Golf Heads West to Oklahoma Intercollegiate

2025 OKLAHOMA INTERCOLLEGIATE presented by PDI
Date	Monday-Tuesday, Oct. 6-7, 2025
Info Hub	EMU Notes (pdf)
Venue	Prairie Dunes CC \| Hutchinson, Kan. \| Par: 70 \| Yards: 6,005
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HUTCHINSON, Kan. (EMUEagles.com) — The Eastern Michigan University women's golf team is off to Kansas this week as the Eagles are set to compete in the Oklahoma Intercollegiate presented by PDI at Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, Kan., Monday-Tuesday, Oct. 6-7. The Eagles will be one of 14 teams in the field that will play 54 holes over two days.

ON THE COURSE FOR EASTERN
Here are the Eagles that could compete in the Oklahoma Intercollegiate:
1. Janae Leovao (Sr.) • 70.8 avg. | Has won back-to-back events for the Eagles (Southern/Leadership & Golf)
2. Jasmine Leovao (Sr.) • 73.0 avg. | Third at The Southern to help team to first win since 2022
3. Baiyok Sukterm (Jr.) • 72.8 avg. | #1 NAIA in 2024-25... T4th at Leadership & Golf Invitational
4. Matilde Zocchi (Fr.) • 75.7 avg. | T20th at The Southern in her collegiate debut
5. Mariana Vega (So.) • 77.0 avg. | Tied for the 7th-lowest average in program history last year

CHIP INS
» Savannah de Bock competed in the 2025 World Amateur Team Championships in Singapore, Oct. 1-4, where she led Belgium to a tie for 26th in the 36-team international competition. She finished tied for 46th individually at 5-over 293 (75-73-71-74) and was the top scorer for Belgium all four rounds.
» Eastern captured the title at the Leadership & Golf Invitational (Sept. 15-16), the 30th crown in program history, and, coupled with the title won at The Southern (Sept. 8-9), secured back-to-back crowns for the fifth time in program history. It also marked only the second time EMU has won consecutive 54-hole tournaments.
» Josh Brewer has now won 18 titles as a head coach after securing 16 with Georgia and the past two with EMU.
» The team broke the school record with a score of 859, surpassing the previous low of 871 set last year at the Gators Invitational (March 7-8, 2025). It also reset the low score for tournaments played at par-72 events after the team shot 875 one week earlier at The Southern.
» Janae Leovao won the individual title for the second week in a row to become the first Eagle to win back-to-back titles in program history. She is the first EMU player since Stephany Fleet (2007-08) to win multiple titles in the same season.
» Janae Leovao is one win away from tying and setting a program record. With another win this season, she would become the fourth Eagle to win three tournaments in a single career while also becoming the first to win three titles in the same season.
» Janae Leovao was named the MAC Golfer of the Week (Sept. 19). She earned the honor in a vote of the conference's golf coaches.
» The Division I Mizuno WGCA Coaches Poll was released Sept. 26 with the Eagles receiving 14 votes. It marked the second consecutive week the Eagles appeared in the listing after earning three votes in the Sept. 5 rankings, the program's first votes received in the poll.
» The 2025-26 roster features 11 players, including five returners in Savannah de Bock, Julianna Go, Angelica Holman, Erina Tan, and Mariana Vega are all back for the Eagles this season. The program also added six newcomers, including three transfers and three freshmen.
» Eastern was No. 122 in the final Scoreboard/Clippd rankings of 2024-25 with Savannah de Bock leading the way at No. 175 individually. This year's team has added three transfers that should help that ranking rise as Jasmine Leovao (No. 97) and Janae Leovao (No. 148) both were among the top 150 at Long Beach State while Baiyok Sukterm was the No. 1 player in the NAIA.
» The Eagles were busy over the summer playing in numerous events. One the biggest events was the 2025 European Ladies' Team Championship where Caterina Don and Italy placed seventh and Savannah de Bock and Belgium finished ninth by winning the Flight B competition.

TOURNAMENT INFO: THE FACTS
The Oklahoma Intercollegiate presented by PDI will be played on the par-70, 6,005-yard Prairie Dunes Country Club course, a venue that ranked as the 25th-best course in the country by Golf Digest in 2025-26 and has hosted three U.S. Women's Amateurs and an NCAA Men's Championships. The tournament, which will be the first collegiate women's tournament played at Prairie Dunes, will see the teams play 36 holes, Oct. 6, and 18 holes, Oct. 7, with both days opening with a shotgun start at 9 a.m. CT (10 a.m. ET).

TOURNAMENT INFO: THE FIELD
The field is comprised of 14 teams with EMU and host Oklahoma being joined by Abilene Christian, Baylor, Florida, Iowa, Kansas State, Nebraska, North Texas, Oklahoma State, Oral Roberts, Sam Houston, Tulsa, and Wichita State. Of the 14 teams competing, five took part in the 2025 NCAA Championships, including Baylor, Florida, Kansas State, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State while Tulsa played in the NCAA Regionals. Additionally, the Eagles are one of three teams in the field that competed in the Women's National Golf Invitational with the runner-up Eagles being joined by third-place North Texas and fifth-place Oral Roberts.

IN THE RANKINGS • TEAMS
Five teams are listed in the Sept. 26 release of the Division I Mizuno WGCA Coaches Poll with three teams in the top 25 and two receiving votes. The ranked teams include No. 12 Oklahoma State, No. 14 Florida, and No. 25 Baylor, while both EMU and Oklahoma are receiving votes this week.

FOR THREE?
Janae Leovao has played in two tournaments for the Eagles and won both individual titles as she was the medalist at The Southern and the Leadership & Golf Invitational events earlier this year. Leovao is on the cusp of more history with the Eagles as another victory this season would make her the first player in program history to record three wins in the same season while becoming only the fourth Eagle to win three titles in a career in Ypsilanti. Stephanie Smoot was the first to three wins with titles in 1998, 1999, and 2000 before Catherine Fortin added wins in 2006, 2007, and 2008. Stephany Fleet was the most recent winner of three titles as she won once in 2006-07 before taking two in the 2007-08 season.

REVIEW: RED SKY
Savannah de Bock led the way for the Eagles at the Golfweek Red Sky Classic, Sept. 22-24, in Wolcott, Colo., as she tied for fifth at 9-under 207 (71-67-69) to help the team tie for seventh in the 20-team field. Baiyok Sukterm was 28th at 2-over 218 to tie for the 26th-lowest score in EMU history while de Bock's 207 ranked second. As a team, the 284 shot in the second round and the 287 in the third rank as the third and tied for eighth-best single round scores in program history, respectively.

GOING RED AT RED SKY
Savannah de Bock has played in the Golfweek Red Sky Classic twice with the Eagles and posted the No. 1 and No. 2 individual scores in program history. Last year, she set the school record at 204 (70-65-69) before coming back this year to shoot 207 (71-67-69). She is 21-under combined in the two tournaments and placed in the top five in both events after winning the title last year and tying for fifth this season.

INTERNATIONAL DUTY
Earlier this week, Savannah de Bock competed in the 2025 World Amateur Team Championships in Singapore (Oct. 1-4) where she helped Belgium to a tie for 26th in the 36-team international field. Playing with two fellow countrywomen in the 31st tournament for the Espirito Santo Trophy, Belgium finished 17-over 593 to tie with both Chile and Chinese Taipei as the United States won a three-way tie at 18-under 558 with Korea and Spain. Individually, de Bock finished tied for 46th at 5-over 293 (75-73-71-74) and was the top player for her nation in all four rounds.

TAKING IT BACK(-2-BACK)
The win in Washington was the 30th all-time for the Eagles and, coupled with the win at The Southern (Sept. 8-9) gave the Eagles back-to-back titles for the fifth time in program history and the first time since the 2021-22 season when they won the Golden Grizzly Invitational in Rochester, Mich. (Sept. 26-27, 2021) and the Shirley Spork Invitational at home (Oct. 4-5, 2021). Additionally, Eastern won back-to-back 54-hole tournaments for just the second time with the only other instance coming during the 2019-20 season. That year, the Eagles won titles at the Shirley Spork Invitational at home (Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2019) and the MAC Fall Preview in Silver Lakes, Ohio (Oct. 7-8, 2019).

MORE WINS BREWER-ING
Eastern Michigan has now won twice under Josh Brewer, who has now won 18 tournaments in his coaching career after securing 16 during his 12-year tenure at Georgia. The wins also marked the first for a Brewer-led team since the Bulldogs won the 2023 NCAA Athens Regional in Athens, Ga., the team's third NCAA regional title.

TWINNING
Janae Leovao shot 7-under 209 to win the Leadership & Golf Invitational (Sept. 15-16) that included rounds of 68 and 69 to close out win. She won her second consecutive tournament after finishing no higher than second place four times in her prior 35 tournaments. Her win made her the seventh different EMU player to record multiple wins in a career and the first to win multiple times in the same season since Stephany Fleet won twice in 2007-08. She also became the first EMU player to win back-to-back titles in program history and, coupled with teammate Angelica Holman's win at the Women's National Golf Invitational that closed out the 2024-25 season, EMU has now won three consecutive individual tournament titles for the first time in program history.

FEELING HONORED
Following her victory at the Leadership & Golf Invitational, the conference coaches voted Janae Leovao the Mid-American Conference Golfer of the Week, Sept. 19. It marked her first weekly award with the Eagles and the first this year for an EMU player.

ON THE HORIZON
Eastern returns to action in two weeks when the team will travel to Hawaii for the Rainbow Wahine Invitational, Oct. 20-22, at the Hokuala Ocean Course in Lihue, Hawaii. The tournament will be the final event of the 2025 fall schedule with EMU returning to action in February to open the spring slate.

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Players Mentioned

Savannah de Bock

Julianna Go

Angelica Holman

Janae Leovao

Jasmine Leovao

Baiyok Sukterm

Erina Tan

Mariana Vega

Matilde Zocchi

Eastern Michigan Athletics