Ananthi Vivek

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

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: 68 (-2), July 15, 2024, FCG Callaway World Championship, Westin Rancho Mirage Resort & Spa, Rancho Mirage, Calif.

Academics: Interested in Economics as a major at Colorado.

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.