UC Davis Athletics

- 2025 All-Big West Conference (First Team)
- 2023 All-Big West Conference (Honorable Mention)
- 2023 Big West Academic All-Conference Team
- 2022 All-Big West Conference (First Team)

2024-25 (Senior): Was in the Aggie lineup for 10 tournaments ... Won the Colonel Wollenberg Ptarmigan Ram Classic (Sept. 23-24) with a score of -11 ... Shot +5 to finish fourth at the USF Invitational (Mar. 31-Apr. 1) ... Posted an 11th place finish with a +7 score at the Big West Championships (Apr. 13-15) ... Finished inside the top 20 at the NCAA Lubbock Regionals (May 4-6), finishing 19th with a score of +5 ... Averaged 72.30 scoring during the season.

2023-24 (Junior): Competed in nine tournaments for the Aggies ... Posted three top-10 finishes ... Shot a season-low -3 at the Coeur d'Alene Resort Collegiate Inviational (Sept. 24-26), to post a third-place finish ... Followed up that tournament with a score of -2 and a 10th-place finish at the Golf Iconic Classic (Oct. 9-11) ... Finished fifth to earn Big West All-Tournament team honors with a +4 at the Big West Championships (Apr. 14-16) ... Wrapped up the season with a scoring average of 74.80.

2022-23 (Sophomore): Competed in all 10 regular-season and postseason tournaments for the Aggies… Received an All-Big West Honorable Mention… Leighton finished in the top-35 in eight out of the 10 events, including a top-15 and two-top-three placements… Her best finish came at the Causeway Invitational where she claimed the individual crown by carding a 2-under 70… She tied for second at the Valley Invitational after firing a 4-over 220 three round score… She tied for 14^th at the San Diego State Classic with a three round score of 13-over 229… Her best round of the season was 2-under 69, which came in the final round of the Stanford Intercollegiate where she tied for 35^th… She ended the season with a 75.82 average score.

2021-22 (Freshman): Competed in eight out of the 10 regular-season and postseason tournaments for UC Davis… Named to the All-Big West First Team… Leighton finished in the top-15 in four events, three of which were top-10 placements… In her best finish of the season, she tied for fifth at the Gunrock Invitational where she fired for; consecutive 2-under 70 rounds and 4-under 68 in the final, en route to an 8-under 208 three round score… She tied for fifth at the Valley Invitational where she carded an 8-over 224 final score… At the Big West Championship she tied for eighth after carding a 12-over 228 final score… She tied for 12^th at the Juli Inkster Meadow Club Intercollegiate with an even 216 three-round… Leighton ends the season with a 74.04 average score.

CARDINAL NEWMAN HS ’21
Three-time team captain and two-time North Bay League Player of the Year as a sophomore and junior… First-team all-league honoree as a freshman, finishing fourth at the CIF North Coast Section Division II championships… Helped lead the Cardinals to a pair of league titles in her sophomore and junior years… Clinched a section team title as a junior, while finishing second as an individual… Won the North Bay League-Redwood Division tournament and the CIF North Coast Section Division II individual qualifying event as a sophomore… Outside of her prep career, she won the 70th annual California Junior Girls State Championship at Quail Lodge and Golf Course prior to her junior year in 2019… Entered her senior year coming off a 16th-place finish at the Northern California Junior Championship at Lake Merced Golf Club.

PERSONAL
Parents are Jon and Janene… Has a sister, Tori… Three-year scholar-athlete and earned the John M. Fitzgerald Scholar-Athlete Four-Year Award as a senior… Included in the Oxford Scholar Program at Cardinal Newman HS, consisting of the top GPAs in her graduating class… Cardinal Newman HS Leadership Award winner in 2017-18, 2018-19, and 2020-21… Can play the guitar and ukulele… Lists her favorite course as the Quali Lodge and Golf Club… Career sports highlight is winning the CWAC 2019 California State Junior Girls Championship… Bucket list items include swimming with sharks, skydiving, and visiting all the National Parks in the United States.