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The Nebraska women’s golf team opens its 2026 spring season by competing in the UCF Challenge - Presented by PDI in Orlando, Florida (Jan. 25-27).
The three-day, 54-hole event hosted by the University of Central Florida on the 6,392-yard, par-72 layout at Eagle Creek Golf Club starts with an 8 a.m. (CT) shotgun start for 18 holes each day beginning on Sunday, Jan. 25 and continuing through Tuesday, Jan. 27.
Nebraska joins Penn State in representing the Big Ten in a 16-team field that includes Abilene Christian, Auburn, Baylor, Charlotte, East Carolina, FGCU, Kent State, Mississippi State, North Florida, Northern Illinois, Old Dominion, South Alabama, South Florida and the hosts from UCF.
Hannah Kono will play out of the top spot in the Big Red lineup. The junior from Enkoping, Sweden owns a 72.50 stroke average while playing in all 10 rounds for the Huskers during the fall campaign. Kono was Nebraska’s top finisher at both the Col. Wollenberg Ptarmigan Ram Invitational (8th) and the Oklahoma Intercollegiate (T34th).
Sophomore Eden Lohrbach earned the No. 2 spot in the lineup. The four-time Iowa state girls champion at Ames High School will make her first lineup appearance of 2025-26.
The three-day, 54-hole event hosted by the University of Central Florida on the 6,392-yard, par-72 layout at Eagle Creek Golf Club starts with an 8 a.m. (CT) shotgun start for 18 holes each day beginning on Sunday, Jan. 25 and continuing through Tuesday, Jan. 27.
Nebraska joins Penn State in representing the Big Ten in a 16-team field that includes Abilene Christian, Auburn, Baylor, Charlotte, East Carolina, FGCU, Kent State, Mississippi State, North Florida, Northern Illinois, Old Dominion, South Alabama, South Florida and the hosts from UCF.
Hannah Kono will play out of the top spot in the Big Red lineup. The junior from Enkoping, Sweden owns a 72.50 stroke average while playing in all 10 rounds for the Huskers during the fall campaign. Kono was Nebraska’s top finisher at both the Col. Wollenberg Ptarmigan Ram Invitational (8th) and the Oklahoma Intercollegiate (T34th).
Sophomore Eden Lohrbach earned the No. 2 spot in the lineup. The four-time Iowa state girls champion at Ames High School will make her first lineup appearance of 2025-26.
True freshmen Ailis Tribolet (Chandler, Ariz.) and Kaleigh Babineaux (Austin, Texas) join Wahoo, Nebraska native Lauren Thiele in completing the Big Red’s five-player lineup in Florida.
UCF Challenge - Presented by PDI
Orlando, Florida (Host: UCF)
Eagle Creek Golf Club (Par 72, 6,392 Yards)
Schedule
Sunday, Jan. 25 (Round 1) - 8 a.m. (CT) - Shotgun
Monday, Jan. 26 (Round 2) - 8 a.m. (CT) - Shotgun
Tuesday, Jan. 27 (Round 3) - 8 a.m. (CT) - Shotgun
Live Scoring - Scoreboard.clippd.com
Participating Teams (16)
Abilene Christian, Auburn, Baylor, Charlotte, East Carolina, FGCU, Kent State, Mississippi State, Nebraska, North Florida, Northern Illinois, Old Dominion, Penn State, South Alabama, South Florida, UCF
Nebraska Lineup (5-count-4)
1. Hannah Kono, Jr., Enkoping, Sweden
2. Eden Lohrbach, So., Ames, Iowa
3. Ailis Tribolet, Fr., Chandler, Arizona
4. Kaleigh Babineaux, Fr., Austin, Texas
5. Lauren Thiele, RJr., Wahoo, Nebraska
Hall Takes Reins of Husker Program as Nebraska’s Sixth Head Coach
With a proven record of helping aspiring young golfers drastically improve their games, first-year Nebraska Head Coach Breanne Hall inherits a roster filled with nine returning Huskers and one transfer who followed her from Illinois State. However, among the 12 golfers on Nebraska’s roster, nine are in either their first or second seasons as Huskers.
A three-time Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year, Hall was named the sixth head coach of the Nebraska women’s golf program on May 15, 2025 after Coach Jeanne Sutherland announced her retirement. Hall won back-to-back MVC Coach-of-the-Year honors at Illinois State in 2024 and 2025. She led the Redbirds to three NCAA Tournament appearances over the past four seasons and was also the 2022 Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year.
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.
er team posted a nine-stroke improvement in scoring average from year one to year two.
Hall, Huskers Add Paradis as Assistant Coach
Nebraska women’s golf head coach Breanne Hall announced the hiring of assistant coach Lory Paradis on Jan. 5, 2026. Paradis, who was a team captain as a player for Hall at Illinois State last season, served as a graduate assistant coach for the Redbirds during the 2025 fall campaign.
A PGA of Canada Professional, Paradis spent her first four college seasons as a golfer at Fresno State before helping Illinois State capture the Missouri Valley Conference title as a first-year graduate student in 2024-25. Paradis, who expects to earn her master’s degree in the psychology of sport and physical activity in May 2026, was an apprentice teaching professional at Laval-sur-le-Lac Golf Club in the summer of 2025. She previously served as a freshman coach at Foisy Golf Academie in 2023-24.
Kono, Jolly Lead Strong Husker Effort at Ptarmigan Ram
Hannah Kono fired a 142 (-2) over 36 holes to earn a tie for eighth individually and help the Nebraska women’s golf team to a fifth-place finish at the rain-shortened Colonel Wollenberg Ptarmigan Ram Invitational in Fort Collins, Colo. (Sept. 22-23).
Kono, a junior from Enkoping, Sweden, opened with an impressive 68 (-4) in the first round, before the second round was suspended prior to completion. The teams faced cold, rainy and windy conditions on day two but managed to complete the second round before the decision was made to cancel the final round.
Husker sophomore Jessica Jolly tied for 12th by carding back-to-back rounds of even-par 72. Freshman Kaleigh Babineaux added a third top-25 finish to the Nebraska lineup with a 147 (+3) to tie for 24th. She matched teammate Lauren Thiele, who added a 147 of her own while playing as an individual outside Nebraska’s lineup.
Husker All-American Kate Smith Competed on 2025 LPGA Tour
Former Husker Kate Smith-Stroh captured her LPGA Tour Card for the 2025 season by tying for 19th at the LPGA Q-Series Final Qualifying Stage in Mobile, Ala., Dec. 10, 2024.
Smith-Stroh, an All-American and Big Ten Champion for Nebraska as a fifth-year senior in 2021, put together five solid rounds in Alabama to finish with a total of 350 (-8) with rounds of 69-71-67-72-71 on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail - Magnolia Grove to secure a spot on the world’s premier women’s golf tour in 2025.
One of the best golfers in Nebraska history, Smith-Stroh competed on the Epson Tour (2022-24). During the 2023 season, she competed in 22 events and made 19 cuts, while recording four top-10 finishes. She tied for second at the Four Winds Invitational. She added 19 events while making 13 cuts in 2024, including two more top-10 finishes.
She was ranked 33rd in the Race for the Card entering Q-Series Final Qualifying.
Smith-Stroh earned nearly $116,000 in her first season on the LPGA Tour, including her first career top-10 finish at the Dow Championship in late June. Her tie for 10th at 265 (-15) over four rounds earned her just over $35,000. She added a tie for 18th at 276 (-12) at The Standard Portland Classic in mid-August to take home more than $25,000. She opened October with a tie for 42nd at the Lotte Championship at Hoakalei Country Club (Oct. 1-4), before closing in a tie for 65th at The ANNIKA (Nov. 10-13). Overall, she made eight cuts in 17 events.
The native of Detroit Lakes, Minn., made history at Nebraska. The two-time first-team All-Big Ten choice stormed to the Big Ten Championship with a school-record 64 (-8) in the final round at TPC River’s Bend in Maineville, Ohio. She was named a third-team All-American by Golfweek and an honorable-mention All-American by the WGCA before becoming the first Husker to compete in the Arnold Palmer Cup, helping the United States to a title. She was also the first Husker to compete in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur in 2021.
Kono Making Step Forward in Second Season as Husker
Hannah Kono produced Nebraska’s No. 2 stroke average (74.93) in her first year as a Husker in 2024-25. The transfer from Oakland University earned four top-25 finishes as a first-year Nebraska golfer, after finishing sixth at the 2024 Horizon League Championship.
Through four tournaments in her second season at Nebraska, Kono owns a team-best 72.50 stroke average including an eighth-place finish at the Col. Wollenberg Ptarmigan Ram.
Kono fired a career-best 213 (-3) to lead Nebraska with a tie for 21st individually at the Westbrook Spring Invitational in Peoria, Ariz. (Feb. 23-24).
Kono’s performance included career-best first and second rounds of 70 (-2) on the 6,248-yard layout of the Vistas Course at the Westbrook Village Golf Club.
Kono closed the fall of 2024 with a then-career-best 218 (+2) to finish 16th at the Hurricane Invitational in Coral Gables, Fla. The native of Enkoping, Sweden, put together consistent rounds of 73, 72 and 73 on the par-72, 6,175-yard layout at the Biltmore Golf Club to earn her best finish as a Huskers.
She opened her Husker career with a tie for 18th at the Badger Invitational with a 224.
Thiele Named 2025 Nebraska Women’s Amateur of the Year
Lauren Thiele was named the Nebraska Women’s Amateur Golfer of the Year presented by SWAG (Nov. 13, 2025).
Thiele claimed the honor on the strength of a victory at the 102nd Nebraska Women’s Match Play at Hillcrest Country Club in Lincoln (July 31). She defeated Husker teammate Brooke Bream 1 up in the final to capture the title.
Thiele, a Wahoo native, follows in the family footsteps of her older sisters, Hannah (2016) and Lindsey (2023), as a Nebraska Women’s Match Play champion. Lauren was also the Nebraska Girls Match Play Champion in 2021. Hannah was also the Nebraska Women’s Amateur Golfer of the Year in 2016.
Lauren added an eighth-place finish at the 51st Nebraska Women’s Amateur in Beatrice in June.
Lohrbach Storms to Nebraska Women’s Amateur Title
Husker women’s golfer Eden Lohrbach fired a final-round 69 (-3) to rally from a five-stroke deficit on her way to a four-shot victory over Omaha’s Katie Ruge on June 5 at the 51st Nebraska Women’s Amateur Championship at the Beatrice Country Club.
Lohrbach, a sophomore from Ames, Iowa, entered the final round at 151 after an even-par 72 (June 3) and a second-round 79 (June 4). Ruge held the tournament’s top spot through the first 36 holes after rounds of 70 and 76 to sit at 146 (+4).
But Lohrbach wasted little time in storming to the top of the leader board on the final day, recording four birdies on the front nine to overcome a bogey on No. 1 to take the turn with a three-under-par 33. That was enough to account for the nine-stroke swing as Ruge struggled with four bogeys and two double-bogeys on the front nine to head to the back at 42 (+9).
Lohrbach maintained her four-stroke lead with an even-par 36 on the back to finish with a three-round total of 220 (+4), while Ruge closed at 224 (+8).
In addition to Lohrbach’s title, Husker teammates Olivia Lovegrove (Lincoln) and Arden Louchheim (Park City, Utah) tied for third at 226 (+9). Lauren Thiele (Wahoo) added a top-10 finish by taking eighth at 231 (+15), while sisters Brooke and Mackenzie Bream tied for 13th at 232 (+16).
Sophomores Hoping to Make Splash in Second Seasons as Huskers
A five-player sophomore class should make qualifying for each tournament extraordinarily competitive for Nebraska this season.
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 instant 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.
Huskers Participate in Folds of Honor
Nebraska women’s golf is a proud participant in the Folds of Honor program, which recognizes fallen or disabled American service members and first responders by carrying a bag tag emblazoned with the number of Folds of Honor recipients who have attended Nebraska.
To donate to the Folds of Honor program at Nebraska, visit https://foh.org/nebraskawomensgolf.
With a proven record of helping aspiring young golfers drastically improve their games, first-year Nebraska Head Coach Breanne Hall inherits a roster filled with nine returning Huskers and one transfer who followed her from Illinois State. However, among the 12 golfers on Nebraska’s roster, nine are in either their first or second seasons as Huskers.
A three-time Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year, Hall was named the sixth head coach of the Nebraska women’s golf program on May 15, 2025 after Coach Jeanne Sutherland announced her retirement. Hall won back-to-back MVC Coach-of-the-Year honors at Illinois State in 2024 and 2025. She led the Redbirds to three NCAA Tournament appearances over the past four seasons and was also the 2022 Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year.
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.
er team posted a nine-stroke improvement in scoring average from year one to year two.
Hall, Huskers Add Paradis as Assistant Coach
Nebraska women’s golf head coach Breanne Hall announced the hiring of assistant coach Lory Paradis on Jan. 5, 2026. Paradis, who was a team captain as a player for Hall at Illinois State last season, served as a graduate assistant coach for the Redbirds during the 2025 fall campaign.
A PGA of Canada Professional, Paradis spent her first four college seasons as a golfer at Fresno State before helping Illinois State capture the Missouri Valley Conference title as a first-year graduate student in 2024-25. Paradis, who expects to earn her master’s degree in the psychology of sport and physical activity in May 2026, was an apprentice teaching professional at Laval-sur-le-Lac Golf Club in the summer of 2025. She previously served as a freshman coach at Foisy Golf Academie in 2023-24.
Kono, Jolly Lead Strong Husker Effort at Ptarmigan Ram
Hannah Kono fired a 142 (-2) over 36 holes to earn a tie for eighth individually and help the Nebraska women’s golf team to a fifth-place finish at the rain-shortened Colonel Wollenberg Ptarmigan Ram Invitational in Fort Collins, Colo. (Sept. 22-23).
Kono, a junior from Enkoping, Sweden, opened with an impressive 68 (-4) in the first round, before the second round was suspended prior to completion. The teams faced cold, rainy and windy conditions on day two but managed to complete the second round before the decision was made to cancel the final round.
Husker sophomore Jessica Jolly tied for 12th by carding back-to-back rounds of even-par 72. Freshman Kaleigh Babineaux added a third top-25 finish to the Nebraska lineup with a 147 (+3) to tie for 24th. She matched teammate Lauren Thiele, who added a 147 of her own while playing as an individual outside Nebraska’s lineup.
Husker All-American Kate Smith Competed on 2025 LPGA Tour
Former Husker Kate Smith-Stroh captured her LPGA Tour Card for the 2025 season by tying for 19th at the LPGA Q-Series Final Qualifying Stage in Mobile, Ala., Dec. 10, 2024.
Smith-Stroh, an All-American and Big Ten Champion for Nebraska as a fifth-year senior in 2021, put together five solid rounds in Alabama to finish with a total of 350 (-8) with rounds of 69-71-67-72-71 on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail - Magnolia Grove to secure a spot on the world’s premier women’s golf tour in 2025.
One of the best golfers in Nebraska history, Smith-Stroh competed on the Epson Tour (2022-24). During the 2023 season, she competed in 22 events and made 19 cuts, while recording four top-10 finishes. She tied for second at the Four Winds Invitational. She added 19 events while making 13 cuts in 2024, including two more top-10 finishes.
She was ranked 33rd in the Race for the Card entering Q-Series Final Qualifying.
Smith-Stroh earned nearly $116,000 in her first season on the LPGA Tour, including her first career top-10 finish at the Dow Championship in late June. Her tie for 10th at 265 (-15) over four rounds earned her just over $35,000. She added a tie for 18th at 276 (-12) at The Standard Portland Classic in mid-August to take home more than $25,000. She opened October with a tie for 42nd at the Lotte Championship at Hoakalei Country Club (Oct. 1-4), before closing in a tie for 65th at The ANNIKA (Nov. 10-13). Overall, she made eight cuts in 17 events.
The native of Detroit Lakes, Minn., made history at Nebraska. The two-time first-team All-Big Ten choice stormed to the Big Ten Championship with a school-record 64 (-8) in the final round at TPC River’s Bend in Maineville, Ohio. She was named a third-team All-American by Golfweek and an honorable-mention All-American by the WGCA before becoming the first Husker to compete in the Arnold Palmer Cup, helping the United States to a title. She was also the first Husker to compete in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur in 2021.
Kono Making Step Forward in Second Season as Husker
Hannah Kono produced Nebraska’s No. 2 stroke average (74.93) in her first year as a Husker in 2024-25. The transfer from Oakland University earned four top-25 finishes as a first-year Nebraska golfer, after finishing sixth at the 2024 Horizon League Championship.
Through four tournaments in her second season at Nebraska, Kono owns a team-best 72.50 stroke average including an eighth-place finish at the Col. Wollenberg Ptarmigan Ram.
Kono fired a career-best 213 (-3) to lead Nebraska with a tie for 21st individually at the Westbrook Spring Invitational in Peoria, Ariz. (Feb. 23-24).
Kono’s performance included career-best first and second rounds of 70 (-2) on the 6,248-yard layout of the Vistas Course at the Westbrook Village Golf Club.
Kono closed the fall of 2024 with a then-career-best 218 (+2) to finish 16th at the Hurricane Invitational in Coral Gables, Fla. The native of Enkoping, Sweden, put together consistent rounds of 73, 72 and 73 on the par-72, 6,175-yard layout at the Biltmore Golf Club to earn her best finish as a Huskers.
She opened her Husker career with a tie for 18th at the Badger Invitational with a 224.
Thiele Named 2025 Nebraska Women’s Amateur of the Year
Lauren Thiele was named the Nebraska Women’s Amateur Golfer of the Year presented by SWAG (Nov. 13, 2025).
Thiele claimed the honor on the strength of a victory at the 102nd Nebraska Women’s Match Play at Hillcrest Country Club in Lincoln (July 31). She defeated Husker teammate Brooke Bream 1 up in the final to capture the title.
Thiele, a Wahoo native, follows in the family footsteps of her older sisters, Hannah (2016) and Lindsey (2023), as a Nebraska Women’s Match Play champion. Lauren was also the Nebraska Girls Match Play Champion in 2021. Hannah was also the Nebraska Women’s Amateur Golfer of the Year in 2016.
Lauren added an eighth-place finish at the 51st Nebraska Women’s Amateur in Beatrice in June.
Lohrbach Storms to Nebraska Women’s Amateur Title
Husker women’s golfer Eden Lohrbach fired a final-round 69 (-3) to rally from a five-stroke deficit on her way to a four-shot victory over Omaha’s Katie Ruge on June 5 at the 51st Nebraska Women’s Amateur Championship at the Beatrice Country Club.
Lohrbach, a sophomore from Ames, Iowa, entered the final round at 151 after an even-par 72 (June 3) and a second-round 79 (June 4). Ruge held the tournament’s top spot through the first 36 holes after rounds of 70 and 76 to sit at 146 (+4).
But Lohrbach wasted little time in storming to the top of the leader board on the final day, recording four birdies on the front nine to overcome a bogey on No. 1 to take the turn with a three-under-par 33. That was enough to account for the nine-stroke swing as Ruge struggled with four bogeys and two double-bogeys on the front nine to head to the back at 42 (+9).
Lohrbach maintained her four-stroke lead with an even-par 36 on the back to finish with a three-round total of 220 (+4), while Ruge closed at 224 (+8).
In addition to Lohrbach’s title, Husker teammates Olivia Lovegrove (Lincoln) and Arden Louchheim (Park City, Utah) tied for third at 226 (+9). Lauren Thiele (Wahoo) added a top-10 finish by taking eighth at 231 (+15), while sisters Brooke and Mackenzie Bream tied for 13th at 232 (+16).
Sophomores Hoping to Make Splash in Second Seasons as Huskers
A five-player sophomore class should make qualifying for each tournament extraordinarily competitive for Nebraska this season.
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 instant 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.
Huskers Participate in Folds of Honor
Nebraska women’s golf is a proud participant in the Folds of Honor program, which recognizes fallen or disabled American service members and first responders by carrying a bag tag emblazoned with the number of Folds of Honor recipients who have attended Nebraska.
To donate to the Folds of Honor program at Nebraska, visit https://foh.org/nebraskawomensgolf.