Has been named to the All-ACC Academic team each of her first two years … played in seven tournaments as a sophomore reserve and starter in six of the nine tournaments as a freshman … improved to a 75.15 stroke average as a sophomore for the Tigers NCAA national tournament team.
Overview: Has been named to the All-ACC Academic team in two of her first three years…will be senior in 2024-25 who has played in 19 tournaments in her career and has 75.65 career stroke average…has improved her average each year, including 74.11 in 2023-24 when she played in six tournaments on Clemson’s fifth-ranked team…has nine career rounds under par and 13 at par-or-better…had career best 67 in opening round of the year at the Cougar Classic in Charleston, SC…has 85 career birdies entering her senior year…a prime candidate to move into starting position created by graduation of Annabelle Pancake….Clemson’s top player in the tournament victory at the Clover Cup in March of 2022 with a top 10 finish…joined Melena Barrientos as a freshman starter on Clemson’s NCAA Tournament team of 2021-22…won medalist honors at the 1A-2A High School State Championships in North Carolina all four years of high school to become just the second four-time state champion in the history of women’s high school golf in North Carolina….she joins Jennifer Chang of Raleigh, NC (2014-17) in that accomplishment…Chang went on to be an All-American at Southern California…Schuster ranked as the #1 player in North Carolina, #7 player in the class of 2021 and the #22 overall player in the nation by AJGA when she signed with Clemson in fall of 2020….in 2018, she won the Drive, Chip and Putt national championship at Augusta National in the 14-15 year-old division…Schuster was named an AJGA Honorable Mention All-American in 2020… one of her signature wins took place at the Arizona Silver Belle in November of 2019 when she led all amateurs, junior and collegiate players….she also won the Dixie Amateur, CGA Twin States, The North-South Junior Amateur, The Beth Daniel Azalea, The Hope Valley Championship (twice), and the North Carolina Junior Girls Championship over the last three years….qualified for the 2021 US Women ‘s Amateur on July 6, 2021 with a second-place finish out of 65 players with a score of even par 72 at Carolina Trace (Lake Course) in Sanford, NC…her score has counted 24 of 40 team rounds in her Clemson career.
In 2023-24: Starter in three tournaments and she played in three others as an individual….posted career best 74.11 stroke average as a junior for her 18 rounds…shot 75 or better in 13 of the 8 rounds…had five rounds at par or better, including a five-under 67 in first round of the season at the Cougar Classic…had second round even par 72 and finished in 45th overall in the tournament that had a national field…helped Clemson to third place finish out of 17 teams…had season high eight birdies at that event…played the Mercedes Benz as an individual and finished 20th, which tied for second best among Clemson golfers in the field for the tournament in Knoxville, Tenn…had seven birdies and her only career eagle at Mercedes Benz…had an even par 71 in first round and one under par 70 in last round at that tournament…was in the lineup for Clemson’s victory at the Landfall Tradition where she shot 224 for 54 holes…in Clemson lineup at Moon Golf, her final round 73 was her best at that tournament…finished 40th at the Clemson Invitational, she shot an even par 72 in her final round, which was her final round of the year…finished the year with 40 birdies and an eagle…had 73.00 stroke average in first round of tournaments, 73.67 in final rounds…had strong 3.10 average on par three holes, second best on the team behind Holder’s record 2.98…averaged 4.22 on par four holes and 4.94 on par fives…her score counted 5 of 9 rounds…named to the Academic All-ACC Team.
In 2022-23: Had a 75.15 stroke average as a sophomore on Clemson’s ACC Championship team, a big improvement from her 77.9 average as a freshman…in the Clemson team lineup for five tournaments and played in seven overall…had two rounds in the 60, her first round of the year (68) at the Sooner Classic, and her final round of the Clover Cup when she had a 68…that final round 68 helped Clemson to fourth place finish, it tied for the best by a Clemson golfer in that round…had per best tournament of the year at the Moon Golf when she was three under par 213 to finish 23rd…had consistent rounds of 70-71-72, her performance included 15 birdies…also shot 213 (+3) at the Schooner Classic in first event of the year to finish 38th…had 56 birdies in 20 rounds, he 2.8 birdies per round were fifth on the team…averaged 75.43 in first round of tournaments, but 73.57 in final rounds…averaged 3.25 on par three holes, 4.29 on par fours and 5.07 on par fives…her score counted in 10 of 14 rounds…
In 2021-22: Starter as a freshman at Clemson who had a 77.88 average for her 17 rounds…had her best performance of the year at the Clover Cup in Mesa, Arizona where she led the Tigers to tournament championship in a 17-team field…had rounds of 71-71-69 for a 211 total, five-under-par, to finish sixth overall in a strong field…had 16 birdies for the tournament, tied for the most by a Clemson golfer all year and tied for the most by any Clemson golfer since March 18-19, 2019 when Ana Paula Valdes had 17 at Briars Creek…her 16 birdies were tied for second most in the field, only Ingrid Lindblad of LSU, who finished third at NCAA Tournament and 11th at the Women’s 2022 US Open, had more…Schuster’s 211 score and five-under at the Clover Cup ranked as the fourth best 54-hole performances by a Clemson golfer all year…in the lineup for the ACC Tournament, she finished 53rd, then played last two rounds of the NCAA Regional at Stillwater, Oklahoma…her score counted in nine of her 17 rounds.
High School: Had stellar high school career at First Flight High in Kill Devil Hills, NC….state champion as a senior, she won the tournament by six shots in May of 2021…had final round 70 that was only under-par round by any golfer in the tournament…also won the East Regional by seven shots…on the AJGA circuit for 2020-21, she had four top 10s and six top 20s…finished fifth at the Payne Stewart Junior, her performance included an opening round 67, her best round in a junior tournament in 2020-21…In December of 2020, finished third at the Arizona Silver Belle Championship ….finished 10th at the Dustin Johnson World Junior, then was fifth at the AJGA Junior @ 12 Oaks…also 11th at the Dye Junior Invitational and third at the Donna Andrews on June 27, 2021…won June 2020 Twin State Junior Championship at Dataw island Club…won the 2019 (played in fall) North Carolina 1A/2A state title as a junior by eight shots….highlight of her AJGA season that year was winning the Dixie Woman’s Amateur in Tamarac, Fl with a 280 score…she came back from seven down to win…10 days later won the Silver Belle at Longbow in Mesa, Arizona …named 2018 Carolinas Junior Player of the Year…won 2018 (14-15 age group) at Drive, Chip and Putt at Augusta National…made a 30-foot putt on 18th green that was key to her win….she also finished third at that event in 2015 as a 10-year-old…lists Point Golf Club in Powell’s Point as her home course…committed to Clemson in 2018…parents are Rikkie and Dave Schuster.
Tournament-by-Tournament 2021-22
Tournament-by-Tournament 2022-23
Tournament-by-Tournament 2023-24
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