SEWARD, Neb. – Nearly two weeks of practice since the most recent outing will lead Concordia University, Nebraska Women’s Golf into the 2026 GPAC Women’s Golf Championship. The conference tournament is headed to Dakota Dunes Country Club in Dakota Dunes, S.D., for action on April 27-28. It’s a location where Head Coach Brett Muller’s program last appeared in the fall of 2020. The Bulldogs are looking to climb the ladder after placing seventh in the conference at the 2025 GPAC Championships held in Cairo, Neb.
2026 GPAC Women’s Golf Championship
April 27-28 | Dakota Dunes Country Club (Dakota Dunes, S.D.) | Tee times: 9 a.m. both days.
--Live Scoring: clippd
--GPAC Women’s Golf homepage
--Format: 36 holes on day one / 18 holes on day two
By the numbers
· The varsity team has competed in eight tournaments throughout the 2025-26 season. Three of those events have taken place this spring as Concordia placed third out of six at the Bethel College Invite, fourth out of 11 at the Concordia Bulldog Invite and 11th out of 15 at the Wayne State Wildcat Classic (mostly NCAA DII teams). Back in the fall, the Bulldogs placed second at four consecutive tournaments. The current 18-hole team average of 334.4 puts the ’25-26 team on track to break the school record of 348.1 (2020-21) for a single season. The team low so far this spring was a 327 achieved in both rounds of the Wildcat Classic.
· The GPAC Championships will provide another opportunity for Concordia to break the school records it set during the fall. At the Mount Marty Invite (Aug. 28), the Bulldogs shot 320 and broke a program record for lowest 18-hole team score. Less than three weeks later, Concordia set a new standard for 36-hole tournament team score by firing 336-322–658 at the Frommelt Classic hosted by Briar Cliff. At that event, three Bulldogs placed inside the top six: Emery Custer, Maddie Lewis and Savannah McFalls. Prior to 2025-26, the school records were 324 for 18 holes and 666 for 36 holes.
· The Broken Bow, Neb., native Custer has enjoyed a strong senior season and leads the team with a 2025-26 scoring average of 80.1. Custer has placed 11th or better at seven of eight tournaments (top four in five events) and emerged as the champion of the Siouxland Invite back in September. Her previous GPAC Championships finishes were 25th as a freshman, 16th as a sophomore and fifth as a junior. She is a two-time All-GPAC honoree (first team in 2024-25). The rest of the team’s top five this season, in terms of scoring average, includes Maddie Lewis (83.4), Savannah McFalls (84.3), Olivia James (86.6) and Amela Ptacnik (90.2).
· At the 2025 GPAC Championships, played at Centura Hills Golf Club in Cairo, Neb., Concordia placed seventh (332-329-343–1,004). Bulldogs who qualified for the individual conference leaderboard were Emery Custer (fifth place), Maddie Lewis (27th), Savannah McFalls (28th) and Jennifer Gillotti (39th). Custer shot 80-77-79–236 in the process of claiming a tournament medal. Doane is the defending GPAC champion. Dakota Wesleyan’s Allison Meyerink is the defending individual conference champion.
· Over the previous five seasons, the Concordia program has recorded GPAC place finishes of seventh in 2024-25, ninth in 2023-24, 10th in 2022-23, fifth in 2021-22 and third in 2020-21. The Bulldogs also placed third in 2019-20. The back-to-back third place conference finishes were spurred by Kendra Placke, who placed seventh or higher in the GPAC in all four seasons. An individual GPAC championship was won in 2016-17 by Amy Ahlers, a member of the Concordia Athletics Hall of Fame. Under Muller’s direction, the program has had at least one top 10 individual conference finisher in 11 of 14 years.
NAIA Women’s Golf National Championship
National qualifiers that come out of the conference championships will continue their seasons at the 2026 NAIA Women’s Golf National Championship set to be played in Ypsilanti, Mich., May 19-22. For more information on the national tournament, click HERE.