April 22, 2018
LINCOLN, NE—Vanderbilt’s Kristin Quah made a valiant comeback attempt but couldn’t catch Arkansas State’s Haley Richard in the USBC singles semi-final Saturday afternoon.
Richard, a second-team All-American in 2018, won the match, 224-202, after starting the game with five strikes in six frames. Quah, coming off the NCAA team championship with her Commodores, sustained an early 7-10 split but rallied with four strikes of her own to close the gap.
Richard would eventually finish second to Stephanie Schwartz, a four-time first-team All-American at Stephen F. Austin.
Quah, a junior from Singapore, had a spectacular year, earning third-team All-America honors while also becoming the first Vanderbilt student-athlete to win the prestigious NCAA Elite 90 Award, symbolic of the highest grade point average at each sport’s national championship. Kristin carries a 3.953 (one A-) in biomedical and electrical engineering.