Lene Krog

Lene Krog

Player Profile

Hometown:
Leir, Norway
College:
East Carolina

2006-07: Recorded her seventh career top-five finish at the America's Choice Mortgage Lady Jaguar Invitational with a seven over-par 151 (t-4th) ... Limited to just two events as she spent part of the fall semester participating in the Women's World Amateur Championships in South Africa ... 2005-06 (Freshman): Participated in ten events (29 rounds) in her first year at East Carolina ... Posted a single-season best stroke average of 74.52 ... Named first-team All-Conference USA and Freshman-of-the-Year ... Lone tournament title came at the 2006 C-USA Championships with an even-par score of 216 (74-72-70) ... Recorded five rounds of par or better ... Carded a career-low round of 68 in the second round of the UA-Ann Rhoads Intercollegiate which ranks as the second-best round in school history... Had three top-3 finishes, six top-5's and eight top-10's ... Named C-USA Women's Golfer-of-the-Week on Sept. 21 and March 28 ... In the NCAA East Regional she finished tied for 82nd with a score of 231 (79-72-80) ... Holds four of the top-10 low-18 hole scores and three of the low-54 holes in school history ... Finished season ranked 55th nationally by Golfstat and 77th by Golfweek ... Rated 16th-best freshman by Golfstat ... Nationally, she ranked fifth in greens in regulation according to Golfstat ...

High School: 2003 Norwegian Women's Champion and a member of the Norwegian National Team that competed in the World Amateur Championship in Puerto Rico in October of 2004 ... Finished in second place (lost in a play-off ) in the 2004 Hellenic Open in Greece ... Won twice during the summer on the Norwegian P4 Tour ... In 2003, finished third in the European Championship and fourth in the European Young Masters ... Attended school at Norges Toppidrettsymnas, which is the Norwegian School for Top Athletes ... Participated in the 2005 PING Junior Solheim Cup picking up a pair of wins for the European team.

Personal: Intended major is business ... Daughter of Tore and Margarete Krog ... Named 2006 National Golf Coaches Association (NGCA) Scholar All- American ... Recipient of the 2005-06 C-USA Commissioner's Academic Medal and C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll ... Named to ECU Director of Athletics Honor Roll three consecutive semesters (Chancellor's List) ... Currently boasts a 4.0 overall GPA.

Community Service: Helped promote safety walking to school in the "Walk to School Day"; spent time at the local animal shelter; severed BBQ dinners at the ECU letter winners dinner; worked with the "Festival for Trees" where she decorated Christmas Trees that would later be sold/donated to the Family Support Network of Eastern North Carolina, and the local canned food drive for the Food Bank of Eastern North Carolina.

Who will win this weekend's showdown between Rice and UCF for the regular season baseball championship?