Ericka Schneider was announced as the head coach of South Dakota State women's golf in May of 2022.

Schneider coached the Jackrabbits to a runner-up finish at the Summit League Championships in 2025, SDSU’s best finish at the event since 2021. The Jacks had seven top-five team finishes on the year, including two team victories.

Seniors in 2024-25, Piper Stubbs (75.25) and Shakira-Ann Kuys 76.50) capped off their Jackrabbit career ranked second and fifth in program history for career scoring average. Piper Stubbs was named to the Summit League First Team and McKenzie Mages landed on the Summit League Second Team.

In 2023-24, SDSU finished in the top five of the team standings seven times through the year. The Jackrabbits won the WIU Invite in April and were top-three in each of their final four tournaments. At the Summit League Championships in April, SDSU tied for third place led by ninth-place individual finishes from McKenzie Mages and Alex Kandolin. Piper Stubbs and McKenzie Mages were tabbed All-Summit honorable mention.

In 2022-23, the Jackrabbits posted three top-five team finishes during Schneider's first season in Brookings. The team's best placing of the year came at the Lamar Cardinal Challenge in Beaumont, Texas, where the Jacks finished second. SDSU's low score of the year was at the Spring Jackrabbit Invitational in March - an 899 (+35).

Schneider coached Alex Kandolin to a runner-up finish at the 2023 Summit League Championships. Piper Stubbs was named to the All-Summit League Second Team.

Schneider came to South Dakota State from the University of North Carolina at Asheville, where she was head coach of the Bulldogs for four seasons.

The Bulldogs finished inside the top 10 at 20 tournaments in Schneider’s time at UNCA. Most recently she guided the Bulldogs to the semifinal round of the Big South Championship in 2022, where the team fell just short of upsetting No. 1-seed Campbell in match play action.

Under Schneider’s direction UNCA hosted the French Broad Collegiate Invitational for the first time in 2019, then expanded the event to a three-day, 54-hole tournament with 15 participating teams in 2020 before it was canceled due to COVID-19.

Before her time at UNCA Schneider was an assistant coach and interim head coach during the 2017-18 season at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Schneider played professionally on the LPGA Symetra Tour for more than three years, competing in 23 tournaments while facilitating junior clinics, participating in charity events and entertaining donors at pro-am parties. During that time Schneider also taught lessons and clinics in her hometown of Bradenton, Florida.

Prior to competing professionally Schneider played four seasons collegiately. She started her career at Daytona State where she was a two-time National Junior College Athletic Association All-American and helped the Falcons to consecutive national titles in 2010 and 2011. Schneider played the final two seasons of her career at the University of Mississippi.

Name	Title	Email Address	Phone
Ericka Schneider	Head Coach	Ericka.Schneider@sdstate.edu
Brodie Hullinger	Assistant Coach	Brodie.Hullinger@sdstate.edu

Upcoming Event: Women's Golf versus NCAA Stanford Regional on May 11, 2026

Completed Event: Women's Golf versus Summit League Championship on April 26, 2026 , , 1st out of 8 teams | Mages medalist

Completed Event: Women's Golf versus Boilermaker Spring Classic on April 12, 2026 , , t-8th out of 16 teams

Completed Event: Women's Golf versus Ozarks National Invitational on March 23, 2026 , , 2nd out of 14 teams

Completed Event: Women's Golf versus Spring Jackrabbits Invitational in Memory of Gayle Baker on March 16, 2026 , , 2nd out of 10 teams

Completed Event: Women's Golf versus West Texas Classic on March 2, 2026 , , 5th out of 16 teams

Completed Event: Women's Golf versus Reynolds Lake Oconee Invitational on February 20, 2026 , , 7th out of 15 teams

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