Vairana Heck

AWARDS/HONORS

• Second Team All-SEC (2024)
• SEC All-Freshman Team (2024)
• WGCA Scholar All-American (2025, 2024)
• SEC Academic Honor Roll (2025, 2024)
• 4-6-1 career record in match play

2024-25 (SOPHOMORE)

• Saw action in 10 tournaments with eight stroke play appearances ; logged a 74.13 scoring average with a trio of top-20 finishes
• Helped the Gamecocks to four wins and a final Clippd ranking of No. 5 ; finished No. 162 in the Clippd Player Rankings
• Competed as an individual at the ECU Ironwood Invitational (March 31-April 1) ; shot 224 (+8) and finished T-12^th ; was her final appearance of the season as she served as the team’s sixth-player substitute all of the postseason
• Went 1-1 at the Old Barnwell Derby Matchplay (March 17-18) with a 2&1 victory over Virginia’s Amanda Sambach in the quarterfinals
• T-13^th at the Jackson T. Stephens Cup (Oct. 21-22) helping the team advance to the match play portion of the event ; her match vs. Wake Forest’s Anne-Sterre den Dunnen finished AS
• T-18^th at the Windy City Collegiate Classic (Sept. 30-Oct. 1) with a 54-hole total of 224 (+8)

2023-24 (FRESHMAN)

• Had a standout first season in Garnet & Black earning Second Team All-SEC honors while also being named to the SEC All-Freshman Team
• Started all 10 stroke play events with five top-20 finishes and a pair of top-10s ; logged the third-lowest scoring average on the team at 73.10 with 10 rounds of par or better
• Helped the team to four wins and a No. 6 final Clippd ranking ; finished No. 104 in the Clippd Player Rankings
• Shot 227 (+11) in her NCAA Championship debut (May 17-19) with scores of 78-73-76 ; team missed the top-15 cut
• Finished T-40^th at the NCAA Auburn Regional (May 6-8) helping the team punch its ticket to a fourth-straight NCAA Championship
• T-17^th at the SEC Championship (April 12-14) helping the Gamecocks earn the No. 1 seed for match play ; shot three consecutive 71s at Pelican Golf Club for a 54-hole total of 213 (+3) ; fell 2&1 to LSU’s Taylor Riley in the match play quarterfinals
• Went 1-2 in her matches as the Gamecocks won the inaugural Old Barnwell Derby Matchplay (March 25-26)
• T-17^th at the Valspar Augusta Invitational (March 8-10) with a 54-hole total of 216 (E)
• T-10^th at in helping the team to victory at the San Diego State Classic (Feb. 12-13)
• Went 2-1 in her matches at the Therese Hession Regional Challenge (Feb. 3-5) en route to helping the Gamecocks to a team win
• Impressed in her Gamecock debut with a T-9^th finish that helped the team to a wire-to-wire win in a loaded field at the ANNIKA Intercollegiate (Sept. 11-13) ; shot 210 (-6) with scores of 69-73-68
• Played for France at the European Ladies’ Team Championship (July 11-15) in Finland

PRIOR TO SOUTH CAROLINA

• One of the top players in France, ranked in the top-150 of the World Amateur Golf Rankings
• Member of the French National Girls Team and the French National Ladies Team
• Was one of three chosen to represent France in the 2022 World Amateur Team Championship this past September
• Medalist at the 2022 European Girls Team Championship in Iceland
• Runner-up at the 2022 Jr. Girls’ Orange Bowl Championship
• Took second at the 2021 Portuguese International Amateur Championship
• Part of the winning European side at the 2021 PING Junior Solheim Cup at Sylvania Country Club in Sylvania, Ohio ; won her singles match 2&1

PERSONAL

• Daughter of Stanislas Heck and Marie-Delphine Sauval – has an older brother, Emerson
• Chose USC because of the facilities, coaches and overall atmosphere around the program
• Picked the Gamecocks over Florida, Kentucky, Miami, TCU and UCLA
• Sport and entertainment management major