Elizabeth Burden Class: Senior Hometown: Lake Bluff, Ill. High School: Lake Forest Height: 5-7 Birthdate: 08/08/1981

Career: Closes her career first on NU’s all-time scoring average list (77.5) ... Gained a tremendous amount of respect at the amateur level ... Finished as the runner-up at the 2002 Trans Amateur ... Second NU golfer to earn three All-Big Ten honors (first or second team).

2002-03: Led team in eight of the season’s 10 tournaments, earning four top-10 finishes and three more in the top-20 ... Named second-team All-Big Ten and Academic All-Big Ten ... Team’s Big Ten Sportsmanship Award honoree … Finished 59th at the NCAA Regional Championships at Firethorn Golf Club (Neb.) ... Placed third at the Central District Invitational and the Lady Buckeye Spring Invitational ... Shot her best tournament total of the year, a 5-over 224, to finish sixth at the Lady Northern, including a 1-under, second-round 72 ... Tied for seventh with a 9-over 301 at the Big Ten Championships after firing an even-par 73 and a 1-under 72 in the final two rounds ... Garnered top-20 finishes at the Mason Rudolph Championships (13th), the Shoot-out at the Legends (14th) and the Lady Boilermaker (16th) ... Shot five rounds of par or better during the season ... Her first 15 rounds of the season were in the 70s.

2001-02: Ranked in Golf World’s top 50 list for “College Players to Watch” ... Best finish of the year came at the Baylor-Tapatio Springs Shootout, where she placed 20th … Also had good showings in the final two regular-season events: 28th place at the Lady Buckeye Spring Invitational and 28th at the Big Ten Championships … Her best round of the year came at the conference tourney with a 1-over 73 in the second round … With the exeption of two events (Bryan National Collegiate and NCAA Central Regional), placed in the top 44 of the other nine tournaments ... Academic All-Big Ten.

2000-01: An All-Big Ten and Academic All-Big Ten performer ... Finished a close second to Emily Gilley in stroke average with a figure of 76.68, three-one hundreths behind Gilley ... Top finish came at the Central District Classic where she placed fourth ... Posted a three-round-best score of 225 (sixth-place finish) at the USF/Waterlefe Invitational ... During the summer, won the championship flight of the Illinois Women’s State Amateur in Peoria, Ill. ... Advanced to match play (64-player field) at the U.S. Women’s Amateur championship in Wichita, Kan.

1999-2000: Named to the All-Big Ten team … Finished 34th at the NCAA Championships … Competed in all 12 tournaments finishing second on the team with a 77.46 stroke average … Stroke average of 77.46 is second on single-season stroke average list … Tied for fourth on NU’s top-54 hole performance record list shooting a 224 at the NCAA East Regional ... Shot a 72 in the first round of the East Regionals … Advanced to match play of the 2000 U.S. Women’s Amateur.

High School: Third-place finish at Illinois State high school championships … Championship flight qualifier at Junior Girls Western … Maxfli PGA Junior Qualifying champion … USGA Junior girls qualifier … Eighth-place finish at AJGA Midwestern Junior.

Personal: Born Elizabeth Tate Burden on 8/8/81 … Daughter of Joseph and Melinda Burden … Psychology major.

Burden's Career Statistics

Year         Rounds     Strokes     Average     Low
1999-00      37         2866        77.5        72
2000-01      34         2607        76.7        73
2001-02      31         2464        79.5        73
2002-03      33         2529        76.6        72
TOTALS       135        10466       77.5        72

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