How’s this for a college career?

Three NCAA team championships. One NCAA individual championship. Twice a first-team, All-American selection. Once a second-team, All-American selection. Four times an All-Atlantic Coast Conference selection. Captain of the team as a senior.

Those are the highlights of Anna Grzebien’s incredibly impressive athletic resumé, and it’s doubtful there’s ever been a better one compiled by a Rhode Island-born-and-bred, intercollegiate student-athlete.

“It all went by so fast. It’s hasn’t sunk in yet,” said Grzebien, the former Narragansett High star who last week led Duke’s Lady Blue Devils to a third straight NCAA women’s golf championship.

After a dreadful opening round of 80, her highest of the year, left her 95th in the individual standings, Grzebien played the last three rounds in 4-under-par, moving all the way up to sixth — a display of determination and talent to equal her NCAA-winning, individual effort as a sophomore in 2005.

“I was not a happy camper, to say the least,” Grzebien said in describing her feelings after getting off to such a disappointing start.

Because it would be her last collegiate tournament — indeed, her last amateur tournament — and the Lady Blue Devils were seeking a third straight title, Grzebien said she felt she “put a little too much pressure on myself.”

Far from being devastated by her disappointing opening round, however, Grzebien was motivated by it.

“It fired me up,” she said. “I wanted to end my career on a high note. I wanted to go out on top.”

Which is what she did, finishing with rounds of 70, 72, and 70, as Duke joined Arizona State as the only winners of three consecutive women’s golf titles.

“She is an amazing part of the team — a great leader and team captain,” Duke sophomore Amanda Blumenhurst — the National Golf Coaches Association Player of the Year — said of Grzebien. “She did a great job this year. That she went 4-under the last three rounds shows what an amazing captain she is.”

And what a competitor she is.

“The type of girls coach [Larry] Brooks recruits at Duke are self-motivated and have strong personalities,” Grzebien said. “So I try to lead by example. If you have a bad round, don’t pack up your bags and check out. You have to stay positive.”

There could be no better example of that approach than Grzebien’s play in her final three collegiate rounds.

“You don’t want to give Anna a reason to start burning inside, and that is what the 80 did,” coach Brooks said. “She’s the type of person who’s going to get fueled by something like that.”

She always has been.

I remember playing a few holes with her one day at Agawam Hunt, before she was even in her teens. She had romped to victory in the 9-hole division of the state girls’ junior tournament and was hanging around the putting green while waiting for her two older sisters, Lauren and Mary Ellen — who both went on to play college golf at Northwestern — to finish their 18-hole rounds.

So we went out together to walk a few holes and, on the difficult, par-3 second — Agawam’s “signature” hole — she hit her tee shot just a few feet from the cup and tapped in for birdie. But then, on the par-5 third, she topped her drive into the water below the tee box.

Anna didn’t say a word. She didn’t flip a club, or kick the ground, or display any petulance. The Grzebien girls weren’t brought up to behave that way. But you could see by her blazing eyes that she “wasn’t a happy camper.” She teed up another ball and proceeded to make what would have been another birdie had she not mishit her initial tee shot.

That competitiveness has only increased, along with her talent, as she’s gotten older. It is part of what carried her to a truly outstanding collegiate career, and what now will propel her as she begins her career as a professional, starting next week in the New England Women’s Open at Weekapaug.

“I’m excited,” she said about turning pro. “I’ve wanted to do this since I was five years old.”

Grzebien said she never considered leaving school early.

“It never crossed my mind,” she said. “Golf isn’t like tennis, where you need to go out [on the pro tour] at age 16. There’s no rush. Those four years at school are something you can never get back.”

She’s at a place in her life now where she’s both looking forward eagerly to a pro career, and also looking back fondly on four, wonderful years at Duke.

“I’m excited about another challenge,” she said. “The members at Point Judith [Country Club] have been fantastic. They’ve given me so much support.”

After making her pro debut next week in the New England Open, Grzebien hopes to play in the U.S. Women’s Open. She was the medalist in initial qualifying — shooting a 68 that was much the best of the field at Fox Chapel, in Pittsburgh — and now will compete in regional qualifying June 11 in Rockville, Md. After that, she plans to play in Futures Tour events, mainly in the Northeast, this summer, before heading to the LPGA Q-School in the fall.

It should help that the final qualifying rounds for the LPGA Tour will be played at the LPGA International Legends course in Daytona Beach, where Grzebien just led Duke to another national title.

“It was pretty wild to get this last one and go out on top,” she said. “I couldn’t ask for a better way to end it all.”

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