Danielle Ujimori aced her first assignment of the summer break.

When the Mid-Pacific graduate headed home after her freshman year at Nevada, Wolf Pack women’s golf coach Kathleen Takaishi tasked her with playing in three tournaments before returning to Reno for the fall semester.

Ujimori picked the Manoa Cup to start her summer series and emerged from the five-day grind as the state amateur match-play champion.

A day after sinking two putts of at least 30 feet on Oahu Country Club’s back nine in a semifinal victory, Ujimori rolled her confidence on the greens into Friday’s women’s championship match and drained a 25-footer to punctuate a 5-and-4 victory over Punahou junior Karissa Kilby.

“It’s huge for me,” Ujimori said before taking the champion’s plunge into the OCC pool. “In junior golf I always finished around the middle or a little higher than middle, I was never at the top. So it’s really nice to know that college has shaped my game and me as a player and a person to be able to come out here and compete at this level.”

The women’s tournament was introduced at the Manoa Cup in 2016 and Mari Nishiura won the first two titles as a member of Nevada’s women’s golf team. Ujimori gave the Wolf Pack claim to a third Manoa Cup crown in four years by finishing all four of her matches before reaching the 16th hole. This after carding a 78 in Monday’s qualifying round and entering match play as the 15th seed in the 16-player bracket.

“It’s kind of scary how confident she is,” said Carina Tanaka, a longtime friend and Ujimori’s caddie for the week. “If she doesn’t make a putt, she still has confidence that she’ll do better on the next hole.”

Her resilience this week carried over from the end of her freshman season of college.

Ujimori didn’t play in Nevada’s fall schedule, and when she returned home for the winter break she reached out to Julie Miyagi, whom Ujimori had played for in a junior event. During their sessions at Mililani Golf Course, Ujimori said Miyagi helped unlock the power she’d picked up during weight training sessions at Nevada.

When she returned to Reno for the spring semester, Ujimori had added 30 yards off the tee and had teammates asking, “Hi, can I meet you again, because this is not Danni.’ ”

She worked her way into the lineup for the last four events of the season and posted a 69 at the Fresno State Classic before heading to the Mountain West Conference championship at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif.

With the course still set up for the ANA Inspiration, the first major of the LPGA Tour season, about a week prior, Ujimori struggled to rounds of 83 and 81 in the first two days. But she rebounded to close the tournament with a team-low round of 72 to help the Wolf Pack jump into second place in the team standings, one shot behind champion San Diego State, for the highest finish in program history.

“I just felt like my swing was falling into place. My putting was slowly starting to come, too. Pieces were being put together,” Ujimori said. “It feels like a puzzle is finally being finished and flattened out. It’s becoming a lot more steady and lot more confident in my game. Not so much, ‘Am I going to make this?’ but ‘I’m going to make it.’ ”

Ujimori also credited former coach Jeff Ferry for shaping her fundamentals and the late Lance Suzuki for helping sharpen her short game as she prepared for college golf.

She took control early in her matchup with Kilby by dropping a close to 40-foot putt for birdie on the par-5 second hole and made a 20-footer on No. 5. She later drained a birdie from more than 30 feet away on the par-3 11th for the second straight day and fittingly snaked in another long putt to cap a quick 14 holes played in about 2 hours, 20 minutes.

“I was actually going for a two-putt on the last hole just to play it safe,” she said. “But I think I hit it a little harder than I intended and I’m glad that the hole got in the way.”

Kilby added a runner-up finish to her second at the Hawaii State Amateur Stroke Play Championship in March and will resume a hectic junior golf schedule with the U.S. Girls’ Junior Amateur qualifier at Wailea on Sunday followed by the King Auto Group 13-18 State Junior Championship starting Tuesday at Hokulia.

“I feel like I’ve gained more confidence in my game again,” Kilby said. “For a year I was in this slump and I wasn’t playing the way I knew I could. And still I know I haven’t seen my best golf, but I feel like it’s getting there and it’s reassuring because I’ve been practicing a lot.”