Shannon Kennedy

Class:
Graduate Student
High School:
Marian
Hometown:
Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

2024-25 - Senior
An Academic All-Big Ten selection ... Appeared in all four tournaments, all as an individual, and played 11 rounds ... Carried a 75.81 scoring average ... Best finish was a tie for 31st place at the rain-shortened Valspar Augusta Invitational (3/15-16), finishing at 10-over par 154 (76-78) ... Best round of the season was an even-par 72 in the second round of the Clemson Invitational (3/22/23).

Summer 2024
Won the Michigan Women’s Amateur Championship to qualify for the U.S. Women’s Amateur ... One of three Spartans to play in the U.S. Women’s Amateur at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Okla., joining teammates Brooke Biermann and Katie Lu ... Kennedy, Biermann and Lu also played in the Women’s Western Amateur ... Played in the North & South Amateur at Pinehurst ... Played in the Michigan PGA Women’s Open ... Caddied for Yixiang Wang (Memphis) during his run to the Round of 16 in the U.S. Junior Amateur at Oakland Hills in Detroit.

2023-24 - Junior
A Women’s Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar ... Big-Ten Distinguished Scholar … An Academic All-Big Ten selection ... Appeared in all 13 tournaments and tied for fourth on the team in rounds played (37) ... Carried a 75.70 scoring average ... Had 50.0 percent (16-of-32) of her rounds count toward the team total ... Best 18-hole score of the year was a 4-under par 68 in the opening round of the Cougar Classic (9/11) ... Top 54-hole tournament score was a 2-under par 211 (68-70-73) at the Cougar Classic (9/11-12), where she tied for 31st place ... Best finish was a tie for 24th place at 2-over par 218 (72-71-75) at the Clemson Invitational (3/22-24).

Summer 2023
Fired a three-day total of 6-under par 204 (67-68-69) to finish in a tie for third place at the Sea Island Women’s Amateur … Captured medalist honors at the Michigan Women’s Amateur with a two-day total of 141, giving her the #1 seed in match play … Reached the Round of 16 in the Michigan Women’s Amateur.

2022-23 - Sophomore
Academic All-Big Ten and Big-Ten Distinguished Scholar…A Women's Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar ... Helped team post the third-best grade-point average (3.897) in Division I women's golf ... Finished sixth on the team in scoring average at 75.41 over nine events … Best finish was a tie for 24th at the Big Ten Championships where she shot a three-day total of 224 (70-76-78) … Tied for 30th place at the ASU Invitational, firing a 5-over par 221 … Posted a low round of 70 at the Big Ten Championships.

2021 - Freshman
Joined the team as a walk-on ... Recipient of the Big Ten Sportsmanship award.

Prior to MSU
Three-time Michigan state high school individual champion at Marian High School, winning the Division 3 titles in 2020 and 2019 and the Division 2 title in 2017 … Named the 2020 Michigan Miss Golf by the Michigan Interscholastic Golf Coaches Association … Three-time MHSAA Super Team selection … Advanced to the sweet 16 of the 2018 Michigan Women’s Amateur Championship … Finished as runner-up at the 2018 Michigan Girls Junior Championship … Named the 2019 Detroit Free Press Girls Golfer of the Year … Named to the 2019 All-Catholic academic team.

Personal
Communication major.