Jennifer Lynch Class: Senior Hometown: West Chester, Ohio High School: Mount Notre Dame Birthdate: 10/08/1979 Experience: 3rd year at ND

Now in her third year as a member of the Notre Dame women’s golf team ... continues to improve due to hard work on her game ... showed a great deal of improvement a year ago, after restructuring of her swing that added more of a draw to her drives ... her strong work ethic and improving game could eventually land her in the starting lineup ... did not begin golfing until her freshman year of high school, dropping her nine-hole average from 60 to 40 ... her ’98 summer highlights included firing an 82 at the Junior Amateur Tournament (Whetstone Country Club; Marion, Ohio) ... combined with her local pro Joe Burbee to take second in team scramble competition of 1998 Futures Tournament Pro Am (Lost Creek Country Club; Lima, Ohio) ... placed 12th in 80-player field at 1999 Ohio Women’s Amateur, held at Medina Country Club ... her home course is the Golf Center at Kings Island ... a four-time Notre Dame Dean’s List student.

AS A JUNIOR (Fall of 2000):

Competed in her first intercollegiate tournament as an individual entrant in the Notre Dame Invitational ... finished 58th in a field of 67 golfers as she fired a 54-hole total of 270 (87-92-91) ... shot a 36-hole total 185 (85-100) at the 2000 Campus Championship held at the Warren Golf Course.

AS A FRESHMAN AND SOPHOMORE:

Did not compete in an intercollegiate tournament during her first two seasons ... shot a 184 (92-92) in ’98 Campus Championship, at Blackthorn Golf Club, before posting a 187 (91-96) at the ’99 event.

PREP & PERSONAL:

Led Mount Notre Dame High School to state title as a senior, while playing for head coach Linda Jochim ... four-time team MVP ... team captain and all-conference as a junior and senior ... all-city, all-state as a senior ... fired an 80 to place second in league tournament as a senior ... first women’s golfer at her school to break 40 over nine holes while setting school record for season nine-hole stroke average (41.7) ... played softball as a freshman and sophomore, at catcher and first base ... softball team captain as a sophomore ... president of her sophomore and junior classes and of her school’s National Honor Society ... her cousins Jill and Kara Lynch graduated from Notre Dame ... born Oct. 8, 1979, in Cincinnati, Ohio ... daughter of Raymond and Judith Lynch ... full name is Jennifer Marie Lynch ... enrolled in the College of Business.

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