COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The Mountain West will be represented by two teams and one individual in the 2025 NCAA Women’s Golf Regionals, announced by the NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Committee on Wednesday.
This marks the 24th season that the MW has sent multiple teams to the NCAA Women’s Golf Regionals and the 11th straight.
MW champion UNLV is heading to the Columbus Regional as the No. 7 seed on The Scarlet Course at The Ohio State University Golf Club. The Rebels topped San José State on the second playoff hole to claim the 2025 Credit Union 1 Mountain West Women’s Golf Championship last week on the Dinah Shore Tournament Course at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California. Toa Yokoyama finished third and Zi Yu Foong was fourth to lead UNLV to its eighth MW title and first since 2018. UNLV will be making its third NCAA Regional team appearance in the last four seasons. Yokoyama made an individual appearance last year.
San José State earned an at-large team bid and will be heading to Arizona as the No. 8 seed at the Gold Canyon Regional at Superstition Mountain Golf and Country Club. The Spartans boast the MW individual champion in Lucia Lopez Ortega, who shot a 5-under-par 211 at the Credit Union 1 MW Women’s Golf Championship for her first career individual title. Ortega was joined in the top 10 at the MW tournament by Moa Andersson, who finished seventh, and Nicola Kaminski, who tied for eighth. SJSU, which will be making its sixth straight NCAA Regional appearance, finished fifth at the Cle Elum Regional in 2024 to advance to the NCAA Championship for the third straight season. Ortega was the NCAA individual runner-up in 2023.
Colorado State’s Kara Kaneshiro is the fourth-seeded individual at the Lubbock Regional, which will be played at The Rawls Course in Lubbock, Texas. Kaneshiro, ranked fifth in the MW behind Ortega, Yokoyama, UNLV’s Mayumi Umezu and Andersson, will be making her second appearance at an NCAA Regional, as CSU earned a team bid last season. The 2023-24 MW Freshman of the Year, Kaneshiro tied for fifth at this season’s MW Championship.
NCAA Regional play will take place May 5-7 at six sites, with each site featuring 12 teams and six individuals. The top five teams (30 teams total) and the low individual not on an advancing team (six individuals total) from each regional site will advance to compete in the national championship, to be played May 16-21 at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California. Championship play will be hosted by University of Texas at Austin, with the final three days of the championships televised live by the GOLF Channel.
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