Kate Castle named NAIA All-American

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (May 31, 2023) – Milligan University rising junior Kate Castle was named an NAIA Women's Golf Second Team All-American by the association on Wednesday.

Castle finished the season as the No. 13 player in the NAIA according to Golfstat's final 2022-23 rankings with an adjusted scoring average of 76.11. She earned all-tournament honors at the 2022-23 NAIA National Championship at TPC Deere Run with a seventh-place finish. Castle was the daily leader in round two (E, 71), led the national championship field with 13 birdies and finished six shots off the national champion.

Castle was named the AAC Player of the Year for the 2022-23 season and set Milligan's single-round (-3, 69) and 36-hole (-1, 143) tournament records at the AAC Fall Preview. She collected All-AAC First Team honors and totaled six all-tournament finishes over the course of the season.

Castle joins Milligan women's golf standouts Alayna Perryman, Michaela Lindahl and Cassidy Gibson as the only NAIA All-Americans in program history.

Milligan women's golf won the NAIA Direct Qualifier/AAC Spring Championship to clinch the program's eighth trip to the NAIA National Championship in 12 seasons. The Buffs made the cut at the NAIA National Championship for the fourth time and posted a ninth-place team finish, the best in school history.