Marissa Dodd

Class:
Junior
High School:
Allen
Hometown:
Allen, Texas

2014-15 Tournament Results
2013-14 Tournament Results
2012-13 Tournament Results

2014-15 (Senior)
Shot a 224 with scores of 74-74-75 at the Cougar Classic, tying for 48th and helping Wake Forest to a sixth-place finish in the tournament...Finished 41st at the Lady Paladin Invitational with a 228 overall score, helping Wake Forest finish second in the tournament...Had her best performance of the fall at the Lady Tarheel Invitational, posting a 1-under 215 and finishing fifth overall...Shot a 6-over 222 at the Landfall Tradition, finishing tied 41st with teammate Mariana Sims and helping Wake Forest win the overall tournament...Improved in each round of the Northrup Grumman Regional Challenge, finishing 74th overall...Finished in the top 10 at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate and helped Wake Forest to a top five finish in the event...Earned a top 20 finish at the LSU Tiger Golf Classic, shooting 10-over for the tournament, giving the Deacons another top five finish...Finished just outside the top 20 at the Bryan National Collegiate, shooting a 12-over 228 and helping Wake Forest finish second overall...Again finished just outside the top 20 at the ACC Championships, part of a third place finish for the Deacons in the event.

2013-14 (Junior)
Played in all 10 events and finished with a 76.48 scoring average ... Over 73 percent of her rounds counted towards the team score ... Was second on the team with a total of 61 birdies made ... Had a pair of top-20 finishes ... Started the year off well with a 68 in the opening round of the Cougar Classic ... Finished tied for 13th at the Cougar Classic, her best finish of the year, after carding rounds of 68-75-74 (+1) ... Was tied for 58th at the Mason Rudolph Classic ... Rebounded after a tough opening round at the Lady Tar Heel with rounds of 73-74 to finish tied for 60th at 11-over par ... Finished the fall with rounds of 78-74-80 (+16) at the Landfall Tradition and finished tied for 47th ... Carded rounds of 78-78-74 (+14) to open the spring at the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge ... Was tied for 31st at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate after posting rounds of 75-79-70 (+11) ... Fired a second round 73 at the Bryan National Collegiate and finished tied for 50th ... Played in front of family and friends at the SMU/Dallas Invitational and finished tied for 16th after rounds of 79-72 in the rain-shortened event ... Carded rounds of 82-77-76 (+22) at the ACC Championship and finished tied for 41st ... Finished the year by tying for 79th at the NCAA West Regional.

2012-13 (Sophomore)
Played in all 10 events and led the team with a 75.5 scoring average ... Had a team-high 91 percent of her rounds count towards the team score ... Posted four rounds at par or better including three rounds of 1-under 71 ... Had a team-high three top-20 finishes ... Carded rounds of 74-77-73 at the season-opening Cougar Classic and finished tied for 59th at 8-over par ... Shot three solid rounds of 75-75-78 to finish tied for 23rd at the Mason Rudolph Challenge ... Posted three rounds of 79-78-76 at the Lady Tar Heel Invitational ... Shot an 81 at the rain-shortened Landfall Tradition ... Opened the spring with rounds of 76-77-77 at the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge to finish tied for 44th ... Fired a second round 71 at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate ... Had a career-best finish of tied for seventh at the LSU Golf Classic after points rounds of 76-72-77 ... Opened the Bryan National Collegiate with a career-low tying 1-udner 71 en route to finishing tied for 28th ... Led the team at the ACC Championship with rounds of 76-73-78 and finished tied for 10th ... Closed the year with rounds of 78-71-75 to finish tied for 50th at the NCAA Central Regional.

2011-12 (Freshman)
Played in nine of the 10 events and finished tied for third on the team with a 76.9 scoring average ... Over 80 percent of her rounds counted towards the team score and she had two rounds at or under par ... Made a team-best three eagles on the year ... Only two of her 14 rounds during the spring were in the 80s ... Recorded the team's only hole-in-one in just her second collegiate round ... Opened the season with rounds of 77-75-74 at the Cougar Classic, which included a hole-in-one during the second round ... Shot rounds of 80-80-82 and finished 75th at the Windy City Classic ... Posted the first under-par round of her career in the second round of the Lady Tar Heel Invitational ... Carded rounds of 80-71-75 at the Tar Heel event ... Closed the fall with rounds of 76-82-79 and finished tied for 45th at the Landfall Tradition ... Shot rounds of 75-80 at the Darius Rucker Invitational ... Shot an 80 in the opening round of the Liz Murphey Collegiate, which would end-up being her last round in the 80s for the season ... Went on to finish tied for 66th at the LMCC ... Posted her lone top-10 of the year at the Bryan National Collegiate after rounds of 73-76-72 left her in a tie for ninth at 5-over par ... Opened the ACC Championship with a solid round of 73 and finished tied for 25th after rounds of 78-79 ... Played solid at the NCAA East Regional, posting rounds of 74-79-74 and finishing tied for 59th.

Summer 2011
Shot a 77 to advance to the USGA Women's Amateur Publinks ... Qualified for match play at the Amateur Publinks as the No. 31-seed with rounds of 78-76 ... Won consecutive 1-up matches, the second of which came over the No. 2-seed Emilie Burger ... Outlasted Stanford's Sally Watson in the quarterfinals and UCLA's Tiffany Lua in the semifinals to reach the championship match ... Led for most of the final match against UCLA's Brianna Do, but would finish runner-up, falling 1-down ... Shot a pair of 75s in the stroke-play portion of the U.S. Amateur but missed the match play cut by one shot.

Background
Full name is Marissa Nicole Dodd ... Daughter of Mark and Stacie Dodd ... Born in Littleton, Colo., on Sept. 20, 1993 ... Earned a total of four varsity letters at Allen High School in Allen, Texas ... Played for coach Karen Gravley ... Was the Texas 5A State runner-up as a junior ... Earned All-District, All-Region and All-State honors ... Has been selected as a Super Academic All-American Athlete each of her first three seasons ... Shot a 72 and won her US Girls Junior qualifier this past summer by six shots over the nearest competitor ... Advanced to match play of the 2010 US Girls Junior at the Country Club of North Carolina ... Finished in the top-3 at both the AJGA Calloway Gardens and Aspen Opens in 2010 ... Has won a total of five high school tournaments ... Had a competitive scoring average of 75.3 from the fall of 2009 to July of 2010 ... Was the No. 15-ranked girls junior in the state of Texas according to juniorgolfscoreboard.com at the time of her signing ... Is a member of the National Honor Society and received both the Mathematic and Biology Awards ... Her father Mark Dodd played soccer at Duke and was a member of the US National Team ... He was named the MLS' first Goalkeeper of the Year in 1996 ... Her mother Stacie is a graduate of NC State ... Has one sister, Allison ... High school teammate Jessa LaBarbera signed to play collegiate golf at Colorado State.