Everything You Need To Know About the 2025-26 UCF Women’s Golf Team

The UCF Knights Women’s Golf team has been one of the most consistent programs on campus. Yet, appearances in the NCAA Championship have mostly eluded them. This time, as highly regarded nationally as it’s ever been going into a spring season, they have a chance to make it there.

Here’s everything you need to know about the Knights as they start the spring portion of their 2025-26 season:

How College Golf Works

Each school has five golfers playing for the overall team score. While a school can enter more than five players in a tournament, if they do so, the extra players have to be entered as individuals and will not count toward the team’s score.

A team’s total score comes from combining the scores of each of the golfers and subtracting the highest score.

The team with the lowest score after three rounds is the winner.

Last Season

9th in Big 12 Tournament; Selected to Charlottesville Regional (7th)

The Knights extended their NCAA Regional streak to eight last season, but that is where their season ended.

After a season that saw two of its players, Pimpisa Sisutham and Molly Smith, earn All-American nods, no player ended up even taking an All-Big 12 honor.

It’s hard to call it a disappointment since the Knights still made it back to an NCAA Regional. However, it does mean that another season has passed, with Sisutham and Smith at the core, in which the Knights could not make it to their first NCAA Championship since 2019.

This Season

Ranked #12 in the nation entering Spring

The Knights took full advantage of their fall schedule to secure a Top 15 ranking going into the spring slate.

Smith and Sisutham have once again been headliners, but sophomore Mila Jurine has also emerged to become another threat for the team as she took her first individual title at the Illini Invitational. That effort also helped UCF win the team title at that same tournament, its first since October 2023.

Who’s in Charge

Emily Marron – 14th season at UCF

If there’s one word that describes Emily Marron, it’s consistent.

The pandemic notwithstanding, she has remained perfect in sending at least one Knight to an NCAA Regional since she began her tenure back in 2011. However, she has only reached the NCAA Women’s Golf Championship once (2019).

Golfers to Watch

Pimpisa “Sandwich” Sisutham

Sandwich enters her final season of eligibility as the Knights’ highest-ranked golfer in the nation at #59 after finishing inside the Top 20 in all four of UCF’s fall tournaments.

The two-time all-conference honoree and 2024 WGCA All-American is also coming off a 2024-25 campaign that saw her have the team’s lowest scoring average and be named to the All-Big 12 Tournament Team. However, other than that, she did not receive any more postseason accolades.

Molly Smith

A fellow 2024 WGCA All-American, junior Molly Smith was in near lockstep with Sisutham this fall, also finishing in the top 20 in all four tournaments. However, she was ranked #88 in the nation entering the spring.

The Knights’ lone American on the roster, Smith, enters her first season as an upperclassman after a sophomore season without the accolades of her freshman one.

Mila Jurine

A sophomore hailing from the French island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean, Mila Jurine has been the Knights’ breakout star of the fall. After securing two Top 10 finishes last season in her freshman campaign, Jurine earned two top-five finishes this past fall, including her first individual collegiate win at the Illini Invitational. She entered the spring ranked #100 in the nation.

Katie Poots

Of the six UCF golfers who played in more than 25 rounds last season, Katie Poots, who had the highest scoring average of the squad at 75.1, is the only one who departed the team, transferring to Indiana.

Who’s New That’s Good

Kinga Kusmierska

Hailing from Poland, Kinga Kusmierska began her collegiate career with some momentum by winning the ANNIKA Invitational Europe. In a UCF uniform, she captured one Top 20 finish in three tournaments in the fall, though she did shoot for a 71.9 scoring average and finished ranked #298 in the nation.

Roster Breakdown

6 International Players (Japan, France, Thailand, Poland, Taiwan, and the United Arab Emirates)

Name	Year	Hometown	2024-25 School	Scoreboard Ranking	Fall 2025 Stats	2024-25 Stats
Jamie Camero	So.	Sharjah, United Arab Emirates	UCF	N/A	N/A	Played in 6 tournaments. 74.5 Scoring Average. 1 Top 20 Finish.
Mila Jurine	So.	Reunion, France	UCF	#100	Played in 4 tournaments. 70.3 Scoring Average. Two Top 5 Finishes (including win in Illini Invitational)	Played in 11 tournaments. 73.5 Scoring Average. 2 Top 10 Finishes. 4 Top 20 Finishes.
One Kashima	Jr.	Tochigi, Japan	UCF	#451	Played in 2 tournaments. 74.5 Scoring Average.	Played in 11 tournaments. 74.0 Scoring Average. 1 Top 10 Finish.
Kinga Kusmierska	Fr.	Bytom, Poland	N/A	#298	Played in 3 tournaments. 71.9 Scoring Averge (1 Top 20 Finish)	N/A
Pimpisa “Sandwich” Sisutham	Sr.	Bangkok, Thailand	UCF	#59	Played in 4 tournaments. 70.2 Scoring Average (1 Top 5 finishes, 3 Top 20s)	Played in 11 tournaments. 71.8 Scoring Average. 3 Top 5 Finish, 3 Top 10 Finishes, 5 Top 20 Finishes.
Molly Smith	Jr.	Westford, Mass.	UCF	#88	Played in 4 tournaments. 70.3 Scoring Average (1 Top 5 finishes, 3 Top 20s)	Played in 11 tournaments. 72.2 Scoring Average. 2 Top 5 Finishes. 2 Top 10 Finishes.
Tiffany Tsai	R-Fr.	Taoyuan City, Taiwan	South Carolina	#273	Played in 4 tournaments. 72.6 Scoring Average (1 Top 10 Finish)	Redshirted season.

Schedule Breakdown

The spring will once again begin with the Knights’ home tournament, the PDI Intercollegiate, at Eagle Creek Golf Club, followed by the Moon Golf Invitational in Melbourne.

However, the middle portion of the schedule has seen shifts from last season. The Briar’s Creek Invitational, hosted by the College of Charleston is back in the schedule after its absence last season.

There are also a pair of new tournaments on the schedule, one sees the Knights traveling to Vegas, just a few minutes away from The Strip, for the UNLV Invite, while the other has them closer to home in St. Augustine for the Coach Mo Invite.

The final two tournaments of the season sees the team traveling to Dallas, Texas, first for the newly dubbed Huntington Bank Collegiate at Trinity Forest Golf Club and then for the Big 12 Championship at the Dallas Athletic Club.

Days	Date(s)	Tournament	Location	Host	2024-25 Team Result
Sunday-Tuesday	Jan. 25-27	UCF Challenge Pres. by PDI	Orlando, FL	UCF	T-4th
Sunday-Tuesday	Feb. 15-17	Moon Golf Invitational	Melbourne, FL	Louisville	9th
Monday-Tuesday	Mar. 2-3	UNLV Invite	Las Vegas, NV	UNLV	–
Saturday-Sunday	Mar. 16-17	Briar’s Creek Invitational	Kiawah, SC	College of Charleston	–
Monday-Tuesday	Mar. 30-31	Coach Mo Invite	St. Augustine, FL	Furman	–
Monday-Tuesday	Apr. 6-7	Huntington Bank Collegiate	Dallas, TX	SMU	5th
Thursday-Saturday	Apr. 23-25	Big 12 Championship	Dallas, TX	Big 12	9th

NCAA Tournament

Regional Dates: May 11-13
Championship Dates: May 22-27
Championship Location: Omni La Costa Resort in Carlsbad, California

The Last Time…

UCF won a conference championship: 2017. Not since the days of now UCF Hall-of-Famer Ashley Holder has the UCF Women’s Golf team hoisted a conference championship trophy.

UCF made it to the NCAA Championship: 2019. It was only the 2nd time in program history that the team advanced to the championship after the 1996 season.

Quarter Century Team

First Team

Name	Years	Accolades
Ashley Holder	2014-2017	2x Golfweek All-American, 4x All-AAC Selection, 3x AAC Golfer of the Year (2014, 2015 & 2017), won 3 individual events, Part of 2 AAC Titles (2015 and 2017) and played in 3 NCAA Regionals (2014, 2015 and 2017)
Tunrada Piddon	2019-2023	3x All-AAC Selection, 2022 AAC Player of the Year, part of 3 NCAA Regional appearences, 4 individual wins and lowest scoring average in program history.
Stephanie Connelly	2006-2009	3x All-CUSA Selection, Made 2009 NCAA Championship as individual.
Elizabeth Moon	2018-2020	2019 All-AAC and Freshman of the Year, Part of 2019 NCAA Championship Team
Tanja Arnold	1999-2001	Named to ASUN All-Decade Team. 2 individual wins. Named 2001 ASUN Player of the Year and 2000 All-ASUN 2nd Team.

Second Team

Name	Years	Accolades
Carolin Pinegger	2009-2013	3x All-CUSA Honoree (Two 3rd team, one 2nd team)
Monifa Sealy	2011-2015	3x All-Conference Honoree (3rd Team CUSA in 2012, 2nd Team CUSA in 2013, 1st Team AAC in 2015). 2015 AAC Individual Champion.
Jess Baker	2020-2024	2023 All-AAC Honoree, 2022 Women’s Amateur Champion
Olivia Hartley	1998-2002	Named to ASUN All-Decade Team. 4x All-ASUN Honoree (3x Second team, 2001 First team)
Maria Balcazar	2016-2019	2x All-AAC Honoree (2017 & 2019). Part of 2019 NCAA Championship Appearence.

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