The Gators have won five tournament titles this season, highlighted by winning three consecutive to end the fall season and back-to-back to finish the regular season this spring. Florida has also had a successful postseason, finishing runner-up at the SEC Championship and a T3 performance at the NCAA Charlottesville Regional to advance to the NCAA Championships this week (May 16-21) at Omni La Costa in Carlsbad, California.  

It has been an all underclassmen lineup this year for the Orange and Blue, which have finished 5th or better in all 11 tournaments, including eight top-3s and five consecutive. Across the last two seasons, Florida has won eight tournament titles.

The victories this year mark back-to-back seasons of three-plus victories for the first time since 2015-16 & 2016-17. UF last won five events in a season in the 2016-17 calendar when they won the SEC Championship and NCAA Regional titles. Glaser has totaled 36 tournament titles all-time leading the Gators – 37 total as she was an assistant coach for a season in 2011-12. 

At the SEC Championship, led by a lineup of all underclassmen (three sophomores & two freshmen). The Gators reached the match play finals for the second time in program history since the format was added in 2018 after defeating the No. 2 seed LSU Tigers 5-0 and the No. 6 seed and No. 2 ranked Arkansas Razorbacks 3-2. UF was edged in the finals 3.5-1.5 to the No. 1 seed and veteran (two seniors & graduate student) South Carolina Gamecocks. 

Last week at regionals, sophomore Paula Francisco finished runner-up with a 54-hole score of 4-under 209, both career-bests, and just one shot behind medalist honors. Francisco led through the first two rounds and opened her second start in regionals with a career-low 4-under 67, her second of the postseason after the same mark in round one of the SEC Championship. She was tied for a tournament-best this week with 12 birdies and one eagle. The finish is the best by a Gator at an NCAA Regional since 2017 when Kelly Grassel won medalist honors in Columbus. 

Florida had a final team round of 293 (+9) for a three-round score of 864 (+12) to finish tied for 3rd with host Virginia and earn a trip to the final tournament of the season behind an all underclassmen lineup of three sophomores and two freshmen while overcoming some heart breakers at regionals over the last four years, including missing by a shot in back-to-back seasons (2021 & 2022) and leading at the turn last year.

The NCAA National Championships will take place at Omni La Costa from May 16-21.  Florida advanced to the championships for the first time since 2019 and 29th time in program history since the inaugural NCAA-sanctioned golf tournament in 1982, entering its 43rd year – no tournament in 2020 due to COVID-19. It is the seventh time under head coach Glaser Florida has reached nationals.  

Division I Jackie Steinmann WGCA National Coach of the Year Presented by Golf Pride Watch List

• Kalen Anderson, University of South Carolina
• Amy Bond, Florida State University
• Mimi Burke, Georgia Southern University
• Stew Burke, Kansas State University
• Amy Bush-Herzer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Diana Cantu, University of Tennessee
• Missy Farr-Kaye, Arizona State University
• Emily Fletcher, Northwestern University
• Emily Glaser, University of Florida
• Kory Henkes, University of Mississippi
• Kathryn Hosch, California State University, Fullerton
• Laura Ianello, University of Texas
• Lindsay Kuhle, University of Kansas
• Angie Larkin, Texas Christian University
• Kim Lewellen, Wake Forest University
• Aimee Neff, University of North Carolina
• Derek Radley, University of Oregon
• Garrett Runion, Louisiana State University
• Ria Scott, University of Virginia
• Justin Silverstein, University of Southern California
• Stacy Slobodnik Stoll, Michigan State University
• Lisa Strom, The Ohio State University
• Shauna Taylor, University of Arkansas
• Anne Walker, Stanford University