Completed Event: Women's Golf at Rainbow Wahine Invitational on October 20, 2025 , , 12th of 19
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Vakasiuola named MW Freshman of the Year
5/8/2026 9:17:00 AM | Women's Golf
Arizona native also honored on All-Mountain West first team
For her superb play in 2025-26, Grand Canyon golfer Alexis Vakasiuola earned a spot as an individual entry in the NCAA Ann Arbor Regional next week. Now, she will own the accolades of Mountain West Freshman of the Year and All-Mountain West first team.
Vakasiuola, ranked in the top 175 of 1,641 golfers in the nation, is the first Lopes to win a conference Freshman of the Year honor since Ryan Flynn in 2023. She is also the only freshman on the Mountain West's six-player first team.
Zi Yu Foong of UNLV won Mountain West Golfer of the Year while her coach, Amy Bush-Herzer, earning Coach of the Year.
Vakasiuola, a native of San Tan Valley, Arizona, only got better as the season progressed, especially in the spring with six top-10 in six finishes in seven tournaments. She tied for third at the Mountain West Championship, won the GCU Invitational and placed second out of 96 golfers at the Alice and John Wallace Women's Golf Classic.
Her 71.8 scoring average is a program best and included 10 sub-70 rounds this spring.
Vakasiuola will head to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she will represent GCU as an individual entry in the Ann Arbor Regional. She is the first Lope since Siripatsorn Patchana to compete at an NCAA regional since 2022.
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Vakasiuola, ranked in the top 175 of 1,641 golfers in the nation, is the first Lopes to win a conference Freshman of the Year honor since Ryan Flynn in 2023. She is also the only freshman on the Mountain West's six-player first team.
Zi Yu Foong of UNLV won Mountain West Golfer of the Year while her coach, Amy Bush-Herzer, earning Coach of the Year.
Vakasiuola, a native of San Tan Valley, Arizona, only got better as the season progressed, especially in the spring with six top-10 in six finishes in seven tournaments. She tied for third at the Mountain West Championship, won the GCU Invitational and placed second out of 96 golfers at the Alice and John Wallace Women's Golf Classic.
Her 71.8 scoring average is a program best and included 10 sub-70 rounds this spring.
Vakasiuola will head to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she will represent GCU as an individual entry in the Ann Arbor Regional. She is the first Lope since Siripatsorn Patchana to compete at an NCAA regional since 2022.
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