Louise Ridderstrom Class: Freshman Hometown: Stocksund, Sweden High School: Danderyd Gymnasium Height: 5-5 R/L: Right

Junior Golf -- Three-year member of the Swedish National Team ... Participated in the 2011 European Girls Team Championship and helped lead Sweden to a seventh-place finish ... She tied for 57th individually ... Recorded six Top 10 results in 13 starts on the European junior amateur circuit, highlighted by third-place finishes at the Skandia Tour Elite 5 and the Skandia Junior Open ... Also tied for sixth at the Soderberg Ladies Masters, playing as an amateur in a professional event ... In 2010 she recorded four Top 10 results in 11 starts, topped by a third-place finish at the Spanish International Ladies Amateur Championship ... Also placed fourth at the JM Slag Flickor, seventh at the British Girls Golf Championship, and tied for ninth at the French International Ladies Junior Amateur Championship ... Helped Sweden to a fourth-place result at the 2010 European Girls Team Championship ... She placed eighth in the 2009 European Young Masters and also won the Skandia Cup (Swedish age group championship) twice.

Personal -- Plays out of the same club -- The Golf Club of Stockholm -- that current UCLA senior Pontus Widegren represented as a junior player ... In 2008, she and Widegren led Danderyd Gymnasium School to the Swedish (high school) golf championship ... Has a younger sister, Linnea, who plays golf and tennis ... Father Lars was a member of the Swedish National Hockey Team ... Mother Helena was a gymnast ... Chose UCLA for its golf program and her connection to the team ... Favorite athletes are Swiss tennis legend Roger Federer and Swedish golf star Annika Sorenstam ... Undeclared major with interests in Economics.