Women's Golf Set to Compete in NCAA Tallahassee Region

2026 NCAA TALLAHASSEE REGIONAL
Date	Monday-Wednesday, May 11-13, 2026
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Venue	Seminole Legacy GC \| Tallahassee, Fla. \| Par: 72 \| Yards: 6,292
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (EMUEagles.com) — The Eastern Michigan University women's golf team is set to compete in an NCAA event for the first time in program history as the Eagles will compete in the 2026 NCAA Tallahassee Regional, May 11-13, at Seminole Legacy Golf Club in Tallahassee, Fla. The Eagles, seeded fifth in the 12-team region, will look to finish among the top five in their debut to advance to the NCAA Championships that will be played May 22-27 at the Omni La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, Calif.

ON THE COURSE FOR EASTERN
Here are the Eagles that will compete in the 2026 NCAA Tallahassee Regional:
1. Savannah de Bock (Jr.) • 72.6 avg. | #143-ranked; Third at the MAC Championships
2. Baiyok Sukterm (Jr.) • 72.1 avg. | #90-ranked; Silicon Valley Showcase medalist (3/31), 3x MAC Golfer OTW
3. Janae Leovao (Sr.) • 71.9 avg. | #65-ranked; Opened the year with back-to-back wins; 3x MAC Golfer of the Week
4. Jasmine Leovao (Sr.) • 72.1 avg. | #92-ranked; T4th at Alice & John Wallace; 3x MAC Golfer of the Week
5. Mariana Vega (So.) • 75.7 avg. | Career-best T4th at the Oklahoma Intercollegiate (Oct. 6-7)
ALT Erina Tan (So.) • 76.0 avg. | T8th at The Southern... second career top 10 finish; T18th at 2025 MAC tourney

CHIP INS
» Eastern has never played in an NCAA team event previously and is only the second team in MAC history to make the field behind Kent State's 25 appearances. The only NCAA event EMU has been represented in was the 2025 NCAA Columbus Regional where Savannah de Bock was selected to compete as an at-large individual.
» Three Eagles have previously played in the NCAA Regionals with Jasmine Leovao making her fourth appearance while Savannah de Bock and Janae Leovao will make their third. The appearance for de Bock will be her second with EMU (first came with Georgia) while Jasmine and Janae will make their first appearances with EMU after playing in three and two events, respectively, for Long Beach State.
» Eastern has fared well against teams selected to compete in the regional round as the Eagles are 28-15-4 this year against the remaining 71 teams, including 5-2-0 against teams headed to Tallahassee. Most of the team's wins came against teams in the Waco Regional with EMU holding an 11-4-2 record.
» The Eagles have played 11 tournaments this year and placed either first (three times) or second (five times) in eight of those events following their runner-up showing at the MAC Championships. The three other finishes include two fourth-place showings and one seventh-place finish.
» Eastern won three events this year, including The Southern, the Leadership & Golf Invitational, and the Silicon Valley Showcase, which marked the 31st title won in program history (27th outright). The three wins tied for the second-highest win total in a single season with the 2006-07, 2011-12, 2019-20, and 2021-22 squads. The 2007-08 team holds the record with four team wins that season.
» Eastern is one of only three teams nationally to boast five players on their 2025-26 roster that have won an NCAA Division I-level event in their career, joining Texas and Texas A&M in that distinction. EMU joined the list with Baiyok Sukterm's win at the Silicon Valley Showcase after Janae Leovao won the first two events of the year. Last year, Jasmine Leovao captured her second individual title with Long Beach State while Savannah de Bock (Golfweek Red Sky Classic) and Angelica Holman (Women's National Golf Invitational) added medalist finishes for the Eagles last season.
» According to the May 6 rankings, Eastern has built a 6-9-1 record against teams currently ranked in the Scoreboard/Clipped top 25 with EMU holding wins over No. 8 Oregon, No. 13 Vanderbilt, No. 15 UCLA (twice), No. 20 Oklahoma State, and No. 23 Oklahoma.
» By finishing ahead of then-No. 5 Oregon at Chevron Silverado Showdown (April 6-8), the Eagles defeated the third-highest ranked team in EMU Athletics history and the second among women's teams. The highest ranked win belongs to softball, who defeated No. 2 Florida State in Ypsilanti, 6-5, May 10, 2004, with the baseball team scoring a 7-6 win at No. 4 Clemson, Feb. 11, 2011.
» Both EMU coaches are on national watch lists put out by the coaches association with Josh Brewer added to the WGCA National Coach of the Year and Caterina Don selected for the WGCA National Assistant Coach of the Year lists. Together, Eastern is one of 11 schools nationally with coaches on both lists.
» The MAC announced its annual awards last week with Matilde Zocchi named the MAC Freshman of the Year. Janae Leovao, Jasmine Leovao, and Baiyok Sukterm were named All-MAC First Team while Savannah de Bock was named All-MAC Second Team after earning MAC All-Tournament Team honors.
» Three Eagles were each named the MAC Golfer of the Week this season for a program-record nine on the year. Janae Leovao, Jasmine Leovao, and Baiyok Sukterm each earned three honors in 2025-26.
» Josh Brewer has now won 19 titles as a head coach after securing 16 with Georgia and three with EMU. Three of his wins at Georgia came in NCAA Regional competitions (2016, 2021, and 2023).
» Janae Leovao won the individual title at the Leadership and Golf Invitational for her second consecutive title after claiming the season-opening The Southern to become the first Eagle to win back-to-back titles in program history and the first EMU player since Stephany Fleet (2007-08) to win multiple titles in the same season. She 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.

HISTORY MADE
Eastern made history with its selection into the 2026 NCAA Tallahassee Regional as the team earned an NCAA berth for the first time in program history. The runners-up at the 2025 Women's National Golf Invitational for the program's first postseason competition, Eastern also made MAC history by becoming only the second program to earn an NCAA berth, joining Kent State, who has qualified in 25 consecutive events. With both Eastern and Kent State in the field, it also marked the first time in MAC history that two teams competed in the women's tournament in the same year and, when including the men's entries, the first time since 2015 two MAC programs were selected for the regional event when Kent State and Miami competed.

FACING THE BEST
The Eagles have faced some of the top teams in the nation throughout the season, including four of the top six ranked teams in the April 23 Scoreboard/Clippd national rankings, including No. 2 USC (four times), No. 3 Florida, No. 4 Texas A&M, and No. 8 Oregon (twice). Ranked No. 27 this week, Eastern holds a 6-9-1 record against the top 25 and has faced 10 of those squads throughout the season. The Eagles hold wins over No. 8 Oregon, No. 13 Vanderbilt, No. 20 Oklahoma State, No. 23 Oklahoma, and two over No. 15 UCLA, who is in the same region with the Eagles.

REGIONAL ROUNDUP
Throughout the season, the Eagles played in tournaments featuring 31 teams that were selected to the regional round with Eastern building a 28-15-4 record in those encounters, including a 5-2-0 mark against opponents in the Tallahassee Regional. The Eagles' record against the other regions includes 2-5-0 against Ann Arbor (three teams), 2-1-0 against Chapel Hill (three), 2-0-1 against Louisville (two), 6-3-1 against Stanford (eight), and 11-4-2 against Waco (nine).

TOURNAMENT INFO: THE FACTS
The 2026 Tallahassee Regional will be played May 11-13 at the Seminole Legacy Golf Club in Tallahassee, Fla., with the par-72, 6,292-yard home of Florida State playing host to 12 teams and six at-large individuals. The 54-hole tournament will see teams play 18 holes each day with the first team times scheduled for 8 a.m. of the first and 10th tees each day. The top five teams and the top individual not on one of those teams following the final round will advance to the NCAA Championships at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif., May 22-27, where they will compete for national titles against the other 25 teams and five individuals advancing from their respective regions.

TOURNAMENT INFO: TEAMS
As it is in each region, most of the teams in the field are highly ranked according to the May 6 Scoreboard/Clippd rankings, including four members of the top 25 in No. 3 Florida, No. 9 Wake Forest, No. 15 UCLA, and No. 25 Florida State. No. 27 Eastern Michigan leads the way for the four other teams in the top 50 that also include No. 34 Kentucky, No. 41 Purdue, and No. 46 Clemson. The remaining four teams in the field include No. 64 ULM, No. 81 North Florida, No. 172 Little Rock, and No. 184 UTRGV.

TOURNAMENT INFO: INDIVIDUALS
Similar to the teams, the number of highly ranked players in the field is large with 34 players among the top 200 in the Scoreboard/Clippd rankings from May 6. No. 8 Paula Francisco (Florida) and No. 19 Macy Pate (Wake Forest) are both in the top 25 with six more individuals in the top 50, including No. 26 Sophia Fullbrook (Florida State), No. 27 Siuue Wu (Florida), No. 30 Chloe Kovelesky (Wake Forest), No. 31 Megan Propeck (Florida), No. 38 Vairana Heck (South Carolina), and No. 47 Catheryn Brown (Kentucky). Three Eagles are among the 11 individuals in the top 100, including No. 65 Janae Leovao, No. 90 Baiyok Sukterm, and No. 92 Jasmine Leovao. Four players are ranked Nos. 101-125, five from 126-150, including No. 143 Savannah de Bock, and six more from Nos. 151-200.

BEEN HERE BEFORE
Eastern played Seminole Legacy Golf Club earlier this year when the Eagles placed second at the Florida State Match Up, March 20-22. Three teams in that event will also compete in the NCAA Tallahassee Regional, including host Florida State, who won the tournament at 4-under 860, the Eagles, who took second at 4-over 868, and North Florida, who finished seventh at 29-over 893. In the three-day event, Eastern was led by Jasmine Leovao, who took third at 3-under 213, while Savannah de Bock tied for ninth at even-par 216. Janae Leovao and Baiyok Sukterm also competed and placed 13th (3-over 219) and tied for 14th (4-over 220), respectively.

BACK FOR MORE
Three Eagles are making return trips to the NCAA regional round with Jasmine Leovao making her fourth appearance while Jane Leovao and Savannah de Bock are making their third. Previously, de Bock tied for 45th at the Auburn Regional in 2024 with Georgia before tying for 45th last year in Columbus for EMU. While playing for Long Beach State, Jasmine tied for 55th in San Antonio (2023), eighth at Cle Elum (2024), and tied for 17th last year at Gold Canyon while Janae competed in the 2024 and 2025 events, finishing tied for 41st and tied for eighth, respectively.

AND THE AWARD GOES TO...
The Mid-American Conference announced its annual All-MAC teams and specialty award winners for the 2025-26 season, May 1, with the Eastern program well represented as four players earned team selections while Matilde Zocchi was named the MAC Freshman of the Year in a vote of the league's coaches. Eastern featured three players on the first team, including Janae Leovao, Jasmine Leovao, and Baiyok Sukterm, while Savannah de Bock was selected to the second team. The award for Zocchi marked the fifth earned in program history and the first since 2015 when Thelma Beck garnered the accolade. It also marked the first major award earned by a member of the program since the 2015 season.

WATCH LIST
The Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) announced its annual watch lists with both Eastern coaches named. Caterina Don was added to the inaugural Golf Pride WGCA Assistant Coach of the Year Watch List while Josh Brewer earned a spot on the Jackie Steinmann WGCA National Coach of the Year presented by Golf Pride Watch List. Combined, Eastern is one of 11 programs nationally to see both its head coach and assistant coach on the WGCA watch lists. The winner of each award will be announced following the NCAA Championships.

NOTING THE EAGLES
Savannah de Bock
» De Bock is ranked No. 143 this week after placing third at the 2026 MAC Championships where she earned MAC All-Tournament Team honors before being named All-MAC Second Team. She is competing in her third consecutive regional after finishing tied for 23rd for Georgia in 2024 (Auburn) and tied for 45th last year (Columbus) for Eastern, the first NCAA participant in program history. She was the team's top finisher in two events, including the Golfweek Red Sky Classic (Sept. 22-24) where she tied for fifth overall, to go along with her MAC finish. She has finished in the top 20 at seven events this year with five of those finishes in the top 10 as well while posting 13 rounds at or under par, including three in the 60s.
Baiyok Sukterm
» Sukterm is ranked No. 90 after tying for sixth at the MAC Championships, her third consecutive top 10 finish of the season and sixth of the season. She took medalist honors at one event, the Silicon Valley Showcase (March 30-31), her first win as an NCAA Division I player and the 13th of her collegiate career. She has been named the MAC Golfer of the Week three times this year and has earned four top four finishes, including tied for second at the Oklahoma Intercollegiate (Oct. 6-7). Of the 29 rounds she has played, she has shot at or under par 15 times with six rounds in the 60s. Although this is her first NCAA Regional appearance, she finished second at the 2024 Plains District Championship and 2nd at the 2024 NJCAA DI Championships with Barton CC before finishing third at the 2025 NAIA Championships for Lindsey Wilson.
Janae Leovao
» Janae is ranked No. 65 nationally after she tied for ninth at the MAC Championships and earned All-MAC First Team honors. She will be making her third NCAA Regional appearance after she twice qualified with Long Beach State, including in 2024 at Cle Elum, where she tied for 41st, and last year at Gold Canyon, where she tied for eighth as an individual qualifier. She opened the year by winning medalist honors at The Southern (Sept. 8-9) and the Leadership & Golf Invitational (Sept. 15-16) for the first two victories of her collegiate career after finishing second three times with LBSU. A three-time MAC Golfer of the Week honoree, she has posted eight top 20 finishes with five in the top five and posted five rounds in the 60s, including two at 67, while shooting 17 at or under par this season.
Jasmine Leovao
» Jasmine holds a national ranking of No. 92 and is coming off a tie for 12th place at the MAC Championships. She will make her fourth regional appearance and her first with the Eagles after representing Long Beach State in the regional round each of the past three years. In those events, she tied for 55th in 2023 at San Antonio as an individual qualifier, was eighth in 2024 at Cle Elum to advance to the NCAA Championships where she tied for 114th, and tied for 17th last year at Gold Canyon as an individual qualifier. The top finisher for the Eagles in three tournaments, including second place at the Rainbow Wahine Invitational (Oct. 20-22), third at the Florida State Match Up (March 20-22), and tied for fourth at the Alice & John Wallace Invitational, she was a three-time MAC Golfer of the Week honoree and has finished in the top 20 in 9-of-10 tournaments with five top five finishes. She has posted 12 rounds at or below par with a team-high seven rounds in the 60s.
Mariana Vega
» Vega is making her first appearance in the lineup since the Chevron Silverado Showdown, April 6-8, where she shot 17-over 233 to tie for 75th. Her best finish this season came at the Oklahoma Intercollegiate (Oct. 6-7) when she tied for fourth at 4-over 144 thanks to a career-best 67 in the second round to tie for the second-best finish on the team.
Erina Tan • Substitute
» Tan played the first two rounds at the MAC Championships, shooting 75 and 74, before being substituted out. She played in the first two events of the year and tied for eighth at the season-opening The Southern (Sept. 8-9). Prior to the conference event, her most recent tournament was the Silicon Valley Showcase (March 30-31) where she played as an individual and tied for 49th overall. Last year, she tied for fifth at the Women's National Golf Invitational to help EMU to second place.

SOARING HIGHER
The April 15 release of the Scoreboard/Clippd rankings showed a historic number of the Eagles as they rose to No. 19, marking their highest ranking in program history and their first time in the national top 20. Ranked inside the top 35 much of the season, the Eagles ended last year at No. 122 and have climbed 103 positions in the rankings this year thanks to three victories and four runner-up showings on a national schedule. Eastern is ranked No. 27 heading into the NCAA Tallahassee Regional.

STRONG FINISHES
Eastern won the Silicon Valley Showcase (March 30-31) before taking second at the Chevron Silverado Showdown (April 6-8) and second at the MAC Championships (April 26-28), which marked the eighth time in 111 tournaments this year it has finished first or second. Eastern won The Southern (Sept. 8-9) and the Leadership & Golf Invitational (Sept. 15-16) to open the season and has added runner-up showings at the Oklahoma Intercollegiate (Oct. 6-7), the Alice & John Wallace Invitational (Feb. 14-16), and the Florida State Match Up (March 20-22) prior to the Silverado and MAC events.

QUICK REVIEW: MAC CHAMPIONSHIPS
Eastern finished second at the 2026 Mid-American Conference Championships as Savannah de Bock placed third individually to lead the Eagles in the three-day tournament held on the Fazio Course at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio, April 26-28. The Eagles, who earned their eighth runner-up finish at the conference event, saw three individuals place in the top 10 for just the fifth time in program history.

Individually, de Bock led the way for Eastern over each of the three rounds and finished third at even-par 210 (68-70-72) to tie for the second-best finish in program history behind only Sarah Johnson, who won the MAC title in 2011. With her finish, de Bock earned MAC All-Tournament honors for the first time in her career as she posted her first top 10 finish in the MAC after tying for 11th last year. Additionally, her score broke the record for lowest 54-hole score in a MAC Championship for the program, surpassing the 216 Johnson shot while winning her crown.

Two more Eagles joined de Bock in the top 10 as Baiyok Sukterm tied for sixth and Janae Leovao tied for ninth. Sukterm used a final-round 69 to shoot 2-over 212 (71-72-69), which ranks as the second-best score by an Eagle at the MAC event, while Leovao finished at 4-over 214 (70-74-70) for the third-best score in a conference event for the program. Jasmine Leovao just missed the top 10 as she tied for 12th at 7-over 217 (72-74-71).

SUKTERM EARNS THIRD AWARD
Baiyok Sukterm was named the MAC Golfer of the Week for the second tournament in a row after she placed fourth at the Chevron Silverado Showdown, April 6-8, after earning the award one week prior after winning the Silicon Valley Showcase (March 30-31) in Millbrae, Calif. Sukterm, who collected her third conference honor of the season, shot 8-under 208 (71-69-68) for her fourth finish in the top five this season as she defeated three players ranked higher than her in the World Amateur Golf Rankings (WAGR) and six on the Scoreboard/Clippd ledger.

NINE GETS 50
Baiyok Sukterm's MAC Golfer of the Week award, earned April 10, was her second consecutive award and her third of the season while also marking the fourth consecutive for the Eagles with Janae Leovao (March 13) and Jasmine Leovao (March 27) winning the previous two. Combined, the trio has brought home nine weekly honors from the MAC, which stands as the most in a single season in program history, surpassing the five earned four different times since the 2000-01 season. Additionally, Eastern leads all schools this year with nine while Kent State is second with six honors. Sukterm's two most recent awards helped break a program record for the number of individuals earning multiple MAC weekly awards as the Leovao's have both earned three awards this year. All told, Sukterm earned the 50th weekly honor from the MAC since 2000-01.

ANOTHER VICTORY
Baiyok Sukterm captured medalist honors at the Silicon Valley Showcase (March 30-31) to become the 18th different Eastern player to win a tournament while securing the 28th crown in program history. Sukterm shot 3-under 210 to post the fifth-lowest score in program history while her rounds of 68 in both the first and second round tied for the ninth lowest. Additionally, her 210 was tied for the fourth-lowest score in the four-year history of the tournament. It also marked her the 13th collegiate title of her career and her first at the NCAA Division I level, marking the third different level she has been victorious. She opened her career at Barton CC and won six titles while playing for the NJCAA Division I program before winning six times last year at Lindsey Wilson of the NAIA. Prior to her win with the Eagles, her best finish this year was a tie for second place at the Oklahoma Intercollegiate (Oct. 6-7), an event that was shortened to two rounds because of rain.

EVERYTHING IS BIGGER IN TEXAS... AND YPSI
Baiyok Sukterm became the fifth player on the Eastern roster this season that has won at least one tournament at the NCAA Division I level after capturing the Silicon Valley Showcase (March 30-31) to make the Eagles one of only three teams nationally to feature a 2025-26 roster with five medalists, joining Texas and Texas A&M on the short list. The list opened at three players this season with Savannah de Bock winning the Golfweek Red Sky Classic and Angelica Holman capturing the Women's National Golf Invitational for the Eagles last year while Jasmine Leovao won the 2024 Big West Championship for Long Beach State. The list grew to include Janae Leovao after the first event of the season as she won The Southern before going back-to-back to claim the Leadership & Golf Invitational. The five wins in two seasons tied a program record set during the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons when Stephany Fleet (three) and Catherine Fortin (two) combined to win five titles. The duo each won once during the 2006-07 campaign before Fleet captured two more one season later.

TEAM TITLE TOTALS
The victory at the Silicon Valley Showcase marked the third tournament Eastern won this year after opening the season with wins at The Southern (Sept. 8-9) and the Leadership & Golf Invitational (Sept. 15-16). The trio of titles is tied for the second-highest single-season total with the 2006-07, 2011-12, 2019-20, and 2021-22 teams and is one behind the record four victories secured by the 2007-08 team. All told, Eastern has now tallied 31 team titles since the team began play in the 1996-97 season with the Silicon Valley Showcase title standing as the 27th outright crown.

DOUBLE UP THE WINS
Eastern swept the titles at the Silicon Valley Showcase (March 30-31), marking the third time this year and the 12th time in program history that the team won the tournament while also having the medalist. Janae Leovao was the medalist in both team wins to open the year (The Southern and the Leadership & Golf Invitational) to start the team off strong with the wins at the SVS event breaking the tie with the 1999-00 and 2007-08 teams for most double victories in a single year.

MORE WINS BREWER-ING
Eastern Michigan has now won three times under Josh Brewer, who has now won 19 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.

MAKING REVISIONS
Under Josh Brewer (Fall 2024 through the MAC Championships), the team has taken its talons to the record book on numerous occasions. In fact, just in the five events played during the Fall 2025 season, the Eagles broke the team single low round four times, the team score once and added nine total marks to those two areas. Eastern picked up where it left off as the Eagles added more tournaments and rounds. For the lowest single-round team score, the record ahead of the 2024-25 season was 286, shot Sept. 22, 2015, at the Cardinal Classic and has been broken six times since, including:
» 285 at the Golfweek Red Sky Classic (third round)(Sept. 25, 2024)
» 285 at The Southern (first round)(Sept. 8, 2025)
» 283 at The Southern (second round)(Sept. 9, 2025)
» 282 at the Leadership & Golf Invitational (first round)(Sept. 15, 2025)
» 281 at the Rainbow Wahine Invitational (third round)(Oct. 22, 2025)
» 279 at the Silicon Valley Showcase (first round)(March 30, 2026)

MORE LOW ROUNDS
Eastern has recorded 32 rounds of team scoring at 290 or lower in program history with 24 of those coming this season (32 rounds played). In fact, ahead of the start of the 2024-25 season, only eight such rounds had been recorded.
» 279 at Silicon Valley Showcase (round 1)(March 30, 2026)
» 280 at Chevron Silverado Showdown (round 2)(April 7, 2026)
» 281 at Rainbow Wahine Invitational (round 3)(Oct. 22, 2025)
» 281 at MAC Championships (round 1)(April 26, 2026)
» 282 at Leadership & Golf Invitational (round 1)(Sept. 15, 2025)
» 282 at Alice & John Wallace Invitational (round 3)(Feb. 16, 2026)
» 282 at MAC Championships (round 3)(April 28, 2026)
» 283 at The Southern (round 2)(Sept. 8, 2025)
» 284 at Golfweek Red Sky Classic (round 2)(Sept. 23, 2025)
» 284 at Chevron Silverado Showdown (round 1)(April 6, 2026)
» 285 at The Southern (round 1)(Sept. 8, 2025)
» 285 at Alice & John Wallace Invitational (round 2)(Feb. 15, 2026)
» 285 at GameAbove Invitational (round 2)(March 9, 2026)
» 285 at Chevron Silverado Showdown (round 3)(April 8, 2026)
» 286 at Leadership & Golf Invitational (round 2)(Sept. 15, 2025)
» 287 at Golfweek Red Sky Classic (round 3)(Sept. 24, 2025)
» 288 at Florida State Match Up (round 3)(March 22, 2026)
» 288 at Silicon Valley Showcase (round 3)(March 30, 2026)
» 289 at Rainbow Wahine Invitational (round 1)(Oct. 20, 2025)
» 290 at Florida State Match Up (round 1)(March 20, 2026)
» 290 at Florida State Match Up (round 2)(March 21, 2026)
» 290 at MAC Championships (round 2)(April 27, 2026)

RECORD SCRATCHING
When Josh Brewer took over at Eastern Michigan ahead of the 2024-25 season, the lowest 54-hole team score on record was 880 from the 2015 Cardinal Classic. Last year, the record was broken twice and has since been lowered twice more this year, including the 849 strokes recorded at the Chevron Silverado Showdown, April 6-8. Here is the record progression under Brewer:
» 880 • Cardinal Classic • Sept. 21-22, 2015
» 879 • Rainbow Wahine Invitational • Oct. 21-23, 2024
» 871 • Gators Invitational • March 7-8, 2025
» 859 • Leadership & Golf Invitational • Sept. 15-16, 2025
» 849 • Chevron Silverado Showdown • April 6-8, 2026

FOR THREE?
Janae Leovao 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 win three titles (one each 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.

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, EMU 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).

TWIN WINS
The medalist honors Janae Leovao secured at The Southern marked her first collegiate victory after finishing second in three different events in the three previous seasons with Long Beach State. The win, however, is not the first for a member of the Leovao family as sister Jasmine Leovao won three times with LBSU. Jasmine won the 2023 and 2024 Big West Conference titles before taking medalist honors in 2025 in the LBSU dual with San Diego State. Overall, a Leovao has now won a collegiate event at least once in each of the past four seasons.

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 the win. She won her second consecutive tournament after finishing no higher than second 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.

LPGA COLLEGIATE ADVANCEMENT PATHWAY
The LPGA has instituted its Collegiate Advancement Pathway program, which will be used to help the top 10 collegiate players on the list earn priority status on the Epson Tour for the remainder of the 2026 season and all of the 2027 season while also adding in exemptions into the different rounds of the 2026 LPGA Q-Series. As of May 8, Janae Leovao is ranked No. 29 (724.9370 points) while Jasmine Leovao is just behind her at No. 34 (696.7503).

ON THE HORIZON
Should Eastern finish in the top five of the team standings at the 2026 NCAA Tallahassee Regional, it would advance to the NCAA Championships, which are set to be played May 22-27 at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif. The field, which will be comprised of 30 teams and six individuals, will compete in stroke play each of the first three days with the top 15 in the standings playing in the fourth and final round. From there, the top eight teams in the standings will be placed into a match-play bracket to determine the national champion.

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Players Mentioned

Savannah de Bock

Angelica Holman

Janae Leovao

Jasmine Leovao

Baiyok Sukterm

Erina Tan

Mariana Vega

Matilde Zocchi

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