Mackenzie Bream Season 2023-24

Honors & Awards

• Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Award (First Team, 2026)
• Academic All-Big Ten (2025, 2026)
• Chi Alpha Sigma Honor Society (2026)
• Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2023, 2024, 2025; Spring 2024, 2025, 2026)
• Nebraska Sam Foltz 27 Hero Leadership Award (2026)
• Nebraska Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (2024-25; 2025-26; 2026-27)
• Tom Osborne Citizenship Team (2024, 2025, 2026)
• JGAA Girls 15-18 Player of the Year (2022-23)
• Milt Coggins Jr./Junior World Qualifier Champion (2022)
• JGAA Maricopa Junior Champion (2022)
• JGAA Tucson City Junior Champion (2022)
• JGAA Bruce Brown Yuma City Champion (2022)

Best Career Finish: T58th (Boulder Creek, 2025)
Career Stroke Average: 74.67

Junior (Nebraska, 2025-26)
Mackenzie Bream earned a varsity letter for the Huskers after making her first career lineup appearance in The Clash at Boulder Creek in the fall of 2025.

Bream produced Nebraska’s No. 4 individual finish by tying for 58th with a 224 (+8) on the par-72, 6,429-yard layout at Boulder Creek (Oct. 27-28). She opened with back-to-back rounds of 74 (+2) before capping her first collegiate tournament with a final-round 76 (+4) in Boulder City, Nev.

Bream played alongside her older sister, Brooke, in the Husker lineup for the first time in their careers, as both earned their first letters as Huskers in 2025-26.

Sophomore (Nebraska, 2024-25)
Bream competed for playing time in her second season at Nebraska in 2024-25. She did not see any action, but she continued to represent the Huskers well off the course, earning Academic All-Big Ten honors. Bream also joined her sister, Brooke, in representing the women’s golf team on the Nebraska Student-Athlete Advisory Committee in 2024-25.

Freshman (Nebraska, 2023-24)
Bream redshirted in her first season at Nebraska in 2023-24. She performed well off the course, earning spots on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll in the fall and spring semesters of 2023-24, before becoming a member of the 2024 Tom Osborne Citizenship Team.

Before Nebraska
A relative newcomer to the game of golf, Mackenzie Bream joined her older sister, Brooke, in taking up the sport during the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020.

As a senior at Arcadia High School in the fall of 2022, Bream tied for 14th individually at the Arizona Division 2 girls state championship at Tucson National. She helped Arcadia to a 10th-place team finish. In the fall of 2021, Bream tied for 52nd individually at the Arizona Girls Division 2 Championship.  She also competed in volleyball, soccer and track and field for the Titans during her high school career at Arcadia.

Bream was the Junior Golf Association of Arizona Girls 15-18 Player of the Year in 2022-23 after winning individual titles at the Milt Coggins Jr./Junior World Qualifier, the Maricopa Junior Championship, the Tucson City Junior and the Bruce Brown Yuma City Junior, along with runner-up finishes at the Phoenix City Junior and Thunderbird Junior. Bream also tied for fourth at the Arizona Junior Golf Championship in the summer of 2023.

Personal
The daughter of Scott and Shelly Bream, Mackenzie has an older sister, Brooke, who also lettered for the Nebraska women’s golf team in 2026. Mackenzie is a sports media and communication major who earned Academic All-Big Ten honors in 2025 and 2026. She is a six-time Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll selection and a three-time member of the Tom Osborne Citizenship Team. She also claimed a prestigious Sam Foltz 27 Hero Leadership Award in 2026.

Bream is in her third year as a member of the Nebraska Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. In 2024-25, she was a SAAC representative alongside her sister, Brooke.

Mackenzie’s mother is a Nebraska graduate. Mackenzie’s father is the vice president for player personnel for the Detroit Tigers. A three-sport athlete at Millard South High School, Scott Bream advanced to the Triple A level after playing in the San Diego Padres (1989-1995), Chicago Cubs (1995) and Detroit Tiger organizations (1996-98) after being drafted in the second round by San Diego in the 1989 MLB Draft. He continued in the Tigers organization as an advance scout in 1999, and has spent all but two (2011-12, Padres) of the last 25 seasons in the Tigers organization.

Bream's Career Statistics