Bio

2023-24: Tied for fourth on the team with a 77.1 average over 18 rounds ... Played in nine events ... Two-time NCAC Athlete of the Week to up career haul to five ... Runner-up at Mount Union Fall Invitational (Sept. 23-24) with a 147 and earned first NCAC Athlete of the Week award of year following that event ... Led Wooster at NCAC Div. III Region 5 Preview with sixth-place score of 151 and earned fifth NCAC Athlete of the Week award following that ... Made the lineup for the NCAC Championships (May 3-5) and had a 234 for the 54-hole tournament ... Fired a 1-under-par 71 on the final day of the Gatorade Collegiate (Sept. 2-3) ... Logged six rounds of 75 or better … Member of the fall and spring semester AD Honor Roll.

2022-23: Led the team with a career-low season average of 76.4 strokes over 16.5 rounds … Named NCAC Athlete of the Week on Sept. 6 following under-par medalist honors at the Gatorade Collegiate (Sept. 3-4) … Second Scot since 1990 to finish a 36-hole tournament under par, finishing 4-under-par … Led Wooster to team victory at Gatorade Collegiate for the first time in the eight-year history of the Scots’ home tournament … Carded a career-low 68 in the final round of the Gatorade Collegiate … Repeated as NCAC Athlete of the Week on Oct. 17 after medalist honors at the Beaver Fall Classic (Oct. 15-16) … Also led Wooster to team victory at Bluffton, marking the first time since 1997-98 that the Scots won multiple tournaments in the same season … Had three additional top-10 finishes at the NCAA Division III Region V Preview (Oct. 3-4; t-3rd, 79-75-154), Muskingum Fox Meadow Invite (April 10; 2nd, 75) and Gettysburg Spring Shootout (April 22-23; 10th, 75-77-152) … One of the five Scots to compete at the NCAC Championships (April 28-30) … Went 76-73-78-227 to tie for 16th-place at the NCAC Championships, just missing out on All-NCAC honors … Logged 13 rounds of at least a 68.

2021-22: Second on the team with a 78.4 average … Opened collegiate career with ninth-place finish at Gatorade Collegiate (Sept. 4-5) after back-to-back 73s … Opened spring slate with third-place score of 150 at Bluffton Spring Invitational (April 2-3) and parlayed that into NCAC Athlete of the Week honors … Logged five top-10 finishes on the year … Score of 80 was good for sixth-place at Nye Intercollegiate (April 10) … Capped fall with sixth-place score of 112 at 27-hole Capital Fall Classic (Oct. 11) … Tied for seventh at the Poppa Flowers Invitational (Sept. 18) with 27-hole score of 112.

Prior to Wooster: A top-10 junior golfer in India … Attended Mallya Aditi International School.

Personal: Parents are Kartik and Niksha Nayak … Economics major … APEX fellow.