Gamecock Trio Earns Golfweek All-America Honors

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Senior Louise Rydqvist, freshman Eila Galitsky and senior Hannah Darling all earned Golfweek All-America honors on Wednesday. Rydqvist and Galitksy earned spots on the Second Team while Darling was a Third Team selection.

The trio also earned WGCA All-America honors recently as well. It marks the 10^th consecutive season South Carolina has had multiple players earn All-America status. In 18 seasons under head coach Kalen Anderson, the Gamecocks have garnered 54 All-America honors by 16 different players.

The three All-American players this season ties the single-season program record set in 2017, 2020 and 2023.

Galitsky joins Ana Pelaez (2017), Emily Price (2019), Pauline Roussin-Bouchard (2020) and Darling (2022) as the only freshmen in program history to earn All-America honors. The SEC Co-Freshman of the Year, who enrolled mid-year, put together an outstanding spring with four top-five finishes in six stroke play starts including a win at the Moon Golf Invitational back in mid-February. Her 71.26 scoring average is the lowest in program history by any first-year player. Galitsky finished T-5^th at the NCAA Championship on May 19 with a 72-hole total of 282 (-6). She became the second player in program history and the first freshman to earn a top-five finish at the NCAA Championship. Former All-American Katie Burnett finished 5^th at the 2012 NCAA Championship at Vanderbilt Legends Club.

Darling and Rydqvist finish their Gamecock careers as two of the most decorated players in program history. They are the first South Carolina players to be four-time All-Americans. Over the course of the last four seasons, they’ve helped the team ascend to new heights with 13 wins including the program’s second SEC Championship and sixth NCAA Regional Title this season. The team has finished with a top-six national ranking in each of their four seasons in Garnet and Black with a No. 5 final ranking this season via Clippd.

Darling logged nine top-20 finishes this season including six top-10s, four top-fives and her second career win at the ANNIKA Intercollegiate back in September. She finishes her Gamecock career with the lowest career scoring average in program history at 72.09.

Rydqvist notched eight top-20 finishes including five top-10s, three top-fives and her second career win at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate in March. She finishes her Gamecock career with the third-lowest careering scoring average in program history at 72.68.

Galitksy and Rydqvist will both compete for Team International in the upcoming Arnold Palmer Cup June 5-7 at Congaree Golf Club in Ridgeland, S.C. Head coach Kalen Anderson will serve as Co-Head Coach for Team USA.

2025 Golfweek Women’s College Golf All-America Teams

First Team

Carla Bernat, Sr., Kansas State

Carolina Chacarra, Sr., Wake Forest

Kary Hollenbaugh, Jr., Ohio State

Jasmine Koo, Fr., USC

Maria Jose Marin, So., Arkansas

Meja Ortengren, Fr., Stanford

Andrea Revuelta, Fr., Stanford

Kiara Romero, So., Oregon

Mirabel Ting, Jr., Florida State

Lottie Woad, Jr., Florida State

Second Team

Eila Galitsky, Fr., South Carolina

Megha Ganne, Jr., Stanford

Lauren Kim, So., Texas

Paula Martin Sampedro, So., Stanford

Farah O’Keefe, So., Texas

Catherine Park, Jr., USC

Louise Rydqvist, Sr., South Carolina

Amanda Sambach, Sr., Virginia

Kendall Todd, Sr., Arkansas

Suvichaya Vinijchaitham, Fr., Oregon

Third Team

Hannah Darling, Sr., South Carolina

Anna Davis, So., Auburn

Cayetana Fernandez Garcia-Poggio, So., Texas A&M

Caitlyn Macnab, Sr., Ole Miss

Marie Madsen, Fr., NC State

Lauryn Nguyen, Sr., Northwestern

Patience Rhodes, So., Arizona State

Rocio Tejedo, Fr., LSU

Avery Weed, So., Mississippi State

Ashley Yun, So., Northwestern

Honorable Mention

Brooke Biermann, Michigan State

Vanessa Borovilos, Texas A&M

Pimpchompoo Chaisilprungruang, Charlotte

Lauren Clark, Kansas

Beth Coulter, Arizona State

Cindy Hsu, Texas

Grace Kilcrease, Oklahoma State

Chloe Kovelesky, Wake Forest

Mackenzie Lee, SMU

Vivian Lu, Washington

Ava Merrill, Vanderbilt

Megan Propeck, Virginia

Catherine Rao, Princeton

Paula Schulz-Hanssen, Arizona State

Andie Smith, Duke

Megan Streicher, North Carolina

Clarisa Temelo, Arkansas

Karen Tsuru, Oregon

Kelly Xu, Stanford

Reagan Zibilski, Arkansas

Since 1999, Golfweek has selected All-Americans in addition to Players and Coaches of the Year in men’s and women’s college golf. The tradition of honoring the best in college golf continues this year.
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