2023-24 Women's Golf Roster
Kuehn, Rachel
Rachel Kuehn
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- High School:
- Asheville School
- Hometown:
- Asheville, N.C.
Bio
Career Highlights
Owns the lowest four-year career scoring average in program history with a 71.19 and the lowest five-year scoring average in program history with a 71.10 over 136 rounds of stroke play...owns the fourth-lowest single season scoring average with a 70.78 in her senior campaign in 22-23...won her seventh adn eighth individual career titles at the ACC Championship in April and the NCAA Regional in May...eight career wins is third-most in program history...became the first known mother-daughter duo to win the ACC individual title in April (her mother Brenda won the individual title in 1986)...recorded two more top-5 finishes in addition to her two wins at the Schooner Classic (T3) and the Moon Golf Invitational (T4)...finished T6 at the East Lake Cup with a single-round score of 72...was the only player to have all 31 rounds of her season count toward the team total at every event...was one of just two players to compete in every single event of the year...26 of her 32 rounds in her final season were even or under par...was named the ACC Golfer of the Month in April for winning the ACC individual title while helping the Deacs win their eighth ACC title in program history
2022-23 Season (Senior)
Became the first Wake Forest women's golfer in program history and just the sixth ACC women's golfer to be named the ACC Player of the Year in back-to-back seasons...first Wake Forest women's golfer since 2011 to be named the Scholar Athlete of the Year and the first player in program history to be both Player and Scholar Athlete of the Year...recorded the lowest single-season scoring average in program history with a 70.53 over 36 rounds played...won two individual titles at the Jackson T. Stephens Cup and the Nexus Collegiate...was a finalist for the ANNIKA Award presented by Stifel for the second year in a row...went undefeated in match play at NCAA Championships...finished inside the top 28 in all 12 events of the season with five top five and three more top 10 finishes...earned medalist honors at ACC Championships with a third-place finish and an eight-under score of 208...has the lowest four-year career scoring average in program history with a 71.19, but will return in 2023-24 for her final season of eligibility.
2021-22 Season (Junior)
Named ACC Player of the Year following the team's ACC title...earned All-ACC accolades...named WGCA First Team All-American...named WGCA All-American Scholar...selected to Arnold Palmer Cup Team USA...selected to Curtis Cup Team USA...finished seventh at ACC Championships...finished T2 at the NCAA Franklin Regional...led the team with a 71.18 stroke average over 33 rounds...Finished inside the top 25 of all eight regular season events as a member of the lineup...recorded five top 10 finishes that included two individual titles at the Ruth's Chris Tar Heel Invite and the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge...her 54-hole of 203 at the Northrop Grumman tied her career low...recorded a 54-hle score of 204 en route to a third place finish at the UCF Challenge...won the Ruth's Chris Tar Heel Invite with a 54-hole score of 205, the third-lowest score in tournament history...set the women's course 18-hole record at the Tar Heel with a second round score of 63, going bogey free and recording nine birdies on her way to the win...earned ACC Women's Golfer of the Month in October for her play at the Tar Heel Invite
2020-21 Season (Sophomore)
Named WGCA Second Team All-American...WGCA All-American Scholar...Named to the All-ACC Team...Selected to the Arnold Palmer Cup Team USA...Selected to Curtis Cup Team USA...lead the Deacs with a 72.27 stroke average over 22 rounds played...appeared in the lineup for all seven events of the spring...took home the individual title at the Palmetto Intercollegiate in February...recorded two more top five finishes and two other top 25 finishes...earned medalist honors at ACC Championships in April, coming in third place with a five-under score of 211
2019-20 Season (Freshman - COVID-19 Shortened Season)
In the lineup for five of seven events in the short season...finished with a team-best 71.23 stroke average...took home her first collegiate title at the ANNIKA Intercollegiate with a season-best score of 203 (-13)...finished inside the top 20 in all of her appearances...Selected to the Arnold Palmer Cup U.S. team...Named WGCA All-American First Team.
Prior to Wake Forest...
Ranked as high as No. 318 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings ... 2019 National High School Coaches Association Senior Girl’s Golf Athlete of the Year ... 2019 Western NC Division II Overall Athlete of the Year ... 2018 North Carolina Women’s Amateur Champion ... 2018 USA Today First-team All-USA member ... 2018 Western NC Division II Female Athlete of the Year – Olympic sport ... 2018 All-WNC Golfer of the Year ... 2017 Carolinas Women’s Amateur Champion ... 2017 NC Junior Player of the Year ... Three-time NCISAA High School State Champion (2016, 2017, 2018) ... 2016, 17, 18, 19 US Girls Junior (Top finish- round of 32 in 2017) ... 2017, 18, 19 AJGA Rolex Girls Championship (Top finish- T6 in 2017) ... 2016, 17, 18, 19 AJGA Polo Junior Golf Classic (Top finish- 3rd in 2019) ... 2017, 18, 19 AJGA Rolex Tournament of Champions (Top finish- T12 in 2018) ... also earned all-state honors in tennis.
Personal...
Born June 10, 2001 in Asheville, N.C. ... daughter of Eric and Brenda Kuehn ... Mother, Brenda Corrie Kuehn, was an All-American golfer for the Demon Deacons from 1984-86, winning five times her senior season and is a member of the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame ... has two siblings, Corrie and Taylor ... Corrie played collegiate golf at Rhodes College ... Grandfather, Jack Corrie, played golf and basketball at MIT ... Uncle Brad Kuehn played baseball at Georgia ... Uncle Jeff Kuehn played baseball at Furman
- 2020 WGCA First Team All-American
- 2020 Arnold Palmer Cup
- 2021 WGCA Second Team All-American
- 2021 WGCA All-America Scholar
- 2021 Arnold Palmer Cup
- 2021 Curtis Cup
- 2021 All-ACC Team
- 2022 ACC Women's Golfer of the Year
- 2022 All-ACC Team
- 2022 WGCA First Team All-American
- 2022 Arnold Palmer Cup
- 2022 Curtis Cup
- 2022 WGCA All-American Scholar
- 2023 ACC Women's Golfer of the Year
- 2023 ACC Women's Golf Scholar Athlete of the Year
- 2023 All-ACC Team
- 2023 Arnold Palmer Cup
- 2023 WGCA First Team All-American
- 2024 All-ACC Team
- 2024 Arnold Palmer Cup
- 2024 WGCA Second Team All-American
Owns the lowest four-year career scoring average in program history with a 71.19 and the lowest five-year scoring average in program history with a 71.10 over 136 rounds of stroke play...owns the fourth-lowest single season scoring average with a 70.78 in her senior campaign in 22-23...won her seventh adn eighth individual career titles at the ACC Championship in April and the NCAA Regional in May...eight career wins is third-most in program history...became the first known mother-daughter duo to win the ACC individual title in April (her mother Brenda won the individual title in 1986)...recorded two more top-5 finishes in addition to her two wins at the Schooner Classic (T3) and the Moon Golf Invitational (T4)...finished T6 at the East Lake Cup with a single-round score of 72...was the only player to have all 31 rounds of her season count toward the team total at every event...was one of just two players to compete in every single event of the year...26 of her 32 rounds in her final season were even or under par...was named the ACC Golfer of the Month in April for winning the ACC individual title while helping the Deacs win their eighth ACC title in program history
2022-23 Season (Senior)
Became the first Wake Forest women's golfer in program history and just the sixth ACC women's golfer to be named the ACC Player of the Year in back-to-back seasons...first Wake Forest women's golfer since 2011 to be named the Scholar Athlete of the Year and the first player in program history to be both Player and Scholar Athlete of the Year...recorded the lowest single-season scoring average in program history with a 70.53 over 36 rounds played...won two individual titles at the Jackson T. Stephens Cup and the Nexus Collegiate...was a finalist for the ANNIKA Award presented by Stifel for the second year in a row...went undefeated in match play at NCAA Championships...finished inside the top 28 in all 12 events of the season with five top five and three more top 10 finishes...earned medalist honors at ACC Championships with a third-place finish and an eight-under score of 208...has the lowest four-year career scoring average in program history with a 71.19, but will return in 2023-24 for her final season of eligibility.
2021-22 Season (Junior)
Named ACC Player of the Year following the team's ACC title...earned All-ACC accolades...named WGCA First Team All-American...named WGCA All-American Scholar...selected to Arnold Palmer Cup Team USA...selected to Curtis Cup Team USA...finished seventh at ACC Championships...finished T2 at the NCAA Franklin Regional...led the team with a 71.18 stroke average over 33 rounds...Finished inside the top 25 of all eight regular season events as a member of the lineup...recorded five top 10 finishes that included two individual titles at the Ruth's Chris Tar Heel Invite and the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge...her 54-hole of 203 at the Northrop Grumman tied her career low...recorded a 54-hle score of 204 en route to a third place finish at the UCF Challenge...won the Ruth's Chris Tar Heel Invite with a 54-hole score of 205, the third-lowest score in tournament history...set the women's course 18-hole record at the Tar Heel with a second round score of 63, going bogey free and recording nine birdies on her way to the win...earned ACC Women's Golfer of the Month in October for her play at the Tar Heel Invite
2020-21 Season (Sophomore)
Named WGCA Second Team All-American...WGCA All-American Scholar...Named to the All-ACC Team...Selected to the Arnold Palmer Cup Team USA...Selected to Curtis Cup Team USA...lead the Deacs with a 72.27 stroke average over 22 rounds played...appeared in the lineup for all seven events of the spring...took home the individual title at the Palmetto Intercollegiate in February...recorded two more top five finishes and two other top 25 finishes...earned medalist honors at ACC Championships in April, coming in third place with a five-under score of 211
2019-20 Season (Freshman - COVID-19 Shortened Season)
In the lineup for five of seven events in the short season...finished with a team-best 71.23 stroke average...took home her first collegiate title at the ANNIKA Intercollegiate with a season-best score of 203 (-13)...finished inside the top 20 in all of her appearances...Selected to the Arnold Palmer Cup U.S. team...Named WGCA All-American First Team.
Prior to Wake Forest...
Ranked as high as No. 318 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings ... 2019 National High School Coaches Association Senior Girl’s Golf Athlete of the Year ... 2019 Western NC Division II Overall Athlete of the Year ... 2018 North Carolina Women’s Amateur Champion ... 2018 USA Today First-team All-USA member ... 2018 Western NC Division II Female Athlete of the Year – Olympic sport ... 2018 All-WNC Golfer of the Year ... 2017 Carolinas Women’s Amateur Champion ... 2017 NC Junior Player of the Year ... Three-time NCISAA High School State Champion (2016, 2017, 2018) ... 2016, 17, 18, 19 US Girls Junior (Top finish- round of 32 in 2017) ... 2017, 18, 19 AJGA Rolex Girls Championship (Top finish- T6 in 2017) ... 2016, 17, 18, 19 AJGA Polo Junior Golf Classic (Top finish- 3rd in 2019) ... 2017, 18, 19 AJGA Rolex Tournament of Champions (Top finish- T12 in 2018) ... also earned all-state honors in tennis.
Personal...
Born June 10, 2001 in Asheville, N.C. ... daughter of Eric and Brenda Kuehn ... Mother, Brenda Corrie Kuehn, was an All-American golfer for the Demon Deacons from 1984-86, winning five times her senior season and is a member of the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame ... has two siblings, Corrie and Taylor ... Corrie played collegiate golf at Rhodes College ... Grandfather, Jack Corrie, played golf and basketball at MIT ... Uncle Brad Kuehn played baseball at Georgia ... Uncle Jeff Kuehn played baseball at Furman
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