NCAA ladies’s golf preseason rankings: Prime 30 groups, gamers for 2025-26

1. Stanford

• Closing 2024-25 rank: 1
• 2025 NCAA Championship end: Runner-up (gained stroke play)
• Returning: Paula Martin Sampedro (Jr.), Andrea Revuelta (Soph.), Megha Ganne (Sr.), Meja Ortengren (Soph.), Kelly Xu (Sr.), Nora Sundberg (Soph.), Leigh Chien (Soph.)
• Departed: Caroline Sturdza
• Arriving: Kaila Elsayegh (Fr.), Anna Tune (Fr.)
• Projected beginning lineup: Sampedro, Revuelta, Ganne, Ortengren, Xu

Scouting report: Cease us should you’ve heard this earlier than – Stanford might need assembled one of the best faculty staff ever. The Cardinal’s beginning 5 coming into the season has a mean World Newbie Golf Rating of seven.2. That’s not a typo. There have been no vital departures from final yr’s top-ranked squad that didn’t lose a stroke-play event and dropped solely two matches, the ACC semifinals and NCAA closing in opposition to Northwestern. And it appears as if a lot of Stanford’s core has gotten even higher this summer season. Sampedro gained each the Girls’s British Newbie and European Girls earlier than ending eighth on the AIG Girls’s Open, the place she was the low beginner. She continues to get higher across the greens and will problem Oregon’s Kiara Romero, amongst others, for the Annika Award. Revuelta had a much less busy summer season, although was third on the European Girls – and he or she’ll hopefully have a a lot more healthy sophomore season after battling a proper shoulder harm that saved her out for the primary half of final spring. Ganne entered final fall banged up as nicely, although what a distinction a yr makes as she’s coming off successful the U.S. Girls’s Newbie and can certainly construct on a junior yr the place she didn’t end worse than T-11 in 9 begins. After which there’s Ortengren, who simply gained final Sunday on the Girls European Tour. She was the Cardinal’s top-ranked participant as a freshman at No. 5 in Scoreboard’s rankings. The fifth spot needs to be Xu’s, although Sundberg, a former top-30 beginner, can’t be ignored as arguably one of the best sixth lady within the nation. Whereas an ideal season might be robust with Stanford’s high 4 gamers set to overlook the Windy Metropolis Collegiate in late September to compete within the World Newbie Staff Championship in Singapore, this staff ought to have little bother successful a sixth straight stroke-play title at La Costa. However as we’ve discovered, match play is unpredictable, with Stanford solely having three NCAA staff titles to point out for its dominance this previous decade below head coach Anne Walker.

2. Texas

• Closing 2024-25 rank: 6
• 2025 NCAA Championship end: Quarterfinalist (seventh in stroke play)
• Returning: Farah O’Keefe (Jr.), Cindy Hsu (Sr.), Lauren Kim (Jr.), Angela Heo (Sr.), Selina Liao (Jr.), Alisa Inprasit (Soph.), Emma von Hoffmann (Jr.)
• Departed: Bohyun Park, Tiffany Cao
• Arriving: Vivian Lu (Jr.; transferred from Washington)
• Projected beginning lineup: O’Keefe, Hsu, Kim, Lu, Heo

Scouting report: It’s arduous for the second-best staff within the nation to be flying below the radar, however such is the truth behind this Stanford juggernaut. Probably the most well-equipped squad to take down the Cardinal? It may be Texas, now in its second season below head coach Laura Ianello, who led the Longhorns into match play final spring at La Costa and returns the majority of her roster. “They’re hungry,” Ianello mentioned. “They undoubtedly know that we have been a closing eight staff final yr, however that wasn’t ok. They could have been a bit glad, however we felt like that was a mediocre end and we’re meant for a lot extra.” The depth is obvious with Texas boasting 5 gamers who will compete within the World Newbie Staff Championship this October. Two of these, O’Keefe and Kim, have been named to the preseason Annika Award Watch Checklist. O’Keefe had six top-4 finishes final yr, although no wins, earlier than ending runner-up on the Girls’s British Newbie this summer season. Kim didn’t play a lot this summer season earlier than struggling on the U.S. Girls’s Newbie, so she’ll have some rust to knock off to start out the autumn. However there’s a third Longhorn who may find yourself having one of the best season, and that’s Hsu, who made the quarterfinals of the Girls’s Western Newbie and Spherical of 16 on the U.S. Girls’s Newbie round a win on the LNGA Newbie. Hsu, who has labored arduous this summer season along with her teacher Candie Kung in Dallas, has but to win in faculty, although, maybe a results of placing an excessive amount of stress on herself. She’s additionally struggled with inconsistency, as she completed fortieth or worse thrice final spring. “My job this yr is to verify Cindy feels able to compete, feels assured and is aware of that she will win each week as a result of she will,” Ianello mentioned. Add in Lu, a top-60 beginner who transferred in from Washington, and Texas’ high 4 is one of the best of anybody not named Stanford. The fifth spot is a bit interchangeable, although be careful for Liao, who missed final spring with a right-thumb harm.

3. Oregon

• Closing 2024-25 rank: 3
• 2025 NCAA Championship end: Semifinalist (second in stroke play)
• Returning: Kiara Romero (Jr.), Suvichaya Vinijchaitham (Soph.), Karen Tsuru (Jr.), Tong An (Soph.), Darae Chung (Jr.)
• Departed: Tiffany Huang, Annika Varma, Sonja Tong, Yvonne Vinceri
• Arriving: Sophie Han (Fr.), Shyla Singh (Fr.)
• Projected beginning lineup: Romero, Vinijchaitham, Tsuru, Han, An

Scouting report: Oregon dug it out of the filth on the NCAA Championship final Could, overcoming again accidents to 2 starters and deploying a little-used sub to assist the Geese end second in stroke play and win a match. Head coach Derek Radley returns most of that staff, although Tiffany Huang determined this summer season that she’d flip professional as a substitute of coming again for her junior season. That mentioned, with two proficient freshmen coming in – Han and Singh, each ranked within the high 150 of WAGR – it wasn’t a assure that Huang would’ve even began most tournaments. Romero is arguably one of the best participant within the nation – and definitely essentially the most bodily imposing. Her wins at Huge Tens and the NCAA Gold Canyon Regional final spring may sign that she’s prepared to shut out extra tournaments this yr. Will she go to Q-College this fall? That’s unknown, although it’s extra doubtless we see Vinijchaitham chase an LPGA card. She’d be an enormous midseason loss for the Geese, although this program is used to such departures. Tsuru ought to proceed to be tremendous reliable, whereas An’s postseason run may give her a ton of confidence going into her sophomore season. Then there’s Chung, who stunned with a formidable summer season, posting some low rounds and 4 top-3s, together with a runner-up end on the Cal State Girls’s Newbie.

4. USC

• Closing 2024-25 rank: 8
• 2025 NCAA Championship end: Quarterfinalist (fifth in stroke play)
• Returning: Jasmine Koo (Soph.), Catherine Park (Sr.), Bailey Shoemaker (Jr.), Kylie Chong (Soph.)
• Departed: Cindy Kou, Joyce Jin
• Arriving: Elise Lee (Soph.; transferred from Northwestern), Sarah Hammett (Fr.)
• Projected beginning lineup: Koo, Park, Lee, Shoemaker, Chong

Scouting report: In relation to peaking on the proper time, USC simply didn’t do this final spring. Koo cooled off after a three-win fall. Shoemaker was hampered by a right-arm concern. Kou ended her profession having by no means actually replicated her first semester as a freshman. And Park’s putter wouldn’t enable her to drag this staff throughout the end line. However with the arrival of Lee, a key piece from Northwestern’s NCAA title squad, and Hammett arriving this season, head coach Justin Silverstein isn’t anticipating to get bit by an absence of depth this season. Koo made the Spherical of 16 on the U.S. Girls’s Newbie and if she improves off the tee, she’ll be a first-team All-American; she’s arguably one of the best putter within the nation. Park (4 runners-up and a win final season) missed the lower at Bandon, although Silverstein isn’t nervous. “I believe we’ll see one of the best Cathy sooner or later this yr,” he mentioned. “I like the place her heads at; tremendous grown up, and he or she has the reins this yr with the staff.” Lee has executed nothing however flip heads since stepping on campus this summer season. Shoemaker nonetheless isn’t 100%, however Chong is poised to take one other step after successful the SCGA Girls’s beginner this summer season, and Hammett may shock after an early-year droop that was primarily the byproduct of a household transfer to India.

5. Arizona State

• Closing 2024-25 rank: 7
• 2025 NCAA Championship end: Ninth
• Returning: Persistence Rhodes (Jr.), Beth Coulter (Sr.), Paula Schulz-Hanssen (Sr.), Isla McDonald-O’Brien (Soph.)
• Departed: Grace Summerhays
• Arriving: Johanna Axelsen (Fr.), Kate Dillon (Fr.), Pimpisa Rubrong (Fr.; arriving in spring)
• Projected beginning lineup: Rhodes, Coulter, Schulz-Hanssen, McDonald-O’Brien, Axelsen

Scouting report: A number of years in the past, head coach Missy Farr-Kaye checked out different high groups within the nation that have been flush with fourth- and fifth-year gamers – after which she checked out her younger staff, together with then freshmen Rhodes, Coulter and Schulz-Hanssen. “I believed, we have to mature and develop, and as soon as we get to that house, they’re going to be superb,” Farr-Kaye mentioned, “and they’re.” Quick ahead to now, and Arizona State is a veteran squad coming off lacking match play by a shot on the NCAA Championship. Additionally they missed out on a Huge 12 title in a playoff to in-state rival Arizona. To say this bunch is motivated can be an understatement. Rhodes, a redshirt junior, has taken off since making the GB&I Curtis Cup squad final summer season. She didn’t end exterior the highest 14 all season as a sophomore till the NCAA Championship, led the Solar Devils in almost each main statistical class final season, and he or she enters the autumn ranked a career-best twenty first in WAGR. Coulter, the staff’s gritty chief, and Schulz-Hanssen mixed for 9 top-10s final season, and like Rhodes, they each spent the summer season enjoying largely staff golf for his or her nations. McDonald-O’Brien performed each occasion final season out of necessity for the skinny Solar Devils, who had simply 5 on the roster, and he or she responded with 4 top-6s. After making the quarters of the Girls’s British Newbie this summer season, she may take one other huge step as a sophomore. The lineup needs to be rounded out by Rubrong, although she gained’t be a part of the staff till January due to some fall tournaments scheduled along with her native Thailand, together with the World Newbie Staff Championship, the place she’ll compete in opposition to three of her Arizona State teammates – Rhodes, Coulter and Schulz-Hanssen. In the meantime, at the very least one of many different two freshmen will get some fall run.

6. Duke

• Closing 2024-25 rank: 30
• 2025 NCAA Championship end: DNQ
• Returning: Andie Smith (Sr.), Katie Li (Jr.), Anna Canado Espinal (Soph.), Carla De Troia (Soph.), Martina Yu (Soph.)
• Departed: Rylie Heflin
• Arriving: Rianne Malixi (Fr.), Avery McCrery (Fr.)
• Projected beginning lineup: Malixi, Smith, Li, McCrery, Espinal

Scouting report: The seven-time NCAA champion Blue Devils haven’t completed higher than 14th at nationals since making the semifinals in 2021. They’ve additionally missed at regionals twice previously 4 seasons, together with final spring, once they adopted this system’s worse ACC end ever (tenth) with an Eleventh at their 12-team regional. However head coach Dan Brooks is feeling assured that Duke is about to return to nationwide prominence because of the arrival of freshmen Rianne Malixi and Avery McCrery. Malixi is ranked Eleventh in WAGR and recent off incomes co-medalist honors on the U.S. Girls’s Newbie; her world rating might be a lot better, too, if not for a again harm that knocked her out for a number of months earlier this yr after a torrid stretch that included wins on the U.S. Women’ Junior and U.S. Girls’s Newbie final summer season. McCrery was a first-team AJGA Rolex Junior All-American final yr and made match play at Bandon. Smith went the furthest of any Duke participant on the U.S. Girls’s Newbie, advancing to the Spherical of 16, and he or she’s coming off a constant junior season that featured a win amongst six top-20s. Li has in all probability underachieved to this point in faculty, although she had a pleasant summer season, qualifying for the U.S. Girls’s Open and ending second on the New Jersey Girls’s Newbie. The 2 sophomores didn’t miss a event final season, with De Troia having the higher scoring common however Espinal successful and posting two top-10s to De Troia’s zero. Espinal additionally has the higher WAGR of the 2, 292 to 545, so she’s doubtless obtained a leg up for the fifth spot to start the season.

7. Texas A&M

• Closing 2024-25 rank: 20
• 2025 NCAA Championship end: DNQ
• Returning: Vanessa Borovilos (Soph.), Cayetana Fernandez Garcia-Poggio (Jr.), Mia Nixon (Jr.), Sky Sudberry (Jr.), Kynadie Adams (Sr.)
• Departed: Lauren Nguyen
• Arriving: Louise Reau (Jr.; transferred from Georgia Southern); Scarlett Schremmer (Fr.), Natalie Yen (Fr.), Brynn Kort (Fr.), Avery Zweig (Fr.)
• Projected beginning lineup: Borovilos, Fernandez Garcia-Poggio, Schremmer, Reau, Yen

Scouting report: When reigning NCAA particular person champion Adela Cernousek bolted for the LPGA midseason, head coach Gerrod Chadwell was barely nervous his Aggies could not maintain nicely sufficient to make regionals. But, they completed fifth in a loaded Moon Golf subject, simply obtained into the postseason and have been a playoff away from advancing to the NCAA Championship. Each vital piece is again, too, and they’re going to mix with Chadwell’s greatest recruiting class ever and Georgia Southern switch Louise Reau, who’s simply exterior the highest 100 in WAGR. Reau didn’t play a lot this summer season, however the ultra-consistent ball-striker may flourish in the midst of the Aggies’ lineup. Fernandez Garcia-Poggio has underwhelmed in two years in Faculty Station and is coming off a missed lower on the U.S. Girls’s Newbie, however can she get again to being the expertise that rose to No. 2 on the planet? Maybe Texas A&M’s new No. 1 in Borovilos, who had a win and three seconds as a freshman. She additionally broke the U.S. Girls’s Newbie scoring document with a 63 at Bandon earlier than bowing out within the first spherical of match play. “She may actually break each document in program historical past,” Chadwell mentioned of Borovilos. As for the freshmen, Schremmer is essentially the most polished, and he or she and Yen will get loads of run. Kort wants to enhance her placing if she needs to contribute straight away whereas Zweig in all probability is at the very least a yr away. “The way in which they’ve carried themselves is they don’t seem to be intending on coming right here and sitting,” Chadwell mentioned of the freshmen. “They’re intending on coming in and enjoying, and so they need to do one thing nice collectively. … “It’s simply thrilling to have this innocence and vitality.” Nixon, who had top-10s this summer season on the Texas Girls’s Open and Texas Girls’s Newbie, may sneak up in some qualifiers, too.

8. LSU

• Closing 2024-25 rank: 12
• 2025 NCAA Championship end: T-10
• Returning: Rocio Tejedo (Soph.), Elsa Svensson (Sr.), Taylor Riley (Sr.), Josefin Widal (Soph.), Edit Hertzman (Sr.)
• Departed: Aine Donegan, Jordan Fischer, Samantha Olson
• Arriving: Francesca Fiorellini (Soph.; transferred from UCLA), Ryleigh Knaub (Fr.), Lucia Iraola (Fr.), Perla Sol Sigurbrandsdottir (Fr.)
• Projected beginning lineup: Tejedo, Fiorellini, Svensson, Riley, Knaub

Scouting report: The Tigers didn’t actually go anyplace after shedding their Huge 3 from two years in the past – Ingrid Lindblad, Latanna Stone and Carla Tejedo. They shared the staff title on the Darius Rucker amongst seven top-3s and ended the season T-10 at nationals. Once more, LSU gained’t have a surefire famous person. However as head coach Garrett Runion provides, “We’re on the youthful facet, however we’re one of many deepest groups I’ve ever had.” Tejedo’s sister, Rocio, now a sophomore, is most primed to be LSU’s No. 1, as she was the SEC runner-up as a freshman amongst 5 top-5s. The one concern is she’s been quiet this summer season. Fiorellini is a former top-20 beginner who Runion is hoping can rediscover her recreation after transferring from UCLA. Svensson has clawed her means again into the highest 250 of WAGR after successfully lacking two years with a again harm and shedding her world rating. After that, LSU may go together with two freshmen in Knaub, a member of the U.S. Nationwide Junior Improvement Staff, and Iraola, who had a shoulder concern have an effect on her recruiting however might be a pleasant shock as she joins pal Tejedo. Riley and Widal have been key contributors final season with a mixed for six top-10s in 23 begins, and so they aren’t going anyplace.

9. Arkansas

• Closing 2024-25 rank: 2
• 2025 NCAA Championship end: Quarterfinals (sixth in stroke play)
• Returning: Maria Jose Marin (Jr.), Clarisa Temelo (Soph.), Reagan Zibilski (Sr.), Abbey Schutte (Jr.), Natalie Blonien (Soph.), Anna Kate Nichols (Soph.)
• Departed: Kendall Todd, Giovanna Fernandez, Cory Lopez
• Arriving: Swetha Sathish (Fr.), Sayers Allen (Fr.)
• Projected beginning lineup: Marin, Temelo, Zibilski, Schutte, Blonien

Scouting report: Behind NCAA particular person champion Marin, the Razorbacks reached the NCAA match play for the primary time since 2019 earlier than falling within the quarterfinals to eventual NCAA champion Northwestern. Additionally they gained a match at SECs for the primary time since successful convention in 2018. Whereas the commencement of Todd will sting, crucial factor is that Marin is again. The gifted ball-striker put in loads of time refining her recreation from inside 100 yards this summer season, and the hope is her enjoying in two majors will mature her recreation much more as she contends for nationwide participant of the yr. The unassuming Temelo may be a greater iron participant than Marin, and he or she adopted a pleasant freshman marketing campaign (5 top-10s, together with a regional runner-up, plus a Girls’s Newbie Latin America win) by almost making the Evian lower this summer season. Zibilski tailed off after a terrific fall, although she gained the Missouri Girls’s Newbie this summer season and made match play on the U.S. Girls’s Newbie. Schutte additionally made match play at Bandon, and together with Blonien and Nichols will play Arkansas’ 6-count-5 season opener, the Carmel Cup. The 2 freshmen didn’t qualify for that, however Sathish got here shut and may modify to the faculty recreation pretty rapidly. Whereas Arkansas in all probability wasn’t pretty much as good as its No. 2 nationwide rating final season, it wasn’t far behind, and head coach Shauna Estes-Taylor believes {that a} heightened concentrate on match play and stress conditions this yr will show the distinction. For instance, the final three holes of the Razorbacks’ qualifiers for Carmel Cup have been price double. “We’ve obtained to have a bit completely different mindset and end a bit stronger,” she mentioned, “so we’re performing some issues to essentially problem the women coming down the stretch and put together them for moments of successful.”

10. Florida

• Closing 2024-25 rank: 22
• 2025 NCAA Championship end: seventeenth
• Returning: Paula Francisco (Jr.), Ines Archer (Jr.), Addison Klonowski (Soph.), Siuue Wu (Soph.), Elaine Widjaja (Soph.), Jessica Guiser (Soph.), Sophie Stevens (Jr.)
• Departed: Karoline Tuttle, Sarunchana Rattanasin, Isa Wu
• Arriving: Megan Propeck (Sr.), Katelyn Huber (Fr.)
• Projected beginning lineup: Francisco, Propeck, Archer, Klonowski, Wu

Scouting report: It was a wierd finish to the season as Florida was the SEC runner-up and later certified for its first NCAA Championship since 2019 however then had a weird penalty at nationals after Francisco took a shuttle to the fallacious beginning tee at La Costa and was late for her tee time. Fortunately, that wasn’t the distinction within the five-win Gators making the 54-hole lower (they completed seventeenth), however hopefully for head coach Emily Glaser, it’s a lesson that may bolster Francisco and the remainder of her staff. “They obtained a bit style of it, and what I’ve seen is that they’re fairly motivated by final yr,” Glaser mentioned. “They’ve the belief that they could be a particular staff and a contender.” Francisco might be counted on to paved the way. She was runner-up on the NCAA Charlottesville Regional final spring, one in all her seven top-20s as a sophomore, and he or she made the quarterfinals of the Girls’s British Newbie and was T-11 on the European Girls this summer season. It simply boils all the way down to how comfy she is within the highlight. Propeck provides a maturity that Glaser has by no means seen earlier than and needs to be the staff’s chief whereas contributing dependable scores – she had top-5s in all three postseason occasions final spring for Virginia and was just lately runner-up on the Kansas Girls’s Newbie. Archer matched Francisco’s 4 top-10s final season, and Klonowski had a team-high 10 top-25s as a freshman. Wu confirmed she’s bounced again from a wrist harm that knocked her out of the second half of final spring, successful the Florida Girls’s Newbie and making match play on the U.S. Girls’s Newbie. Huber was T-118 on the U.S. Women’ Junior, however she’s apparently arrived on campus enjoying some good golf and will crack some early lineups.

Nos. 11-30

11. South Carolina: The departures of Hannah Darling and Louise Rydqvist (two wins and 11 mixed top-5s final season) go away huge voids on this roster. Whereas sophomore Eila Galitsky has the firepower to be the nationwide participant of the yr, the Gamecocks gained’t be capable to greatest final spring’s T-10 end at nationals with out assist behind her. Junior incumbents Maylis Lamoure and Vairana Heck will get loads of run, however Campbell switch Alicia Olsson, ranked No. 90 by Scoreboard final season, may rapidly assert herself because the No. 2 for head coach Kalen Anderson’s squad, which might be a bit inconsistent because it figures out who will spherical out the beginning lineup. Although freshman Molly McLean is almost high 200 in WAGR, fellow newcomer Laura Nepper from France may be higher suited to contribute extra from the beginning.

12. Wake Forest: After beating Stanford en path to an ACC runner-up end and successful the NCAA Lubbock Regional, the Demon Deacons closed final season with a T-19 at La Costa. That was after changing the graduated Rachel Kuehn. Now comes the duty of withstanding the departure of one other senior All-American in Carolina Chacarra. Junior Macy Pate and sophomore Chloe Kovelesky paved the way whereas senior Anne-Sterre den Dunnen, who was fourth on the European Leadies and runner-up on the Dutch Nationwide Stroke Play this summer season, may even tackle an elevated position. Maybe the success of Wake will depend on if Auburn switch Casey Weidenfeld, who didn’t put up a top-20 end final spring and was out of the lineup for regionals, can rediscover her type after a reset of surroundings.

13. Northwestern: The reigning NCAA champs lose Lauryn Nguyen to commencement and Elise Lee to USC, however they reload with the arrival of a lot ballyhooed freshman Arianna Lau, who’s the Wildcats’ highest-ranked incoming freshman ever (No. 41 in WAGR). Lau reached the quarterfinals of the U.S. Girls’s Newbie this summer season and could also be this staff’s No. 1 forward of junior Ashley Yun, senior Dianna Lee and sophomore Hsin Tai Lin, who have been all in final yr’s nationwide title-winning lineup. The fifth spot is a significant query, however there are some choices, together with sophomore Megan Meng, a former Junior Solheim Cupper who was a quarterfinalist on the New Jersey Girls’s Newbie this summer season.

14. Vanderbilt: The Commodores have been on the cusp of a top-10 rating earlier than plummeting almost out of the highest 25 final spring, which they capped with a Sixteenth-place end on the NCAA Championship. The excellent news is that everyone from that squad is again, together with junior Ava Merrill, an All-America honorable point out final season who gained the Georgia Girls’s State Newbie this summer season, and senior Tillie Claggett, who just lately captured the Canadian Girls’s PGA. Freshman Elizabeth Rudisill (Vanderbilt’s high participant per WAGR at No. 116) ought to supplant one of many returning starters.

15. Auburn: After not ending exterior the highest three final fall, Anna Davis was extra up and down within the spring, which she capped with a disappointing T-96 end at La Costa. Not there’s any concern for her junior season, which she arrives at following a lightweight however spectacular summer season that included runs on the British Newbie (quarterfinals) and U.S. Girls’s Newbie (Spherical of 32). As her Tigers look to avenge final spring’s sixth-place end at regionals, head coach Melissa Luellen is anticipating lots out of seniors Katie Cranston and Carys Worby, the latter of whom lastly performed a full schedule within the lineup although posted only one top-10 end final season. Be careful for Spanish sophomore Balma Davalos, ranked No. 177 in Scoreboard as a freshman however coming off a breakout summer season that was highlighted by a runner-up end on the European Girls.

16. North Carolina: Along with her high seven again from final season, head coach Aimee Neff has her deepest staff in her 5 years in Chapel Hill, although all of it begins with senior Megan Streicher. After posting 5 straight top-7 finishes to start her junior yr, Streicher cooled off and completed the spring ranked No. 48 in Scoreboard. However her 63 within the first spherical of qualifying this fall is indication that Streicher would be the Tar Heels’ horse as soon as once more. Sophomore Helen Yeung and junior Ing Iadpluem every racked up 4 top-6 finishes final season. The remainder will simply be a matter of finding out that depth, as North Carolina appears to get again to nationals for the second time in three seasons after ending eighth at regionals final spring.

17. Tennessee: The Vols have gone additional each season below head coach Diana Cantu, who led Tennessee to a Thirteenth-place end on the NCAA Championship in her fourth season final spring. The Vols return 4 of their high 5, too, together with senior Manassanan Chotikabhukkana and sophomore Kyra Van Kan. Plus, two influence freshmen arrive – Madison Messimer and Thailand’s Thitikarn Thapasit, two gamers who’re knocking on the door of the WAGR’s high 300. Messimer reached the Spherical of 32 on the U.S. Women’ Junior this summer season after making the quarterfinals final summer season.

18. Ohio State: Senior Kary Hollenbaugh adopted her four-win spring with a summer season that included Spherical-of-16 appearances at each the Girls’s Western Newbie and U.S. Girls’s Newbie. The reigning second-team All-American ought to once more be one of many high gamers within the nation whereas sophomore Nellie Ong, who was T-6 on the European Girls, is a proficient working mate. How rapidly Aussie freshman Sophie Eppelstun (No. 168 in WAGR) interprets to the faculty recreation may decide if the Buckeyes higher their T-24 end at nationals final season.

19. Mississippi State: The Bulldogs did their greatest to resist the midseason departure of world No. 1 beginner Julia Lopez Ramirez to the LPGA, however in the end, they dropped from fifth within the nationwide rankings in October to No. 18 to complete the spring, albeit with a formidable 14th-place displaying at La Costa. After having no newcomers on his roster final fall, head coach Charlie Ewing has a seven-player squad that’s comprised greater than half by recent faces, together with 4 freshmen from 4 completely different international locations. Sweden’s Moah Stridh might be most able to contribute to a beginning lineup that may undoubtedly be led by junior Avery Weed, who was steadily risen into the highest 50 of WAGR after being ranked exterior the highest 200 this time final yr.

20. Ole Miss: The Rebels stumbled out of the gates final fall with an Eleventh-place end on the Cougar Basic, however ultimately others stepped up behind Caitlyn Macnab to assist Ole Miss to its third straight NCAA Championship. The Rebels managed solely a Twenty seventh-place end at La Costa and Macnab has since graduated, so head coach Kory Henkes goes to wish some enchancment throughout the board from her younger staff (only one senior). Sophomore Kajsalotta Svarvar led the Rebels at regionals (third) and nationals (T-24) as a freshman and might be a major candidate to interrupt into the All-America house.

21. Oklahoma State: Annie Younger takes over as head coach after Greg Robertson was ousted regardless of main the Cowgirls to 5 NCAA Championship appearances in as a few years, together with a nationwide runner-up end in 2021, after being employed from Kent State. Senior Grace Kilcrease had eight top-10s, together with a win, final season, and may once more be this squad’s No. 1 following a pleasant summer season. Freshman Allison Chen had a robust 2024, which included successful the Taiwan Newbie, although she hasn’t replicated that success to this point this yr.

22. Florida State: It will likely be unattainable to not take some steps again after shedding world No. 1 beginner Lottie Woad and reigning Annika Award winner Mirabel Ting, however head coach Amy Bond isn’t anticipating a complete retreat after final spring’s journey to the NCAA semifinals, even with no juniors or seniors on the roster. Sophomore Sophia Fullbrook, who almost completed high 10 on the European Girls this summer season, might be counted on in an enormous means, and fellow sophomore Elin Pudas Remler will lastly be eligible to compete after transferring from Kentucky.

23. SMU: With 5 top-3 finishes and a victory on the North and South Girls’s Newbie, senior Mackenzie Lee may be one of the best participant no one talks about. Add senior Emily Odwin, who certified for the U.S. Girls’s Open this summer season, and Sam Houston switch Grace Jin, who gained this yr’s Texas Girls’s Newbie, and the Mustangs ought to get again to nationals after ending eighth at regionals final spring.

24. Houston: After back-to-back sixth-place finishes at regionals, can the Cougars lastly qualify for this system’s first NCAA Championship this season? With its high 4 gamers returning, together with seniors Moa Svendenskiold, Natalie Saint Germain and Alexas Saldana, Houston ought to have sufficient to be a top-30 staff this season. Including sophomore switch Emilia Vaisto from Mercer will assist, too.

25. California: Senior Constance Fouillet racked up six top-11 finishes final season, although no wins. The Bears will doubtless want her to shut out a couple of tournaments in 12 months 2 below head coach Sofie Aagaard, although there’s some good depth behind Fouillet and senior Adora Liu because of the additions of Purdue switch Jasmine Kahler and freshman Camila Zignaigo, who cleaned up this yr in her native Peru with three wins amongst 12 whole top-10s.

26. Japanese Michigan: Head coach Josh Brewer opened the checking account so as to add Lengthy Seashore State twins Jasmine and Janae Leovao, in addition to the NAIA’s No. 1 participant Baiyok Sukterm. And junior Savannah de Bock, a former top-40 beginner who adopted Brewer from Georgia two summers in the past, is again to guide a squad that might find yourself one of the best mid-major within the nation.

27. UCF: The Knights in all probability fell in need of expectations as they positioned seventh at regionals whereas Pimpisa Sisutham and Molly Smith couldn’t repeat their All-America honorable-mention choices from the earlier season. However Sisutham, a senior, and Smith, a junior, are again, as are 4 of the highest 5 for head coach Emily Marron, who additionally added South Carolina switch Tiffany Tsai and freshman Kinga Kusmierska, who gained the Annika Invitational Europe this summer season and is anticipated to play lots.

28. Arizona: After the Wildcats positioned eighth at regionals final spring, 12 months 2 might be a problem for head coach Giovana Maymon. Arizona returns a squad full of seniors and junior, most notably Charlotte Again, however should substitute Carolina Melgrati and brings in freshman Kinsley Ni, who was the U.S. Women’ Junior medalist final yr however has plummeted in WAGR in latest months.

29. TCU: The Horned Frogs fell one shot shy of qualifying for its first NCAA Championship since 2023, and 4 of that beginning 5 are again, together with sophomore Camille Min-Gaultier, who posted three runners-up as a freshman and is now ranked No. 69 in WAGR. The 4 and 5 slots might be a problem, although TCU is hoping Gracie McGovern’s runner-up on the Arizona Girls’s Newbie this summer season kickstarts a a lot better sophomore marketing campaign.

30. Baylor: Not many applications can declare 5 straight NCAA Championship appearances, however the Bears are one in all them. Head coach Jay Goble, nevertheless, has his work lower out for him after a number of departures, together with graduates Sera Hasegawa and Baimai Seema, and Ashleen Kaur, who transferred to Miami. The reinforcements embrace Illinois switch Yurang Li and Lynn switch Charlotte Brook, who was the Twenty seventh-ranked play in D-II final season, in addition to freshmen Amelia Wan (No. 433 in WAGR) and Hong Kong’s Obi Chan. Senior Silje Ohma is the one returner with any top-10s final season (5), although senior Bridget Boczar had six top-25s.

Golf Channel’s Preseason Prime 30

1. Stanford
2. Texas
3. Oregon
4. USC
5. Arizona State
6. Duke
7. Texas A&M
8. LSU
9. Arkansas
10. Florida
11. South Carolina
12. Wake Forest
13. Northwestern
14. Vanderbilt
15. Auburn
16. North Carolina
17. Tennessee
18. Ohio State
19. Mississippi State
20. Ole Miss
21. Oklahoma State
22. Florida State
23. SMU
24. Houston
25. California
26. Japanese Michigan
27. UCF
28. Arizona
29. TCU
30. Baylor

Subsequent 10: 31. Oklahoma, 32. Kansas, 33. Virginia, 34. Michigan State, 35. Miami, 36. UCLA, 37. Clemson, 38. Princeton, 39. Iowa State, 40. Michigan

Golf Channel’s Preseason All-Individuals

FIRST TEAM
1. Kiara Romero, Jr., Oregon
2. Paula Martin Sampedro, Jr., Stanford
3. Andrea Revuelta, Soph., Stanford
4. Eila Galitsky, Soph., South Carolina
5. Rianne Malixi, Fr., Duke
6. Megha Ganne, Sr., Stanford
7. Jasmine Koo, Soph., USC
8. Maria Jose Marin, Jr., Arkansas
9. Meja Ortengren, Soph., Stanford
10. Farah O’Keefe, Jr., Texas

SECOND TEAM
11. Catherine Park, Sr., USC
12. Anna Davis, Jr., Auburn
13. Kary Hollenbaugh, Sr., Ohio State
14. Vanessa Borovilos, Soph., Texas A&M
15. Cindy Hsu, Sr., Texas
16. Suvichaya Vinijchaitham, Soph., Oregon
17. Persistence Rhodes, Jr., Arizona State
18. Lauren Kim, Jr., Texas
19. Rocio Tejedo, Soph., LSU
20. Arianna Lau, Fr., Northwestern

THIRD TEAM
21. Cayetana Fernandez Garcia-Poggio, Jr., Texas A&M
22. Mackenzie Lee, Sr., SMU
23. Beth Coulter, Sr., Arizona State
24. Vivian Lu, Jr., Texas
25. Megan Streicher, Sr., North Carolina
26. Kelly Xu, Sr., Stanford
27. Avery Weed, Jr., Mississippi State
28. Macy Pate, Jr., Wake Forest
29. Paula Francisco, Jr., Florida
30. Clarisa Temelo, Soph., Arkansas

HONORABLE MENTION
31. Catherine Rao, Sr., Princeton
32. Elise Lee, Soph., USC
33. Balma Davalos, Soph., Auburn
34. Scarlett Schremmer, Fr., Texas A&M
35. Paula Schulz-Hanssen, Sr., Arizona State
36. Andie Smith, Sr., Duke
37. Karen Tsuru, Jr., Oregon
38. Pimpisa Sisutham, Sr., UCF
39. Chloe Kovelesky, Soph., Wake Forest
40. Sophia Fullbrook, Soph., Florida State

Golf Channel’s Preseason All-Freshmen groups

FIRST TEAM
Rianne Malixi, Duke
Arianna Lau, Northwestern
Scarlett Schremmer, Texas A&M
Sophie Han, Oregon
Natalie Yen, Texas A&M

SECOND TEAM
Elizabeth Rudisill, Vanderbilt
Avery McCrery, Duke
Sarah Hammett, USC
Pimpisa Rubrong, Arizona State
Madison Messimer, Tennessee

Circled on the calendar

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER
Aug. 29-31 – Carmel Cup, Pebble Seashore, California
Sept. 8-9 – Cougar Basic, Charleston, South Carolina
Sept. 8-10 – Annika Intercollegiate, Lake Elmo, Minnesota
Sept. 15-16 – Inverness Intercollegiate, Toledo, Ohio
Sept. 22-24 – Golfweek Purple Sky Basic, Wolcott, Colorado
Sept. 15-17 – Jackson T. Stephens Cup, Lake Bluff, Illinois
Sept. 29-30 – Windy Metropolis Collegiate, Golf, Illinois
Sept. 29-Oct. 1 – Blessings Collegiate Invitational, Fayetteville, Arkansas

OCTOBER
Oct. 6-7 – Illini Girls’s Invitational, Medinah, Illinois
Oct. 6-7 – Prairie Dunes Girls’s Collegiate, Hutchinson, Kansas
Oct. 13-14 – Dale McNamara Invitational, Damaged Arrow, Oklahoma
Oct. 17-19 – Stanford Intercollegiate, Stanford, California
Oct. 17-19 – Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitational, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Oct. 20-22 – The Ally, West Level, Mississippi
Oct. 24-26 – Landfall Custom, Wilmington, North Carolina
Oct. 27-29 – Nanea Invitational, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Oct. 27-29 – East Lake Cup, Atlanta

JANUARY/FEBRUARY
Jan. 26-27 – Sea Greatest Intercollegiate, Jacksonville, Florida
Feb. 1-3 – Therese Hession Regional Problem, Palos Verdes, California
Feb. 1-3 – Puerto Rico Basic, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico
Feb. 9-10 – Arizona Thunderbird Intercollegiate, Tucson, Arizona
Feb. 15-17 – Moon Golf Invitational, Melbourne, Florida
Feb. 23-24 – Chevron Problem, Humble, Texas
Feb. 23-24 – Bruin Wave Invitational, Valencia California

MARCH
March 2-4 – Darius Rucker Intercollegiate, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
March 6-8 – Gators Invitational, Gainesville, Florida
March 9-10 – GameAbove Invitational, Rolling Hills Estates, California
March 16-17 – Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational, Austin, Texas
March 16-17 – Outdated Barnwell Match Play, Aiken, South Carolina
March 17-18 – Dr. Donnis Thompson Invitational, Honolulu, Hawaii
March 23-24 – Charles Schwab Girls’s Collegiate, Fort Value, Texas
March 23-25 – Ping/ASU Invitational, Tempe, Arizona
March 27-29 – Clemson Invitational, Sundown, South Carolina

APRIL
April 6-8 – Silverado Showdown, Napa, California
April 16-19 – ACC Championship, Wilmington, North Carolina
April 17-21 – SEC Championship, Belleair, Florida
April 23-25 – Huge 12 Championship, Dallas
April 24-26 – Huge Ten Championship, Glendale, California

NCAA REGIONALS
Could 11-13
Host websites (host faculty): College of Michigan GC, Ann Arbor, Michigan (Michigan); UNC Finley GC, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (North Carolina); RJT Golf Path at Hampton Cove, Huntsville, Alabama (North Alabama); Stanford GC, Stanford, California (Stanford); Seminole Legacy GC, Tallahassee, Florida (Florida State); Ridgewood CC, Waco, Texas (Baylor)

NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP
Could 22-27
Host web site: Omni La Costa Resort and Spa (North), Carlsbad, California