Allison Rella

Height:
5-7
Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Cranbrook. B.C., Canada
High School:
Mount Baker Secondary

2002-03 Academic All-Big 12 first team
2003-04 Academic All-Big 12 honorable mention
2004-05 Academic All-Big 12 first team

2004-05:  Rella capped her CU career finishing second on the team with a 76.45 stroke average in 31 rounds over 11 tournaments. Additionally, all 31 of her rounds counted towards the team's score during the season and she shot in the 70s 21 times. Her career-low round of 70 came in the first round of the Big 12 Championships as she finished tied for 19th in the conference tournament after shooting 70-82-81--233. In October she placed fifth at the Heather Farr Memorial with a 5-over 73-75--148. Rella had another strong showing in October, shooting 75-76-78--229 to tie for ninth at the Bronco Fall Invite. She tied for fifth at the BYU Dixie Classic in April as well.

2003-04: Rella owned the team’s third lowest strokes per average with a 79.3, which included a career low 71 in the second round of the Lady Aztec Fall Invitational where she finished 22nd. She played in all but one tournament (the BYU Dixie Classic), and as an individual at the Ron Moore Women’s Intercollegiate where she turned in a season best seventh place finish after carding a two-round 75-78-153.    The true veteran of the 2003-04 team played in her third Big 12 Tournament where she came away with a share of 49th with an 83-79-162 tournament. Twenty-one of her 29 season rounds counted towards the team score.

2002-03: Named Colorado’s Most Improved Player at the team’s end of season awards’ dinner after shaving nearly two strokes from her freshman year strokes per average. She made the rounds, but on paper one DQ has kept her from counting all 31 and she has the team’s second highest scoring percentage, having contributed to the team scoring in 28 of 30 rounds and owns the team’s second lowest per-round average (77.8) as one of the top-10 sophomores in the conference. In the year’s second tournament, Rella’s 221 at the Shanico Invitational in Corvallis, Ore. was her 54-hole collegiate best   She would turn in the best second to third round improvement of her career (and the team’s season) when she shaved 10 strokes from her second round scorecard to shoot a team-low third round 76 at the Arizona Wildcat Invitational. She held that pace a week later in Junction City, Ore., where she had the team’s biggest first round to first round improvements, taking eight strokes off her Wildcat Invite to the Oregon Duck. Rella’s first top-20 finish of the spring, fourth of her sophomore year, came at CU’s Mountain View Collegiate. She was the team’s low score for the second time when she finished 29th with a team-low 80-79-78-237 at the Big 12 Championships, a 24-place improvement from her first-year finish.

2001-02: Rella wasted little time making an immediate impression at CU and was the Buffs’ lone freshman and newcomer on the Big 12 Championship roster. She finished the season with the team’s third-lowest strokes per average with a 79.1, the lowest average for a CU frosh since Taya Battistella’s 78.69 at the conclusion of the 1999 campaign. After getting the freshman jitters out of her system with an opening round 81 at the Ptarmigan Ram Fall Classic, she carded what would be a season low 73-75 in the second and third rounds, respectively, to finish 24th behind veteran teammates Jolene Fellhauer and Erin Kerr. Just two tournaments later she would be CU’s low score against some of the toughest competition in the country at the Big 12 Invitational with a 78-80-82-240. She would repeat that distinction once more in the spring when she finished ninth in the Oregon Invitational with a team best 78-73-73-224, her first top-10 finish with her parents there to witness it. She would play all but one tournament in her first season, traveling to, but being unable to play because of the flu at the UCLA Bruin Classic. During the summer she shot a course record (70) on her home course (St. Eugene Mission Golf Resort).

High School: Rella was the fifth-ranked junior player provincially (in British Columbia) and 10th nationally.   As a junior she finished 12th in the British Columbia Junior Girls Championships and was fifth in her age group. She was also a top-15 finisher in her age group in Canada’s National Junior Girls Championships. She accomplished this after playing less than 100 rounds of golf in her career. Last spring her Mount Baker team finished second in the East Kootenays Tournament and third in East/West Provincial play.   Her international competition resume includes a fifth-place finish (79-73-76) at Provincials on the Kelowna Springs G.C. in Kelowna, B.C., and the same finish at the Jr. America’s Cup (75-75-77) on the nearby Eisenhower G.C. in Colorado Springs. She finished 10th in the Canadian National tournament in New Brunswick, amongst a field featuring the top junior players in Canada, and competing in Junior Worlds in San Diego on the Torrey Pines G.C.   She will carry three West Canadian Golf Tour victories (the U.S. AJGA equivalent).   Rella also plays volleyball, basketball, ran cross country and track (sprints and jumps) at Cranbrook and is an avid snowboarder and ice hockey player.   A pioneer in ice hockey, she was the first girl to play on Cranbrook’s AAA Boys elite team, and was third on the team in scoring. She has captained several boys hockey teams and was a member of the British Columbia Girls Hockey Team from seventh to 10th grade that played in the Western Canadian Championships and when she was 12 was named the MVP in a game against Team Manitoba.

In The Classroom: A sociology major with six 3.00-plus semesters to her credit, including a Dean’s List spring ?04 effort, she will carry a 3.330 gpa into her senior season.

Personal: Allison Diane Rella was born in Cranbrook, British Columbia on Feb. 10, 1983. Her older brother David played for Eastern Illinois’ men’s golf team. The biggest moment of her golf career was shooting an ace in one of her last junior tournaments, using a 6-iron on a 153-yard drive.

Career Tournaments

Date	Event (Par)	Score	Finish
Sept. 10-11, 2001	Ptarmigan Ram Fall Classic (72)	81-73-75—223	t-24th
Sept. 24-25, 2001	Pioneer Highlands Ranch Invite (72)	76-82—158	t-44th
Oct. 1-2, 2001	Big 12 Fall Preview (72)	78-80-82—240	t-34th
Oct. 8-9, 2001	HEATHER FARR/CU MEMORIAL (72)	82-72—154	t-22nd
Oct. 30-31, 2001	Rainbow Wahine Classic (72)	88-82-77—247	t-82nd
Feb. 25-26, 2002	Bay Area Classic (72)	79-80—159	t-38th
Mar. 23-24, 2002	MOUNTAIN VIEW COLLEGIATE (72)	85-77—162	t-51st
Mar. 28-29, 2002	Oregon Invitational (72)	78-73-73—224	t-9th
Apr. 8-9, 2002	Utah Dixie Classic (72)	77-82-77—236	t-33rd
Apr. 19-21, 2002	Big 12 Championships (72)	88-79-87—254	53rd

Date	Event (Par)	Score	Finish
Sept. 9-10, 2002	Ptarmigan Ram Fall Classic (72)	75-73-77—225	t-17th
Sept. 16-17, 2002	Oregon State Shanico Invite (72)	74-72-75—221	t-5th
Sept. 23-24, 2002	Highlands Ranch Women’s Invite (72)	77-77—154	t-16th
Oct. 7-8, 2002	HEATHER FARR/CU MEMORIAL (72)	DQ-76	DQ
Nov. 1-3, 2002	Landfall Tradition Women’s (72)	77-84-80—241	t-46th
Nov. 11-13, 2002	Las Vegas Founders Showdown (72)	81-82-74—237	t-36th
Feb. 24-26, 2003	Arizona Wildcat Invite (71)	87-86-76—249	t-83rd
Mar. 10-11, 2003	Oregon Duck Invite (72)	79-81-77—237	t-27th
Mar. 22-23, 2003	MOUNTAIN VIEW COLLEGIATE (72)	77-78-73—228	t-20th
Apr. 7-8, 2003	Utah Dixie Classic (72)	74-78-79—231	t-24th
Apr. 21-23, 2003	Big 12 Championships (72)	80-79-78—237	t-29th

Date	Event (Par)	Score	Finish
Sept. 8-9, 2003	Ptarmigan Ram Fall Classic (72)	77-83-82—242	t-63rd
Sept. 29-30, 2003	Ron Moore Women’s (72)	75-78—153	t-7th
Oct. 6-7, 2003	HEATHER FARR/CU MEMORIAL (72)	80-76—156	38th
Oct. 20-21, 2003	Lady Aztec Fall Invite (72)	86-71-73—230	t-22nd
Nov. 4-5, 2003	Kent Youel Invite (72)	81-76-81—238	t-56th
Nov. 10-12, 2003	Las Vegas Founders Showdown (72)	75-87-74—236	t-52nd
Feb. 16-17, 2004	Bay Area Classic (72)	91-93—184	65th
Mar. 1-3, 2004	SJSU Spartan Invite (72)	77-73-75—225	t-19th
Mar. 15-16, 2004	UC Irvine Anteater Invite (72)	76-83-80—239	t-45th
Mar. 27-28, 2004	MOUNTAIN VIEW COLLEGIATE (72)	78-77-82—237	t-61st
Apr. 23-25, 2004	Big 12 Championships (72)	83-79—162	t-49th

Date	Event (Par)	Score	Finish
Sept. 13-14, 2004	Ptarmigan Ram Fall Classic (72)	74-79-73—226	t-19th
Sept. 20-21, 2004	Ron Moore Women’s (72)	79-80-77—236	t-37th
Oct. 6-7, 2004	HEATHER FARR/CU MEMORIAL (72)	73-75—148	5th
Oct. 11-12, 2004	Bronco Fall Invite (72)	75-76-78—229	t-9th
Oct. 26-27, 2004	Kent Youel Invite (72)	75-73-74—222	t-12th
Feb. 21-22, 2005	Micosukee Championship (73)	75-82-82—239	t-41st
Mar. 8-9, 2005	Spartan Invite (71)	79-75-72—226	t-45th
Mar. 15-16, 2005	Anteater Invite (72)	78-81-77—236	t-19th
Mar. 26-27, 2005	MOUNTAIN VIEW COLLEGIATE (72)	74-74-73—221	21st
Apr. 5-6, 2005	BYU Dixie Classic (72)	82-72—154	t-5th
Apr. 22-24, 2005	Big 12 Championships (72)	70-82-81—233	t-19th

Career Statistics

Overall						Spring				Fall
Season	Rd	Strk	Avg	Lo	Rd		Strk	Avg	Rd		Strk	Avg
2001-02	26	2,063	79.35	72	13		1,035	79.62	13		1,028	79.08
2002-03	30	2,336	77.87	72	15		1,182	78.80	15		1,154	76.93
2003-04	29	2,302	79.38	71	13		1,047	80.54	16		1,255	78.44
2004-05	31	2,370	76.45	70	17		1,359	79.94	14		1,061	75.79
Totals	116	9,071	78.20	70	58		4,623	79.71	58		4,498	77.55

Top-5 Finishes: (3), 2002-03 (1), 2004-05 (2)
Top-10 Finishes: (5), 2001-02 (1), 2002-03 (1), 2003-04 (1), 2004-05 (2)
Subpar Rounds: (2), 2003-04 (1), 2004-05 (1)