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USA Today
13-02-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Meet the Stanford freshman who tied a school record en route to her first career victory
Meet the Stanford freshman who tied a school record en route to her first career victory Show Caption Hide Caption Video: Youngstown State's college golf practice facility WATTS Here's an inside look at Youngstown State's Watson and Tressel Training Site. It's hard to imagine Meja Ortengren could've started her college career any better. The freshman at Stanford became the first frosh to win for the Cardinal since Rose Zhang on Tuesday, taking home the title at the San Diego State Classic. Ortengren torched Bernardo Heights Country Club, finishing at 15-under 201, topping teammate Paula Martin Sampedro by eight shots for her first collegiate win. During the second round, Ortengren shot 10-under 62, which tied the program record for lowest round in relation to par. Mariah Stackhouse is the other Cardinal to achieve the feat, coming at the 2013 Peg Barnard Invitational. In three stroke-play starts coming in, Ortengren hadn't finished worse than T-5. She's ranked 10th in the NCAA golf ranking and will likely rise once the rankings update this week. She's the third Stanford player to win this season, joining Martin Sampedro and Megha Ganne. For the Cardinal, they won their fifth tournament of the year, staying undefeated on the season. Top-ranked Stanford finished at 31 under, the only team to finish under par, winning by 32 strokes. Kelly Xu (T-4) and Ganne (T-6) also had stellar tournaments, as did Nora Sundberg, who finished T-10 as an individual. Even after losing Rachel Heck and Sadie Englemann from last year's championship team, Stanford remains dominant as the spring season gets into full gear. The Cardinal have four freshmen (Ortengren, Sundberg, Leigh Chien and Andrea Revuelta) who have recorded top-10 finishes this year. Martin Sampedro, Ganne and Xu were all contributors on last season's national championship team. Stanford's depth is its strength, and it shows every tournament. To be the champs, you've got to beat the champs. And in the 2024-25 season, no one has beaten Stanford women's golf yet.
NBC Sports
11-02-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
This fabulous Stanford freshman just turned in a performance not even Rose Zhang could claim
Stanford freshman Meja Ortengren picked up her first career college victory on Tuesday at the San Diego State Classic. Only 11 more to go to catch former Cardinal superstar Rose Zhang. But Ortengren, the 20-year-old first-year player from Linkoping, Sweden, did a couple things this week at Bernardo Heights Country Club that not even Zhang could claim in her two seasons in school. For one, Ortengren beat runner-up and teammate Paula Martin Sampedro by eight shots, believed to be a Stanford record and one stroke better than Zhang's all-time best margin of victory, a pair of seven-shot victories. Secondly, Ortengren's second-round, 10-under 62 matches Mariah Stackhouse for the school record in relation to par – and is just a stroke shy of Stackhouse's 61, set at the 2013 Peg Barnard Invitational and at the time an NCAA record. (North Carolina State's Lauren Olivares posted 11-under 60 last year.) Ortengren racked up 19 birdies in 54 holes, 10 coming in her 62. She has yet to finish worse than T-5 in four college starts. And her last non-top-10 in amateur and college competition came at last year's Augusta National Women's Amateur. Once ranked ninth in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, she entered this week No. 17 and is surely poised to climb at least a few spots. Stanford – the top-ranked team in the country, still unbeaten this season and winner of six straight stroke-play event dating to last spring – shot 31 under as a team to win by 32 shots over UNLV. That is three shots shy of Stanford's program record for margin of victory, recorded at the 2022 Gunrock Invitational. In addition to Ortengren and Sampedro, Kelly Xu (T-4), Megha Ganne (T-6) and individual Nora Sundberg (T-10) posted top-10s for the Cardinal. Georgia, Oregon State and BYU rounded out the top five.
