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4 days ago
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Former golf phenom Lucy Li graduates from Ivy League school with 4.0 while playing on LPGA
Remember when 11-year-old Lucy Li captivated crowds at Pinehurst more than a decade ago with her ruffled skirts and ice cream? The big-brained phenom is all grown up now and playing her third full season on the LPGA. While Rose Zhang's academic schedule gets a lot of ink, Li's college career didn't get as much attention, but the end results are extraordinary. Li, 22, recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania summa cum laude with a 4.0 GPA. Li now boasts an LPGA card and a degree in data analytics and psychological sciences from an Ivy League institution. Li started her professional golf career around the same time she started taking online courses at Penn. Advertisement "While COVID set me back a few years in my golf career, it also gave me the time and space I needed to really dig into my pursuit of higher education," Li posted on Instagram. "It's a reminder to me that not all bad is bad, and that life will endlessly take you down funny paths and winding roads until you reach where it intended you to be. "Before anyone asks me why I did any of this to myself while already having a full time job as a pro golfer let me answer: I'm a huge nerd. I've always been driven by curiosity, love of learning, and self-improvement, both on and off the course. It's been an honor and privilege to continue that journey at Penn. I am now armed with a lot of useful information, better leadership and communication skills, but more importantly a lot of really interesting but mostly useless facts about a lot of different things." Lucy Li of the United States plays her shot from the second tee during the first round of The Chevron Championship 2025 at The Club at Carlton Woods on April 24, 2025 in The Woodlands, Texas. Li, who turned professional at age 17, counts Johnny Miller as a mentor and was pen pals with the late great Mickey Wright. Currently No. 78 in the world, Li has yet to contend this season and wasn't in the field at the 80th U.S. Women's Open at Erin Hills. She is playing this week at the ShopRite LPGA Classic, still searching for her first LPGA victory. This article originally appeared on Golfweek: LPGA's Lucy Li graduates from Ivy League school while playing pro golf
USA Today
4 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Former golf phenom Lucy Li graduates from Ivy League school with 4.0 while playing on LPGA
Former golf phenom Lucy Li graduates from Ivy League school with 4.0 while playing on LPGA Remember when 11-year-old Lucy Li captivated crowds at Pinehurst more than a decade ago with her ruffled skirts and ice cream? The big-brained phenom is all grown up now and playing her third full season on the LPGA. While Rose Zhang's academic schedule gets a lot of ink, Li's college career didn't get as much attention, but the end results are extraordinary. Li, 22, recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania summa cum laude with a 4.0 GPA. Li now boasts an LPGA card and a degree in data analytics and psychological sciences from an Ivy League institution. Li started her professional golf career around the same time she started taking online courses at Penn. "While COVID set me back a few years in my golf career, it also gave me the time and space I needed to really dig into my pursuit of higher education," Li posted on Instagram. "It's a reminder to me that not all bad is bad, and that life will endlessly take you down funny paths and winding roads until you reach where it intended you to be. "Before anyone asks me why I did any of this to myself while already having a full time job as a pro golfer let me answer: I'm a huge nerd. I've always been driven by curiosity, love of learning, and self-improvement, both on and off the course. It's been an honor and privilege to continue that journey at Penn. I am now armed with a lot of useful information, better leadership and communication skills, but more importantly a lot of really interesting but mostly useless facts about a lot of different things." Li, who turned professional at age 17, counts Johnny Miller as a mentor and was pen pals with the late great Mickey Wright. Currently No. 78 in the world, Li has yet to contend this season and wasn't in the field at the 80th U.S. Women's Open at Erin Hills. She is playing this week at the ShopRite LPGA Classic, still searching for her first LPGA victory.
Toronto Sun
22-05-2025
- Toronto Sun
MANDEL: Killer's mom must pay $1M for daughter's bail breach
After Lucy Li was convicted of murder, her breach charges were dropped – but prosecutors decided to still go after her sureties Get the latest from Michele Mandel straight to your inbox Lucy Li was convicted in 2024 of first-degree murder, along with her husband Oliver Karafa, for killing business associate Tyler Pratt, 39, in Stoney Creek on Feb. 28, 2021. Photo by LUCY LI / INSTAGRAM It must be a record. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. 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Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Lucy Li, the infamous 'Bonnie' of the Bonnie and Clyde-style Hamilton killer duo, is behind bars for life for the murder of the couple's former business partner – but she's still inflicting pain. In a Hamilton court last week, her hoity toity ways cost her wealthy Markham mom, Winnie Hong Wei Liao, a cool $1 million for allowing her daughter to violate her bail conditions back in 2023 while another surety, her mom's friend Nam Sook (Nancy) Bae, is on the hook for $50,000. Though why the fugitive was ever allowed bail in the first place is another story. She and her husband Oliver Karafa, an instagram- beautiful couple certain they were so clever and so entitled that they'd get away with murder, had fled to Europe after their execution of Tyler Pratt, 39, and attempted murder of his pregnant girlfriend, Jordyn Romano, 26, in 2021. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Read More Pratt was a successful drug dealer who had relocated with Romano from Vancouver to Toronto and invested half a million dollars in Karafa's business to sell PPE in Europe during the height of COVID-19. But his new friend's big plans weren't seeing the returns he'd promised and Pratt wanted his money when they were scheduled to meet March 1, 2021. Instead, Karafa and Li lured the couple to a deserted industrial park in Stoney Creek on Feb. 28, 2021, to view a warehouse they said might be perfect for a joint grow-op business. The duo were then pumped full of bullets and left to die. Pratt succumbed to his injuries while Romano lost her unborn baby but miraculously survived. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. After an international manhunt, the killers were arrested three months later in Hungary and extradited back to Canada. Karafa was held in custody, but incredibly, after a three-day bail hearing, Superior Court Justice Andrew Goodman granted Li her freedom to await trial on $2.4 million bail. 'It was a hotly-contested, bail hearing,' said lawyer Dean Paquette, who represented Bae at the bail estreatment hearing last week. 'The conditions were going to be so tight that she had no wriggle room.' Or so the judge thought. Oliver Karafa, left, and Lucy Li have been convicted of first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of drug dealer Tyler Pratt, and the attempted murder of Jordyn Romano. Photo by Hamilton Police The original plan had Li's mom pledging $2 million and her two friends posting $200,000 each. When one of them had health problems, Bae was added for another $200,000. Pacquette said Li admitted responsibility for two breaches on two successive days in May 2023: she was awaiting a meeting about a civil suit against her but when the paralegal was delayed, she and Bae went to Dragon Legend restaurant in Markham where they were joined by one of her triplet sisters and her boyfriend – a potential witness she was barred from contacting. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Tyler Pratt was the third murder in Hamilton in 2021. Photo by HANDOUT / HAMILTON POLICE The next day, still awaiting the paralegal, Li was at the Four Seasons Hotel where one of her sisters was living and went to the gym without her surety and was seen on her cellphone – again, violating the conditions of her release. She was re-arrested for breaching her bail and has been in custody ever since. After Li and Karafa were convicted of murder, her breach charges were dropped since she's already serving life. But prosecutors decided to still go after her sureties. Lucy Li was convicted in 2024 of first-degree murder, along with her husband Oliver Karafa, for killing business associate Tyler Pratt, 39, in Stoney Creek on Feb. 28, 2021. Photo by Lucy Li / Instagram Pacquette said Li filed an affidavit admitting she violated the terms of her release and deceived and manipulated Bae, who agreed to forfeit $50,000, Li's mom, head of Respon International Group, a Markham life-insurance firm, was in Vancouver on business at the time of the breaches, Paquette said, and agreed to forfeit $1 million. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Liao's lawyer didn't respond to a request for comment but her friend's lawyer could guess how the mom feels. Lucy Li was convicted in 2024 of first-degree murder, along with her husband Oliver Karafa, for killing business associate Tyler Pratt, 39, in Stoney Creek on Feb. 28, 2021. Photo by Yun (Lucy) Lu Li / INSTAGRAM 'I think she's probably not very happy – not only is her daughter a convicted murderer, she's just cost her a million dollars. I'd be pretty pissed off,' Paquette said. 'She didn't care about risking her mother's assets by being selfish and foolhardy and thinking you're going to get away with it.' It's been a rough time for Li's mom – in February, a disciplinary tribunal in British Columbia cancelled her life, accident and sickness insurance licence for five years and ordered her to pay a $25,000 fine for using false documents to contend that she had an MBA from York University. And as for her troublemaking daughter, she's appealing her murder conviction. mmandel@ Toronto Maple Leafs Hockey Editorial Cartoons World Tennis
