MANHATTAN, Kan. – Coming off a fourth-place end in its season opener, the Kansas State girls’s golf group returns to a well-recognized occasion because the Wildcats compete within the Schooner Fall Classic, Saturday by means of Monday, on the par-70, 6,182-yard Belmar Golf Club in Norman, Oklahoma.
This is the fifth time within the final six years that the Wildcats will compete within the Schooner Fall Classic, together with the third-straight season.
“We are looking forward to The Schooner. It is a great event and gives our ladies the opportunity to test themselves against some of the best teams in the country,” head coach
Stew Burke stated. “We will face a different challenge from what we saw last week in Texas on a much tougher golf course where par will definitely be our friend. We have had a good week of practice and preparation, and it is nice to return to a tournament that we have competed in before. As always, it will be about getting off to a good start and trying to build momentum throughout the event.”
The Wildcats can be joined within the 16-team area by Arkansas State, Florida State, Georgia, Houston, Iowa State, host-school Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Oral Roberts, TCU, Texas State, Tulane, Tulsa, UCF, Virginia Tech and Wisconsin.
Kansas State’s second scoring lineup of the season consists of two sophomores in
Kelsey Chen and
Nanami Nakashima, one senior in
Noa van Beek and a pair of freshmen in
Stalee Fields and
Keen Visavapattamawan.
“I am looking forward to watching our two freshmen in the lineup,” Burke stated. “It is a young team, but one that has good experience as two of our players are returning to this event, and our transfer, Kelsey, is playing some nice golf right now.”
Chen, a switch from Georgia Southern, began her Wildcat profession on the appropriate foot on the season-opening Sam Golden Invitational as she tied for eighth place at 7-under par 209, which featured a final-round complete of 3-under par 69. It was the second top-10 end of her profession.
Nakashima can be seeking to rebound from her first-career look within the Schooner Fall Classic after tying for forty ninth place final 12 months at 5-over par 145 through the weather-shortened 36-hole occasion. The Kani, Japan, native enters the second event of her sophomore marketing campaign on a excessive be aware as she tied for twelfth place on the Sam Golden Invitational at 6-under par 210.
A local of Oene, Netherlands, van Beek can be competing within the thirty first occasion of her profession after tying Nakashima for twelfth place within the 2025-26 season opener. Her rating of 210 on the Sam Golden Invitational was a brand new profession finest, three pictures higher than the 213 she produced on three earlier events. Like Nakashima, she can even be in search of higher leads to Norman having tied for 71st place and forty second place every of the final two seasons.
Fields jumped out of the gate by tallying a 4-under par 68 in her first collegiate spherical on the Sam Golden Invitational. It was a college report for a season-opening spherical by a freshman and tied for the third-lowest season-opening spherical at school historical past. The Fort Worth, Texas, native completed her first occasion at 3-under par 213 to tie for thirtieth place.
Visavapattamawan, a local of Bangkok, Thailand, tied for nineteenth place in her first collegiate occasion whereas competing as a person. She tallied under-par scores in all three rounds, highlighted by a final-round tally of 3-under par 69.
One spherical of the Schooner Fall Classic can be contested every day with tee instances beginning play for all three rounds. Okay-State will start play at 9 a.m., on Saturday off the tenth tee, because the Wildcats are paired with fellow Big 12 colleges Houston and UCF. Live outcomes of the Schooner Fall Classic could be adopted on
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