{"id":269934,"date":"2026-05-13T20:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269934\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:52:09","slug":"womens-golf-notches-best-finish-in-program-history-to-cap-off-ncaa-championship-tallahassee-regional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269934\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Golf Notches Best Finish In Program History To Cap Off NCAA Championship Tallahassee Regional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2013\u00a0North Florida Women&#8217;s Golf recorded its best NCAA Regional finish in program history at the 2026 NCAA Championship Tallahassee Regional at Seminole Legacy Golf Club in Tallahassee, Fla. on Wednesday.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNorth Florida remained in the hunt of a top-five spot throughout Round 3 in a field that boasted eight top-50 teams, and finished the event in seventh place on the team leaderboard at 16-over 880. It was the fifth NCAA Regional appearance in program history.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nRedshirt junior <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/kaitlyn-schroeder\/14657\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14657\" target=\"_blank\">Kaitlyn Schroeder<\/a> carded a 1-under 71 in Round 3 to improve five spots and earn a top-10 finish with a tie for 10th\u00a0place at even-par 216. Schroeder finished second in the entire field with 39 pars.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nJunior <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/brianna-castaldi\/14661\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14661\" target=\"_blank\">Brianna Castaldi<\/a> notched a 1-over 217 to finish tied for 13th\u00a0on the leaderboard. Castaldi finished tied for sixth in the entire field with 13 birdies.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/braydn-smith\/14658\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14658\" target=\"_blank\">Braydn Smith<\/a> posted the best 18-hole Round 3 score for the Ospreys with a 5-under 67 to finish tied for 40th at 10-over 226. Junior <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/mohea-mansbendel\/14660\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14660\" target=\"_blank\">Mohea Mansbendel<\/a> tied for 50th at 15-over 231 to round out four Ospreys in the top-50 of the leaderboard.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCOURSE REPORT<br \/>\nSeminole Legacy Golf Club (Tallahassee, Fla.)<br \/>\nPar 72 | 6,272 yards<br \/>\nWednesday, May 13 | 18 holes<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSCORECARD (NORTH FLORIDA LINEUP)<br \/>\n7 \u2013 North Florida | 16-over 880 (296-298-286)<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nT10. <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/kaitlyn-schroeder\/14657\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14657\" target=\"_blank\">Kaitlyn Schroeder<\/a> | even-par 216 (73-72-71)<br \/>\nT13. <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/brianna-castaldi\/14661\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14661\" target=\"_blank\">Brianna Castaldi<\/a> | 1-over 217 (70-74-73)<br \/>\nT40. <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/braydn-smith\/14658\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14658\" target=\"_blank\">Braydn Smith<\/a> | 10-over 226 (78-81-67)<br \/>\nT50. <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/mohea-mansbendel\/14660\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14660\" target=\"_blank\">Mohea Mansbendel<\/a> | 15-over 231 (75-76-80)<br \/>\nT52. <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/ava-cottis\/14663\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14663\" target=\"_blank\">Ava Cottis<\/a> | 17-over 233 (82-76-75)<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTEAM STANDINGS<br \/>\nNo. 9 Wake Forest (8-under), No. 25 Florida State (4-under), No. 3 Florida (3-under), No. 27 Eastern Michigan (5-over), No. 34 Kentucky (6-over), UCLA (9-over), North Florida (16-over), ULM (26-over), No. 46 Clemson (27-over), No. 41 Purdue (30-over), UTRGV (80-over), Little Rock (90-over)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2013\u00a0North Florida Women&#8217;s Golf recorded its best NCAA Regional finish in program history at the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-269934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}