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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Little Rock women’s golf opens its 2025-26 season Monday at the Boilermaker Classic, hosted by Purdue at the Kampen-Cosler Golf Course.
The two-day tournament features several teams ranked highly in last year’s final poll, including Ole Miss (No. 4), Purdue (No. 37) along with Georgia Southern, Iowa, Kent State, Indiana and North Florida.
The Trojans’ schedule is one of the toughest in program history. After Purdue, Little Rock travels to the Leadership & Golf Classic in Seattle on Sept. 15 and the Golfweek Red Sky Classic in Colorado on Sept. 22. The spring slate includes trips to the University of Arizona and Puerto Rico, both expected to feature elite competition.
“This is one of our tougher schedules ever – we are going up against some Power 4 and SEC schools we haven’t seen in the past,” head coach Jenna Birch said. “It says a lot about where the program has come from, but now it presents a whole new set of challenges because we are going up against some of the best players in the world.”
Little Rock returns veterans Elenore Aernouts, Elvira Flodstrom, Fehild Graesel and Lara Martin. Sophomore transfer Chloe Poizac, from Henderson State, is competing for the final lineup spot among the team’s three newcomers.
All seven Trojans are international student-athletes representing six different countries. Birch, now in her seventh season, said team chemistry has already taken shape.
“I’m very fortunate that this team is special and has been building chemistry before they even stepped on campus,” Birch said. “The newcomers connected with each other and the returners, so they were already close.”
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