Conference championship season is upon us in NCAA Division I women’s golf.
Twenty-seven conferences will offer up automatic bids to their champions, beginning With the Coastal Athletic Association, which wrapped up play on April 14, and ending on April 23 with the MAC, Summit League and Pac-12.
The 72-team regional field will be split among six regional sites with 45 at-large selections being handed out, too.
Below, we’ll track the winners of each conference tournament that hands out an AQ bid, as they finish:
Coastal Athletic Association
April 12-14, The Reserve Club (St. James), Southport, North Carolina
Team champion: Delaware
Individual champion: Lilia Henkel, Delaware (won playoff)
Potential at-large teams: None
Need to know: Delaware’s victory marks its third CAA title and first since 2017. During that span, the Blue Hens had four runner-up showings at conference.
SEC
April 12-16, Pelican GC, Belleair, Florida
Team champion: Mississippi State
Individual champion: Julia Lopez Ramirez, Mississippi State
Potential at-large teams: South Carolina, LSU, Arkansas, Auburn, Ole Miss, Florida, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt, Georgia, Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee
Need to know: The Bulldogs got revenge on the Aggies, who beat them in the SEC final match last year, to win their first SEC title in program history. Lopez Ramirez, the stroke-play medalist for a second straight season, beat Jennie Park, 5 and 4, in the anchor match while freshman Avery Weed delivered the clinching point for Mississippi State, which has a win and two runners-up in four SEC Championships under head coach Charlie Ewing.
ASUN
April 14-16, RJT at Hampton Cove, Owens Cross Roads, Alabama
Team champion: Kennesaw State
Individual champion: Lauren Thompson, Lipscomb
Potential at-large teams: None
Need to know: Kennesaw State overcame a five-shot deficit after two rounds to clip defending champion Lipscomb by two shots. The Owls have now won four of the past six ASUN titles while Thompson is the first back-to-back medalist since Campbell’s Alejandra Shaw (2006-07).
Big West
April 14-16, Spanish Trail CC, Las Vegas
Team champion: Long Beach State
Individual champion: Jasmine Leovao, Long Beach State
Potential at-large teams: None
Need to know: Long Beach’s 23-shot win marked the first Big West crown for the program since 2019 while Leovao repeated as conference medalist, the first time that’s happened in 20 years (Beth Allen, CSUN).
Missouri Valley
April 14-16, Annbriar GC, Waterloo, Illinois
Team champion: Illinois State
Individual champion: Kate Petrova, Evansville
Potential at-large teams: None
Need to know: Illinois State beat UIC by 12 shots for its second MVC title in the past three seasons – and 15th overall, a league record. Petrova topped Ali Schrock of Illinois State in a three-hole playoff to capture medalist honors for a second straight year. Evansville has now had four of the past eight MVC individual champions.
Ohio Valley
April 14-16, Tunica (Mississippi) National
Team champion: Little Rock
Individual champion: Anna Dawson, Little Rock
Potential at-large teams: None
Need to know: Little Rock clipped reigning champ Morehead State by eight shots to win its first conference team crown since it captured the 1999 Sun Belt Championship.
SoCon
April 14-16, Moss Creek GC (South), Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Team champion: East Tennessee State
Individual champion: Anna Morgan, Furman
Potential at-large teams: Furman
Need to know: East Tennessee State, ranked No. 124 in the national rankings, upset No. 62 Furman, which finished third, and two other teams ranked ahead of it to win the SoCon for the second time in four years. The Bucs were 13 shots clear of runner-up Samford. Morgan, a senior who also won last year’s SoCon individual title, now has four wins on the season, tying New Mexico State’s Emma Bunch and Boston’s Christy Chen for the most in D-I.
Big South
April 14-17, Fripp Island Resort (Ocean Creek), St. Helena Island, South Carolina
Team champion: Charleston Southern
Individual champion: Odette Garcia, Charleston Southern
Potential at-large teams: None
Need to know: Charleston Southern won the stroke play by four shots over USC Upstate before topping Upstate, 4-1, in the match-play final. It’s the first Big South title for Southern since 2010.
American
April 15-17, Southern Hills Plantation, Brooksville, Florida
Team champion: SMU
Individual champion: Daniela Abonce, UTSA
Potential at-large teams: South Florida, North Texas, Tulsa
Need to know: The Mustangs shot 12 under in the final round, paced by their No. 5 player (Ashley Chow, 5-under 67), to move up two spots on the leaderboard and win a second straight American title. SMU now has 11 wins in the past two seasons. Last year, the Mustangs won an NCAA regional, too, before finishing 11th at the NCAA Championship. No. 53 Tulsa was just two shots back in second, a huge boost as the NCAA regional bubble will likely fall right around that number.
C-USA
April 15-17, High Meadow Ranch, Magnolia, Texas
Team champion: Sam Houston
Individual champion: Emma Bunch, New Mexico State
Potential at-large teams: None
Need to know: Sam Houston’s 14-shot victory over New Mexico State gave the Bearkats their fourth conference crown in five years (two came in the Southland, last year in the WAC). Bunch has now won each of her past five tournaments, as she leads D-I in wins. She’s only lost to 25 players all season – and zero this spring.
Big Sky
April 15-17, The Wigwam Resort, Litchfield Park, Arizona
Team champion: Sacramento State
Individual champion: Lizzie Neale, Northern Arizona
Potential at-large teams: None
Need to know: Neale closed in 7-under 64, a championship record, to win by four shots, though Northern Arizona still ended up second as a team, 14 shots back of Sacramento State, which is the Big Sky champ for the fourth time in five years.
Southland
April 15-17, Bandit GC, New Braunfels, Texas
Team champion: Augusta
Individual champion: Kennedy Carroll, Augusta
Potential at-large teams: None
Need to know: Augusta won this one by a whopping 67 shots to capture its third straight Southland title. A season ago, the Jags advanced to the NCAA Championship for the first time ever and finished 23rd.
Sun Belt
April 15-18, The Lakewood Club, Point Clear, Alabama
Team champion: Texas State
Individual champion: Hailey Jones, Texas State
Potential at-large teams: Georgia Southern
Need to know: Not only did Texas State beat favorite Georgia Southern by 10 shots in stroke play, but it prevailed in the championship match as well, 4-1. The Bobcats, Sun Belt champs for the first time since 2016, also boasted the individual champion, Hailey Jones, a transfer from Oklahoma State.
Mountain West
April 16-18, Mission Hills CC, Rancho Mirage, California
Team champion: San Jose State
Individual champion: Kajsa Arwefjäll, San Jose State
Potential at-large teams: Colorado State
Need to know: Arwefjäll finished ninth, third and second in her previous three trips to the Mountain West Conference Championship before winning it this year by firing a closing 6-under 66 and winning by three shots. As a team, the Spartans are conference champs for the second time in three years after a bit of a down season – no finishes better than third going into conference, and a No. 28 national ranking. They carded 17 birdies on the back nine in the final round to cap an 18-shot victory over UNLV.
Big 12
April 18-20, Houston Oaks CC, Hockley, Texas
Team champion: Texas
Individual champions: Karis Chul-Ak-Sorn and Liyana Durisic, Iowa State
Potential at-large teams: UCF, Houston, Baylor, Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa State, Kansas State, Texas Tech
Need to know: Texas has now won five of the past seven Big 12 titles as the Longhorns finished 12 shots ahead of runner-up Iowa State, which, at No. 49 in the national rankings, managed to likely secure itself an at-large berth. Two other bubble teams, No. 55 Kansas State and No. 56 Texas Tech, finished third and fifth, respectively. The Iowa State pair are the first co-Big 12 individual champs from the same team, and they are the Cyclones’ first conference champs since the late Celia Barquin Arozamena won in 2018.
Big Ten
April 19-21, Bulle Rock GC, Havre de Grace, Maryland
Team champion: Indiana
Individual champions: Monet Chun, Michigan, Caroline Craig, Indiana, and Isabella McCauley, Minnesota
Potential at-large teams: Northwestern, Ohio State, Michigan State, Purdue, Michigan, Maryland
Need to know: At No. 74 in the national rankings, Indiana was ranked 11 out of 14 teams, but the Hoosier shot 5 under in the final round to edge Michigan State by a shot in the 6-count-4 format, which now is recognized by the NCAA in terms of awarding the AQ. Indiana’s first Big Ten title since 1998 also means the magic number for regionals drops to 52 for the moment.
Ivy League
April 19-21, Stanwich Club, Greenwich, Connecticut
Team champion: Dartmouth
Individual champion: Yanjun Liu, Princeton
Potential at-large teams: None
Need to know: The favorite, Yale, had to count an 81 in the final round, allowing Dartmouth to rally for the two-shot upset victory. It’s Dartmouth’s first Ivy League title in program history – and it comes less than four years after the school announced it was eliminating women’s golf (it reversed that decision about seven months later).
MAAC
April 19-21, Walt Disney World Resort (Palm), Lake Buena Vista, Florida
Team champion: Albany
Individual champion: Maria Beltran, Fairfield
Potential at-large teams: None
Need to know: Albany, the preseason MAAC favorite, captured its first conference crown since 2019 after two straight runner-up finishes.
Patriot League
April 19-21, Bucknell GC, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Team champion: Navy
Individual champion: Stephanie Lee, Navy
Potential at-large teams: None
Need to know: Navy heads to NCAA regionals as the Patriot League champ for the second time in program history and first time since 2021.
Northeast
April 19-21, Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, Georgia
Team champion: Sacred Heart
Individual champion: Margot Rouquette, Sacred Heart
Potential at-large teams: None
Need to know: Sacred Heart has now won three straight Northeast Conference titles, this latest one by 42 shots over Howard.
ACC
April 18-21, Porters Neck CC, Wilmington, North Carolina
Team champion: Wake Forest
Individual champion: Rachel Kuehn, Wake Forest
Potential at-large teams: Duke, Clemson, Florida State, Virginia, North Carolina, Virginia Tech
Need to know: Weather delays and ultimately a suspension for darkness sealed Wake Forest’s third ACC title in the last five editions. The Demon Deacons had a point on the board and were leading 2 up through 15 holes in two matches against Clemson, which advanced to the final match despite losing its top player, Savannah Grewal, to the pros midseason. Kuehn’s win marks the seventh of her career and first ACC individual title.
WAC
April 19-21, The Rim GC at Chaparral Pines, Payson, Arizona
Team champion: Seattle
Individual champion: Ryann Honea, Abilene Christian
Potential at-large teams: None
Need to know: Seattle rallied from seven shots back through 54 holes to beat Abilene Christian by two shots. It’s the first WAC title ever for Seattle, which had finished third or better at conference each year since 2014. That run included a playoff loss to New Mexico State in 2019.
Big East
April 20-22, Callawassie Island, Okatie, South Carolina
Team champion: Xavier
Individual champion: Emma Welch, Xavier
Potential at-large teams: None
Need to know: Xavier edged Georgetown by two shots to capture its fifth straight Big East title. Welch closed in 4-over 76 but still won by two shots individually at 3 under.
Horizon League
April 20-22, Mission Inn Resort (El Campeon), Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida
Team champion: Oakland
Individual champion: Bridget Boczar, Oakland
Potential at-large teams: None
Need to know: The Grizzlies led wire to wire to capture their second Horizon crown in three seasons.
Pac-12
April 21-23, Palouse Ridge GC, Pullman, Washington
Team champion: Stanford
Individual champion: Catherine Park, USC
Potential at-large teams: UCLA, USC, Arizona State, Arizona, Oregon, Cal, Washington, Oregon State
Need to know: In the last Pac-12 Championship ever, Stanford won its first conference title since 2014 (yes, you read that correctly). All five Cardinal finished in the top 16, including runner-up Kelly Xu, who finished five shots back of Catherine Park of USC.
MAC
April 21-23, Pinnacle GC, Grove City, Ohio
Team champion: Kent State
Individual champions: Leon Takagi, Kent State, and Hester Sicking, Kent State
Potential at-large teams: None
Need to know: Up just two shots after 36 holes, Kent State pulled away from Toledo to win its 25th MAC title in as many editions by 11 shots.
Summit League
April 21-23, Firekeeper GC, Mayetta, Kansas
Team champion: Denver
Individual champion: Clara Gestsdottir, Denver
Potential at-large teams: None
Need to know: Denver won its fifth straight Summit title by 42 shots.
