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Jessica Spicer Season 2020-21

ClassGraduate Student
HometownBahama, N.C.

2021 Season: Compiled a 76.67 scoring average ... Tied for 14th at the Clemson Invitational with a 3-over 219 ... Fired a 3-under 69 in the final round of the Clemson Invitational ... All-ACC Academic Team honoree for second time in career.

Fall 2020 Season (Individual): Finished fifth among women at the GCAA Pinehurst Amateur, tying for 32nd overall in coed event ... Tied for eighth at the Women's Griffin Amateur at Grandover Resort ... Tied for 28th at the 2020 Golfweek Caledonia Amateur Women's Tournament. 

2019-20 Season: Winner of the 2019 Virginia Tech Female Athlete of the Year, given annually by the athletics department ... Named a 2020 WGCA All-American Scholar ... 2019-20 VaSID Academic All-State ... Third on the team in scoring average and Crunch Time scoring average ... Posted her best career finish in the final event of the shortened 2019-20 season, tying for third at the Gators Invitational ... Her 67 in the second round of the Gators Invitational is her career-best round ... Tied for sixth at The Landfall Tradition, posting three rounds of par-or-better ... Also has top 25s at Minnesota Invitational and Princess Anne Invitational. 

2018-19 Season: Named to 2019 WGCA All-American Scholar team ...Named to 2019 All-ACC Academic Women’s Golf team ... ... Named to 2018-19 ACC Academic Honor Roll ...Third on the team in scoring average during the season, at 74.80 …Tied for ninth at the season-opening Minnesota Invitational ... Her opening-round 2-under 70 was her career-low round ... Finished 17th at the Alexa Stirling Invitational ... Fourth on the Virginia Tech career scoring list, at 75.83.

Summer 2019: Won 2019 93rd Carolinas Women’s Amateur Championship ... Finished second, teamed with her sister and Hokie teammate, Sarah, at the 42nd Carolinas Women’s Four-Ball Championship ... Advanced to the quarterfinals of the 22nd Carolina Women’s Match Play Championship ... Advanced to Round of 32 at 117th Women’s North & South Amateur ... Member of winning team at 63rd Women’s Virginias-Carolinas Matches.

2017-18 Season: Fourth on the team in scoring average … Had her best tournament of the season by finishing 16th at the Lady Paladin Invitational in the fall ... Finished 17th at the Brickyard Collegiate in April ... Took the Hokies' first-ever shot in NCAA Regional competition in the opening round of the 2018 NCAA Austin Regional in Austin, Texas ... Named to ACC Honor Roll ... Named a WGCA All-American Scholar.

2016-17 Season: Competed in 10 events for the Hokies … Recorded one top 10 and an additional top 20 finish, finishing in eighth place at the Starmount Fall Classic and 20th at the Greenville Regional Preview … Played to par once … Carded a low round of 71 in the first 18 holes of play at the Greenville Regional Preview … Fourth on the team in scoring average and Crunch Time average..

High School: Was a two-time letter winner at Northern Durham … Earned all-conference honors for two consecutive seasons … Received first team all-state recognition three years in a row … Was named the Durham Sports Club Scholar-Athlete her senior year … Was an honor roll student, ranking fifth in her graduating class.

Amateur Golf: Won the 2017 North Carolina State Amateur … Competed, with her sister and teammate, Sarah, in the 2017 USGA Four-Ball Championship … Advanced to the semifinals of the 2017 Carolinas Women’s Match Play Championship … Advanced to match play before falling in the Round of 16 at the North & South Amateur Championship at Pinehurst #2 … Competed for the Carolinas team in the 2017 Virginias/Carolinas matches ... Finished fourth at the 2020 VSGA Women's Stroke Play Championship at Kingsmill ... Won the 2021 VSGA Women's Stroke Play Championship, firing a 217 to win the title by two strokes.

Personal: Born Oct. 29, 1997 … Daughter of Michael and Maria Spicer … Has a twin sister, Sarah, who also plays golf for the Hokies … Competed with the community’s synchronized ice skating team for eight years … Qualified for the 2010 U.S. Synchronized Skating National Championship, placing 12th … Majoring in cognitive and behavioral neuroscience and psychology.