FRISCO, Texas – The 2025-26 WGCA All-American Scholar Team was announced Monday (July 13) with 1,551 women's collegiate golfers recognized with this prestigious honor. Florida Southern saw six student-athletes earn the prestigious honor in Kaley Amuso, Clare Gimpel, Darby Hancock, McKinley Holding, Ava LaBelle, and Taylor Zachary.
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.
• Have played in 50% of the college's regularly scheduled competitive rounds during the year nominated through the team's conference championship.
Gimpel, Zachary, and La Belle all repeat as WGCA All-American Scholars from the 2024-25 and 2023-24 seasons, while Amuso and Holding both repeat from the 2024-25 season. Hancock received her first bid as a WCGA All-American Scholar.
The six student-athletes helped guide Florida Southern to a seventh-place finish at the Sunshine State Conference Championship as well as its second straight NCAA postseason appearance. Florida Southern finished as the 15th-ranked team in the nation and posted a 70-57-4 head-to-head record throughout 12 total events.
Clare Gimpel finished as the highest-ranking Moc as an individual, finishing the 2024-25 campaign as the 49th-ranked player, posting a 548-248-25 record with a 74.4 adjusted stroke average. In total, 1,044 golfers in women's division II were ranked with all six honorees for Florida Southern finishing in the top 300; Ava La Belle No. 61 (511-208-35 / 74.3 avg), Kaley Amuso No. 100 (498-285-38 / 75.0 avg), McKinley Holding No. 119 nationally (464-323-34 / 75.3 avg), Darby Hancock No. 124 (220-169-22 / 75.5 avg), Taylor Zachary No. 227 (323-457-37 / 76.5 avg).
About the Women's Golf Coaches Association
The Women's Golf Coaches Association, founded in 1983, is a non-profit organization representing women's collegiate golf coaches. The WGCA was formed to encourage the playing of college golf for women in correlation with a general objective of education and in accordance with the highest tradition of intercollegiate competition. Today, the WGCA represents over 750 coaches throughout the U.S. and is dedicated to educating, promoting, and recognizing both its members and the student-athletes they represent.
