September 14, 2025 • by Mikkel Bjerch-Andresen
I’ve been out of coaching for only two years but I’m still shocked by the number of high-level transfers in women’s college golf. There’s no doubt that these transfers and incoming freshmen will have an immediate impact on this season. With numerous moving pieces to big-time rosters, there are plenty of interesting storylines brewing on the women’s side.
Kalen Anderson’s South Carolina team had a solid year but missed matchplay at La Costa. The Gamecocks have lost Louise Rydqvist and Hannah Darling, who finished last season ranked 18th and 21st in the Scoreboard rankings. Tiffany Tsai has also left, transferring to UCF.
These players will be hard to replace, but early enrollee Eila Galitsky (below), along with , who has transferred from Campbell, and incoming freshmen and , should revitalize the roster.
Francesca Fiorellini (below) has transferred from UCLA to LSU. The Italian is ranked in the top 100 in WAGR, but had an up-and-down freshman year with the Bruins, despite winning the individual title at their home tournament. UCLA ended last season ranked 25th and LSU 12th with both teams missing match play at Nationals.
has transferred from Virginia to Florida for her final year. The Gator-newcomer ended last season ranked #38 nationally after a strong finish to the season, which saw her finish top-5 in Conference, Regionals, and Nationals for Virginia.
Just ahead of that incredible closing stretch, Propeck started her string of top-10s at the Gator Invitational. At the time of writing, Propeck is ranked outside the top-100 in WAGR and from that standpoint might not seem like a big fish. However, my back-of-the- napkin math shows her point average since the Gator Invitational to be roughly 8.75 — good for top-50 in the world.
Coach Emily Glasner’s team finished ranked 22nd nationally and in 17th at the NCAA Championships, both marks I expect them to improve upon with Propeck in the lineup.
Duke is taking a more traditional approach, adding two top-ranked incoming freshmen in (11th in WAGR) and (5th in the 2025 class according to Junior Golf Scoreboard). Coming off an uncharacteristically tough year in which they finished outside the top-25 ranked teams and failed to advance to NCAAs, I expect Dan Brooks’s team will rebound with the Malixi and McCrery additions.
Arizona State is a usual suspect when it comes to recruiting top international talent. This year is no different for Coach Missy Farr-Kaye as she adds both of Thailand and of Sweden. Rubrong is the 55th-ranked amateur in the world, and her WAGR profile is riddled with top-10 finishes in prestigious events.
The Sun Devils remarkably only had five players on their roster last season, where they finished in 10th at NCAAs and as the 7th-ranked team in Scoreboard. Farr-Kaye has lost Grace Summerhays to graduation, but is returning four players who all ranked in the top-50 individually in Scoreboard last year.
Texas A&M finished the season as the 20th-ranked team in Scoreboard, but had a disappointing end to the campaign with a 10th-place finish at SECs before failing to advance out of the Lubbock Regional. There will be quite a few new faces on Head Coach Gerrod Chadwell’s roster this year.
In addition to adding , who has joined from Georgia Southern and has two years left, the Aggies have continued their strong freshman recruiting by adding , , and (above). All four players are highly accomplished, headlined by Schremmer who is ranked 65th in WAGR. Further, all four incoming freshmen are American but from different states.
Gerrod Chadwell is clearly displaying the pull of the Aggie brand as Schremmer is from Alabama, Yen from Oregon, and Kort from Nevada. Zweig is the only in-state recruit.
"The biggest non-Power 4 news is the transfer of Jasmine and Janae Leovao from Long Beach State to Eastern Michigan"
Georgia has also been active in the portal, bringing in four transfers: from Colorado, from New Mexico, from Colorado, and from Florida. All four are ranked between 250 and 850 in WAGR at the time of writing. Grace Frei looks to be the only player leaving Georgia by way of the portal as she’ll be playing for Western Kentucky this Fall. Coach Erika Brennan’s team missed Regionals last year and the Bulldogs finished the year ranked 58th. They’ll be looking to improve.
The biggest non-Power 4 news is definitely the transfer of , from Long Beach State to Eastern Michigan. Jasmine (below) posted seven top-10 finishes last season, while Janae chalked up four. Both made well over 100 birdies, and finished in the top-150 on the individual rankings.
Eastern Michigan is among a select few non-Power 4 programs that is making a genuine commitment to becoming a golf school. At the start of last year the EMU golf teams opened their brand-new GameAbove Performance Center, an $8 million indoor facility, and it’s clear that Josh Brewer’s (Women’s Head Coach) and Andy Walker (Men’s Head Coach) have the means and expectations of fielding competitive teams.
Eastern Michigan didn’t stop with the Leovao sisters, either. They are also picked up , a former top-ranked NAIA player and NJCAA runner-up, currently ranked 150th in WAGR.
"It looks like Coach Mimi Burke has been rewarded for building a successful team at Georgia Southern with a ton of work and stress"
In one of the more bizarre dynamics I’ve heard of in college golf, Georgia Southern will have to completely revamp their roster following an impressive year. Without knowing all the intricacies, it looks like Coach Mimi Burke has been rewarded for building a successful team with a ton of work and stress.
At the time of writing, the Eagles’ roster online boasts just five players – all of them newcomers. from France is an incoming freshman. The four other players are transferring in from Emmanuel, Nova Southeastern, Saint Leo, and Denver.
On the outgoing side, Louise Reau, who has transferred to Texas A&M, is one of the five Georgia Southern players who put their names in the transfer portal ahead of the National Championship last year.
From that roster, freshman signed with Ole Miss, freshman with K-State, Junior with South Florida, and sophomore with Alabama. Four of these women played for the Eagles at the NCAAs.
Coach Burke at GSU had a great year, placing 27th at La Costa and ending the year ranked 32nd in the Scoreboard rankings. I’m hoping she has another great season — what a story that would be.