The Wayne State College women's golf team landed three players on the 2024-25 Northern Sun Conference Women's Golf All-Conference Team announced Wednesday morning by the league office in Burnsville, Minnesota.  Freshman Gaia Stancikova became the first player since the re-instatement of the Wildcat women's golf program in 2020-21 to earn All-NSIC First Team honors while senior Abbigail Brodersen and freshman Camryn Johnson both received Second Team honors.
            Stancikova, from Castel San Pietro Terme, Italy, set a new single season scoring average for the Wildcat this season with a 77.38 in 16 rounds of golf and seven events.  The old school record scoring average was 78.00 held by Jazmine Taylor in the 2022-23 season.  Stancikova had two top-five and three top-10 finishes this season and shot 13 of her 16 rounds this season in the 70's.  She fired a season-best even-par 72 leading to a third-place finish at the NSIC Preview in Missouri March 31 and April 1 and shot rounds of 78 and 72 (+2) for a 150 and another third-place medal at the Vegas Warrior Invitational March 14-15.  Stancikova was sixth overall at the NSIC Championships April 25-27 in Missouri with rounds of 78-75-79 for a 54-hole score of 232. 
            Brodersen, a senior from Albion (Boone Central HS), earned All-NSIC Second Team honors for the second time in her Wildcat career (2023 as a sophomore).  She played in all 12 events and 26 rounds this season and finished with a scoring average of 79.62, the fifth-best in school history.  Brodersen posted four top-five finishes and had 12 rounds of scores in the 70's.  She fired a season-best 147 (72-75) to place second at the Vegas Warrior Invitational March 14-15 and had another second-place finish at the Sioux Falls Invitational (October 14-15) with rounds of 73 and 78 for 151.  Brodersen also finished third at the Fall Brawl in Hudson, Wisconsin (September 16-17) shooting 155 (78-77).  She was also awarded this year's NSIC Elite 18 Award in women's golf as the top scholar-athlete at a conference championship event with a 4.00 grade point average majoring in industrial technology/ drafting and design/ construction management.
            Johnson, a freshman from Berwyn (Broken Bow HS), was an All-NSIC Second Team selection following a standout freshman campaign with the Wildcats.  She finished with a scoring average of 78.38 – third-best in school history – and had 15 rounds in the 70's while posting two top-five and four top-10 finishes for the 'Cats this season.  She became the first Wildcat player in school history to shoot an 18-hole score under par, firing a one-under 71 March 31^st at the NSIC Preview in Missouri.  Johnson had a season-best third-place finish at the Nebraska Intercollegiate Invite October 4-5 shooting 153 (79-74).  She tied for fifth at the Sioux Falls Invitational October 14-15 with scores of 77 and 79 (156) and recorded an eighth-place finish at the Vegas Warrior Invitational March 14-15 with a 157 (84-73).
            Wayne State made school history this season by qualifying for the NCAA Division II Women's Golf Championships, finishing 16^th at the Central Region Championships in Edmond, Oklahoma.  The Wildcats had three tournament wins this season while establishing a new single season team scoring average of 313.12, 6.5 shots better than the previous school record (319.62 in 2022-23), and finished third at the Northern Sun Conference Championships.