Johnson is set to compete as an individual qualifier at the NCAA Louisville Regional this week, according to a May 10 announcement. The tournament will take place from May 11 to May 13 at the University of Louisville Golf Club in Simpsonville, Kentucky, following an 18-18-18 format.
The NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Committee selected Johnson for the regional based on her Scoreboard ranking of 201. She is one of six individuals competing separately from their teams. The top five teams and the lowest-scoring individual not on an advancing team from each regional will move on to the national championship at Omni La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California.
Other individuals competing include Eila Galitsky and Maylis Lamoure from South Carolina, Barbara Car from Old Dominion, Maria Jose Barragan from BYU, and Sloane Biddle from Belmont. Teams participating are Arkansas, Auburn, Iowa State, Ole Miss, Houston, Virginia Tech, Kansas State, Indiana, College of Charleston, Xavier, WKU and Murray State.
As a sophomore entering the tournament with a strong record this season—named First Team All-CUSA and Most Improved Golfer by league officials—Johnson holds a stroke average of 72.32 with seventeen rounds at par or better. This achievement places her atop single-season records for Blue Raider women’s golf.
She becomes only the second Middle Tennessee women’s golfer to qualify for an NCAA Regional as an individual; Hanley Long was previously selected in 2019 and finished tied for fifty-second place at that year’s Auburn regional.
