Iowa City Today

The University of Iowa women’s golf team will begin its fall season at the Boilermaker Classic in West Lafayette, Indiana, on September 1-2. The event will take place at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex’s Kampen-Cosler Course, a par-72 layout measuring 6,299 yards. Both days of the 54-hole tournament will start with a shotgun format at 9 a.m. Central Time.

Fans can follow live scoring for the tournament through Scoreboard, powered by Clippd.

Iowa’s lineup features seniors Shannyn Volger and Riley Lewis, juniors Ximena Benites and Maura Peters, and freshman Sunny Wang. Senior Kaitlyn Hanna will compete as an individual.

The field includes 14 teams: Abeline Christian, Ball State, Georgia Southern, Indiana, Iowa, Kent State, Lehigh, Little Rock, North Florida, Ole Miss, Purdue, Toledo, Western Kentucky and Xavier.

Kampen-Cosler Course is recognized as one of the leading collegiate golf courses in the country and is known for its championship-caliber links-style design by Pete Dye.

Two freshmen have joined the Hawkeye roster this fall: Cailyn Rogers from Lexington, Kentucky and Sunny Wang from Beijing, China. Rogers has won five tournaments and finished in the top ten ten times since 2022. Wang recorded four top ten finishes at the CLPGQ Oriental Pearl as a senior.

Freshman Sunny Wang will make her debut for Iowa at the Boilermaker Classic. The team returns seven letterwinners this season. Four players—senior Riley Lewis; juniors Ximena Benites and Maura Peters; and sophomore Lily Huether—competed in last year’s Big Ten Championships. The current roster includes nine players with two newcomers.

Sophomore Lily Huether was named to the Women’s Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar Team last season. According to program criteria: “The criteria for selection to the All-American Scholar Team are some of the most stringent in all of college athletics.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 percent of the college’s regular scheduled competitive rounds during the year through the team’s conference championship.”

After this event, Iowa will compete at the Badger Invitational in Madison, Wisconsin from September 14-16.

Later this fall on September 29-30 at Finkbine Golf Course in Iowa City, Iowa will host its home tournament—the Diane Thomason Invitational presented by Scheels—for a second consecutive year. Last year Iowa won that event with a total score of 906 (288-299-319), their first team title since 2021. The Hawkeyes also claimed victory at Nashville Invitational during spring 2025 with a total score of 893 (294-298-301).