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2023-24 (Graduate Senior): Final season scoring average of 71.61 ranked as fifth lowest in school history... Set new program record with 145.5 competitive rounds played in her career...  Pac-12 All-Conference Team selection… Conference’s Women’s Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year… WGCA All-American Scholar... Pac-12 Golfer of the Week following first career victory at 18-hole Match in the Desert… Tied lowest round in program history with 8-under 64 at the Match in the Desert… Carded a trio of top-10 finishes during regular season… 54-hole score of 209 in Arizona’s win of the Gators Invitational was her lowest of the season and good for a sixth-place showing… Opened spring season with three straight top-10 finishes… Arizona’s lowest counting score in three of the program’s first five tournaments of the season.

2022-23 (Senior): All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention… CSC Academic All-District Team selection... Member of the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll... Her 73.56 scoring average for the year was lowest on team and lowest of her career… Part of Arizona lineup that won NCAA Raleigh Regional for program’s first regional championship since 2010… Posted best finish of career with third-place performance at Nanea Pac-12 Preview… Went on to finish in top 10 in five tournaments in senior season after tallying three in her first three seasons… Her 7-under par performance in third-place finish in Hawai’i also marked best 54-hole score (212) since her freshman season… Will return for fifth season with a 74.63 career scoring average in 111 rounds played that ranks in top 20 in program history in both statistical categories.

2021-22 (Junior): WGCA All-American Scholar Team honoree... Member of Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll... Participated in 11 of the team’s 12 tournaments, which tied freshman Lilas Pinthier for team lead… Reduced scoring average by .63 from her sophomore season… Season-best finish was ninth place at Pac-12 Preview, which was highest career finish since Wildcat Invitational her freshman year… Compiled four top-20 finishes, including 17^th place at NCAA Albuquerque Regional… Fired first bogey-free round of college career with 71 in second round of NCAA Regionals… Best round of season came at ASU Invitational with a second-round score of 70… Served on Arizona Athletics’ Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC).

2020-21 (Sophomore): WGCA Scholar All-American... Played in every event as a sophomore, emerging as a lineup fixture as the season went on… Authored one of the program’s historic moments when she birdied the playoff hole in the quarterfinals of match play on national television on the Golf Channel at NCAA Championships… Carded blistering rounds of 68 and 69 to close stroke play at NCAA Championships for lowest and second lowest rounds of her career… Shaved a half of stroke off her scoring average from freshman season with nearly twice as many rounds played… Doubled her rounds of par or lower… Top finish of the year was 17^th place at Pac-12 Championships… Best tournament score of the season came at PING/ASU Invitational with a 3-over 219… Recorded all but one of her rounds of par or lower in the second half of the season.

2019-2020 (Freshman): Tied for third at the Arizona Wildcat Invitational, shooting par or better in all three rounds and making a valuable contribution to the team’s victory… Started in 6 tournaments as a freshman, including tying for 12^th at the East Lake Cup.

Prior to Arizona: Starkute had a very decorated career prior to Arizona. She is a three-time winner of the Lithuanian Championship and also a back-to-back winner of the Latvian Amateur Open Championship. Starkute is currently 430 in the WAGR and has been ranked as high as 423. She is also a member of the Lithuanian national team.