DAVIS, Calif. — It's been a historic year for UC Davis incoming freshman women's golfer Nina Choe.

The New York City native won her first AJGA event a year ago by firing a one-under par 69 in the third and final round of the 2025 K.J. Choi Foundation Junior Championship by SK Telecom. A consistent and bogeyless performance over the final 18 holes allowed Choe to rise from sixth place to the top of the leaderboard.

The victory was the first of four amateur wins over the last year for Choe, who became the second player ever and the first since Dottie Pepper in 1981 to win both the NYS Girls 18U Junior Amateur and the NYS Women's Amateur in the same calendar year.

Other Choe highlights in the past year have included a pair of second-place showings among six top-10 AJGA finishes.

Choe and the Aggies begin their 2026-27 collegiate season Sept. 14-15 at the Leadership and Golf Invitational co-hosted by Seattle and Washington at Chambers Bay Golf Course in University Place, Wash. The venue was the site of the men's 2015 U.S. Open.

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UC Davis, ranked No. 2 among public universities by the Wall Street Journal in the value of a college degree, is home to 40,000 undergraduate students and 12,000 employees. Ranked top in the United States in agriculture and forestry as well as No. 1 in veterinary medicine, UC Davis is located in a true California college town nestled between world-class destinations such as the San Francisco Bay Area, Napa Valley and Lake Tahoe. Over 650 Aggie student-athletes compete in 25 Division I varsity sports, with 16 sports transitioning to the Mountain West Conference beginning in 2026-27. 

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