Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Athletics

2005 Women's Golf Roster

Natalie Garza

  • Position PLAYER
  • Height 5-4
  • Class Senior
  • High School Westminster Academy

Biography

Lopez's Logic
"A great heart player who has all of the skills and attributes to have a successful senior season. Really good at pulling through in a pinch and showed this with a great national tournament and great season last year. Just very steady and committed to being extremely positive, strong in her routine and clear in her decisions. Natalie has really developed course management and mental management confidence."

2004-05: Improved over a stroke in scoring average finishing fifth on the team with two top 10 and three top 20 finishes...won the Eagle women's golf Heart of of an Eagle award for second consecutive year...posted her career-best finish claiming seventh at the Florida Sun Conference and Region XIV Championships (84-86=170) Apr. 17-18...posted her best finish at the NAIA National Championship sharing 30th (78-84-85-83=330) including a career-low 78 in the first round and her 36-hole low with a 162 after the first two rounds of the championship May 17-20...co-captain rebounded from an injury in the spring of 2004 to post an 84.33 scoring average in the fall...finished 8th at the Start2Finish Collegiate Fall Invitational (83-83=166) Oct 23-24...shared 15th at the Chick-Fil-A Collegiate Invite (82-89=171) Oct. 11-12...was 35th at the Flagler Fall Slam (85-84=168)...tied for 20th at the Eagle Invitational at Spruce Creek Country Club (87-93=180) Mar. 14-15...posted share of 20th at the Bash at the Beach at Daytona Beach Golf Club (80-88=168) April 3-4...earned Embry-Riddle academic honor roll for fall 2004.

2003-04: Improved over two strokes from her rookie campaign with an 86.23 stroke average competing in six tournaments with top 20 finishes highlighted by a share of 18th at the Coca-Cola Intercollegiate (86-84=170) Oct. 25-26...shared 26th at the Lady Falcon Invitational (83-85=168) Sept. 27-28...recorded her first career sub-80 round with a season-low 79 at the Embry-Riddle Bash at the Beach where she placed 21st (79-87=166) Mar. 13-14...was 30th at the CSU-San Marcos Invite (86-87=173) on Mar. 1-2...was 29th at the Flagler Fall Slam (87-88=175) Nov. 3-4...tied for 29th at the Lady Eagle Invitational Apr. 5-6...an injury shortened Garza's season just before the NAIA Region XIV and National tournaments, but this didn't hinder her contributions to the team helping motivate and prepare the teams for both events...her committment to the team helped her earn ERAU women's golf Heart of an Eagle award.

2002-03: Saw action in three tournaments posting an 88.43 stroke average in seven rounds...posted her best finish of the season tying for 22nd at the Lady Eagle Invitational on Apr. 5-6 at Daytona Beach South Golf Course which included a season-low 84 in the first round (84-89=173)...began her career in Daytona Beach with a 36-hole total of 170 (86-84=170) to finish tied for 48th-place overall at the Daytona Beach Community College Lady Falcon Invitational Sept. 28-29...also carded an 84 in the final round of the Falcon Invite...was 37th at the Bethune-Cookman Spring Invitational Feb. 22-23 (98-93=191)...carded an 85 to finish eighth at the Bash at the Beach on Mar. 18...earned Embry-Riddle academic honor roll for fall 2002.

High School: 2002 graduate of Westminster Academy in Ft. Lauderdale...four-year letterwinner and three-year starter for the Lions...three-time state tournament qualifier, finishing in the top-10 on each occasion...Most Improved Player in 1999...National Honor Society honoree.

Personal: Majoring in Business Administration..born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on April 12, 1984...daughter of Tim and Vickie Garza...Fort Lauderdale Debutante 2001...honor roll at ERAU.

Historical Player Information

  • 2004Junior

    PLAYER
    5'4"
  • 2005Senior

    PLAYER
    5'4"