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Kobe Valociek Season 2022-23

ClassJunior
HometownPeoria, Ariz.
High SchoolLiberty HS

2023-24 Season
• Team-best 72.38 scoring average
• Earned a spot in the NCAA's Austin Regional, contested at The University of Texas Golf Club
• Carded a team-best 16 par-or-better rounds
• Fired a season-best, 6-under 66 in the final round of the Steelwood Collegiate en route to medalist honors at 11-under 205 (70-69-66)
• Charted four top-20 showings while finishing three events in red figures
• Tied for sixth at the Visit Knoxville Collegiate behind a 6-under 204 (67-67-70)

2022-23 Season
• Second on the team with a 72.97 scoring average
• Recorded two top-20 showings, including a tie for fourth at the Battle at Briar's Creek with a 3-under 213 (72-73-68)
• Finished three tournaments in red figures, twice posting -3
• Tied for 15th at the Lewis Chitengwa Memorial with a 3-under 210 (68-71-71); recorded a hole-in-one in the first round at the par-3 17th (his second hole of the day)
• Charted 11 par-or-better rounds – second-most on the team
• Season-low 66 (-5) came in the second round of the Furman Intercollegiate
• All-ACC Academic Team
• GCAA All-America Scholar

2021-22 Season
• Competed in seven events and achieved his first career top-5 finish
• Recorded a scoring average of 72.96
• Tied for fourth at the Old Town Club Collegiate where he shot 9-under 201 while tallying 12 birdies and his first career hole-in-one
• Competed as an individual at the Wolfpack Intercollegiate where he tied for 29th at 2-over 218
• Tied for 27th at the Palmetto Intercollegiate with an 8-over 218
• Competed at the ACC Championship where he tied for 50th (7-over 223) and recorded an eagle

2021 Season
• Competed twice as an individual, finishing with a 74.67 scoring average
• Tied for 20th at the Oldfield Invitational with a 6-over 222

Junior Golf/High School
• Honor student and member of the National Honor Society at Liberty High School
• 2019 AJGA Scholastic Honor Roll member and a four-year recipient of the Liberty High School Academic Award
• Four-year letterwinner
• Individual district champion 2019, firstteam all-section
• As a junior player, was the winner of the 2019 Junior Golf Association of Arizona's PING Invitational with rounds of 65-63
• Tied for 15that 202 FBGA-PING Junior Masters
• Earned top five finishes at the JGAA Fall Classic and the AJGA Under Armour/Alison Lee Championship
 
Personal
• Son of Lisa and Dave Valociek
• Has two younger siblings, Kaden and Karson
• Plans to major in business