Kaleigh Babineaux Season 2025-26

Honors & Awards

• Three Career Top-25 Finish (3, 2025-26)
• Notah Begay III Junior Golf National Championship Qualifier (2024)
• Texas 26-6A District Runner-Up (2025)
• Academic All-State (Texas, 2025)
• Eighth at Colorado Class 5A Championship (2023)
• Colorado Class 5A Northern Regional Champion (2023)
• Colorado Girls Match Play Semifinalist (2023)

Best Career Finish: T17th (UCF Challenge, 2026)
Career Stroke Average: 72.73

Freshman (2025-26)
Kaleigh Babineaux opened the spring season with a career-best finish, tying for 17th at the UCF Challenge - presented by PDI in Orlando (Jan. 25-27). She managed three rounds of even-par 72 on the 6,392-yard layout of the Eagle Creek Golf Club, completing the event with a three-round total of 216 (E). 

Babineaux joined the Nebraska women’s golf team as a true freshman in 2025-26 and kicked off her college career by competing as an individual outside the Husker lineup at the Sam Golden Invitational (Sept. 8-9). She completed the event with a three-round total of 219 (+3) that included a career-best 71 (-1) in the second round on the par-72, 6,343-yard Oakmont Country Club in Corinth, Texas.  

Her performance in Texas helped her earn a lineup spot at the Colonel Wollenberg Ptarmigan Ram Invitational the next time out for the Huskers. She made the most of the event by tying for 24th as Nebraska's No. 3 individual finisher with a 147 (+3) in the rain-shortened tournament. Babineaux opened with a 75 (+3) before posting an impressive even-par 72 in challenging conditions to close the second round before the final round of the tournament was canceled on the second day.

She produced a 73.20 stroke average over five rounds in the fall of 2025.

As a senior at Lake Travis High School in Austin, Texas, Babineaux qualified for the Notah Begay III Junior Golf National Championships by winning the Southern Texas Regional after a two-hole playoff.  She went on to win the Foresight Sports Long Drive Challenge prior to the event.

Babineaux spent her first two seasons at Cherokee Trail High School in Aurora, Colo., finishing eighth as a sophomore at the Class 5A state tournament.

Before Nebraska
As a senior at Lake Travis High School in Austin, Texas, Babineaux qualified for the Notah Begay III Junior Golf National Championships by winning the Southern Texas Regional after a two-hole playoff.  She went on to win the Foresight Sports Long Drive Challenge prior to the event, before tying for 19th at the championship with a 225 (+9), including an even-par 72 in the opening round at Koasati Pines at Coushatta in Kinder, La. (Nov. 3-5).

She finished 15th at the UIL Region IV-6A Championship as a senior in 2025, after taking runner-up honors at the District 26-6A tournament earlier in the spring.

As a junior at Lake Travis, Babineaux tied for 16th at the UIL Region IV-6A Championship in the spring.

She spent her first two seasons at Cherokee Trail High School in Aurora, Colo., finishing eighth as a sophomore at the Class 5A state tournament. Babineaux was also the Class 5A Northern Regional Champion as a sophomore in 2023, firing a 66 (-4) at Flatirons Golf Course as the only player to break par.

In the summer of 2023, she was a semifinalist at the Colorado Golf Association Girls Match Play, losing to eventual champion and Colorado signee Brenna Higgins.

Personal
The daughter of Jason and Kim Babineaux, Kaleigh has a brother, Parker. A strong performer in the classroom, Kayleigh earned second-team Academic All-State honors from the Texas High School Coaches Association in 2025. She is majoring in PGA Golf Management at Nebraska.