Lauren Thiele Season 2024-25

• One Career Top-25 Finish (1, 2023-24)
• WGCA Scholastic All-American (2024)
• Nebraska Girls Match Play Champion (2021)
• Nebraska Girls Amateur Runner-Up (2021)
• Girls Junior PGA Championship Qualifier (2021)
• Nebraska Women’s Match Play Semifinalist (2020)

Best Career Finish: T15th (Big O Classic, 2023)
Career Stroke Average: 76.80

Lauren Thiele continues a family tradition at Nebraska by  joining the Huskers as a transfer after spending her first two college seasons at Wichita State. Thiele (pronounced TEEL), who has three seasons of eligibility, follows her three older sisters - Haley, Hannah and Lindsey - to the Husker women’s golf progam.

 

Lauren Thiele was Wichita State’s No. 2 golfer during the spring of 2024, posting a 76.07 stroke average over 15 rounds.

 

“We’re happy that Lauren Thiele is coming back home to be a Husker. Lauren brings power, athleticism and the desire to develop into a great player.  She is a great person and will make us a better team.” 

 

Thiele competed in seven tournaments for the Shockers in her second season in Wichita, including all five events during the spring. She fired a career-best 71 (-1) in the second round of the AAC Championship. It followed on the heels of a then-career-best-tying 73 in the opening round. She struggled to an 83 in the final round to finish in a tie for 38th at 227 (+11), tying for WSU’s No. 2 individual finish at the conference tournament.  She entered the final round in a tie for 15th at even-par 144.

 

She opened the spring with a career-best 223 (+7) to tie for 35th as Wichita State’s No. 2 finisher at the Rio Verde Invitational (Feb. 23-25), which included a then-career-best 73 (+1) in the final round. Her performance in Arizona helped her become a fixture in the lineup the rest of the spring.

 

After a 236 (78-79-79) to tie for 68th at the Tulane Classic (March 10-12), Thiele bounced back with a 226 (75-78-73) to tie for 44th as Wichita State’s No. 2 finisher at the Red Rocks Invitational in Sedona, Ariz. (March 16-17). She tied for 31st with a 229 (75-78-76) as WSU’s No. 2 finisher at the ORU Spring Invitational in Broken Arrow, Okla. (April 8-9), before her effort at the AAC Championship in Brooksville, Fla. Prior to her final round at the conference tournament, Thiele notched 15 consecutive rounds of 79 or better. Her spring season stroke average was 76.07 over 15 rounds, after posting a 79.00 stroke average over five fall rounds.

 

She produced a career-best tie for 15th with a 156 (+10) with rounds of 80 and 76 (+3) at the rain-shortened Big O Classic at the Oak Hills Country Club in Omaha (Oct. 2-3), after opening her season. It followed a tie for 70th with a 239 (+23) at the season-opening Payne Stewart Memorial in Springfield, Mo. (Sept. 11-12).

 

Thiele redshirted as a true freshman in 2022-23. Off the course, she earned spots on the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll in both the fall and spring semesters.

 

A four-year letter winner and two-time captain of the boys’ golf team at Bishop Neumann High School in Wahoo, Thiele was the only girl to be a member of a Nebraska team championship in boys golf. She finished seventh individually to help Neumann to the state title in 2021. During the 2021 season, Thiele captured a pair of individual tournament titles among a trio of top-five finishes. She also finished among the top 10 individually in seven tournaments. She finished with a 72.8 scoring averaged, which included a personal-best five-under 66. During the summer of 2021, she was the Nebraska Girls Match Play champion and added a runner-up finish at the Nebraska Girls Amateur Championship. She also qualified for the Girls Junior PGA Championship. In the summer of 2020, she was a semifinalist at the Nebraska Women’s Match Play Championship. 

 

An outstanding all-around athlete, Thiele was an all-state selection in both basketball and volleyball, while setting the school game and season record for three-pointers made. She was also an Academic All-State pick in volleyball, basketball and golf.

 

Personal
The daughter of Kevin and Lisa Thiele, Lauren has three older sisters, Haley, Hannah and Lindsey, who were all women’s golf letter winners at Nebraska. She also has a younger sister, Brooke. 

 

Haley (2016-18-19-20), Hannah (2018-19-20) and Lindsey (2021-22-23-24) combined for 11 women’s golf letters over eight seasons at Nebraska. The 2024-25 season will mark the ninth consecutive year that at least one Thiele sister has been on the Nebraska women’s golf team.

 

Lauren was a pre-medicine major at Wichita State. She earned WGCA Scholastic All-America honors in 2024.

 

Thiele's Career Statistics

Year	Rounds	Strokes	Avg.	Low 18	Low 54
2022-23		Redshirt
2023-24	20	1,536	76.80	71	223
Totals	20	1,536	76.80	71	223

Career Bests
Best Tournament Finish - T15th (Big O Classic, 2023)
Best Event (Strokes) - 223 (Rio Verde, 2024)
Low Round - 71 (AAC Championship, 2nd, 2024)
Low First Round - 73 (AAC Championship, 2024)
Low Second Round - 71 (AAC Championship, 2024)
Low Third Round - 73 (Red Rocks, 2024; Rio Verde, 2024)
Career Rounds Under Par - 1