Completed Event: Women's Golf versus The Southern on September 8, 2025 , , 5th of 13
WGOLF
Final
James Madison
vs The Southern
5th of 13
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2012-13 Women's Golf Roster
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Thiagaraj, Karishma
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Karishma Thiagaraj
- Year:
- Freshman
- Height:
- 5-7
- Hometown:
- Haymarket, Va.
- High School:
- Battlefield
- Major:
- Health Sciences
Bio
Career Highlights
- 2013 Second Team All-CAA pick
- Two top-10, five top-20 and 10 top-35 results
- Career lows of 71 (single round) and 217 (54 holes)
- Starts the spring ranking sixth in career scoring average at JMU at 77.57 strokes in 54 rounds
- Saw her lone action of the fall in the Golfweek Program Challenge, tying for 38th
- Played in six events and 18 rounds for the Dukes
- Averaged 77.22 strokes per round with one round of par or better and two top-20 and four top-30 finishes
- Posted her second career top-10 with a tie for fifth at the UNCG Starmount Classic, shooting a career-best 4-over 217
- Tied her career-best single round score with a 71 in the opening round of the UNCG tournament
- Also tied for 15th at the Lady Pirate Intercollegiate at 227
- Additionally placed in the top 30 at the Golfweek Program Challenge and Palmetto Intercollegiate
- Second Team All-CAA selection as a freshman
- Saw action in 11 of 12 tournaments and 33 rounds, averaging a solid 77.76 strokes per round with two rounds of par or better
- Had one top-10, three top-20 and six top-35 results, including four in the spring season
- Tied for 10th at the Golfweek Division I Program Challenge with a 12-over 225
- Had her best single round in the final 18 at the Golfweek Challenge, shooting an even-par 71, and in the opening round of the JMU Eagle Landing Invitational, firing a 1-under 71
- Tied for 13th at the CAA Championship to help JMU to the league title and automatic berth in the NCAAs
- Tied for 12th at the John Kirk/Panther Intercollegiate at 22-over 238.
- Tied for 16th at the JMU Eagle Landing Invitational with a season-low 7-over 223
- Finished third at the Virginia State Girls High School Championship her senior year after placing ninth as a junior
- Made the match play quarterfinals at the 2012 VSGA Women’s Amateur Championship after tying for fifth in the stroke play portion of the event
- Was the top-ranked junior golfer in the state of Virginia after posting 10 top-10 and 13 top-20 finishes in her 14 amateur tournaments in 2011, including a third place finish at the Virginia State Girls Junior event
- Also played for the Virginia-Maryland team that won the 10th Mid-Atlantic Girls’ Challenge over a team from the Carolinas, with Thiagaraj earning both of her possible points in the event
- Won the 2011 Peggy Kirk Bell Girls Golf Tour event in Cary, N.C., by three shots after ending in a three-way playoff earlier in the season at the PKB’s Masters Event
- Finished second at the 2011 AJGA Preseason Junior at St. James Plantation in North Carolina, shooting a 1-under 71 in the final round
- Was the runner-up at the 2011 Virginia High School League Girls Open Golf Championship after falling on the second playoff hole, as she shot a 36-hole total of even-par 144 (71-73), the highest finish ever for a player from Battlefield
- In 2010 earned the title at the Bobby Bowers Memorial Junior Golf Tournament
- Was the 2008 Maryland State Golf Association Girls’ Junior champion and followed it up with a fourth-place finish in 2009
- Daughter of Charles and Rajnandini Thiagaraj
- Plans to major in health sciences
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