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Michigan State Selected for NCAA Women’s Golf Regional
4/29/2026 6:00:00 PM | Women's Golf
Spartans Have Reached 10-Straight and 26 of the Last 27 Regionals
East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State's women's golf team was selected to play in the Regionals of the 2026 NCAA Division I Championships, announced on Wednesday afternoon on The Golf Channel.
The Spartans were one of 12 teams selected to play in a regional in Chapel Hill, N.C., hosted by the University of Carolina at Finley Golf Club from Monday, May 11 to Wednesday, May 13.
The Chapel Hill Regional is one of six regional sites across the country, with each featuring 12 teams and six individuals. The top five teams (30 teams total) and the low individual not on an advancing team (six individuals total) from each regional site will advance to compete in the national championships to be played May 22-27 at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif.
"We're very familiar with the course," MSU Head Coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll said. "It's somewhere we go every year. When we spoke to the team before we went this year, we reminded them that that's a course we've won on several times in the Tar Heel Invitational. We always have good vibes there.
"And one of my former players (Aimee Neff) is the head coach there, so that will be very cool and we just won there a couple of weeks ago (in the Carolina Challenge Cup), so it's probably the best place we could have gone."
Michigan State won the Carolina Challenge Cup on April 4, shooting an 8-under par 552 in two rounds, with senior Taylor Kehoe taking medalist honors with a 6-under par 134.
The Spartans were an at-large selected and are the No. 7 seed in the Chapel Hill Regional. The 12 teams competing in the regional include, in order of seed, Texas, North Carolina, Mississippi State, Oklahoma State, Kent State, Virginia, Michigan State, NC State, High Point, Furman, Richmond and Howard.
Michigan State will be making its 10th-straight NCAA Regional appearance and the 26th in the last 28 years since 1999, all under Slobodnik-Stoll.
"I think trying to explain to the younger players, our two freshmen and our transfer who's a sophomore, that this is our expectation, this is what we expect to do," Slobodnik-Stoll said. "That's why we don't have balloons and flowers here today, it's because I expect to go to the NCAA Tournament. Every year, I feel like it's gets harder and harder because there are more and more good teams of the 273 Division I women's golf teams in the nation.
"That instilling of what we've done for the last 30 years, that's never to going change in what our goals are and what our dreams are."
Last year in the East Lansing Regional, hosted by MSU at Forest Akers West Golf Course, the Spartans finished in third place among 12 teams and earned a trip the NCAA Championships, the third in the previous four season. Michigan State has made 16 trips to the NCAAs, including 14 under Slobodnik-Stoll.
Michigan State is ranked No. 39 in the country in the latest NCAA Division I rankings and is coming off an eighth-place finish at the Big Ten Championships last weekend. The Spartans were one of nine schools from the Big Ten Conference to reach the NCAA Regionals.
The Spartans closed out the regular season with a fourth-place finish among 14 teams at the Buckeye Invitational on April 17-18. In six spring events, the Spartans finished among the top-five four times, including a team win at the Carolina Challenge Cup on April 4 at Finley Golf Club in Chapel Hill, N.C.
The Spartans were one of 12 teams selected to play in a regional in Chapel Hill, N.C., hosted by the University of Carolina at Finley Golf Club from Monday, May 11 to Wednesday, May 13.
The Chapel Hill Regional is one of six regional sites across the country, with each featuring 12 teams and six individuals. The top five teams (30 teams total) and the low individual not on an advancing team (six individuals total) from each regional site will advance to compete in the national championships to be played May 22-27 at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif.
"We're very familiar with the course," MSU Head Coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll said. "It's somewhere we go every year. When we spoke to the team before we went this year, we reminded them that that's a course we've won on several times in the Tar Heel Invitational. We always have good vibes there.
"And one of my former players (Aimee Neff) is the head coach there, so that will be very cool and we just won there a couple of weeks ago (in the Carolina Challenge Cup), so it's probably the best place we could have gone."
Michigan State won the Carolina Challenge Cup on April 4, shooting an 8-under par 552 in two rounds, with senior Taylor Kehoe taking medalist honors with a 6-under par 134.
The Spartans were an at-large selected and are the No. 7 seed in the Chapel Hill Regional. The 12 teams competing in the regional include, in order of seed, Texas, North Carolina, Mississippi State, Oklahoma State, Kent State, Virginia, Michigan State, NC State, High Point, Furman, Richmond and Howard.
Michigan State will be making its 10th-straight NCAA Regional appearance and the 26th in the last 28 years since 1999, all under Slobodnik-Stoll.
"I think trying to explain to the younger players, our two freshmen and our transfer who's a sophomore, that this is our expectation, this is what we expect to do," Slobodnik-Stoll said. "That's why we don't have balloons and flowers here today, it's because I expect to go to the NCAA Tournament. Every year, I feel like it's gets harder and harder because there are more and more good teams of the 273 Division I women's golf teams in the nation.
"That instilling of what we've done for the last 30 years, that's never to going change in what our goals are and what our dreams are."
Last year in the East Lansing Regional, hosted by MSU at Forest Akers West Golf Course, the Spartans finished in third place among 12 teams and earned a trip the NCAA Championships, the third in the previous four season. Michigan State has made 16 trips to the NCAAs, including 14 under Slobodnik-Stoll.
Michigan State is ranked No. 39 in the country in the latest NCAA Division I rankings and is coming off an eighth-place finish at the Big Ten Championships last weekend. The Spartans were one of nine schools from the Big Ten Conference to reach the NCAA Regionals.
The Spartans closed out the regular season with a fourth-place finish among 14 teams at the Buckeye Invitational on April 17-18. In six spring events, the Spartans finished among the top-five four times, including a team win at the Carolina Challenge Cup on April 4 at Finley Golf Club in Chapel Hill, N.C.
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