Ananthi Vivek

Photo by: Tony Harman

Height:
5-1
Class:
Sophomore
Hometown:
Chennai, India
High School:
Inventure Academy

2025-26 (First Year): Played in 14 rounds as a true freshman, spanning five tournaments with four of those competitions coming during the spring season... Compiled a 75.86 stroke average ... Recorded one top 20 finish, that coming as an individual at the Red Rocks Invitational in Sedona, Ariz., where she tied for 15th at 5-over, logging her season-best 54-hole score of 221 ... Shot a season-best 70 in the final round ... After playing her first three tournaments as an individual, she made the team lineup for her final two, tying for 64th overall at the Chevron Silverado Showdown at 12-over and then at the NCAA Waco Regional, finishing in 54th place at 17-over ... Made her collegiate debut at the weather-shortened Colonel Wollenberg Ram Classic, tying for 64th with a 36-hole score of 11-over.

Before CU: Won the 2025 Nepal Amateur Open in June with a 54-hole score of even-par, 216 to highlight a gap year where she trained at the Tarun Sardesai Golf Academy during the 2024-25 season ... Placed third at the IGU Eastern India, Amateur Girls, Ladies Category in May 2025 ... Had a strong summer of 2024 with three top 13 finishes on the Future Champions Golf Tour, highlighted by a fifth place showing at the FCG Callaway Collegiate Championship in Palm Springs, Calif ... She also placed seventh at the FCG Collegiate National Championship in Encinitas, Calif., shooting even-par at that 54-hole event ... Tied for 13th, out of 100 girls, at the FCG Callaway World Championship ... Had seven top 20 finishes in national tournaments in India while winning five south zone tournaments and seven club events ... In 2023 she qualified to represent the TamiNadu Ladies Team as their amateur at the India National Games at the Delhi Golf Club ... A competitive squash player, she won an individual title at the 2019 International School Sports Organization National Games.

Best Career Round in Competition: 67 (-3), March 2025, Faldo Junior Tour, Al Ain Equestrian, Shooting & Golf Club, UAE

Academics: Majoring in Economics at Colorado with a minor in Business ... A member of the 2025-26 Big 12 Academic All-Rookie Team and the Herbst Academic Center's 4.0 Club.

Personal: She is the daughter of Sriya Chari and Vivek Chandrasekharan ... Her mother was a professional table tennis player... Has a sister, Anika, who also plays golf ... Family has lived in India, China, Singapore and the United States (she was born in Cary, N.C.) ... Her original spoken language was Mandarin ... Enjoys Indian Classical Dance, playing other racket sports (tennis, squash, badminton), and traveling ... Favorite team is the Chennai Super Kings, an IPL Cricket team, and favorite athlete is Serena Williams ... Co-Founder of Saree Stories in Chennai, which collected old handloom sarees from women in Chennai and used them to create potli handbags, selling over 1,000 with the proceeds going toward empowering disabled women.