The women’s golf team wrapped up the fall slate of the 2025-2026 season with a 10th place finish at the University of Oklahoma Intercollegiate tournament. 

The Wildcats finished tied with the University of Iowa, a notable accomplishment as the Wildcats also beat the University of Nebraska, adding to the list of Power Four schools the team has taken down. 

“Finishing tied for 10th with a good team in Iowa is nothing to be upset about,” Head Coach Rob Bennett said. 

Bennett added that beating the University of North Texas was a big accomplishment as the team continues in pursuit of being the best mid-major in the state. 

“We’ve continually shown our growth in that area,” Bennett said. “Beating North Texas helps, and we’ve tied and beaten UTSA. Those are really the two teams that we’re primarily going to be competing with for that top mid-major spot.” 

Bennett said the conditions at the OU Intercollegiate were some of the hardest he and the team had faced, with a rain delay for over five hours and the tournament being shortened from three rounds to two. 

“In 13 years of doing this, the golf plus the conditions were the hardest I’ve ever seen,” Bennett said. “It was really, really hard.” 

The tournament was hosted at Prairie Dunes Country Club, an infamously challenging course regarded as “championship level” by the golf community. 

Ryann Honea, senior from San Angelo, said she was proud of the way she and the team responded to the challenges the course and weather presented. 

“We had fun in the delay,” Honea said. “We made as much of it as we could. We played cards and just hung out in the clubhouse to take our minds off of the golf.” 

Honea led the Wildcats, carding a 5-over-par performance to clinch her fourth top-15 finish of the fall slate. 

“I was really proud of the way I played,” Honea said. “I should have finished better. I struggled coming down the latter half of the back nine on the second day. I think a lot of that is just mental exhaustion, too.” 

Honea started the final round on hole 11, which meant she finished on hole 10, a tough par three she bogeyed, after bogeying holes eight and nine as well. 

“It was a tough finish for her to end with three bogeys,” Bennett said. “She was tied for first for the majority of the last day.” 

Behind Honea’s 12th-place finish, Maddi Kamas, senior from Ardmore, Oklahoma, finished 54th; Jiyu Han, sophomore from Cedar Park, finished 62nd; Marissa Loya, sophomore from San Antonio, finished 66th and Julia Vollmer, sophomore from San Antonio, finished 71st. Vollmer’s score, fifth out of the Wildcats, was not counted for the team. 

The Wildcats will now have roughly three months to prepare for the spring slate of tournaments that begins with the PDI Intercollegiate hosted by the University of Central Florida on Jan. 26-27. 

“Resting is important,” Bennett said. “We’re going to rest, but we’re also going to make sure we’re spending time preparing for the spring.” 

From Jan. 25 to April 8, the Wildcats will play in five tournaments, followed by the Western Athletic Conference Championships starting on April 20. 

“By the time we get to the WAC Championships, we’ll be ready to compete and win it,” Bennett said.