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Honors & Awards
- Missouri Class 5 State Champion (2023)
- Missouri Class 5 State Runner-Up (2024, 2025)
- Four-Time Missouri Class 5 All-State
- Four-Time All-District
- Four-Time All-Greater Kansas City Suburban Conference
- Kenneth Smith Award (Kansas City Player of the Year, 2025)
- No. 1 Junior Missouri (Junior Golf Scoreboard, 2025)
- U.S. Junior Amateur Qualifier (2024)
Outlook (2025-26)
The No. 1 recruit in the state of Missouri in 2025, Caden Mickelson hopes to make his mark with the Nebraska men’s golf program. The top high school golfer in the Kansas City metro area in 2025, Mickelson earned his second straight runner-up finish at the Missouri Class 5 state championships, after capturing the state title as a sophomore in 2023.
A four-time Missouri Class 5 all-state selection after producing four consecutive top-five finishes at the state tournament, Mickelson qualified for the U.S. Junior Amateur in 2024.
Before Nebraska
Mickelson capped an impressive prep career by being named the Kenneth Smith Award winner as the top male high school golfer in the Kansas City metro area in 2024-25. The 2025 Missouri state high school runner-up after firing rounds of 66 and 69, Mickelson was the district tournament champion. He played in nine spring tournaments with five titles and three runner-up finishes. He won the Missouri Class 5A state championship with a two-round total of 142 (-2) as a sophomore at Liberty North High School in the spring of 2023. He added a runner-up finish at the Missouri state championship as a junior in 2024 with back-to-back rounds of 69, before claiming a third consecutive top-two finish as a senior with a 135 over 36 holes.
Mickelson was the first golfer in Liberty North history to earn all-state, all-district and all-conference honors in each of his four seasons of high school golf.
Mickelson went on to finish sixth in a field of 304 golfers at the 2024 National High School Championships in Frisco, Texas. He fired rounds of 67, 72 and 69 at PGA Frisco.
The top-ranked junior in Missouri in the class of 2025, according to Junior Golf Scoreboard, Mickelson qualified for the 2024 U.S. Junior Amateur at Oakland Hills Country Club in Michigan.
A four-year honor roll member, Mickelson graduated magna cum laude and served on the Liberty North Student Council all four years.
Personal
The son of Chris and Kristy Mickelson, Caden is majoring in finance at Nebraska.
Career Statistics
| Year | Rounds | Strokes | Average |
| 2025-26 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Nebraska Career Bests
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