2022-23 (GR): 2023 Sun Belt Championship Individual Champion and All-Tournament Team ... All-Sun Belt First Team ... WGCA All-American Scholar ... VaSID Academic All-State Team ... Led the Monarchs with a 73.56 stroke average through 11 events and 32 rounds played ... Had five Top-20 finishes and two Top-5 finishes ... Shot a one-under par 71 in the final round of the Badger Invitational to finish tied for 15th at two-over 218. The effort helped the Monarchs to a runner-up finish at the event ... Was the team's top finisher at the Lady Paladin Invitational, placing fourth with a six-under 210 as ODU earned its second second-place trophy in as many tournaments. All three of her rounds (70, 71, 69) were under par ... Tied for 20th at Mississippi State's The Ally, carding a nine-over 225 ... Shot a one-over 217 to tie for 16th at The Show at Spanish Trail ... Became the first golfer in program history to win a Conference Championship individual title. She led the three-day Sun Belt Championship tournament from start to finish and turned in a final 54-hole total of two-under 214 ... Competed in the Palm Beach Gardens Regional, where she tied for 43rd with a 13-over 229.
2021-22 (SR): Named to the Conference USA All-Academic First Team and the VaSID Academic All-State Team ... Played 30 rounds through 10 tournaments on the year ... Finished with an average score of 76.40 ... Her best finish was at the Badger Invitational, where she came in second after carding a two-under par 214. Onosato recorded five birdies for a 68 in the second round as ODU took third place at the tournament ... Tied for 17th with a three-over 219 at the Bryan National Collegiate ... Alongside teammate Pilar Muguruza, the pair became the first Monarchs to play in the PGA WORKS Collegiate Championship. Onosato carded rounds of 76, 75 and 73 for a three-day total of 10-over par 224 to end in a three-way tie for fifth.
2020-21 (JR): Received an at-large bid to the NCAA Columbus Regional … Honored as First Team All-State by VaSID … All-Conference USA Second Team honoree … Member of the C-USA Championship All-Tournament Team … Honored on the Conference USA All-Academic Team … Recipient of the Conference USA Commissioner’s Academic Medal … Named to the Conference USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll … Selected as Conference USA’s Women’s Golfer of the Week following a runner-up finish at the Maryb S. Kauth Invitational … Concluded the season ranked 152nd by Golfstat … Led the team with a 74.0 stroke average … Logged 19 rounds across seven events, which matches a team high in both categories … Opened the season with a seventh-place result at the Reynolds Lake Oconee Invitational … Tied for second at the Maryb S. Kauth Invitational at 5-over 221 … Shot an even-par 72 in the final round of the invitational … Added a top-15 finish at the Clemson Invitational … Carded a 2-under 214 to finish tied for fourth at the conference championships … Opened C-USAs with a 3-under 69 to match a personal best … Opened the Columbus Regional with a 2-under 70 before finishing tied for 55th.
2019-20 (SO): Put together three top-15 performances over the fall and spring seasons ... Her best finish was at the Moon Golf Invitational, where she finished in a tie for sixth after firing a season-low 69 and three-under overall ... Finished the season ranked 165th according to Golfstat.
2018-19 (FR): Joined the Monarchs in the spring semester ... Competed in all six spring tournaments ... Broke 70 twice ... Named to C-USA Second Team All-Conference ... Finished the season ranked 238th according to Golfstat.
Prep: Qualified for the Japan Women's Open ... Kyushu runner-up ... Top-20 IMG World Junior Championship ... 13th in the All-Japan Women’s Amateur.
Personal: Daughter of Tomio and Laura Onosato ... Has one sister, Emma, and two brothers, Rhys and Levi … Chose ODU over Kansas, Tulane and Houston Baptist ... Majoring in applied linguistics.
Leah Onosato
