Kaleigh Babineaux Season 2025-26

Honors & Awards

• One Career Top 10 Finish (1, 2025-26)
• Six Career Top 25 Finishes (6, 2025-26)
• Big Ten Co-Freshman-of-the-Week (Feb. 26, 2026)
• Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2025)
• 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: T6th, Westbrook Spring Invitational, 2026
Career Stroke Average: 72.75

Freshman (2025-26)
Kaleigh Babineaux has been one of Nebraska's top performers in her first season as a Husker. The freshman from Austin, Texas, owns a 72.75 stroke average over 20 rounds after posting her sixth consecutive top-25 finish at the MSU SoCal Spring Invitational (March 8-10).

Babineaux tied for 16th with a 54-hole total of 221 (+8) that included back-to-back rounds of 72 (+1) on the 5,900-yard layout of the Sterling Hills Golf Club in Camarillo, Calif., to close the tournament. She helped the Huskers to their first team title since a win at the 2023 Westbrook Spring Invitational.

Babineaux's effort in California followed a career-best tie for sixth with fellow Husker freshman Ailis Tribolet at the 2026 Westbrook Spring Invitational (Feb. 22-23). Babineaux's performance in Peoria, Arizona included a career-best three-round total of 207 (-9). She opened the tournament with a career-best 67 (-5) on the 6,293-yard layout of the Vistas Course at the Westbrook Village Golf Club. Babineaux's effort in Arizona helped her share Big Ten Freshman-of-the-Week honors with Tribolet (Feb. 26). 

Babineaux, who owns a team-best six top-25 finishes this season, opened the spring with a tied 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). 

She followed a tie for 21st with a 227 (+11) at the Texas Golf Showdown in The Woodlands, Texas (Feb. 16-17). Babineaux was Nebraska's No. 3 finisher at the event.

Babineaux  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 second-round 71 (-1) on the 6,343-yard layout of the 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. She also earned second-team Academic All-State honors from the Texas High School Coaches Association in 2025. 

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 PGA Golf Management major, Kaleigh earned a spot on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll in the fall of 2025.