Cheyenne Knight

Height:
5-6
Class:
Junior
Hometown:
Aledo, Texas
High School:
Aledo

Accolades

First Team WGCA All-American (2017-18)
First Team All-SEC (2017-18)
First Team WGCA All-American (2016-17)
First Team Golfweek All-American (2016-17)
SEC Player of the Year (2016-17)
First Team All-SEC (2016-17)
SEC Academic Honor Roll (2016-17)
WGCA Freshman of the Year (2015-16)
First Team WGCA All-American (2015-16)
First Team Golfweek All-American (2015-16)
First Team All-SEC (2015-16)
SEC All-Freshman Team (2015-16)
SEC First Year Academic Honor Roll (2015-16)

Junior (2017-18)

First Team WGCA All-American ... First Team All-SEC honoree ... joins Stephanie Meadow (2011-12-13-14) and Camilla Lennarth (2009-10-11) as the only Alabama women's golfers to earn first-team All-SEC honors three or more times ... ranked No. 11 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings at the conclusion of the 2017-18 season ... ranked No. 19 in the Golfstat NCAA Player Rankings and No. 14 in the Golfweek Collegiate Rankings released May 20 ... finished par or better in 63 of 96 career rounds (66 percent), including 24 rounds in the 60s (25 percent) ... third on the team in scoring with a 71.54 average ... No. 2 on the Alabama career wins list with four tournament victories in 33 career outings ... finished fourth in stroke play at the NCAA Championships with a 5-under par 283 (70-69-70-74) ... was 3-0 in match play at the NCAA tournament as the Tide advanced to the national championship match ... tied for ninth at the NCAA Tallahassee Regional with a 7-under par 209 ... tied for fourth in stroke play at the SEC Championships with an even-par 216 (71-75-70) ... finished 0-1-1 in match play at the SEC tournament after dropping a hard-fought 1-up decision to Vanderbilt's Louise Yu in the quarterfinals and halving her semifinal match with Arkansas' Cara Gorlei ... tied for individual medalist honors with teammate Lauren Stephenson at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic with a 7-under par 209 (65-71-73) ... equaled her career-low round with an opening round 65 at the Liz Murphey ... tied for 23rd at the Evans Derby Experience with a 1-under par 215 (73-72-70) ... tied for sixth at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate with a 4-over par 217 (73-73-71) ... tied for 34th at the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge at 11-over par (76-71-7/224) ... tied for 11th at the rain-shortened Landfall Tradition with a 36-hole 1-under par 143 (70-73) ... tied for 16th at the Ruth's Chris Tar Heel Invitational with a 4-under par 212 (74-71-67) ... tied for 21st at the Schooner Fall Classic with an even-par score of 213 (71-73-69) ... tied for eighth at the season-opening Mason Rudolph Championship with a 6-under par 210 (74-68-68).

Summer 2017

Advanced to match play at the U.S. Women's Amateur before being eliminated in the Round of 32 ... finished at 1-over par (71-74/145) to tie for 20th in stroke play and qualify to the match play round.

Sophomore (2016-17)

Women's Golf Coaches Association and Golfweek first team All-America selection ... SEC Player of the Year and First Team All-SEC selection ... SEC Academic Honor Roll selection ... ranked fourth in the final Golfweek ratings ... rated third nationally in score vs. par ... opened the season in record-setting fashion with a then-school-record 14-under par 202 (68-67-67) to win individual honors at the Mason Rudolph Championship ... her victory helped lead Alabama to a school- and tournament-record 39-under par 825 as the Tide cruised to its second consecutive Mason Rudolph title ... earned SEC Golfer of the Week honors for her performance at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate, where she earned medalist honors for the third time in her career with an 8-under par 205 (68-72-65) ... her third round 65 is a career low and ties for the third-lowest round in school history ... the 205 is the second-lowest 54-hole total of her career ... led the team in scoring average (70.77) and score vs. par (-0.94) ... second on team in rounds of par or better with 20 in 31 rounds played ... tied with Lauren Stephenson for the team lead in rounds in the 60s with 11 ... shared the team lead in top-five finishes with five ... finished under par in seven of 11 outings this season ... posted nine top 10 finishes in 11 tournaments played in 2016-17 ... tied for 10th at the NCAA Women's Golf Championships with a seven-over par 223 ... tied for second at the NCAA Athens Regional with teammate Lauren Stephenson at 5-under par (211) ... defeated Northwestern's Stephanie Lau, 2-and-1 in the semifinals at the Northwestern Quad Match on April 29 ... tied for fifth at the SEC Championships with a 5-under par 211 that included a final-round 66 ... finished 10th in the stroke play round at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic with a two-over par 74 ... was 3-0 in the match play rounds at the Liz Murphey, defeating USC's Muni He, 4-and-3, Denver's Lauren Whyte, 6-and-5 and Georgia's Jillian Hollis, 1-up ... tied for 16th at the Bryan National Collegiate after shooting a two-over par 218 (76-76-66) ... opened the spring season with a tie for 17th at the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge with a five-over par 218 (75-73-70) ... tied for third and was Alabama's top finisher at The Landfall Tradition with a five-under par 211 ... tied for ninth at the Ruth's Chris Tar Heel Invitational with a two-under par 214 ... Alabama's top finisher at the Schooner Fall Classic when she fired a six-under par 207 (66-69-72) to finish in sixth place.

Freshman (2015-16)

Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) 2016 Freshman of the Year ... WGCA 2016 First Team All-American ... Golfweek 2016 First Team All-American ... Ranked No. 8 in the country in the final Golfweek/Sagarin Performance Index ... First Team All-SEC and First Team SEC All-Freshman selection ... SEC First Year Academic Honor Roll selection ... finished her freshman year with the fifth-lowest average score vs. par in school history at 0.47 ... her 72.78 per round average led the team and ranked fifth all-time at Alabama ... fired 17 par or lower rounds for the season ... at or below par in six of seven rounds at the SEC and NCAA Championships for a combined 10-under in the two tournaments ... shot a school 72-hole record 282 to finish tied for fourth at the NCAA Championships ... shot a 12-over par 224 to finish in a tie for 15th at the NCAA Shoal Creek Regional ... posted the top score for Alabama at the SEC Championship with a 4-under 212 to finish third overall and equal her season-low tournament ... earned SEC Golfer of the Week honors on April 13 after she tied for fourth at the PING/ASU Invitational with a season-best 4-under 212 ... earned SEC Women's Freshman Golfer of the Week on Feb. 10 and March 9 ... cruised past Georgia's Rinko Mitsunaga 7-and-5 in the semifinals of Liz Murphey to help the team reach the championship, where she was edged out by UCLA's Bethany Wu by one hole ... held a two-hole lead through 16 against Denver's Katharina Baratta when the Tide clinched the victory ... claimed the individual title at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate with an even-par 213 (67-74-72), with her opening round 67 the lowest of her rookie campaign ... carded an 8-over 224 at the Allstate Sugar Bowl Championship ... fired a 2-over 215 at the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge to place in a tie for eighth in the individual standings ... shot a 2-over 218 at the Landfall Tradition, finishing tied for 16th ... recorded a 5-over 221 at the Ruth's Chris Tar Heel Invitational to finish tied for 14th...began her collegiate career with a 2-under 214 at the Mason Rudolph Championship to tie for seventh place.

Prep and Personal

Earned Honorable Mention Rolex Junior All-America honors in 2014 ... Won the Texas 4A state golf individual title in 2014 ... claimed the Texas 5A state golf individual crown in 2015 as a senior ... member of the 2014 USA Today All-USA Girls Golf Team ... selected as the North Texas High School Golf Coaches Association Player of the Year for 2015 ... qualified for match play at the 2014 USGA Girls' Junior Championship after finishing 38th during stroke play ... won the 2014 American Junior Golf Association's Valero Texas Open with a 4-under 212 ... finished fifth at the 2014 Rolex Girls Junior Championship ... placed third at the 2014 AJGA Thunderbird Invitational ... daughter of Gene and Jayna Knight ... majoring in public relations.