Shocker women’s golf’s Tilma ties for seventh at AAC Championship, puts in best individual round of tournament

Headlined by a top-10 finish by junior Kate Tilma, the Shocker women’s golf team finished eighth at the 2025 American Athletic Conference Women’s Golf Championship at Southern Hills Plantation Club.

In round two, Kate Tilma put together a field-best 67 score, jumping up 20 spots on the scoreboard into fourth place. Her second round was the best individual round score of any competitor in the entire tournament. The 67 score ties the second-best 18-hole score by any Shocker all-time in any tournament, only surpassed by Taryn Torgerson’s 64 score at the 2018 AAC Championship.

Tilma is one of only two Shockers to finish in the top ten at the AAC Championship, surpassed only by Torgerson’s win in 2018. The Shockers’ team finish of eighth was their second-highest finish competing in the AAC.