Three members of the Wayne State College women’s golf team collected all conference honors.
According to a release from Wayne State Athletics, freshman Gaia Stancikova became the first player since the re-instatement of the Wildcat women’s golf program in 2020-21 to earn All-NSIC First Team honors while senior Abbigail Brodersen and freshman Camryn Johnson both received Second Team honors.
Stancikova, from Castel San Pietro Terme, Italy, set a new single season scoring average for the Wildcat this season with a 77.38 in 16 rounds of golf and seven events. The old school record scoring average was 78.00 held by Jazmine Taylor in the 2022-23 season. Stancikova was sixth overall at the NSIC Championships April 25-27 in Missouri with rounds of 78-75-79 for a 54-hole score of 232.
Brodersen, a senior from Albion (Boone Central HS), earned All-NSIC Second Team honors for the second time in her Wildcat career (2023 as a sophomore). She played in all 12 events and 26 rounds this season and finished with a scoring average of 79.62, the fifth-best in school history. She was also awarded this year’s NSIC Elite 18 Award in women’s golf as the top scholar-athlete at a conference championship event with a 4.00 grade point average majoring in industrial technology/ drafting and design/ construction management.
Johnson, a freshman from Berwyn (Broken Bow HS), was an All-NSIC Second Team selection following a standout freshman campaign with the Wildcats. She finished with a scoring average of 78.38 – third-best in school history – and had 15 rounds in the 70’s while posting two top-five and four top-10 finishes for the ‘Cats this season. She became the first Wildcat player in school history to shoot an 18-hole score under par, firing a one-under 71 March 31 at the NSIC Preview in Missouri.
The Wayne State College women’s golf team made school history this season by qualifying for the NCAA Division II Women’s Golf Championships, finishing 16th at the Central Region Championships in Edmond, Oklahoma. The Wildcats had three tournament wins this season while establishing a new single season team scoring average of 313.12, 6.5 shots better than the previous school record (319.62 in 2022-23) and finished third at the NSIC Championships.
