2025 WIAC Women's Golf Championship Preview

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The 30th version of the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Women’s Golf Championship (presented by Culver’s) will be held at Reedsburg Country Club in Reedsburg, Wis., Oct. 3-5. The championship will feature 54 holes and commence with a shotgun start at 11 a.m. on Oct. 3, while tee times off both sets of tees will begin at 8:30 a.m. Oct. 4-5.
 
The winning team will receive an automatic bid into the NCAA Division III Championship that will be held May 19-22, 2026, at Desert Willow Golf Resort in Palm Desert, Calif.
 
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater will aim for a ninth straight first-place finish and owns a conference-best 10 team titles, while UW-Eau Claire has nine, UW-Oshkosh four, and UW-Stevens Point and UW-Stout three each.
 
In last year’s championship, UW-Whitewater finished with 958 strokes to surpass the second-place total of 967 strokes by UW-Stout. UW-La Crosse placed third with 976 strokes, UW-Oshkosh fourth with 989, UW-Platteville fifth with 1,014, UW-Eau Claire sixth with 1,020, UW-River Falls seventh with 1,039, and UW-Stevens Point eighth with 1,065.
 
Returning All-WIAC selections from last season include: UW-La Crosse’s Haley Thoeny (Second Team); UW-Oshkosh’s Taryn Endres (Second Team); UW-Stout’s Julia Imai (First Team/Kwik Trip Player of the Year/Kwik Trip Newcomer of the Year) and Brin Neumann (Second Team); and UW-Whitewater’s Payton Schmidt (Second Team).
 
Thoeny was also a second team selection – and Kwik Trip Newcomer of the Year – in 2023-24. She was joined on the second team teammate Allison Balduzzi.
 
UW-Whitewater’s Abbie Reiser received Kwik Trip Newcomer of the Year distinction during the 2022-23 campaign.

Leading scorers for each team this fall include: UW-Eau Claire’s Tally Schlinderwein (80.3); UW-La Crosse’s Thoeny (79.3); UW-Oshkosh’s Endres (81.0); UW-Platteville’s Taylor Swalve (83.9); UW-River Falls’ Lauren Skov (80.0); UW-Stevens Point’s Kate Downie (79.7); UW-Stout’s Imai (74.0); and UW-Whitewater’s Schmidt (80.6).
 
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