Laura's career includes a string of accomplishments beginning in the mid-1990s, during her amateur years when she was named Atlantic Coast Conference champion, won the North-South Amateur Championship, achieved First-Team All-American, and was named Female Athlete of the Year—among other accomplishments. She went on to achieve two impressive LPGA Tour wins during the 2002 season. A year later, she was the second woman in history to compete in the Solheim Cup while pregnant.