Takahashi Earns Big Ten Golfer of the Week Award

Nebraska senior Miu Takahashi was named the Big Ten Women’s Golfer of the Week when the conference announced its honor on Thursday, March 20.

Takahashi was the top finisher from the Big Ten Conference at the Spring Break Shootout in Dade, City, Fla., taking fifth with a three-round total of 215 (+2), March 17-18.

The senior from Nasu-machi, Japan, closed the 54-hole tournament with a 73 (+2) on the 6,049-yard layout of the Lake Jovita Golf Club-South in Tuesday's final round. It followed a second-round 70 (-1), after Takahashi opened with a 72 (+1) in Monday's first round. She played solid golf from start to finish for the Big Red with 39 pars, seven birdies, seven bogeys and one double-bogey in the tournament.

It was Takahashi's first top-10 finish of the season and sixth of her Husker career, while she helped Nebraska to its first top-five team finish of the season. Takahashi owns a 74.79 stroke average over 24 rounds this season. She also carries the No. 3 stroke average in school history 74.82.