STORM LAKE, Iowa (Aug. 28, 2025) - The Buena Vista University women's golf team heads into its 2025 season with an abundance of confidence and high expectations following a 2024-25 campaign that proved to be one of the program's most successful over the last two decades.
The last time the group was on the course in competition, it walked off as champions after winning the Simpson College Classic to round out the spring schedule this past May. Senior Brooke Stellmaker claimed the individual title which was the first of her career and it also marked the program's first team title at any event since 2011. At last fall's American Rivers Conference Championships, the Beavers came in fourth which was its highest place in the standings in 18 years.
Led by seventh-year head coach Joe Powell, the Beavers expect to keep that momentum going when it tees-off the fall 2025 campaign as it returns both of it's all-conference performers from last year along with an honorable mention player. Seniors Hailey Bistodeau and Brooke Stellmaker will be leaned on to guide the way after each placed in the top-10 of the A-R-C Championships. Bistodeau's fifth-place finish was the highest for the program at the championships since 2017. Junior Noelle Hammand will be right in the mix at the forefront of the roster after just missing out on all-conference accolades with an 11th place finish. Junior Riley Haschke is also among the returners for BVU that was in the championship field and turned in a final round 86.
All four individuals finished the year with scoring averages in the mid-80's while the team as a whole looks to continue lowering its scoring average of 347 over 18 rounds from 2024-25.
