{"id":489271,"date":"2026-02-21T05:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/489271\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T05:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:37:09","slug":"niskanen-schulman-lead-womens-golf-in-opening-round-at-rio-verde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/489271\/","title":{"rendered":"Niskanen, Schulman Lead Women&#8217;s Golf in Opening Round at Rio Verde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIO VERDE, Ariz. \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/cmuchippewas.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/rachel-niskanen\/7201\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7201\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Niskanen<\/a> shot a 3-over par 75 and <a href=\"https:\/\/cmuchippewas.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/lexi-schulman\/7202\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7202\" target=\"_blank\">Lexi Schulman<\/a> posted a 4-over 76 on Friday to lead the Central Michigan women&#8217;s golf team during the first round of the Rio Verde Collegiate at Rio Verde Country Club.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe second round of the three-day, 54-hole, stroke-play event is scheduled for Saturday with a noon (ET) shotgun start. The final round is set for Sunday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNiskanen and Schulman led the Chippewas to a 309 team score. CMU is in 13th place in the 19-team field.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nXavier and Wichita State lead the tournament after posting matching 292 totals. Host Western Michigan (296) is third.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAlso for the Chippewas on Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/cmuchippewas.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/ella-zanatta\/7204\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7204\" target=\"_blank\">Ella Zanatta<\/a> shot a 5-over 77, <a href=\"https:\/\/cmuchippewas.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/zoe-dull\/7205\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7205\" target=\"_blank\">Zoe Dull<\/a> posted an 81, and <a href=\"https:\/\/cmuchippewas.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/brooke-morris\/7200\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7200\" target=\"_blank\">Brooke Morris<\/a> carded an 83.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNiskanen is tied for 23rd, Schulman is tied for 33rd, and Zanatta is tied for 43rd in the 95-player field.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nManon Guille of Wichita State and Isabel Brozena of Xavier share the first-round lead at 3-under, one shot ahead of Western Michigan&#8217;s Megha Vallabhaneni.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIO VERDE, Ariz. \u2013 Rachel Niskanen shot a 3-over par 75 and Lexi Schulman posted a 4-over 76&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-489271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}