EDINA, Minn. – Championship season kicks off this weekend in the for St. Catherine University as the 2025 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Women's Golf Championships are set to begin on Saturday morning at
Braemar Golf Course in Edina.
The MIAC's ten women's golf teams will begin the three-day, 54-hole conference championship this Saturday, October 4, and crown the MIAC champion on Monday, October 6.
This will be the first time that the MIAC Women's Golf Championships will be played at Braemar; the course hosted the MIAC Men's Golf Championships in 2024.
CHAMPIONSHIP 101
Each MIAC team will enter five players in the tournament, with the program's four best performances each day determining the team score. The team with the lowest score over the course of the tournament will receive the MIAC's automatic qualifier to the 2026 NCAA Division III Women's Golf Championships.
Action will begin Saturday morning with the first wave of golfers set to tee off at 11:00 a.m. Teams are seeded based on their finish in the 2024 MIAC Championships and golfers will tee off in descending order of their place in the lineup (No. 5 to No. 1). The 2024 MIAC Champion St. Catherine Wildcats will tee off alongside Carleton and Bethel to start the tournament at 11:00 a.m., with teams following in order of 2024 finish every ten minutes after. Macalester, Gustavus, and Saint Benedict are tentatively set to begin teeing off at 11:50 a.m. on Saturday, followed by St. Olaf, Augsburg, St. Scholastica, and Concordia at 12:40 p.m.
Sunday's tee times are also set to begin at 11:00 a.m., while Monday's final round is slated for a 9:00 a.m. start. Specific pairings for Sunday and Monday will be reordered from high to low according to the previous day's scores. Tentative tee times and pairings for the tournament will be available online on the
championship home page.
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FOLLOW THE ACTION
Spectators are welcome to attend the 2025 MIAC Women's Golf Championships at Braemar Golf Course and must follow all
local and
spectator rules. Per course directive, spectator carts are available to individuals with valid handicap stickers only.
Fans not in attendance in Edina can follow all the action via unofficial live scoring and hole-by-hole updates through
Scoreboard powered by Clippd.
The MIAC has a championship home page for the event that will serve as the online home of the tournament. The championship page will include tee times, pairings, and results as they become available, as well as recaps and photos.
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IN THE POLLS
Two MIAC women's golf teams were ranked, and three more received votes in the
Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) Division III Mizuno Top 25 Poll, released on September 26. Carleton is ranked No. 13 with St. Catherine at No. 20. Macalester, Gustavus, and Saint Benedict each received votes in the balloting.
St. Catherine sophomore
Caylin Cantwell (Blaine, Minn. / Totino Grace) led the Wildcats to their best team finish of the fall season with a tournament-low round of 298 on day two of the St. Kate's Fall Invite on 9/21. Cantwell's par round of 72 earned her fifth-place on the individual leaderboard and helped secure second-place as a team for the Wildcats. It was Cantwell's second top-five finish of the season; the first was a runner-up result at the Carleton Fall Invite on 9/6-7.
Cantwell and the rest of the Wildcats competing this weekend are all newcomers to the MIAC championship as all five of the 2024 championship team are no longer competing for St. Kate's.
Rookie
Emma Dobbins will tee off first for St. Kate's at 11 am playing with the No. 5 players from Carleton College and Bethel University. First-year
Arivia DeBoer follows at 11:10 and fellow rookie
Raquel Ahrens at at 11:20 am. Senior
Lolla Magrann holds down the 11:30 am tee time and Cantwell is the final Wildcat off at 11:40 am
Tee times for rounds two and three at Braemar will be determined by the standings from round one.
