Video Tribute: The CMS Women's Golf Class of 2021
As part of NCAA Division III week (Apr. 5-11), we will be honoring the senior classes for all 21 of our varsity sports. A number of our student-athletes elected to take a semester or a school year off and could return to action next season, but we have chosen to honor the senior classes as they would have been, without the COVID-19 interruption. The members of the Class of 2021 lost so much of what they had built towards in their first 2-3 years of competition when the pandemic hit, but still clearly left their mark on CMS Athletics.
CLAREMONT, Calif. - The CMS Women's Golf Class of 2021 won just about everything they possibly could have in their two full seasons, winning a pair of SCIAC Championships and helping to capture the first NCAA title in the program's young history in 2018.
The national championship was won in dramatic fashion, as CMS and Williams tied for first place after 72 holes. The first playoff hole still didn't decide it, so the teams went back to the 18th for a third time in a span of less than an hour, and the Athenas captured the title when a Williams putt, which would have meant a third playoff hole, stayed on the lip of the cup.
The Class of 2021 added another SCIAC title as sophomores in 2019 and had a solid run at repeating as champions, entering the final round in striking distance in third place, but settled for a fourth-place finish. The Athenas were ranked in the top 10 in the nation in 2020 when spring sports were suspended, leaving this year's senior class without the chance to try for a matching ring to go with the ones they earned as first-years.
The three members of the CMS Women's Golf Class of 2021 are as follows:
Emily Attiyeh (Lafatette, Calif. - CMC, Economics)
Attiyeh earned WGCA Third-Team All-America honors after her abbreviated junior season, when she started off the year with a fourth-place finish at the Redlands Invitational. She was second-team All-SCIAC as a first-year and first-team as a sophomore, competing at nationals both years for the Athenas. She had a key par on the decisive playoff hole in the 2018 NCAA Championships to give CMS a one-stroke lead, and tied for fourth at the 2019 SCIAC Championships, after shooting a career-best 69 in the final round of the second SCIAC regular season tournament. A WGCA All-American Scholar and SCIAC All-Academic team selection as an economics major at Claremont McKenna, Attiyeh currently holds a full-time consulting analyst position with Deloitte after interning at Wells Fargo last summer. She also serves as a financial analyst for Claremont Women in Business.
Camille Simon (New Orleans, La. - HMC, Computer Science and Mathematics)
Simon had a strong showing at the 2018 SCIAC Championships, coming in 18th place with a low round of 76 in the second round. She had a career-best 75 to come in seventh place in a dual with Redlands as a sophomore, and earned a 79 on the second day of the first (and last) SCIAC regular season tournament as a junior before the shut down of spring sports. A dual major at Harvey Mudd in computer science and mathematics, she was a dean's list student and a recipient of the Harvey Mudd President's Scholarship. Simon has had two software engineering internships with Facebook, and worked on campus as a grader and tutor, assisting students with the Introduction to Computer Science course, and is also a member of Mudders Making a Difference (MMAD).
Mira Yoo (Lafayette, Calif. - CMC, Economics and Psychology)
Yoo was a first-team All-America selection from the Women's Golf Coaches Association as a sophomore. She was also All-West Region as a first-year, when she captured the SCIAC Newcomer of the Year Award. Her chip-in on the 17th hole of the NCAA Championships in 2018 helped force a playoff to give CMS its first-ever national championship, while finishing sixth in the individual competition. She also finished third in both SCIAC Championships she participated in, while her 68 on the second round of her first collegiate event (the CMS Invitational) is a school record for the lowest individual round. An economics and psychology major at CMC, Yoo is a financial analyst for Claremont Women in Business and the Asian Pacific-American Mentor Club (APAM), and is an incoming associate for Semler Brossy Consulting Group.