Celia Barquín Arozamena
Spanish golfer
Celia Barquín Arozamena (6 July 1996 – 17 September 2018) was a Spanish amateur golfer. She won the 2018 European Ladies Amateur Championship.
On 17 September 2018 at 10:24 a.m., the Ames Police Department were called and discovered Barquín's dead body at the Coldwater Golf Links in Ames, Iowa. Collin Richards, a 22-year-old homeless man who had been living in an encampment near the golf course, was charged with her murder. An acquaintance said Richards had told him that he had "an urge to rape and kill a woman" according to The New York Times.
Career
Barquín was born in Puente San Miguel and educated in Torrelavega and then in Madrid. She spent two years in a residential training programme run by the Spanish Sports Council before moving to the United States, where she was a member of the Iowa State Cyclones women's golf team from 2014 to 2018 and was the Iowa State University Female Athlete of the Year for 2018.
She played for Spain at the 2015 and 2016 European Ladies' Team Championship, where the team finished third and second respectively. She won the 2018 European Ladies Amateur Championship held at the Penati Golf Resort in Slovakia, finishing a stroke ahead of Esther Henseleit. In the third round, she set a course record of 63.
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