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2025-26 Women's Golf Roster
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Lauren Zaretsky
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Westmount Collegiate Institute
- Hometown:
- Toronto, Canada
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS, AWARDS & HONORS
- Second Team All-Big 12 (2025-26, Sr.)
- Big 12 Golfer of the Week (Feb. 12, 2026, Sr.)
- Academic All-Big 12 Team (2024-25, Jr.)
- Second Red Raider in program history named an NCAA individual at-large selection (2023-24, So.)
- Tied the program record for lowest single round, shooting 8-under-par 64 (2023-24, So.)
- Sophomore season scoring average, 71.77, ranked No. 3 in program history on all-time Top 10 (2023-24, So.)
- Academic All-Big 12 First Team (2023-24, So.)
- WGCA All-America Scholar (2022-23, Fr.)
- Academic All-Big 12 Rookie Team (2022-23, Fr.)
AS A SENIOR (2025-2026)
- Started in the team's lineup in 12 of its 13 tournaments, missing one event due to injury
- Recorded a team-best 71.8 scoring average over 36 rounds
- Owned a 71.0 adjusted scoring average, according to Scoreboard powered by Clippd
- Closed her career with a 72.61 scoring average over 126 rounds across four seasons. Her career scoring average ranks second in program history (as of June 2026) behind Sofia Garcia's 72.24
- Named a Second Team All-Big 12 selection, marking the first postseason conference honor of her career
- Won her second career tournament title, and first since her sophomore season, at the Red Raider Invitational, Sept. 23-24, shooting 3-under-par 213 to top a field of 84 competitors
- Led Texas Tech in Top 5 finishes (3), Top 10 finishes (6) and Top 20 finishes (9)
- Compiled three Top 15 finishes in her first three events of the season and six Top 15 finishes through her first seven tournaments
- Earned Big 12 Golfer of the Week honors on Feb. 12 following a pair of Top 5 finishes to open the spring season. She tied for fifth at the Paradise Invitational, which concluded Feb. 4, and added another tie for fifth at the Thunderbird Intercollegiate, held Feb. 9-10 at Tucson Country Club
- Finished at par or better in eight of her 12 tournaments and recorded a streak of six consecutive subpar tournament finishes during the season
- Posted her season-best 54-hole score relative to par twice, shooting 6-under-par 210 at both the Sam Golden Invitational (71-71-68), Sept. 8-9, and the MountainView Collegiate (71-72-67), March 20-22
- Led Texas Tech with 23 par-or-better rounds, including a team-best 16 subpar rounds
- Carded a season-low 5-under-par 67 in the final round of the Jim West Challenge on Oct. 20 at Kissing Tree Golf Club in San Marcos, Texas. The round vaulted her 11 spots up the leaderboard and into 13th in a field of 78 after opening the tournament with consecutive rounds of 73
- Her 67 at the Jim West Challenge was one of six rounds in the 60s during the season, the most on the team
- Of her 36 team rounds, all 36 (100.0%) counted toward Texas Tech's team score
- Occupied the No. 1 position in Texas Tech's lineup for all but one event in which she competed
- Competed in her third NCAA Regional during her four-year career after appearing in the lineup at the 2023 Pullman Regional as a freshman and qualifying individually for the 2024 Las Vegas Regional as a sophomore before helping Texas Tech advance as a team to the 2026 NCAA Ann Arbor Regional
- Made her second career appearance at the NCAA Championships, closing her career at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California. She helped lead the Red Raiders to the program's fifth NCAA Championship berth by shooting 1-over-par 214 and tying for eighth at the NCAA Ann Arbor Regional
- T-8th at Carmel Cup/71-73-72=216 (E)
- T-12th at Sam Golden Invitational/71-71-68=210 (-6)
- 1st at Red Raider Invitational/74-71-68=213 (-3)
- T-28th at Illini Invitational at Medinah/70-71-73=214 (-2)
- 13th at Jim West Challenge/73-73-67=213 (-3)
- T-5th at Paradise Invitational/71-70-72=213 (-3)
- T-5th at Thunderbird Intercollegiate/72-72-69=213 (-3)
- T-17th at Lady Luck Invitational/72-74-77=223 (+7)
- T-6th at MountainView Collegiate/71-72-67=210 (-6)
- DNP at Huntington Bank Collegiate
- T-24th at Big 12 Championships/77-71-73=221 (+5)
- T-8th at NCAA Ann Arbor Regional/71-68-75=214 (+1)
- T-110th at NCAA Championships/74-76-75=225 (+9)
AS A JUNIOR (2024-2025)
- Played in all five fall tournaments, and the final three events of the spring season after missing four tournaments to injury
- Owned a 73.7 season scoring average in eight events and 24 rounds
- Posted the team's lowest single round during the 2024-25 season, 6-under-par 66, and the lowest 54-hole score, 9-under-par 207; both tallied at the Jim West Challenge, Oct. 20-21
- Top finish of the season, a tie for second place, came at the Jim West Challenge
- Registered Top 25 finishes in five of the eight tournaments participated in during the season
- Carded five rounds below par as a junior, each coming during the fall season
- Despite playing only eight of the team's 12 events, ranked fourth on the team in rounds recorded even-par or better (8), ranked second in rounds recorded in the 60s (3), and tied for the team lead in number of eagles holed (3)
- T-16th at Carmel Cup/75-74-76=225 (+9)
- T-12th at Red Raider Invitational/71-72-72=215 (-1)
- T-23rd at Illini Invitational at Medinah/74-69-70=213 (-3)
- T-2nd at Jim West Challenge/67-74-66=207 (-9)
- T-44th at Charles Schwab Women’s Collegiate/77-78-72=227 (+14)
- T-23rd at Pinetree Women’s Collegiate/75-75-75=225 (+12)
- T-42nd at Veritex Bank Collegiate/80-77-72=229 (+13)
- T-47th at Big 12 Championships/77-75-77=229 (+16)
AS A SOPHOMORE (2023-2024)
- Started in the team's lineup in 10 of 11 events (28 rounds), plus played in an 11th event in the postseason as an at-large selection in the 2024 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championship
- Selected to participate in the 2024 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championships as an individual, was one of six individuals named to the Las Vegas Regional, qualified as the three-seed in the regional as the nation's 102nd-ranked player, per Scoreboard powered by Clippd, at the time
- Led the Red Raiders with a 71.5 scoring average through 10 events and 28 rounds prior to the NCAA Regional; finished the season owning a team-best 71.7 scoring average after playing 31 rounds during the 2023-24 season
- The 71.77 scoring average ranked No. 3 in program history at season's end on the Top 10 single-season stroke averages list by a Red Raider
- Led Texas Tech in rounds shot even-par or better (17) and rounds shot below par (15)
- Led the Red Raiders in the number of rounds shot in the 60s (8)
- Led Texas Tech in Top 20 finishes (5), Top 10 finishes (4) and Top 5 finishes (2)
- Earned first career win at the UCF Challenge, Feb. 4-6, to open the spring season
- Fired a single-round career-low 8-under-par 64 in the first round of the UCF Challenge to tie the Red Raiders' program record for the lowest all-time round
- The first round 64 at the UCF Challenge led to a 54-hole career-low 13-under-par 203 with rounds of 71 (-1) and 68 (-4) to follow
- The 203 (-13) ranked tied for the third-lowest 54-hole score shot in program history, joining 201 (Shannon Tan, '23), 202 (Gala Dumez, '21) and 203 (Tan, '23)
- Competed in four of five events for the Red Raiders in the fall, recording three top-10 finishes
- Fired a 68 (-4) and 69 (-3) in rounds one and two of the Carmel Cup, Sept. 1-3, to open the season at Pebble Beach, propelling her to a Top 5 finish
- Used second and third rounds of 69 (-3) and 70 (-2) to finish in sixth place at the Red Raider Invitational, Sept. 25-26
- Recorded three consecutive rounds below par at the Jim West Challenge, Oct. 22-23, to finish tied for sixth place
- Competed in all six events for the Red Raiders, recording a first-place finish and two top-20 finishes.
- Recorded three consecutive rounds below par at the Chevron Collegiate, Feb. 26-27, finishing tied for 22nd
- Used a final-round 70 to finish The Bruzzy Challenge, March 30-31, inside the Top 20
- Earned a 2&1 match play victory over Kansas State in the quarterfinals of The Match Play at Jimmie Austin (Apr. 8-9)
- T-4th at Carmel Cup/68-69-73=210 (-6)
- 59th at Sam Golden Invitational/72-75-75=222 (+6)
- 6th at Red Raider Invitational/74-69-70=213 (-3)
- T-6th at Jim West Challenge/67-71-68=206 (-10)
- Won the UCF Challenge/64-71-68=203 (-13)
- T-33rd at NEXUS Collegiate/69-79-79=227 (+11)
- T-22nd at Chevron Collegiate/70-70-71=211 (-5)
- T-14th at The Bruzzy Challenge/72-74-70=216 (+6)
- Posted a 76 (+4) in the opening stroke play round of Match Play at Jimmie Austin/went 1-1-1 in the ensuing match play events
- T-21st at Big 12 Championships/73-74-72=219 (+6)
- T-25th at NCAA Regionals/73-71-78=222 (+6)
AS A FRESHMAN (2022-2023)
- Saw action in 13 events as a freshman with the Red Raiders, which included making the lineup for the Big 12 Championship, NCAA Pullman Regional and NCAA Championships in Scottsdale
- Owned a 73.4 scoring average in 12 stroke play events that consisted of 35 rounds
- Played in four of the Red Raiders' five fall events, as well as an appearance as an individual in an event not on the Red Raiders' team schedule, the Wayland Baptist Invitational, at nearby Plainview Country Club; finished second in a group of 25 individuals
- Top round as a freshman was a 5-under-par 67 in the second round of the Illini Women's Invitational on Oct. 10, which was the low round of three consecutive rounds shot par or better that led to a 54-hole season-low, 7-under-par 209, to help earn a tie for 13th in a contest playing as an individual
- Posted three rounds in the 60s in total during the season, which also included a 4-under-par 68 at Wayland Baptist Invitational on Oct. 25 and a 4-under-par 68 in the second round of the Big 12 Championship on April 22
- Tallied 13 rounds par or better overall during first season with the Red Raiders
- Recorded five Top 20 finishes during freshman campaign, starting with a tie for 18th at the “Mo” Morial Invitational, hosted by Texas A&M, on Sept. 20-21
- Best finish as a freshman, outside the Wayland Baptist Invitational, was a tie for fourth place at the Columbia Classic, Feb. 11-13; shot a 36-hole 1-under-par 143 (70-73), helping Texas Tech cruise to its first team title of the season
- Also participated in one match play event, Big 12 Match Play on April 7-9; went 3-5 in eight matches that included victories over Oklahoma (4&3), Kansas (1-UP) and Oklahoma State (3&2)
- T-24th at Carmel Cup/79-74-72=225 (+9)
- T-49th at Branch Law Firm/Dick McGuire/75-73-77=225 (+9)
- T-18th at "Mo" Morial Invitational/73-76-70=219 (+3)
- T-13th at Illini Women’s Invitational/72-67-70=209 (-7)
- 2nd at Wayland Baptist (Individuals) Invitational/73-73-68=214 (-2)
- T-4th at Columbia Classic/70-73=143 (-1)
- T-51st at ICON Invitational/71-70-78=219 (+3)
- T-48th at Juli Inkster Meadow Club Collegiate/79-73-75=227 (+11)
- T-10th at The Bruzzy/75-70-71=216 (+6)
- Went 3-5 in eight matches at Big 12 Match Play
- T-27th at Big 12 Women’s Championship/78-68-79=225 (+9)
- T-56th at NCAA Pullman Regional/72-76-77=225 (+9)
- T-65th at NCAA Championship-Scottsdale/70-75-77=222 (+6)
HIGH SCHOOL
- Attended Westmount Collegiate Institute in Thornhill, Canada
- Played three sports in high school: golf, badminton and volleyball
- Advanced to the USGA Junior Girls Round of 32 and the Round of 64 of the US Women’s Amateur
- Made the cut at LPGA CP Women’s Open, finishing tied for 75th
- Finished T-8 at 2022 Porter Cup.
PERSONAL
- Born Jan. 11 in Toronto
- Daughter of Igor and Anjela Zaretsky
- Enjoys baking, cooking and writing music in her spare time
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