Ex-iowa State golfer found dead at course
AMES, Iowa — A man was charged in the killing of a champion golfer from Spain, after the Iowa State University student’s body was found at a golf course in central Iowa.
Police said in a news release that Celia Barquin Arozamena was found dead Monday morning at Coldwater Golf Links in Ames, about 30 miles north of Des Moines. Officers determined the 22-year-old woman had also been assaulted.
Collin Daniel Richards, 22, was charged with first-degree murder.
Police were called to the golf course around 10:20 a.m. Monday after golfers found a golf bag with no one around it. Officers found a body some distance from the bag. Investigators have released no information on how Barquin died or whether she knew Richards. Policesaidrichardshasnoknown address.
Barquin was the 2018 Big 12 champion and Iowa State Female Athlete of the Year. The university said the native of Puente San Miguel, Spain, was finishing her civil engineering degree this semester after exhausting her eligibility at Iowa State in 2017-2018.
She was one of the most accomplished players in Cyclone golf history, the university said. In April, she became the second women’s golfer at Iowa State to earn medalist honors at a conference tournament when claiming the 2018 Big 12 Championship. She did it with a three-shot victory.
Barquin, who was ranked No. 69 nationally by Golfweek, ended her career as a Cyclone with a fourthstraight NCAA Regional appearance and earned All-big 12 Team honors for the third time — the second player in Iowa State’s history to do so.
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