Gov. Kim Reynolds is reacting to the murder of ISU student Celia Barquin Arozamena, also making the comparison to the death of Mollie Tibbetts. "It's just a horrific, horrific, senseless death again, so we're learning more details. As I said before, one of my number one priorities as a governor of this state is to make sure that our people are safe," said Reynolds.The Governor made those remarks while signing a proclamation, declaring this Professional Women in Building Week in Iowa. The week highlights Iowa women in the building and trade industry. Gov. Kim Reynolds is reacting to the murder of ISU student Celia Barquin Arozamena, also making the comparison to the death of Mollie Tibbetts. Advertisement "It's just a horrific, horrific, senseless death again, so we're learning more details. As I said before, one of my number one priorities as a governor of this state is to make sure that our people are safe," said Reynolds. The Governor made those remarks while signing a proclamation, declaring this Professional Women in Building Week in Iowa. The week highlights Iowa women in the building and trade industry.<doc-sep>Hundreds gathered on the Iowa State University campus last night to remember the life of a celebrated student athlete. Celia Barquin Arozamena was murdered Monday while playing golf on a course in Ames. Anna Yurrick is a missionary with St. Thomas Aquinas Church. She knew Barquin through their shared Catholic faith. “Yes, she was an amazing golfer. Yes, she was a terrific engineering student. Yes, she even died a horrific death. But this is not actually who she was. Celia was a woman of greatness-great faith, great joy, great love,” Yurrick says. Barquin Arozamena was from Spain and came to Iowa Sate to play golf and ended up as the 2018 Big 12 Conference Medalist. Her boyfriend, Carlos Negrin Bolaños, shared their story. And made a request. “On your way home, please call your mother, it sounds something to be so simple, but she has asked me, if you take something from this, call mom, tell her you love her. It’s so easy. It doesn’t take a minute, I promise you, she’ll be forever grateful,” Negrin says. Barquin’s coach, teammates and others all offered tributes to a woman they say worked hard, found a second home and family in Ames, and will be dearly missed. Barquin Arozamena was to be honored at the Iowa State football game on Saturday as the school’s female athlete of the year. That ceremony will now be a tribute to her life. (Thanks to Amy Mayer, Iowa Public Radio/Photo courtesy of ISU News Service)<doc-sep>Cyclone community mourns death of star ISU golfer Celia Barquin Arozemena, 22, found dead at golf course Monday morning Share Shares Copy Link Copy Hide Transcript Show Transcript WEBVTT REACT. CYNTHIA: HEAR FROM STUDENTS WHO ARE IN MOURNING TODAY. AND CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR SAFETY. STEVE: IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY AND ITS GOLFING COMMUNITY ARE MOURNING THE LOSS TONIGHT OF ONE OF THE GREATEST CYCLONE GOLFERS IN SCHOOL HISTORY. SHAINA: WE HAVE TEAM 8 COVERAGE OF THIS STILL DEVELOPING STORY. SENIOR REPORTER TODD MAGEL AND LAUREN DONOVAN, ARE AT THE COLDWATER GOLF LINKS. STEVE: CYNTHIA FODOR IS ON THE ISU CAMPUS TONIGHT. AND, SPORTS DIRECTOR SCOTT REISTER IS IN STUDIO. SHAINA: THE BODY OF CELIA BARQUIN AROZAMENA WAS FOUND AT THE COLDWATER GOLF LINKS MID-MONDAY MORNING AFTER IT WAS REPORTED THAT A GOLFER WAS MISSING. THE GOLF COURSE IS LOCATED JUST SOUTHEAST OF JACK TRICE STADIUM AND THE IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS. STEVE: KCCI SENIOR REPORTER TODD MAGEL IS LIVE ON THE SCENE TONIGHT, WITH NEW DETAILS IN THIS VERY TRAGIC AND DISTURBING CASE. TODD? TODD: STEPHEN SHAINA AROZAMENA , PLAYED GOLF HERE ALMOST EVER DAY TO PRACTICE. SHE WAS DOING WHAT SHE LOVED WHEN SHE WAS BRUTALLY MURDERED , HER BODY LEFT NEAR THE NINTH HOLE. POLICE SAY THE MAN WHO KILLED HER, ADMITTED HE WANTED TO RAPE AND KILL SOMEONE. >> I ALWAYS WANTED TO WIN A TOURNAMENT FOR IOWA STAGE. ADD TODD: CELIA BARQUIN AROZAMENA, WAS A BELOVED CHAMPION IOWA STATE GOLFER WHO DIED ON THE VERY GOLF COURSE WHERE SHE RECORDED THIS INTERVIEW JUST 4 MONTHS AGO. POLICE SAY THIS HOMELESS MAN, 22-YEAR-OLD COLLIN DANIEL RICHARDS STABBED HER SEVERAL TIMES. HE LEFT HER TO DIE NEAR THE 9 TH HOLE LATE MONDAY NIGHT. -- LATE MONDAY MORNING. >> SHE HAD BEEN STABBED IN THE UPPER TORSO, HEAD AND NECK. TODD: RICHARDS APPEARED IN STORY COUNTY DISTRICT COURT TODAY. HE’S CHARGED WITH FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND IS BEING HELD ON $5 MILLION BOND. HE DID NOT SPEAK IN COURT. POLICE SAY EVEN THEY ARE SHOCKED BY THE BRUTAL KILLING IN SUCH A PUBLIC PLACE >> STILL VERY TROUBLING THAT SOMETHING THAT THIS WOULD HAPPEN IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, IN A COMMUNITY THAT IS AS SAFE AS AMES IS. TODD: INVESTIGATORS SAY THEY SEARCHED THE WOODS NEAR THE GOLF COURSE AFTER WORKERS FOUND AROZAMENA’S BODY IN A POND NEAR HER ABANDONED GOLF BAG. ANOTHER MAN IN THE WOODS TOLD POLICE ABOUT RICHARDS AND HIS FRIGHTENING URGE. >> WHO MADE STATEMENTS ABOUT HAVING AN URGE TO RAPE AND KIL WOMEN. TODD: POLICE FOUND A TENT RICHARDS WAS LIVING IN. EVENTUALLY, THEY FOUND HIM WALKING IN AN NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR THE GOLF COURSE, COVERED IN SCRATCHES. >> RICHARDS SAID THAT AT SOME POINT, HE WENT TO ANOTHER ADDRESS AND BADE. THE PEOPLE AT THAT LOCATION DESCRIBED HIM AS A DISHEVELED, COVERED IN BLOOD, SAND AND WATER. TODD: RICHARDS HAS A LONG CRIMINAL HISTORY. COURT RECORDS SHOW THAT SINCE 2014, HE’S BEEN CHARGED WITH ABUSING A FORMER GIRLFRIEND, USING A BASEBALL BAT TO SMASH A VEHICLE WINDOW AND BURGLARIZING A GAS STATION. POLICE SAY THERE IS KNOW CONNECT BETWEEN RICHARDS AROZAMENA. -- BETWEEN RICHARDS AND IT APPEARS THAT SHE WAS IN THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME. >> IT IS A WRONGFUL THING -- AN AWFUL THING THAT IS HAPPEN. THERE WILL BE OTHER ARRESTS IN- THE CASE. EVEN THOUGH IT APPEARS THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO HELPED RICHARDS AFTER THE MURDER. THERE MAY BE MORE TO COME PERIODICALLY OUR LIVE IN AMES, TODD MAGEL, KCCI 8 NEWS, IOWA’S NEWS LEADER. STEVE: WE HAVE REACTION FROM SPAIN TODAY. BARQUIN AROZAMENA’S BROTHER ANDRES SPOKE WITH THE MEDIA IN SPAIN TODAY ABOUT THE DEATH OF HIS SISTER. >> WELL WE ARE ALL VERY AFFECTED BY WHAT HAS HAPPENED. AND WE WOULD ASK THAT YOU RESPECT THE PAIN THAT FMAILY IS THE FAMILY IS GOING THROUGH AS MANY ARE LITTLE MORE PRIVACY. THANK YOU. STEVE: RESIDENTS IN PUENTE SAN MIGUEL WERE SHOCKED TO HEAR OF THE MURDER. TODAY, THE WHOLE COMMUNITY OBSERVED A MOMENT OF SILENCE. THE CITY COUNCIL ALSO DECLARED 3 DAYS OF MOURNING FOR BARQUIN AROZAMENA. PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS ACROSS EUROPE ARE NOW WEARING BLACK RIBBONS IN HER HONOR. THIS NEWS IS SHOCKING TO THE ENTIRE IOWA STATE ATHLETIC COMMUNITY. SPORTS DIRECTOR SCOTT REISTER IS HERE NOW WITH REACTION. SCOTT, WHAT ARE THEY SAYING? SCOTT: MY TEAM WAS IN A TOURNAMENT IN MICHIGAN WHEN THEY GOT THE NEWS AND THEY GOT BACK TO AMES AND STAYED TOGETHER IN A TEAM HOTEL LAST NIGHT ALONG WITH THE MEN’S GOLF TEAM. THE PAST 24 HOURS HAVE BEEN UNIMAGINABLE HARD. THE WOMEN’S COACH CHRISTY MARTIN’S DESCRIBED THE CONVERSATION SHE HAD WITH CELIA’S MOTHER. >> THERE WAS A LOT OF TRUST THAT SHE PUT IN ME AND I DON’T TAKE THAT TRUST LIGHTLY. THE PARENTS A LOT OF TRUST IN ME LET. THEIR STUDENTS COME TO IOWA STATE A LOT OF TRUST THAT THEY PUT IN A PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY AND IN ME. AND, IT WAS VERY HARD, BUT I GUESS WHAT MEANT THE MOST TO ME WAS THAT SHE SAID, SHE WAS HAPPY EVERY DAY THAT SHE WAS THERE, AND EVEN THOUGH ALL OF THIS HAS HAPPENED, IF WE HAD THIS TO DECIDE ALL OVER AGAIN, WE WOULD STILL SEND HER TO IOWA STAGE. >> THE BEGINNING OF WHAT I THINK WILL BE A VERY LONG HEALING PROCESS. PATTERN THINK YOU CAN PUT A TIMELINE ON HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE. FOR THIS COMMITTEE COME AT THIS INSTITUTION AND OUR ATHLETICS PROGRAM TO EVER OVERCOME THIS. SCOTT: ISU WAS PLANNING TO HONOR CELIA AS 2018 FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR AT THIS SATURDAY’S FOOTBALL GAME. THE UNIVERSITY SAYS THEY STI PLAN TO DO SO. THE FANS ARE ASKED TO WEAR YELLOW AND THE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WILL HAVE STICKERS ON THE HELMETS. SHANA? SHAINA: THANKS, SCOTT. BARQUIN AROZAMENA WAS AT THE HEIGHT OF HER CAREER AFTER WINNING A MAJOR TITLE FOR THE CYCLONES. KCCI’S LAUREN DONOVAN TAKES A LOOK BACK AT HER MANY Y ACCOMPLISHMENTS. LAUREN, SHE HAD SUCH A PROMISING FUTURE THAT WAS CUT TO SHORT. LAURA: SUDDENLY AT THE -- LAUREN:’S CERTAINLY AT THE HEIGHT OF HER CAREER. SHE WAS ANOTHER MOST DECORATED FEMALE GOLFERS THE UNIVERSITY HAS EVER SEEN. >> THE IOWA STATE WOMEN’S GOLF TEAM IS ON IT’S WAY TO A SCHOOL RECORD AND LEADING THE WAY IS CELIA BARQUIN AROZAMENA. >> I CAN’T IMAGINE, YOU SEND SOMEONE OFF TO PLAY COLLEGE GOLF , AND TO HAVE THE SUCCESS THAT SHE HAD COME AND LOOKED LIKE SHE WAS GOING TO HAVE, IF AND WHEN SHE DECIDED TO TURN PROFESSIONAL. >> SHE FINDS A WAY AND ALWAYS HAS, ARGUABLY THE MOST DECORATE D PLAYER EVER RECRUITED BY IOWA STAGE. LAUREN: CELIA BARQUIN AROZAMENA WAS THE FIRST MEMBER, OF THE IOWA STATE WOMEN’S GOLF TEAM TO EVER TAKE HOME THE BIG 12 INDIVIDUAL TITLE. AND JOHN WALTERS, IOWA STATE SPORTS ANNOUNCER SAT DOWN WITH HER AFTER THAT TOURNAMENT. >> IT WAS HUGE, I ALWAYS WANTED TO WIN A TOURNAMENT FOR IOWA STATE. >> WELL FIRST OF ALL THE BIG 12 CONFERENCE IS PROBABLY THE TOUGHEST CONFERENCE IN THE NATION. LAUREN: CHAD PITTS OF THE IOWA GOLF ASSOCIATION HAS SEEN ALL THE GOLF GREATS IN THE STATE AND HE SAYS, THAT IS A REAL FEAT TO ACCOMPLISH. >> AND THEN SHE GOES ON IN THE SUMMER, TO QUALIFY FOR THE U.S. WOMEN’S OPEN WHICH IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO DO. LAUREN: THE YOUNG WOMAN FROM PUENTE SAN MIGUEL, SPAIN CALLED THIS COLDWATER COURSE HOME WHILE IN AME >> BARQUIN AROZAMENA HAS PLAYED AT COLDWATER IN AMES COUNTLESS TIMES. SHE PROBABLY KNOWS EVERY NOTE AND CRANNY OF THIS COURSE. A PROMISING CAREER ENDED IN THE VERY PLACE THAT HELPED MOLD BARQUIN AROZAMENA INTO A TOP COMPETITOR >> IT IS REMARKABLE TO THINK THAT BEFORE ARRIVING HERE IN AMES, SHE COULD NEARLY SPEAK ANY ENGLISH. SHE WAS FINISHING UP IN THIS LAST MUSTER AFTER EXHAUSTING HER ELIGIBILITY WITH THE, A CIVIL ENGINEERING DEGREE AT IOWA STATE UNIVERSIT PERIODIC REPORTING LIVE IN AMES, LAUREN DONOVAN, KCCI 8 NEWS, IOWA’S NEWS LEADER. SHAINA: STUDENTS ON THE IOWA STATE CAMPUS ARE IN MOURNING TODAY AFTER LEARNING ABOUT THE MURDER. STEVE: KCCI’S CYNTHIA FODOR IS ALSO IN AMES TONIGHT.<doc-sep>
A former Iowa State University golfer has been found dead at a golf course, and a man has been charged with murder.Police said in a news release that 22-year-old Celia Barquin Arozamena was found dead Monday at Coldwater Golf Links in Ames and officers determined she had died after being assaulted. Officers 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.They said 22-year-old Collin Daniel Richards has been charged with first-degree murder.Additional details weren't immediately available.Barquin Arozamena was the 2018 Big 12 champion and Iowa State Female Athlete of the Year. The university says 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. "Celia had an infectious smile, a bubbly personality and anyone fortunate enough to know her was blessed... Our Cyclone family mourns the tragic loss of Celia, a spectacular student-athlete and ISU ambassador." - ISU Athletic Director Jamie Pollard. "She loved Iowa State and was an outstanding representative for our school. We will never forget her competitive drive to be the best and her passion for life." - Iowa State head women's golf coach Christie Martens.ISU GOLF TEAM WITHDRAWS FROM TOURNAMENTThe Iowa State women’s golf team has withdrawn from competition at the East & West Match Play in Ann Arbor, Mich. The Cyclones won their semifinals match of the championship bracket yesterday with a 3-2 victory over Oregon State, and were scheduled to face UC Davis in the finals today. The team has returned to Ames to be with friends and family to grieve the loss of their former teammate Celia Barquin Arozamena, who died yesterday.EXCLUSIVE: Golfer's 911 call led police to woman's bodyThe Associated Press contributed to this report. A former Iowa State University golfer has been found dead at a golf course, and a man has been charged with murder. Police said in a news release that 22-year-old Celia Barquin Arozamena was found dead Monday at Coldwater Golf Links in Ames and officers determined she had died after being assaulted. Officers 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. They said 22-year-old Collin Daniel Richards has been charged with first-degree murder. Additional details weren't immediately available. Barquin Arozamena was the 2018 Big 12 champion and Iowa State Female Athlete of the Year. The university says 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. "Celia had an infectious smile, a bubbly personality and anyone fortunate enough to know her was blessed... Our Cyclone family mourns the tragic loss of Celia, a spectacular student-athlete and ISU ambassador." - ISU Athletic Director Jamie Pollard. "She loved Iowa State and was an outstanding representative for our school. We will never forget her competitive drive to be the best and her passion for life." - Iowa State head women's golf coach Christie Martens. ISU GOLF TEAM WITHDRAWS FROM TOURNAMENT The Iowa State women’s golf team has withdrawn from competition at the East & West Match Play in Ann Arbor, Mich. The Cyclones won their semifinals match of the championship bracket yesterday with a 3-2 victory over Oregon State, and were scheduled to face UC Davis in the finals today. The team has returned to Ames to be with friends and family to grieve the loss of their former teammate Celia Barquin Arozamena, who died yesterday. EXCLUSIVE: Golfer's 911 call led police to woman's body The Associated Press contributed to this report.