Celia Barquín Arozamena had played some of the best golf courses in the world, but her promising life ended on a humble public course down the road from her college, Iowa State University. Ms. Barquín Arozamena, a top amateur golfer from Spain, was finishing up the first nine holes by herself on Monday morning at Coldwater Golf Links in Ames, Iowa, when a man attacked her, the police said. She was stabbed in the torso and neck, her body dumped in a pond next to the No. 9 tee box. The killing of Ms. Barquín Arozamena, who won the Big 12 women’s championship in April, has stunned the quiet college town of Ames and led her hometown in Spain to declare three days of mourning. Iowa State has said it will go ahead with a previously planned ceremony during halftime at the university’s football game on Saturday to honor Ms. Barquín Arozamena, 22, as the 2018 female athlete of the year. The university will also award her a posthumous diploma, granting her a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering.<doc-sep>AMES, Iowa (AP) - A homeless man attacked and killed a top amateur golfer from Spain who was playing a round alone near her university campus in central Iowa, leaving her body in a pond on the course, police said Tuesday. Collin Daniel Richards, 22, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Celia Barquin Arozamena, a student at Iowa State University. He was ordered jailed Tuesday on a $5 million, cash-only bond. Barquin was found Monday morning at Coldwater Golf Links in Ames, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Des Moines. Police were called to the course around 10:20 a.m. to investigate a possible missing female after golfers found a golf bag with no one around it. Officers found Barquin's body some distance from the bag, with several stab wounds to her upper torso, head and neck, according to the criminal complaint filed Tuesday. "It's still very troubling for something like this to happen in broad daylight in a community that is as safe as Ames is," Ames police Cmdr. Geoff Huff said at a news conference Tuesday. It is the second fatal stabbing of a female student in Iowa in recent months. An immigrant from Mexico is charged in the July 18 kidnapping and stabbing of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts, who vanished while out for a run in the small town of Brooklyn. Barquin, the 2018 Big 12 champion and Iowa State Female Athlete of the year, had no known prior relationship with Richards, Huff said. Richards, who faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison if convicted, reported in a financial affidavit that he has no job. Paul Rounds, a public defender assigned to represent him, filed paperwork asserting his right to not speak to investigators. Rounds declined comment. A police dog tracked Barquin's scent to a homeless encampment along a creek near the golf course, where Richards had been living in a tent, the complaint said. Officers found Richards with several fresh scratches on his face consistent with fighting, and a deep laceration in his left hand that he tried to conceal, it said. An acquaintance of Richards told investigators that the suspect had said in recent days that he had "an urge to rape and kill a woman," the complaint said. A second acquaintance told police that Richards arrived at his home on Monday appearing "disheveled and covered in blood, sand and water." He bathed and left with his clothes in a backpack. Investigators later recovered two pairs of shorts with blood stains and a knife that Richards allegedly gave to two other people after the slaying, the complaint said. Those two individuals were driving Richards out of town after the slaying, but he asked them to drop him off near the camp so he could get his tent. Officers later encountered and arrested him. The university said Barquin, a native of Puente San Miguel, Spain, was finishing her civil engineering degree this semester after exhausting her eligibility at Iowa State in 2017-2018. Iowa State President Wendy Wintersteen said in a statement on Twitter that she was "deeply saddened" by Barquin's death. She was one of the most accomplished players in Cyclone golf history. 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 fourth-straight 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. She was the third Cyclone women's golfer to compete in the U.S. Women's Open Championship, the university said. The team announced Tuesday it was pulling out of the East & West Match Play in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to be with friends and family and to grieve their loss. Head women's golf coach Christie Martens said in a release that Barquin was a well-loved "outstanding representative of our school." "We will never forget her competitive drive to be the best and her passion for life," Martens said.<doc-sep>
An Iowa State University golfer, who in 2018 won the Big 12 conference title, was found dead Monday on a golf course near the university. A 22-year-old man was charged with her murder, accused of what police described as a random act of violence. Celia Barquin Arozamena, originally from Spain, had this summer been named Iowa State Female Athlete of the Year. The 22-year-old had apparently been playing a round of golf at a course in Ames, Iowa, where her body was later found showing signs of an assault and struggle. Police reported that Collin Daniel Richards, who had a history of violent crime, was suspected of murdering Barquin Arozamena in an apparent act of random violence. An acquaintance of Richards’ told police the subject had recently expressed “an urge to rape and kill a woman,” according to the Des Moines Register. In recent years, he was found guilty of intimidation with a dangerous weapon related to a convenience store shoplifting incident; first-degree theft after he stole a pickup truck; and domestic assault when he put a woman he was arguing with in a headlock and dragged her outside, cutting off her airway. After golfers on Monday found a golf bag with no owner, police were called, and officers found Barquin Arozamena’s body nearby. They used dogs to track the scent to a temporary camp where Richards had been living. There, they found Richards with “several fresh scratches” on his face and a deep cut in his hand, according to the Associated Press. Barquin Arozamena was found with “several stab wounds” around her head, neck, and torso, police said. Another acquaintance told police that Richards showed up at his home, “disheveled and covered in blood, sand and water,” according to the AP. He bathed and changed there, and authorities later found two pairs of shorts with blood stains and a knife that he allegedly handed off to two people who planned to drive Richards out of town after the killing. Barquin Arozamena had completed her college athletics career at the end of the 2017–18 school year, but she remained at Iowa State to finish her civil engineering degree. She had had a remarkable college career. According to the AP, she was only the second women’s golfer at the school to medal at a conference tournament, and the third to compete in the U.S. Women’s Open Championship. She was also only the second athlete in the school’s history to be all-conference for three years.