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Melissa Burtscher

Melissa Burtscher

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

2022-23 Golf: Logged a career year, which culminated with first-team All-NCAC honors after carding the fifth-place score of 241 at the NCAC Championships (April 28-30) … Logged the second-highest individual finish in program history at the conference championships and became the second Scot in program history to earn first-team All-NCAC honors … Now one of six multi-time all-conference performers in program history and one of two to have two second-team or higher All-NCAC laurels … Broke the program’s single-season scoring record with an 81.2 average over 19 rounds and heads into senior year .002 strokes behind the program’s career average record … Broke the program’s individual round record with a 72 during the last round of the Transylvania Fall Invitational (Sept. 16-17) … Helped the team shatter its low-round record by 11 strokes at the Transylvania Fall Invitational, with the Scots firing a closing-round 307 … One of a record-matching three Scots to earn all-conference honors and helped the team to a school-record 335.5 scoring average … Became the program’s all-time leader in career top-five (9) and top-10 finishes (16) after breaking the single-season top-10 record of eight and finishing just she of the single-team top-five record with four … CSC Academic All-District® honoree … Finished in the top-10 in the final eight tournaments of the year and only had one showing outside of the top-five during the spring slate … Logged five rounds in the 70s on the year, including in the final round of the NCAC Championships … Opened year with a 78 at the Lynn Schweizer Invitational (Sept. 3-4) … Followed up 72 at Transylvania with a 77 in opening round of Heidelberg Fall Invitational (Sept. 16-17) … Tied for third at the Mount Union Spring Invitational (March 26) and the Wooster Spring Invitational (April 2) and was a fifth-place finisher at the John Carroll Spring Invitational (April 15-16) after a two-day 165 … Spring low of 77 came in final round of Franklin Lady Grizzly Spring Invitational (April 22-23) … Logged the second eagle in program history with that coming on the par-4, 334-yard first hole at Kentucky’s Big Blue Course during the Transylvania Fall Invitational … WGCA All-America Scholar Team and member of the NCAC Academic Honor Roll.   

2022-23 Basketball: Spent the year as a student assistant. 

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 Invitational (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 and education and physical education minor.