The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
2026-27 Women's Golf Roster
Roster
Anastasia Hekkonen
- Class:
- Junior
- High School:
- Loretto School in Edinburgh, Scotland
- Hometown:
- Helsinki, Finland
Career Awards / Honors:
SEC Golfer of the Week (Sept. 17)
2024-25 Folds of Honor Collegiate Winner
2024-25 WGCA All-American Scholar
2024-25 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
2025-26 (Sophomore at Kentucky): Finished the season two tournaments short, earning a 73.3 stroke average across just 11 events and 31 rounds … Had 11 rounds of par-or-better … Contributed to the team total 80.6 percent of the time (25-of-32), fourth best on the team … Had six top-20 finishes and four top-10 finishes, including an individual title at the Folds of Honor Collegiate to start the season … Led the Folds of Honor Collegiate wire-to-wire, the first collegiate championship of her college career, on career-best 209 (-7) … There, she put up a 66 (-6) in the first round, which at the time tied the fourth-best, 18-hole round in program history, before following that up with a 72 and 71 to be crowned champion … She won by four shots, and she didn’t record a bogey until 26 holes in, while she only recorded four bogeys altogether.
2024-25 (Freshman at Kentucky): Averaged 74.3 stoke average through 21 rounds (18 in the lineup) and seven tournaments (six in the lineup) … Contributed 13 of her 18 rounds toward the team total … Had four rounds of par-or-better … Earned one finish in the top 15 this season, finishing T13 at the Charles Schwab Women’s Collegiate Invitational in the fall on a career-best 217 (+4) … Also had two other finishes in the top 30 …Had her best round of the season also at the Charles Schwab Women’s Collegiate Invitational but in the spring event on a 68 (-2) in the first round.
PREP: Anastasia Hekkonen, a Helsinki, Finland, native, attended Loretto School in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she was a three-year letterwinner on its golf team … There, she helped her team to a recent win at the 2023 HMC Foursomes Regional Championship … She also snagged the 2023 Swift Tour School Championship individual title … Described as a leader on and off the golf course, Hekkonen was named the 2023 co-captain of Loretto Golf Academy … The Wildcat also played on the Junior Solheim Cup circuit, Finnish Tour and Finnish Junior Tour … She rallied numerous top finishes on those circuits, including winning a Finnish Junior Golf Tour event, a Finnish PGA Golf Tour event and the Finnish International Junior U16 Championship, all of which came in 2022 … For those accomplishments, she was named the Finnish Junior Amateur Ranking winner and the Girl Junior of the Year winner, by the Finnish Golf Managers Association, at the end of 2022 … In 2023, she came in ninth place at the R&A Girls Amateur Championship … In Spring 2024, she finished in 10th place at the European Nations Championship and in Summer 2024, she represented Finland at the Girls European Championship.
Personal: Born in Helsinki, Finland, on September 12, 2006 … Daughter of Aleksandr Hekkonen and Nadja Nefedova … Has one sister, Maria Hekkonen … Outside of golf, she enjoys horseback riding, tennis and ice skating.
