2015-16 Women's Golf Roster
Roster
Tobia-Palza, Luciana

Luciana Tobia-Palza
- Height:
- 5-2
- Class:
- First Year
- Hometown:
- La Paz, Bolivia
- High School:
- IMG Academy
Bio
As a Senior in 2018-19
- MAAC All-Academic Team
- Competed in 25 rounds
- Averaged a score 78.28
- Shot a season-best 73 at the Delaware Invitational, finishing 19th overall
- Recorded her best placement at the MAAC Championship, finishing 3rd overall
- All-MAAC selection
- MAAC All-Academic Team
- Averaged a 77.96 over 25 rounds to rank third on the team
- Finished the year with a terrific effort at the MAAC Championships, earning the silver with a 76-76-75-227
- Also began the year with a second-place finish, scoring a 65-76-141 at the Dartmouth Invitational, setting a program record for low round on the first day
- Was third at the Saint John's Invitational with a 77-77-154
- Came in sixth at the Low Country Intercollegiate with a 77-75-152
- Finished the year with 41 birdies
- Averaged a team best score of 79.50 in 26 rounds of all 11 tournaments, all good for team best
- Shot an even 72 in the 3rd round of the Spring Break Shootout on March 14, 2017
- Shot a season best 54-hole score of 238 (+22) at the Spring Break Shootout as well
- Had a team best 5 top 10 finishes as well as 4 top 5 finishes
- Placed 2nd in the Hartford Women's Invitational on April 14-15, 2017 with a season best 36-hole score of 153 (+9)
- MAAC Player of the Year
- MAAC Rookie of the Year
- All-MAAC First Team
- MAAC Academic Honor Roll
- Two-time MAAC Golfer of the Week
- March ECAC Women’s Golf Rookie of the Month
- Led the team with a 79.10 average in 29 rounds in 12 tournaments – good for the second-best season average in program history
- Was one of two players to play in all 12 of Quinnipiac tournaments
- Her 29 rounds played are the second-most in a single-season in program history
- Was one of two golfers last season to have 100% of her scores in a single-season count
- Broke the program single-season and freshman record with 44 birdies
- Three tournaments wins (DSU Hornets Invitational, Hartford Invitational, MAAC Championship) in a single-season were a program record
- Broke the program single-round record with a 70 (-2) on the second day of the Dartmouth Invitational
- Led the team in first round average (79.18), last round average (79.50), Par 3 scoring (3.37) and Par 4 scoring (4.43)
- Averaged a team-high 9.52 pars per round
- Posted a team-leading .793 fairways hit percentage, good for 75th nationally
- Posted the third-best national scoring rating (939) in program history
- Her 74 for the second round of the MAAC Championship is the 11th best 18-hole round in program history
- Her 150 (+6) at the MAAC Championship was the sixth-best round in program history, while her 152 (+8) at the Navy Fall Invitational and her 153 (+9) at the Hartford Invitational ranked ninth and 10th all-time, respectively
- Her 225 (+9) at the MAAC Championship broke the program record for the best 54-hole score in program history
- Attended IMG Academcy
- Ranked as the No. 1 girl's golfer in Bolivia, and 180th in her class of 800 and 284th out of 2,588 female scholastic golfers after posting a 78.65 per-round average as s junior in 2014
- Had four top-10 finishes as a junior in 2014, highlighted by a third place finish at Marriott's Grand Pine Golf Tournament
- Daughter of Ana and Jose Tobia
- Has one brother, Mateo
- Undecided major
- Born in La Paz, Bolivia
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