Mid-Season Status: Eastern Michigan Women
In just its second season under coach Josh Brewer, the women’s program has launched to a ranking of No. 29 in the country as of mid-October. By the end of the fall season they were ranked No. 34, after being at No. 145 in 2024, it’s previous best fall ranking.
The 29 was the highest national ranking for the women’s program in its history.
Long Beach State transfer Janae Leovao earned Mid-American Conference Women’s Golfer of the Week in early September, when she won back-to-back tournaments – the Leadership & Golf Invitational at Chambers Bay, and The Southern in Statesboro, Ga. – coincidentally near Brewer’s most recent coaching location at the University of Georgia. At Chambers Bay, she shot 7-under par 209 (72-68-69) to post the second-lowest 54-hole score in Eagle’s program history.
Leovao and three teammates finished among the top 10 at The Southern to take the team crown, its first in the last three years. In the fall season ending tournament in Hawaii, the Rainbow Wahine Invitational, Jasmine Leovao earned an individual runner up and the team placed 4th overall with the help of a school-record 280 score in round three.
During the fall, three Eagles earned MAC Golfer of the Week – Janae Leovao, twin sister Jasmine Leovao, and their teammate Baiyok Sukterm.
Other notes for the women’s team:
Collected 12 individual top 10 finishes in 6 tournaments
Jasmine Leovao became the first EMU player to win back-to-back titles in program history and the seventh player to win multiple titles in a career at Eastern
4 players ended the fall ranked in the national top 150 (93 Jasmine Leovao, 107 Janae Leovao, 138 Savannah de Bock, 139 Baiyok Sukterm)
Over the break, Savannah de Bock won the title at the Citrus Golf Trail Invitational (Orlando) and Julianna Go won the NGAP Riviera Amateur Open (Silang, Philippines)
Mid-Season Status: Eastern Michigan Men
Charlie Box, a junior from Leicester, England, earned two MAC Golfer of the Week titles. One came after he tied a program record round of 63 before he sank a 20-foot birdie putt to win a playoff to earn medalist honors at the West Bay Collegiate Invitational, in Florida in early October.
Box became the first individual winner for EMU since Beau Breault captured the Dayton Flyer Invitational in 2017. At the West Bay, Box carded the second-best 54-hole score in EMU history by recording rounds of 71-63-67-201 for 15-under par.
Other Men’s team notes:
Box shot a school-record 62 at the West Bay event, tying with teammate Tim Chan, who shot the same last year in the Bahamas. The previous record was 64 (6 times) and had last been recorded in 2018.
Box, who is averaging a school-record 69.9 strokes, shot 201 at West Bay, one stroke off the record of 200 fired by Tyler Lewis in 2018.
Box was named the MAC Golfer of the Week, including Oct. 3 (after finishing t-seventh at the Jim DeLapa Intercollegiate) and Oct. 10 (after West Bay).
Robby Turnbull represented Team New Zealand twice during the fall by playing in the World Amateur Team Championship (Singapore) and the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championships (Dubai).
Chan earned a spot in the Asian Tour Qualifying School Final Qualifying Tournament, but missed the cut for the final two rounds of play in Thailand.
Over the break, Leo Mihaich tied for 9th at the Latin America Amateur Championships in Peru while incoming freshman (Fall 2026) Vicente Quiroga tied for 38th
