Weed Named To ANNIKA Award Preseason Watch List
August 25, 2025 | Women's Golf
COLUMBUS, Ga. – The Haskins Foundation has named Avery Weed, an Ocean Springs, Mississippi native, to the 2025-26 ANNIKA Award Preseason Watch List, the organization announced on Monday.
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The ANNIKA Award is named each year to the top female Division 1 Golfer. This season marks the fourth consecutive season that a Bulldog has been named to the preseason watch list.
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Weed will enter her third season in the Maroon and White when State kicks off their season this Friday at the Carmel Cup. Through her first two seasons, she has compiled a 72.31 scoring average, which would stand as the second-best career scoring average in program history. She has finished par or better in 31 of her 61 rounds played. Last season, Weed finished the year with a 71.67 average, the sixth-best single season in program history. She also collected 20 par or better rounds, the fourth most of any Bulldog in a single season in program history.
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Weed looks to continue to climb up Mississippi State's career record book going into her junior season. Through two seasons of play, she sits tied for fourth in program history with 12 rounds in the 60s, 10 of which came last season. She is also tied for sixth with 31 par or better rounds. Weed has already set her mark in the national record books after she tied an NCAA Record with an 11-under round last season.
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Weed and the Bulldogs will kick off the fall portion of the 2025-26 season at the Carmel Cup in Pebble Beach, California, beginning on August 29.
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About the ANNIKA Award presented by Stifel:
Created in 2014, the ANNIKA Award presented by Stifel is annually given to the top female Division 1 collegiate golfer; the winner voted on by players, coaches and members of the college golf media. Named for Annika Sorenstam, the award was created in partnership with the Haskins Foundation to acknowledge the top female golfer and to match the Haskins Award presented by Stifel, which acknowledges the top male Division I collegiate golfer. Mirabel Ting (Florida State) became the 12th ANNIKA Award winner in 2025.
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Stifel, one of the nation's leading wealth management and investment banking firms, serves as the presenting sponsor of both the ANNIKA and Haskins Awards. Stifel also serves as a presenting sponsor for the NCAA Division I Women's and Men's Golf Championships on GOLF Channel.
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The ANNIKA Award is named each year to the top female Division 1 Golfer. This season marks the fourth consecutive season that a Bulldog has been named to the preseason watch list.
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Weed will enter her third season in the Maroon and White when State kicks off their season this Friday at the Carmel Cup. Through her first two seasons, she has compiled a 72.31 scoring average, which would stand as the second-best career scoring average in program history. She has finished par or better in 31 of her 61 rounds played. Last season, Weed finished the year with a 71.67 average, the sixth-best single season in program history. She also collected 20 par or better rounds, the fourth most of any Bulldog in a single season in program history.
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Weed looks to continue to climb up Mississippi State's career record book going into her junior season. Through two seasons of play, she sits tied for fourth in program history with 12 rounds in the 60s, 10 of which came last season. She is also tied for sixth with 31 par or better rounds. Weed has already set her mark in the national record books after she tied an NCAA Record with an 11-under round last season.
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Weed and the Bulldogs will kick off the fall portion of the 2025-26 season at the Carmel Cup in Pebble Beach, California, beginning on August 29.
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About the ANNIKA Award presented by Stifel:
Created in 2014, the ANNIKA Award presented by Stifel is annually given to the top female Division 1 collegiate golfer; the winner voted on by players, coaches and members of the college golf media. Named for Annika Sorenstam, the award was created in partnership with the Haskins Foundation to acknowledge the top female golfer and to match the Haskins Award presented by Stifel, which acknowledges the top male Division I collegiate golfer. Mirabel Ting (Florida State) became the 12th ANNIKA Award winner in 2025.
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Stifel, one of the nation's leading wealth management and investment banking firms, serves as the presenting sponsor of both the ANNIKA and Haskins Awards. Stifel also serves as a presenting sponsor for the NCAA Division I Women's and Men's Golf Championships on GOLF Channel.
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