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Melissa Burtscher

Melissa Burtscher

  • Year:
    So.
  • Hometown:
    Aurora, Colo.
  • High School:
    Vista PEAK Preparatory
  • Major:
    Psychology

2021-22 Golf: Wooster's No. 1, evidenced by second-team All-NCAC honors after seventh-place score of 265 at NCAC Championships (April 29-May 1) … Logged the second-highest conference finish in program history … Averaged a team-leading 83.2 strokes per round … Captured medalist honors with a co-collegiate-best 76 at the John Carroll Spring Shootout (April 10) … Score of 82 garnered medalist honors at Grove City Fall Invitaitonal (Sept. 11) … Capped Heidelberg Fall Invitational (Sept. 17-18) with a 76, with that score tied for the second-lowest round in program history … Runner-up at the Eva Shorb Weiskopf Invitational (April 2-3) after going 85-82-167 and earned NCAC Athlete of the Week honors on April 4 … Tied for third-place at NCAC Preview (April 23-24) with a 36-hole score of 164 and tied for fourth-place at Wooster Fall Invitational (Oct. 2-3) at 168 … Helped team to tournament titles at Grove City, Eva Shorb Weiskopf, and John Carroll events … Leader of Wooster's third-place NCAC finish, with that matching program's highest-ever … WGCA All-America Scholar Team qualifier and member of the NCAC Academic Honor Roll.

2021-22 Basketball: One of the team's top reserve guards, entering 20 games with three starts … Averaged 2.8 points, 2.1 rebounds, and 0.9 assists per game … Scored a career-high eight points versus Denison (Feb. 2) and matched that in home finale against Ohio Wesleyan (Feb. 16) … Logged a trio of games with four rebounds and passed out a season-high three assists in three-point win over Kenyon (Jan. 26) … Member of the NCAC Academic Honor Roll.

2020-21 Golf: Third on the team with a 92.3 average … Competed in all 12 rounds … Carded a season-best 82 in the opening round of a 36-hole dual against Allegheny (April 10-11) … Fired an 85 at the Wooster Spring Invitational (April 3) and placed third … Logged four rounds in the 80s … WGCA All-America Scholar.

2020-21 Basketball: Spent the year in a developmental role … Entered two games … Made collegiate debut against Denison (Feb. 19).

Prior to Wooster: Helped Vista PEAK Preparatory to a regional runner-up golf finish in 2019 … Part of three conference championship teams in basketball and golf ... Four-year letterwinner in basketball and three-year letterwinner in golf … Prepped for Howard Payne and Amy Severin.

Personal: Born April 21, 2003 … Parents are Penn Schlitt and Missy Cooke … Psychology major with an education minor.