Illinois Wesleyan senior Olivia Kief had a career-low 77 in the second round of the 2016 IWU Fall Classic. She has a 17-round career average of 87.03.
In October 2016, Kief was elected as the Homecoming Queen at Illinois Wesleyan.
A business administration (marketing) major at Illinois Wesleyan, she is the daughter of Troy and Terri Kief.
Why you chose to attend Illinois Wesleyan: Kathy Niepagen’s superb (and very persistent) recruiting skills
IWU class you’re most qualified to teach: Advanced Golf
The hardest challenge about being a Division III student-athlete is: Fitting nine push carts and 10 golf bags into the back of the smallest van at IWU
Worst grade in a class you ever got – what and when? A C- is Barb Rath’s keyboarding class my freshman year of high school
I’m deathly afraid of ... : Trees and golf carts
Worst habit: Ice chewing
Most expensive traffic ticket: A $20 parking ticket two weeks ago
Language I’d like to learn: African Click Language
The longest I could survive without my cell phone: Probably a week
One word your mother or father would use to describe you: Driven
Favorite sports figure: Payne Stewart
My greatest moment in sports was: Winning my conference and regional all in the same week my senior year of high school
The best player I ever faced was: Klosterman
Worst dresser on my team: We were the best-dressed team in D-III until Melanie Wolf and her Under Armor-over-the-polo/leggings-under-the-khaki-shorts style came to IWU
Thing that’s been in my fridge the longest: Well I haven’t bought groceries since the first week of school so not much is left
Person I’m dying to have dinner with: John Stamos
Favorite food: Anything Mother T makes
Vegetable I won’t eat: Brussels Sprouts
Pepsi or Coke? Coke
Favorite TV show: "Friday Night Lights"
Favorite musical group: Fleetwood Mac
Favorite movie: “Forrest Gump”
If a movie were made of my life, I would like the following person to play me: Amanda Bynes
If my life were on TV as a reality show, I’d call it: “Olivia Kief: Pretty Unsure About Everything ft. Morris, IL”
The person in history I would most like to meet is: Princess Diana
My dream job would be: A head coach of a college golf team
Place I’d most like to live: Northern California or Morris, Illinois
If you come back in another life, what would you like to return as: The person who invented Crocs
Two things that are tops on my “bucket list”: 1) Go to Ireland 2) Play Augusta
My possession that would fetch the most on eBay: My 2002 Envoy
Who is the luckiest person in the world? Kathy Niepagen….she wins everything
What I miss most about being in the third grade: My K Swiss shoes
