Three Cowgirls named to WGCA All-American Scholar Team

Wyoming's Kiley Reisner, Kira Reisner, Elle Higgins earn prestigious academic honor

LARAMIE – Three members of the Wyoming Cowgirls women's golf team were named to the 2025-26 Women's Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar Team announced Monday. 

Freshman Kiley Reisner, sophomore Kira Reisner and junior Elle Higgins were among the 1,551 women's collegiate golfers recognized by the WGCA with this prestigious national honor. 

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.

• Have played in 50% of the college's regularly scheduled competitive rounds during the year nominated through the team's conference championship.

Kiley Reisner, who led the Cowgirls' dominant victory in the National Golf Invitational to cap a historic 2025-26 season, is representing the brown and gold at the 77th U.S. Girls' Junior Championships this week at Old Chatham Golf Club in Durham, N.C.

During the qualifying round at Victoria Club in Riverside, Calif., Reisner finished second in the 75-player field after shooting a 4-under 68. The rising sophomore from Northridge, Calif., had three birdies, one bogey and made eagle on No. 17, a 488-yard, par-5. 

UW's Lucia Morelli won the Wyoming State Golf Association amateur championship earlier this summer. Higgins was the runner-up at the WSGA event and in the Colorado Golf Association Match Play event.

The Cowgirls are coming off a fourth-place finish in the Mountain West Championships. Kiley Reisner finished second to lead the program to its best finish in the conference tournament.

Kiley Reisner, who was the individual medalist at the Thunderbird Classic and Bobcat Desert Classic this season, became only the third Cowgirl to be named to the All-Mountain West team, joining Jordan Lintz (2000) and Jonelle Martinez (2009) on the list.

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