Mia Sandtorv Lussand

AWARDS/HONORS

• Second Team All-SEC (2024)
• SEC All-Freshman Team (2023)
• WGCA Scholar All-American (2023, 2024)
• SEC Academic Honor Roll (2023, 2024)

2024-25

• T-12^th in stroke play at The Women’s Amateur Championship (June 24-29) to advance to match play for the first time in her career over the summer ; won 1-up in the round of 64 and fell 2&1 in the round of 32

2023-24

• Earned Second Team All-SEC honors helping the team to four victories and the program’s fourth-straight appearance at the NCAA Championship
• Registered a 73.61 scoring average with five top-20 finishes and three top-10s ; her 13 rounds of par or better in 28 rounds played were second on the team behind only First Team All-American Louise Rydqvist ; went 4-3-1 in match play
• T-17^th at the SEC Championship (April 12-14) helping the team earn the top seed for match play ; shot 213 (+3) with an opening round 69 (-1) en route to her second straight top-20 finish at the conference tournament ; defeated LSU’s Latanna Stone 2&1 in the match play quarterfinals
• Went 2-0-1 in the inaugural Old Barnwell Derby Matchplay (March 25-26) to help propel the team to its fourth win of the season
• T-8^th at the Valspar Augusta Invitational (March 8-10), shooting 214 (-2) with scores of 70-70-74
• Opened the spring with a strong showing at the San Diego State Classic (Feb. 12-13) as she T-10^th to help lead the team to its third win of the season
• Won 5&4 in the semifinals at the Therese Hession Regional Challenge (Feb. 3-5) as the Gamecocks took down defending NCAA Champion and top-ranked Wake Forest, 4-1
• Had a career-best T-7^th finish in the stroke play portion of the Jackson T. Stephens Cup (Oct. 9-10) to lead the team ; shot 213 (-3) with scores of 70-70-73
• T-16^th at the Blessings Collegiate Invitational (Oct. 2-4), her first top-20 of the season ; shot 147 (+3) in shortened tournament due to weather

2022-23

• Became the 13^th player under head coach Kalen Anderson to earn SEC All-Freshman honors after putting together a solid first-year campaign in Garnet & Black
• Logged a 74.30 scoring average in nine stroke play starts ; had a trio of top-20 finishes, one top-10 and six rounds of par better on the year
• Finished T-55^th at the NCAA Championship (May 19-23) with a 72-hole score of 295 (+7) ; shot 69 (-3) in round two of the event, helping the team break the NCAA finals scoring record with a team total of 276 (-12) ; helped the team punch its ticket to match play for the first time since 2016 and break the 72-hole team scoring record by nine shots ; fell 3&2 in the match play quarterfinals to Southern Cal’s Catherine Park, 3&2
• Finished T-16^th at the NCAA Athens Regional (May 8-10) after shooting 220 (+4) ; helped the team to a runner-up finish and punch its ticket to a third consecutive NCAA Championship
• Paced Carolina at the SEC Championship (April 12-14) finishing T-10^th thanks to a 54-hole total of 219 (+3) ; was a career best finish ; went 2-0 in match play with a 4&3 win over Auburn’s Anna Foster in the quarterfinals and a 1-up win in 22 holes over Texas A&M’s Adela Cernousek in the semifinals
• Went 2-1 at the Wolfpack Match Play (April 3-4) to help the Gamecocks to a third-place finish
• Finished T-22^nd in a abbreviated, 36-hole Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic (March 24-26) with a score of 147 (+3)
• Went 0-1-2 at the Cactus Cup (March 13-14) helping the team to a runner-up finish
• T-30^th in a deep field at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate (Feb. 27-March 1) ; shott 220 (+7) with an opening round 70 (-2)
• Made her Gamecock debut at the ANNIKA Intercollegiate (Sept. 12-14) notched her first career top-20 with a T-19^th finish with a 54-hole total of 219 (+3)
• Competed for her native Norway at the World Am Team Championship (Aug. 24-27) ; finished 33^rd in the 166-player field with a 72-hole score of 291 (+5)

PRIOR TO SOUTH CAROLINA

• Steps on campus with a career-best WAGR ranking of 179^th
• Had 15 top-10 finishes and a pair of wins in 24 counting events played for her WAGR position
• Finished third at the 2019 R&A Girls Amateur Championship ; won her first four bouts in match play before falling 4&2 in the semifinals to Austria’s Isabella Holpfer (sophomore at Georgia now)
• Silver medalist in the Norwegian National Women Stroke Play Championship in 2021 with 2-under score over 72 holes of golf
• Winner of the U19 OoM for Girls in Norway (2019, 2021)
• Winner OoM for Women in Norway (2019)
• Had a pair of top-20 finishes in 2021 playing in several LET Access Series events (professional golf tour and development tour to the Ladies European Tour)
• Holds seven course records in Norway ; career best 54-hole score is 17-under
• Chose South Carolina over Texas, TCU, Oklahoma State and Southern Cal

PERSONAL

• Born on October 7, 2003
• Daughter of Tor Ove Lussand and Elin Sandtorv – has an older sister (Malene), older brother (Mathias) and a younger sister (Marie)
• Sport and entertainment management major