SEWARD, Neb. – Following four regular season events this spring, Concordia University, Nebraska Women’s Golf is preparing itself for the 2025 GPAC Women’s Golf Championships. After being staged in Spencer, Iowa, in 2023 and 2024, the conference tournament will shift to Centura Hills Golf Club in Cairo, Neb., for 2025. The 12 GPAC women’s golf programs will gather in the town of roughly 800 people for 54 holes of action on April 28-29. The first two rounds of GPAC golf will be played on day one.
2025 GPAC Women’s Golf Championship
April 28-29 | Centura Hills Golf Club (Cairo, Neb.) | Tee times: will be posted when available
--Live Scoring: clippd
--GPAC Women’s Golf homepage
--Format: 36 holes on day one / 18 holes on day two
By the numbers
· The spring portion of the 2024-25 season for Head Coach Brett Muller’s squad began with the Southwest Minnesota State Spring Invite in Litchfield Park, Ariz., over spring break. Over their four events this spring, the Bulldogs placed 11th out of 12 at the SMSU Spring Invite, sixth out of eight at the Briar Cliff Match Play Tournament, ninth out of 13 at the Concordia Spring Invite and 11th out of 14 at the Kaitlyn Erickson Invite. The Bulldogs turned in a season low single round score of 334 in the first round of the spring break tournament.
· Junior Emery Custer of Broken Bow, Neb., is on track to finish as the program’s scoring average leader for the third-straight season. Recently named an NAIA Scholar-Athlete, Custer garnered 2023-24 Second Team All-GPAC accolades as a sophomore. Custer shot a career low 76 in the first round of the SMSU Spring Invite back in March. In terms of place finishes, Custer performed at her best at the Siouxland Invite (Sept. 23-24) when she placed ninth out of 61 golfers. Custer recorded a score of exactly 80 four different times this season and paces Concordia with an 82.9 season scoring average.
· Through eight varsity events (14 rounds) in 2024-25, the Bulldogs have averaged a team score of 353.1. Concordia has shot 350 or better in eight of those 14 rounds. Individually, Custer has been followed in the lineup by the likes of Maddie Lewis (87.9), Jennifer Gillotti (91.0), Savannah McFalls (91.1) and Sarah Wilson (97.7). Season best rounds for Bulldogs other than Custer have been an 82 for Lewis, an 84 for McFalls, an 87 for Gillotti and an 89 for Wilson.
· Concordia placed ninth at the 2024 GPAC Championships while shooting 352-350-349–1,051 at Spencer Country Club. Custer placed in a tie for 16th (86-86-83–255) on the individual leaderboard. The rest of the ’24 GPAC lineup included Mya Nurse (86-86-90–262; T-25th), Logan Eschliman (91-87-85–263; T-28th), Maddie Lewis (89-93-91–273; T-42nd) and Jennifer Gillotti (95-91-93–279). Custer moved up nine spots from her 2023 conference placement of 25th.
· Over the previous five seasons, the program has recorded GPAC place finishes of ninth in 2023-24, 10th in 2022-23, fifth in 2021-22, third in 2020-21 and third in 2019-20. The back-to-back third-place squads were led by Kendra Placke, one of the program’s all-time greats. Morningside is the reigning GPAC champion after it shot a three-round total of 324-322-326–972 during last season’s conference tournament. The conference champion earns an automatic bid to the NAIA National Championships.
NAIA Women’s Golf National Championship
National qualifiers that come out of the conference championships will continue their seasons with the 2025 NAIA Women’s Golf National Championship set to be played in Ypsilanti, Mich., May 13-16. For more information on the national tournament, click HERE.