BATON ROUGE – The first preseason rankings for the 2025-26 women’s golf wraparound season have been posted by Golfweek and the LSU Tigers will enter the rankings at No. 8.
Writer Cameron Jourdan put together his top 30 teams for the season and Coach Garrett Runion’s Tigers are highly mentioned as the team looks to extend its consecutive NCAA championship appearance record which now stands at five.
Of LSU’s No. 8 ranking Jourdan said: “Could a pair of sophomores lead the Tigers back into match play at the national championship? Rocio Tejedo had a breakout season as a freshman and was one of the best players in the country. Now in the fold is Francesca Fiorellini, a UCLA transfer … If the Italian can find her groove in Baton Rouge, watch out for the Tigers.”
LSU features returnees Tejedo, Taylor Riley, Josefin Widal and Elsa Svensson who all played in last year’s national championship event in Carlsbad, California, along with senior Edit Hertzman, transfer Fiorellini and freshmen Ryleigh Knaub, Lucia Iraola and Peral Sol Sigurbrandsdottir.
The freshmen are looking to find their way into the Tigers lineup during the fall portion of the season, which begins Sept. 8-9 at Charleston, South Carolina.
The Golfweek Top 30:
1 – Stanford
2 – Oregon
3 – Texas
4 – USC
5 – Arizona State
6 – Duke
7 – Texas A&M
8 – LSU
9 – Northwestern
10 – Arkansas
11 – Vanderbilt
12 – Florida
13 – Wake Forest
14 – South Carolina
15 – Ohio State
16 – North Carolina
17 – Virginia
18 – Florida State
19 – Auburn
20 – Oklahoma State
21 – Mississippi State
22 – Michigan State
23 – Ole Miss
24 – TCU
25 – UCLA
26 – Arizona
27 – SMU
28 – Iowa State
29 – N.C. State
30 – Kansas