CHADRON, Neb. – After a four-event spring season, Chadron State women's golf will try to make a run at the RMAC Women's Golf Championship, teeing off on Easter Sunday and running through Tuesday at the Boulder Creek Golf Club in Boulder City, Nevada.

The Eagles will be looking to repeat or improve upon the team's sixth-place finish at last year's RMAC Championships in 2024, which came at the same Boulder Creek course. 

The event will be 54 holes, with one 18-hole round on each of the tourney's three days. At stake for the winner is the RMAC's automatic qualifying berth for the NCAA Regional taking place in Amarillo, Texas from May 5-7. 

Spring Season Recap
Chadron State competed in four events this spring. The Eagles placed 10^th and ninth at two tournaments in Arizona hosted by Southwest Minnesota State and placed 12^th at the Southern Colorado Open hosted by CSU Pueblo. 

The Eagles' best finish of the season came in its most recent event. CSC took second place at the Hardrocker Spring Invite, an event that featured a fourth-place finish from junior Aubree Heinsma. 

The Field
A total of 10 women's teams will hit the links during this week's tournament. The complete field includes Adams State, Black Hills State, Colorado Christian, Colorado Mesa, CSU Pueblo, Fort Lewis, MSU Denver, South Dakota Mines and Westminster in addition to the Eagles. 

CSU Pueblo is likely the team to beat. The ThunderWolves have won the past two RMAC titles on the women's side and will enter as the highest-ranked team in the field at No. 35 overall. Pueblo's Lisa Ekberg won three consecutive RMAC Golfer of the Week awards from March 27-April 10.

Colorado Christian (No. 53), Colorado Mesa (No. 83) and Westminster (No. 98) are also ranked in the nation's top 100. Aside from Ekberg, CSU Pueblo's Freya Constable and Westminster's Ashley Lam have won two weekly awards apiece. 

The Lineup
Chadron State's lineup will feature two juniors and three freshmen. Aubree Heinsma is the lone returning member of last year's conference tournament lineup. As a sophomore, Heinsma finished 39^th at the RMAC Championships with a 54-hole score of 250.

Freshman Klara Kleinig has the top stroke average on the team with a 82.3 average through 16 rounds. Kleinig, a native of Leipzig, Germany who attended high school in Kansas, has two top 10s on the year, including one in the spring season. 

Junior Payton Wise has an 84.2 stroke average entering Sunday's play. Wise recorded her first individual top 10 of 2024-25 at the Hardrocker Spring Invite last time out. 

Heinsma is third on the CSC roster with an 85.9 stroke average. A pair of freshmen – Windsor, Colorado's Allison Sanger (88.9 stroke average) and Casper, Wyoming's Maggie Teague (91.2) will round out CSC's lineup. Fellow freshman Brooklyn Tychsen is available as an alternate. 

Summit Winner
Regardless of how they do as a team this week, the Chadron State program will leave Nevada with some hardware. 

Junior Aubree Heinsma has been named the winner of the 2025 RMAC Women's Golf Summit Award, which honors the athlete with the highest GPA from each sport competing at that site's championship. 

STORY: Heinsma Wins Women's Golf Summit Award

Heinsma has a perfect 4.0 GPA as a physical sciences major. She becomes the third Chadron State athlete to win the award this academic year, joining Kyle Shirley (men's cross country) and Shania Wear (women's wrestling).

Heinsma will be recognized with a plaque commemorating her achievement in Nevada this weekend.