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.
Upcoming championships
April 14-17: Big South, Fripp Island Resort (Ocean Creek), St. Helena Island, South Carolina
April 15-17: American, Southern Hills Plantation, Brooksville, Florida
April 15-17: Big Sky, The Wigwam Resort, Litchfield Park, Arizona
April 15-17: C-USA, High Meadow Ranch, Magnolia, Texas
April 15-17: Southland, Bandit GC, New Braunfels, Texas
April 15-18: Sun Belt, The Lakewood Club, Point Clear, Alabama
April 16-18: Mountain West, Mission Hills CC, Rancho Mirage, California
April 18-21: ACC, Porters Neck CC, Wilmington, North Carolina
April 18-20: Big 12, Houston Oaks CC, Hockley, Texas
April 19-21: Big Ten, Bulle Rock GC, Havre de Grace, Maryland
April 19-21: Ivy League, Stanwich Club, Greenwich, Connecticut
April 19-21: MAAC, Walt Disney World Resort (Magnolia), Lake Buena Vista, Florida
April 19-21: Northeast, LPGA International, Daytona Beach, Florida
April 19-21: Patriot League, Bucknell GC, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
April 19-21: WAC, The Rim GC at Chaparral Pines, Payson, Arizona
April 20-22: Big East, Callawassie Island, Okatie, South Carolina
April 20-22: Horizon League, Mission Inn Resort (El Campeon), Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida
April 21-23: MAC, Pinnacle GC, Grove City, Ohio
April 21-23: Pac-12, Palouse Ridge GC, Pullman, Washington
April 21-23: Summit League, Firekeeper GC, Mayetta, Kansas
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