Hall Eager to Help Talented Young Huskers

The Nebraska women’s golf team enters a new era in 2025-26, as first-year Coach Breanne Hall leads the Huskers into the season.

Although Hall is new to the Nebraska program, she has an extensive record of success leading championship teams at the NCAA Division I level. A three-time Missouri Valley Conference Coach-of-the-Year, Hall won back-to-back MVC Coach-of-the-Year honors at Illinois State in 2024 and 2025. She also led the Redbirds to three NCAA Tournament appearances over the past four seasons. She was also the 2022 Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year.

“Nebraska is a place with deep tradition and pride, and I’m beyond excited for the opportunity to lead these student-athletes and build on the foundation of excellence that defines Husker Athletics,” Hall said.

Hall’s 2025 Illinois State team won the Missouri Valley Conference title by 31 strokes before finishing 11th at the NCAA Columbus Regional. In 2024, Illinois State won the Missouri Valley Conference title by 12 strokes with Ali Schrock sharing the tournament title. The Redbirds went on to finish 12th at the NCAA East Lansing Regional. The Redbirds earned their first conference title under Hall’s direction in 2022 and their first MVC title in a decade, edging Missouri State by one stroke and capping the year with a 12th-place finish at the NCAA Stillwater Regional.

During her time at Illinois State, Hall coached three MVC Golfers of the Year and 15 all-conference selections. Her teams produced the five best single-season scoring averages in school history over the past five years.

Prior to taking over the top spot at Illinois State, Hall spent a season recruiting a roster before serving as the head coach for two seasons at UNC Asheville (2016-18). As the first head coach in history of the fledgling program, Hall led UNC Asheville to a pair of tournament titles in the first two seasons of the program’s existence. Her team posted a nine-stroke improvement in scoring average from year one to year two.

With a proven record of helping aspiring young golfers drastically improve their games, Hall inherits a Nebraska roster filled with nine returning players and one transfer who followed her from Illinois State.  However, among the 12 golfers on Nebraska’s roster, nine will be in either their first or second seasons as Huskers.

The lone senior on the roster is fifth-year Husker Brooke Bream, who has not played a round in Nebraska’s tournament lineup through her first four seasons. Bream, who earned her bachelor’s degree from Nebraska in just three years, is a second-year graduate student pursuing her MBA.

Junior Arden Louchheim has played more rounds in the Big Red lineup than any other current Husker. The third-year collegian from Park City, Utah, has played 54 rounds and owns a 75.91 stroke average through her first two seasons. She will be looking to improve her game and solidify a spot in the Husker lineup as will fellow juniors Hannah Kono, Symran Shah and Lauren Thiele.

Kono, who produced Nebraska’s No. 2 stroke average (74.93) in her first year as a Husker in 2024-25, managed four top-25 finishes a year ago. As a freshman, she finished sixth at the Horizon League Championships and helped Oakland University to the NCAA East Lansing Regional.

Thiele (21 rounds) and Shah (17 rounds) were both contributors in Nebraska’s lineup as redshirt sophomores and first-year Huskers in 2024-25. Both players shaved strokes off their games in their first season in Lincoln, but both will be looking for more significant improvement in 2025-26.

Thiele continues a remarkable family tradition at Nebraska as the fourth sister to letter as a Husker women’s golfer. The 2025 Nebraska Women’s Match Play Champion, Lauren gave the Thiele sisters a letter in Husker women’s golf for the 11th consecutive year, following Haley, Hannah and Lindsey.

A five-player sophomore class should make qualifying for each tournament extraordinarily competitive.

Four-time Iowa high school player of the year Eden Lohrbach was a regular in Nebraska’s lineup as a true freshman in 2024-25, finishing with a 75.85 stroke average over 27 rounds. She was also NU’s top finisher at the Big Ten Championship.

Lincoln Christian High School graduate and 2022 Nebraska state champion Olivia Lovegrove came on strong late in the season and finished with a 75.64 stroke average over 11 rounds. She contributed a pair of rounds for the Big Red at the Big Ten Championship.

Another 2025 true freshman, Danica Lundgren posted a solid 75.70 stroke average over 23 rounds. Lundgren’s first collegiate season included a Husker season-best 207 (-9) at the PDI Intercollegiate hosted by UCF early in the spring.

Third-year Husker Mackenzie Bream adds a fourth returning sophomore to Nebraska’s class, while Illinois State transfer Jessica Jolly hopes to make an immediate impact on the Husker lineup.

Jolly earned All-Missouri Valley Conference honors in her first college season under Coach Breanne Hall at ISU, after tying for 17th individually at the MVC Championship. Jolly went on to tie for 62nd individually at the NCAA Columbus Regional before making the decision to follow Hall to Nebraska.

The four-time all-state performer from Rockford, Mich., posted four top-10 individual tournament finishes on her way to a 75.00 stroke average over 30 rounds at Illinois State last season.

Ailis Tribolet and Kayleigh Babineaux round out the Husker roster as a pair of highly touted true freshmen looking to push for immediate lineup time. Tribolet, the 2024 Arizona Interscholastic Association Division III Boys state individual champion, fired a 63 (-9) in the final round of the state tournament to claim the title with a 36-hole score of 132 (-12). Perhaps even more impressively, Tribolet qualified for the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship following her freshman season of high school in 2022.

The No. 73 recruit in the nation according to Junior Golf Scoreboard, Tribolet bypassed a chance to repeat as an Arizona state champion as a senior when she chose to compete in the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship. She advanced to the quarterfinals of the national event.

Babineaux won the Foresight Sports Long Drive Challenge as part of the Notah Begay III Junior Golf National Championships in 2024. The Austin Lake Travis High School graduate spent her first two prep seasons at Cherokee Trail High School in Colorado before moving to Texas. She finished eighth at the Colorado Class 5A state tournament as a sophomore in 2023.

The makeup of Nebraska’s roster certainly provides the ingredients for a quality team on the course in Hall’s first season. The Huskers should also be hungry both individually and as a team after settling for an 18th-place finish in the first 18-team Big Ten Championship last season.

The Huskers open the year at the Sam Golden Invitational at Oakmont Country Club in Corinth, Texas (Sept. 8-9), before traveling to Colorado for the Col. Wollenberg Ptarmigan Ram Invitational at the Ptarmigan Golf Club in Fort Collins (Sept. 22-23). Nebraska then heads to one of the Midwest’s top courses to compete at the University of Oklahoma Intercollegiate Presented by PDI at Prairie Dunes in Hutchinson, Kan. (Oct. 6-7), before closing the fall campaign at the Clash at Boulder Creek in Boulder City, Nev. (Oct. 27-28).

Nebraska jumps into a busy spring by traveling to Florida to compete in the UCF Challenge at Eagle Creek Golf Club in Orlando (Jan. 25-27). The tournament represents the earliest start to a spring season in Nebraska women’s golf history.

After opening the fall season in Texas, the Big Red returns to the Lone Star state in the spring at the Texas Golf Throwdown at the Woodlands Country Club (Feb. 16-17). Nebraska makes its annual trip to Peoria, Ariz., for the Westbrook Spring Invitational (Feb. 22-23), before traveling to the SoCal Spring Invitational at the Sterling Hills Golf Club in Camarillo, Calif. (March 8-10).

The Huskers close out March at the MountainView Collegiate at the Preserve Golf Club in Tucson, Ariz. (March 20-22), before ending the regular season at the Chevron Silverado Showdown in Napa, Calif. (April 6-8).

Nebraska returns to California for the third time in a four-tournament stretch to compete at the 2026 Big Ten Championship at the Oakmont Country Club in Glendale (April 24-26).

The Huskers will learn their 2026 NCAA Regional fate during the NCAA Selection Show on Wednesday, April 29, before NCAA competition is held May 11-13 at four regional sites around the country (North Carolina, Florida State, Baylor, Stanford).

The NCAA Championship returns to the Omni La Costa Resort and Spa Champions Course in Carlsbad, Calif. (May 22-27).