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Vakasiuola named MW Freshman of the Year
5/8/2026 9:17:00 AM | Women's Golf
AZ native also earns All-MW First Team honors
For her superb play in 2025-26, Grand Canyon women's golfer Alexis Vakasiuola earned a spot as an individual 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, awards she given as announced by the conference Friday.
The freshman Arizona native from San Tan Valley, who is ranked in the top 175 of 1,641 golfers in the nation, is the first Freshman of the Year winner for GCU since Ryan Flynn in 2023. She is also the only freshman on the six team first team.
Zi Yu Foong of UNLV won Mountain West Golfer of the Year while her coach, Amy Bush-Herzer, was named coach of the year.
Vakasiuola only got better as the season progressed, especially in the spring, where she finished top 10 in six of 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 has tallied 10 sub-70 rounds this spring.
Vakasiuola will next head to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she will represent GCU as an individualist in the Ann Arbor NCAA Regional. She is the first Lope since Siripatsorn Patchana to compete at the NCAA Regionals since 2022.
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The freshman Arizona native from San Tan Valley, who is ranked in the top 175 of 1,641 golfers in the nation, is the first Freshman of the Year winner for GCU since Ryan Flynn in 2023. She is also the only freshman on the six team first team.
Zi Yu Foong of UNLV won Mountain West Golfer of the Year while her coach, Amy Bush-Herzer, was named coach of the year.
Vakasiuola only got better as the season progressed, especially in the spring, where she finished top 10 in six of 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 has tallied 10 sub-70 rounds this spring.
Vakasiuola will next head to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she will represent GCU as an individualist in the Ann Arbor NCAA Regional. She is the first Lope since Siripatsorn Patchana to compete at the NCAA Regionals since 2022.
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