Janess Earns Invitation to NCAA Columbus Regional
4/23/2025 1:51:00 PM | Women's Golf
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Mara Janess, a redshirt-sophomore on the University of Michigan women's golf team, received an individual bid to the 2025 NCAA Columbus Regional today (Wednesday, April 23), as announced live on the Golf Channel. She will head to the regional site hosted by Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio, Monday through Wednesday (May 5-7), at Ohio State's Scarlet Course.
Janess becomes the fifth Wolverine, and the first since 2019 (Ashley Lau), to earn an individual selection. She joins Laura Olin (2004), Amy Schmucker (2006), Ashley Bauer (2010), and Lau (2019) on U-M's list.
Janess begins her quest to advance to the 2025 NCAA Finals with her practice round on Sunday, May 4. With a 54-hole regional, she will be vying for the top individual spot among non-qualifying teams (top five) to advance to the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa championships in Carlsbad, California.
In a career season, Janess paced the Maize and Blue through 10 events, leading the team with her 73.76 scoring average, which ranks as the 10th best all-time. Averaging nearly two and a half strokes better than her prior best season, she fired a team-best six sub-par rounds, including a career-low 69 (-3) — her first career sub-70 round. With four rounds at even-par, her 10 total rounds of par-or-better tripled her prior best of three.
Leading U-M in five of 10 events, Janess has seven top-20 finishes with three top-10s and a career-best tie for third at the Spartan Sun Coast Invitational (Feb. 16-17) — her first career top-five finish. In fact, at the Sun Cast, she tallied a U-M season and career-best 212 (-4) 54-hole total. In her spring season alone (six events), she posted five top-20 individual finishes and was instrumental in U-M capturing the Terrapin Invitational (April 6-7) team title.
Michigan has been represented in regional competition by the team or an individual 18 times, with 13 team appearances (2001, '02, '05, '07, '09, '11, '12, '16, '17, '21, '22, '23, & '24). U-M has advanced to the NCAA Finals five times (2002, '16, '17, '21, & '22).
Michigan's Individual Invites to the NCAA Postseason
• 2004, Central Regional: Laura Olin, t-17th (75-76-78/229)
• 2006, Central Regional: Amy Schmucker, t-71st (80-82-78/240)
• 2010, Central Regional: Ashley Bauer, t-76th (78-87-80/245)
• 2019, East Lansing Regional: Ashley Lau, t-47th (76-77-72/225)
• 2025, Columbus Regional: Mara Janess
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