Kaleigh Babineaux Season 2025-26

Kaleigh Babineaux joins the Nebraska women's golf team as a true freshman in 2025-26.

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).

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.