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Olivia Kief

Olivia Kief

  • Award
    Featured Titan
  • Week Of
    10/12/2016
  • Sport
    Women's Golf
  • Bio
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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




 


Athlete Awards
Date Athlete Sport
3/23/2016 Matthew Mardis Baseball
3/9/2016 Nia Joiner Women's Track and Field
2/24/2016 Miles Ebell Men's Lacrosse
2/10/2016 Derek Andersen Men's Track and Field
1/20/2016 Kevin Weisling Men's Swimming and Diving
1/6/2016 Brian Nelms Men's Basketball
12/18/2015 Kirsten Slaughter Women's Swimming and Diving
12/2/2015 Samantha Ellsworth Women's Basketball
11/18/2015 Mary Kate Schmidt Women's Soccer
11/4/2015 Kevin Slawkowski Football
10/21/2015 Michael Kelley Football
10/7/2015 Eric Gilbert Men's Soccer
9/23/2015 Tess Bottorff Women's Soccer
9/9/2015 Karson Taphorn Women's Golf
8/26/2015 Mary Rankin Women's Volleyball
8/12/2015 Artie Checchin Football
7/21/2015 Dennie Bridges Alumni
6/22/2015 Chloe Montgomery Softball
6/4/2015 Kenny Wienckowski Men's Golf
5/20/2015 Kelli Herlitz Women's Track and Field
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