FRISCO, Texas – Five members of the Illinois State women's golf team – Alex Sparrow, Reagan Braker, Dani Grace Schrock, Reagan Kennedy, and Elise Fennell – have been named to the Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) All-American Scholar Team, announced by the organization on Monday morning.
The criteria for selection to the All-American Scholar Team are some of the most stringent in all of college athletics and continue to demonstrate the high-level academic achievements of our players. To be selected, a student-athlete must have an overall cumulative grade point average of 3.50 or higher; be an amateur and on the team's roster through the conclusion of the team's season; and have played in 50% of the college's regularly scheduled competitive rounds during the year nominated through the team's conference championship.
Kennedy had the team's second-lowest scoring average on the season at 77.2 strokes per round, as she had three rounds at or under par over 11 tournaments. Her three rounds at or under par is tied for the fifth-most in a season by a Redbird junior in program history, while her stroke average is the eighth-lowest by a junior in program history.
Fennell ended 2025-26 with a 74.9 stroke average per round, with nine rounds at or under par and three top-10 finishes in 11 events. Her rounds at or under par is tied for the eighth-most in a season in school history, while her stroke average is ninth-best in a season. For her ISU career, she has the third-most rounds at or under par (23), and the second-lowest career scoring average (74.2) in program history.
Schrock, a four-year member of the Redbird women's golf team, has the 13th-most career rounds at or under par, and the 14th-lowest career scoring average in Redbird women's golf history. This season she played in 33 rounds and had two of those at or under par with a season scoring average of 79.3, and one top-10 finish.
Sparrow, in her second season at ISU, played in 27 rounds with a stroke average of 79.0. She carded a season-low 75 at both the Valspar Augusta Invitational and the Rio Verde Collegiate, the latter of the two marking her season-low tournament score with a 227, as she had 76's in her other two rounds at the tournament.
Braker joined the Redbirds three tournaments into the season and averaged 85.6 strokes per round with a low round of 76 coming at the Rio Verde Collegiate, as was her low 54-hole tournament score of 239.
