award Watch Lists, Golf Channel Preseason All-American, SEC Player of the Year, First Team All-SEC, ANNIKA Award Finalist

Created in 2014, the ANNIKA Award presented by Stifel 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. Named for Annika Sorenstam, the award was created in partnership with the Haskins Foundation to acknowledge the top female golfer and to match the Haskins Award presented by Stifel, which acknowledges the top male Division I collegiate golfer.

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